I’ve just chanced again upon the word ‘shotclog’ (16th century): an unwelcome member of a group who is only tolerated because they’re buying the next drink.
This is really a big deal - it shows massive international support against ASAT testing, despite significant lobbying from Russia/China to defeat it https://t.co/QkRrixdZKC
Serious, but not serious. Hilarious stuff. I'm dying here.
"On Windows after a few weeks you're just addicted to Fortnite. On Linux you might have just setup your DVD drive, if it's standard"
https://t.co/u1wlHdgZu2
The entire Programmers are also human channel is great.
Body transfer illusion
The illusion of owning a part/or entire body other than one's own
sight, touch and proprioception (a sense of body position) all combine to convince this person that a rubber hand is their body part 1/🧵
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@handcoding@euboid The CBC has an article this morning by @RebeccaZandberg about Canadian passports having XXX in the given-name field because of incorrect assumptions about names.
https://t.co/HTR8zL0Mdi
There's very little attention being paid to the Canadian government's invasive, privacy-destroying Bill S-7.
We need to be paying closer attention to it.
From today's Politico newsletter:
It has been reported that the Mariupol Computer Museum in Ukraine, a privately owned collection of over 500 items of retro computing, consoles and technology from the 1950s to the early 2000s, a collection nearly 20 years in the making, has been destroyed by a bomb.