Livestreaming from the mind of an engineer sometimes pretending to be a dragon. Also geekery and Scottish millennial politics. (he/him) pfp @Corvirav
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I think a lot of people overestimate just how much Internet - especially the old Internet - the Wayback Machine has saved. There seems to be an assumption that everything which has ever existed online *must* be out there, somewhere, and that isn’t true.
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Google exists bc of a grand bargain: scrape the open web, and profit from directing traffic to the best sites. Around
2010, the betrayal began. YouTube artificially ranked above other video, then over time maps results injected, shopping, flights, events. Now AI answers.
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It's hard to blame people for being confused by social security when the program was specifically set up this way to confuse them. Why? Because the fundamental logic is so clearly unsound: the average person is promised more money out, in real terms, than they pay in.
Orman retweeted
"I wasn't meant for Excel spreadsheets. I was meant to fight in Caesar's legions."
Dude, the Romans would have gone nuts for Excel
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I rewatched one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and I forgot that at one point the East India Trading Company straight up blackmails Davy Jones into working for them. It’s like if Amazon captured a Lovecraftian elder god but only made it deliver packages.
It’s genius.
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Naming contractors in my phone contacts and now I know how occupational surnames came about.
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The fact that the simulated world in The Matrix is set in the '90s aged way better than it had any right to.
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Geostationary launches can accept some big changes to their launch window, because the target effectively moves with the launch site.
As the weather moves on, SpaceX adjusted the T-0 time for tonight's launch of the SXM-10 mission from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9 rocket is now set to launch at 11:24 pm ET (0324 UTC).
Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=4XJ7NAS-…
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"the birds in the war zone make nests from the fiber optic cables left by the killer drones" is the kind of thing you'd expect as a throwaway line of background in a cyberpunk story, and yet
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Going off of memory out of laziness here but there was a researcher who used bird tracking technology to show that teens in the 70s/80s had almost 2 miles of autonomous space and teens today have less than 2 meters.
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