a thread with some of my top animations 📍🧵
twitter.com/matthen2/statu…

Iain Shepherd Steven L. Croucher 🏊‍♂️🚴🏃‍♂️ Very quick version: Dartmouth University made the original BASIC in 1964, DEC made their own variation in 1970, Microsoft made their first in 1975, more based on DEC's than Dartmouth's. Microsoft's innovation was making it work on a microprocessor, instead of a mini/mainframe.

Cannot stop losing my mind about the fact that all this is over some kids trying to stop an extremely well-documented campaign of mass murder and starvation against innocent civilians. How does anyone support what Israel is doing at this point?

My piece on the failure of Trump's trade strategy in 2018-19 and the sheer lunacy of his belief that doing the same will work next time. coppolacomment.substack.com/p/trade-lunacy…

Other countries wouldn't understand that that this is what real democracy looks like

Need to fill in the gaps!

Which of the largest cities in Australia have you been to?
Melbourne✅
Sydney✅
Brisbane✅
Perth❌
Adelaide❌
Gold Coast❌
Newcastle❌
Canberra✅
Sunshine Coast❌
Central coast❌
Wollongong❌
Geelong✅
Hobart✅
Townsville❌
Cairns✅
Toowoomba❌
Darwin❌

Thread on my routine for personal risk assessment for airborne infections. A surprise at the end, that provides a compelling additional reason to monitor CO2. 1/

Thames thimbles, medieval to 19th century. All found by eye on the Thames foreshore over 20 years of searching in what might be the World’s most extreme game of hunt the thimble.

#Mudlark #mudlarking #Larking

remember when archaeologists pulled thirty ancient curses out of a well at the start of 2020

This was a journey.

Like, if you cheapen the process of creation to 'just tell the machine to make it for you' then users aren't going to suddenly treat the operating cost of your unseen server farm with reverence. They're gonna treat it like a slot machine that they pull on until dopamine comes out

A lot of people are learning about cloud seeding for the first time, with the floods in Dubai

While they do use cloud seeding aggressively, there's no real evidence this flood was caused by cloud seeding

But the story of cloud seeding is fascinating...

she used “delve” in her texts twice jerry. TWICE!

i wouldn’t worry about it george, she probably just likes to delve.

likes to delve?

yeah, a delver.

a delver?

Obsidian Announces a Much Better Fallout Show hard-drive.net/hd/entertainme…

Hope this works to stop a third day of COMMENTS IN JSON?!!??!!!!!!!? discourse 🤞

My birth country is run by vengeful idiots, who perform in front of an electorate of mostly vengeful idiots.

It’s Euro bashing or it’s trans bashing or it’s turn back the boats or etc etc. there must always be an “other” to blame.

I hate that they keep calling this the ‘trans row’ or the ‘trans debate’ - we are PEOPLE, we exist, we are not an issue to be debated

The U.S. government has a Microsoft problem.

Market dominance, inertia, and savvy PR have almost completely insulated the hack-plagued company from meaningful oversight, even as Biden officials preach corporate accountability.

My new WIRED story: wired.com/story/the-us-g…

Couldn't get a better summation of Australia's media landscape than people unable to get their news about Channel 7 losing a defamation case because all the Channel 6 staff were in maths class