The surface of earth is 510 trillion square meters, so you could fit (compressed) meter scale satellite imagery of the entire world on a single $529 portable drive, which is pretty remarkable.
Two words, each hundreds of years old, that are still worth holding on to: ‘respair’: fresh hope, and ‘resipiscence’: a return to a better frame of mind.
Here’s to both in 2023. Happy New Year.
I followed the new Twitter owner & CEO today, as I did @jack@ev@dickc & @paraga.
@Twitter suggested follows, showing a “set of accounts that work well with @ElonMusk.”
Algorithmic suggestions can be insightful about ideological alignment then public statements.
simply unforgivable that elon is forcing me to either get hot (instagram), get annoying (substack), learn what a server is (mastodon), or become an actual psychopath (linkedin)
A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6
Computer scientists debating how they can best solve domain scientists' problems (without any domain scientists in the room) seems like a time-honored tradition in CS research.
The biggest problem facing this country, and world, is not #Covid or #Brexit or #ClimateCrisis - it is the mass stupidity of a large fraction of the population that dogmatically denies these are real problems, ignores reality, and cripples our ability to optimally deal with them.