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Fans of Iain Banks’ “The Crow Road” may enjoy this short video by @tomscott
Quoth Banks: This is the Ballast-Mound, the World-Hill, Prentice,” she said, and I could just make out her small thin smile by the light of the gibbous moon. “When the ships came here, from all over the world, for whatever it was they were shipping from here at the time, they would sometimes arrive unladen,…
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Yes, Pamela Anderson really is tweeting Nietzsche quotes, filtered through the lens of American politics; and now I’m just half-wondering if it’s about Assange…
This was a brief ride; via random Instagram, I stumbled onto this tweextaposition: …and I thought, vaguely, “is Pam’s quote really a Nietzsche quote? It doesn’t quite sound portentous enough…” So I googled around, found an indefinite number of “Nietzsche” motivational graphics bearing the quote, and found this whipsaw blogpost which goes to great lengths…
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A naked eye comet for Christmas 2021? #CometLeonard via @TheSkyLive
Between January 2014 and January 2100, the closest approach of Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) to Earth happens on Mon Dec 13 2021 at a distance of 0.233947 Astronomical Units, or 34,997,915 kilometers: https://theskylive.com/cometleonard-info Via: The Sky Live
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This is hilarious #Parler
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Cheney told Fox… “The president…could launch a kind of devastating attack the world’s never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress [or] check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.” @Slate in 2011
Good read: https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html
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Excellent thread, on where Sun failed and AWS succeeded…
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Some Great Tweets…
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If you’re new to #FreedomOfSpeech debates, here is the classical, non-extremist, non-glib #FreeSpeech way to resolve the #Trump vs: #Twitter issue…
This is off-the-cuff, so might be a bit flaky, however people have asked: It is generally wrong for the government to censor general forms of speech purely upon the grounds of the speech occurring, or its form, or its content; this goes double if and when they ignore context such as “artistic expression” It is…
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Aaaaaand Apple kicked Parler.
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holy shit, this is snarky, @Microsoft
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Mirabile Dictu
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Making Coffee in a Moka Pot
I just wrote this on Reddit, and it’s basically an instant blogpost: […] I have a lot of success with a Pezzetti “6 cup” moka pot (which takes about 30g of coffee and produces about 220ml) and a Alessi 3-cup which produces about half that. Occasionally I have something go wrong like you describe, but…