"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

All AI videos do is aggregate the individual shots that are statistically most likely to please a general audience, and we already have JJ Abrams for that.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

A delightful programming read: the absolute madness of "odd or even" using if-statements only.

important PSA about Sophia McAllister, aka Sophie From Mars. sharing this here with permission

twitter.com/AliceAvizand...

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Me when I’m not ideologically driven: Children must be put at risk of suicide if they don’t conform to my opinions about gender

Always remember what keir starmer said about brianna ghey: absolutely nothing

explaining the medieval social class of craftsmen and merchants to an American: "okay so imagine a Burgher..."

This is a "mumble tub" or mercury delay-line computer memory unit. It sends an audio pulse through a tube of heated mercury metal, preserving data as analogue waveforms. The transducers were in human audio range, so it was said these sounded like whispering or mumbling people when in operation

“bluesky won’t have any debate because it’s all left-leaning folks” - person who has never been in a room with two leftists