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When you have plumbers working on your house, you also get plumber-grade radio … and it’s wall-to-wall 1980s hits
So they’re playing Adam & The Ants’ “Kings of the Wild Frontier” which was released 43 years ago in 1980… and I did some maths: If, in 1980, I was listening to music that was 43 years old, it would have been released in 1937. Oh dear.
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New Boiler Day
Our old Baxi died on Sunday evening; it was briefly resurrected by an engineer the morning after, but it was also clearly beyond its useful lifetime and so today — amazingly, at short notice — it’s being replaced with a ATAG iR15 condenser which comes with an 18 year warranty. By that point heat pumps
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Things that I am eating because my toddler did not eat them 2: Lentil & Chorizo stew with Penne, extra Broccoli and Fish Finger bits
It’s actually pretty good. Spicy lentils and paprika sausage under fish with plenty of greens.
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I’ve just thought of a whole new way to feel terribly old…
Give yourself 1 point if you know what “Cc:” means. Give yourself 10 points if you’ve ever used “carbon paper.”
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Why Disney Bailed on Turning Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Into an Animated Film | …spoiler: they wanted to drop the character of Death + would have had to buy the rights for all Discworld characters a-la Winnie the Pooh
In this piece, Blue Sky Disney reaffirms that Mort was dropped because of rights issues, with the writer illuminating that the project died because Disney needed to buy the film rights to the entire Discworld saga just to make Mort. That plan proved unfeasible for the studio and Musker and Clements were already at work on a new project. https://collider.com/disney-terry-pratchett-discworld-mort/
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Do a Twitter search for “goes against openai” and then dig into the Bot accounts which get trawled up, to see what else they are posting…
(excusing the comedians reposting the same term for lulz) https://twitter.com/search?src=typed_query&q=%22goes%20against%20openai%22
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Susan Kare, Iconic Designer | Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation | … I saw and used these in the late 80s and it was wonderful
We were using a Macintosh for layout of UCL’s student magazine “Pi”, having previously spent squillions of pounds on Letraset. It was magic… although some of that may have been the fumes from the Scotch “spray mount.” https://invention.si.edu/susan-kare-iconic-designer
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The old testament for Unix nerds…
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/
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The Third University of Cambridge: BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet
History of BBN, the contractors for the ARPAnet / proto-internet: https://www.freaktakes.com/p/the-third-university-of-cambridgehttps://www.freaktakes.com/p/the-third-university-of-cambridge
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I wish that we could go back to calling it “shunning” – it’s a good word, focusing on the active individual rather than the passive medium
Quoth: A new preprint from Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Jordi Cluet i Martinell, Marie Reignier-Tayar, and Robert West reveals the results of a first-of-a-kind “longitudinal, quasi-experimental study of 165 deplatforming events targeted at 101 influencers.” It finds that deplatforming works in reducing overall online attention paid to norm-violating figures. https://www.techpolicy.press/deplatforming-reduces-overall-attention-to-online-figures-says-longitudinal-study-of-101-influencers/ https://mastodon.social/@justinhendrix/111710522460431891