Greybeard engineer

Of the ModeRNA tribe

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

Astrology and Astronomy have beef

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

Solar system family gathering ✨

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

Things I learned from posting my font video

-Everyone has strong opinions about fonts

-There is a widespread campy love of Papyrus

-Helvetica respected but possibly overrated

-Comic Sans antihero potential

-Jury still out on mysterious figure Aptos, @microsoft’s new default

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something beautiful for the weekend!

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

📷 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge https://t.co/8psldM5ZQy

[Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience]

MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed.

For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others.

Read more: https://t.co/QkDpxH2BOl

[Dr Jo Ball @DrJEBall]

A bowl from Predynastic Egypt, made from Nile clay around 5500-5700 years ago. A beautiful red colour, its shape makes it tips forward slightly, perhaps as if to offer something - and best of all, it is supported by 2 little human feet! #Archaeology

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Remember that time economists used a gravity model to find ancient lost cities from the Bronze Age?

If you do or you don't, check out this thread🧵

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@CundiffVanessa https://t.co/bXp2j3Q4Iu

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@GracchusBabeu11 @Joyhenderson78 It’s the grift—$61K for 2 hours of hate-filled preaching.

None of these performers actually care about improving lives of the impoverished, just inciting controversy for protection money.

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@atomlib @gossypiboma666 @nyxtelius The entire civilized world is united in suggesting you disciples of Putinist evil “get lost”. The audacity of the likes of you accusing a Lithuanian of “fascism” is risible.

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@ChrisAvellone @Drake_TEKKEN @alejandroseidel @ChrisAvellone glad to see you back, very much looking forward to your next work.

Please see 2 qs above regarding Torment!

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@ChrisAvellone @Drake_TEKKEN @alejandroseidel Chris, thanks for Torment—a masterpiece.
Two qs: was there a “Jason Edlin” associated with the Decanter of Endless Water? (Like Enoll Eva!)
Had you or the Planescape setting designers read Zelazny’s Amber?
Very different but features amnesiacs, archetypal city, reality-shaping

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@jillahjillah @NjbBari3 @dgurdasani1 @Rklawton @Nature Disappointing non-technical response. You can absolutely say that’s a line of research you have yet to pursue, but why not refute the posed correlation with data, or argue from evidence that it is implausible?

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

If there was ever a time I wanted people to retweet something - A vaccine specialist, Dr. Paul Offit, spells out how RFK Jr. played a role in discouraging vaccination rates in a small population. A measles outbreak followed which resulted in 83 deaths mostly of young children.

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@DrewKarpyshyn Novel sounds fascinating (Tim Powers’ work came to mind), will look it up!

Mass Effect=wonderful, paragon of world building!
Q: timeline of human discovery of ME, relay & ancillary tech to wage FC war v. Turians seems optimistic!
Design choice to retain recognizable society?

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@FelixCLC_ @HPC_Guru Are there no remaining Spectre-type issues w/SMT?

[Vincenzo DM @DM_Vincenzo]

Why Jan van Eyck is considered one of the greatest painters of medieval Europe: just look at this snapshot of the Ghent Altarpiece. The man was obsessed with details and we still love him for that.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Hamsters have unique, stretchy cheeks that can be used to store food and carry bedding, as demonstrated in this video.

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

Whereby a bunch of unvaccinated MAGAs describe the symptoms of Long COVID without quite making the connection.

They are sooooo close to getting it.

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@hormiga I recently learned that the term “Gish-gallop” was invented to describe the torrent of nonsense from another creationist:

https://t.co/8jplbzikqt

[Greybeard engineer @totorum]

@chapps @DocCrom @pompeii_sites @abby_fecit @DrJEBall @roamintheempire @DariusAryaDigs @p_historians Seems plausible, but I don’t know!
BM says moneyer only known from coins. Obverse of denarius may depict yet another LLR (pater), a friend of Cicero
https://t.co/yVZwQRIDel

https://t.co/jPwQSB0u8D