Wow. Foraminifera!
ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/stone-...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/linguist...
This is entertaining. We are sending someone interesting to Eurovision with an actually fun track. A small ray of sunshine.
A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran
This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals.
British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.
The Underbar (the #perl podcast) has an interview with Olaf Kolkman about Perl and DNS and other things pca.st/episode/042e...
#dns #dnssec #ietf #icann
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The death of the Firm
The arrest of Andrew may not show the end of the monarchy, but it may show the end of a certain model of monarchy
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
love a bit of continvouclous morging
On almost everything โ fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation โ evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
.AU (the ccTLD for Australia) gained an RDAP server yesterday!
More data at deployment.rdap.org
A nice problem to have, to be sure!
This is one of the problems of working with @proper.com
.SG (the ccTLD for Singapore) gained an RDAP server yesterday!
More data at deployment.rdap.org
Ancient 21st century curse: may the thing you depend upon get bought by a billionaire
My monitoring script broke and I missed it, but some time in the last 6 weeks, the .gov TLD gained an RDAP server! As did .as, .ng and .to!
More details at deployment.rdap.org
#rdap
*I blame Marxist AIs
The pivot from 'we shouldn't bother with Net Zero 'cause China' to 'How does China have a massive lead in so many key 21st century technologies' doesn't seem to have caused any reflection at all from quite a few parties.
How have I only learned about this story today?!
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.
With #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Tip: also make a list like this one for your own country! berthub.eu/articles/pos...
that depends on which map projection you're using!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2...
IIRC, the topic of map projections *was* once discussed in the White House...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-...
i would suggest an online safety act that canโt deal with CSAM on a widely used social network frequented by most westminster public figures isnโt doing a very good job of keeping anybody safe online
Some of us were warning about this well over a decade ago. Same with pictures of your kids.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Types of Data
Data is important. Keep him safe.
(The answer, for anyone blessedly too young to remember is: Yes. Yes it did.)
Turns out a million monkeys on a million typewriters will generate `sudo rm -rf /` quite expeditiously!
