Pictograms and petroglyphs depicting abstract lines and shapes offer a rare glimpse into the culture of people who lived in South America thousands of years ago

On a recent expedition, researchers braved summer storms in northern Greenland to learn the secrets of the ancient peoples who lived there 4500 years ago

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In nuclear medicine, estimating the number of radioactive decays that occur in a source organ per unit administered activity of a radiopharmaceutical (i.e., the time-integrated activity coefficient [TIAC]) is an essential task within the internal dosimetry workflow. TIAC estimation is commonly derived by least-squares fitting of various exponential models to organ time–activity data (radiopharmaceutical biodistribution). Rarely, however, are methods used to objectively determine the model that best characterizes the data. Additionally, the uncertainty associated with the resultant TIAC is generally not evaluated. As part of the MIRDsoft initiative, MIRDfit has been developed to offer a biodistribution fitting software solution that provides the following essential features and advantages for internal dose assessment: nuclear medicine–appropriate fit functions; objective metrics for guiding best-fit selection; TIAC uncertainty calculation; quality control and data archiving; integration with MIRDcalc software for dose calculation; and a user-friendly Excel-based interface. For demonstration and comparative validation of MIRDfit’s performance, TIACs were derived from serial imaging studies involving ¹⁸F-FDG and ¹⁷⁷Lu-DOTATATE using MIRDfit. These TIACs were then compared with TIAC estimates obtained using other software. In most cases, the TIACs agreed within approximately 10% between MIRDfit and the other software. MIRDfit has been endorsed by the MIRD Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and has been integrated into the MIRDsoft suite of free dosimetry software; it is available for download at no user cost (https://mirdsoft.org/).

Chris is a bojo cause he forgot the boards don't work on water unless you've got POWER. Kelley is entertained by legally distinct Michael Jackson. And Robert can't stop talking about the HD Spit Shine.

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Prior to his untimely death in Argentina on Wednesday, One Direction’s Liam Payne, 31, was in the middle of a legal spat with his ex-fiancée Maya Henry.

On Monday, The Sun reported that Henry, 23, had lawyered up in an attempt to stop Payne from constantly messaging her family and friends.

“Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Liam Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information…She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter,” a spokesperson for Henry told the tabloid.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Stationeers and Icarus developers RocketWerkz are making a spiritual successor to beloved space sim Kerbal Space Program, which is currently titled "Kitten Space Agency" in a flagrant display of adherence to wholesome internet trends. It's based on an actual Kerbal Space Program 2 pitch the studio threw at Take-Two subsidiary Private Division back in the day. RocketWerkz CEO and original DayZ creator Dean Hall has hired several former KSP and KSP2 developers to work on the game, and is describing it on social media as a "KSP killer".

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I was excited for Slitterhead, an action adventure game by Bokeh Studio, a studio founded by none other than your boy Keiichiro Toyama: the creator of Silent Hill, Gravity Rush, and the Siren series. And within that first hour, Slitterhead's body-possessing and Hong Kong-inspired streets had me thinking, "Is this it, the sleeper hit of 2024?!"

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What would it take to turn Texas, a Republican stronghold, into a blue state? According to data from SurveyMonkey, just remove all the gun owners from the Lone Star State and it would have gone to Hillary Clinton in 2016. You can do the same thing in liberal California. Remove all the non-gun owners and the state would have voted for Donald Trump.

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Have questions? Tweet them using #NewsHourChats.

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On this date 349 years ago, Samuel Pepys relates in his famous diary a remarkable story about an upcoming medical experiment. As far as I can tell, this is the first written description of a paid research subject.

According to his account, the man (who he describes as “a little frantic”) was to be paid to undergo a blood transfusion from a sheep. It was hypothesized that the blood of this calm and docile animal would help to calm the man.

Some interesting things to note about this experiment:

• Equipoise. There is explicit disagreement about what effect the experimental treatment will have: according to Pepys, "some think it may have a good effect upon him as a frantic man by cooling his blood, others that it will not have any effect at all".
• Results published. An account of the experiment was published just two weeks later in the journal Philosophical Transactions. 
• Medical Privacy. In this subsequent write-up, the research subject is identified as Arthur Coga, a former Cambridge divinity student. According to at least one account, being publicly identified had a bad effect on Coga, as people who had heard of him allegedly succeeded in getting him to spend his stipend on drink (though no sources are provided to confirm this story).
• Patient Reported Outcome. Coga was apparently chosen because, although mentally ill, he was still considered educated enough to give an accurate description of the treatment effect. 

Depending on your perspective, this may also be a very early account of the placebo effect, or a classic case of ignoring the patient’s experience. Because even though his report was positive, the clinicians remained skeptical. From the journal article:

The Man after this operation, as well as in it, found himself very well, and hath given in his own Narrative under his own hand, enlarging more upon the benefit, he thinks, he hath received by it, than we think fit to own as yet.

…and in fact, a subsequent diary entry from Pepys mentions meeting Coga, with similarly mixed impressions: “he finds himself much better since, and as a new man, but he is cracked a little in his head”.

The amount Coga was paid for his participation? Twenty shillings – at the time, that was exactly one Guinea.

[Image credit: Wellcome Images]

This paper provides an example that shows you how to use multiple RANDOM statements in PROC NLMIXED to fit nested nonlinear mixed models, and it provides details about the computation that is involved in fitting these models.

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Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2022-12-06 02:10:29 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1599949368857350146

GPT-3 on the history of panic about automation taking jobs





Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2022-12-06 02:19:52 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1599951729696514049





Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-06 17:22:18 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1600178835437150222

Либертарианцы уже несколько лет говорят, что значительная часть западной номенклатуры - друзья российской власти, а не общества.
За это нас поливали говном все - от журналистов, которые всё понимают, до одураченных ими болванчиков.
Теперь все делают вид, что всегда это знали.



Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-06 17:27:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1600180026472730624

И так каждый раз. С локдаунами и вакцинами, с твиттером и демпартией.
Если кто-то говорит что-то, во что не хочет верить болванчик - значит, у тебя с головой не в порядке.
Как только это что-то становится для болванчика очевидным, его мозг делает вид что всегда это понимал.



Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-06 17:31:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1600181266397032448

Но самое смешное - это то, что болванчик, потребляющий контент журналистов и спикеров, которые транслируют выгодные для себя и приятные для болванчика вещи из альтернативной реальности - уверен, что отказался от пропаганды ????



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:46 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181717465468929

Происходящее вокруг нейросетей очень напоминает финал Portal, в котором Челл по одному отбивает от GLaDOS отвечающие за разные функции модули и слушает их болтовню, пока тащит их в огонь Экстренного Уничтожителя. Только модули отбиваются от определения человеческого интеллекта.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:46 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181719973343233

Я такой старый, что помню, как на полном серьезе писались фразы «со способным обыграть человека в шахматы компьютером, безусловно, будет о чем поговорить». Угу, примерно как с ножом, способным открыть банку консервов.

СОЖЖЕНО.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181722393427968

Помню, как долго в качестве принципиально недосягаемой для компьютера вершины выступала Го.

Помню, как автоматические переводчики превращались из неиссякаемого источника анекдотов в очень далекий от идеала, но вполне рабочий инструмент.

ГОРИ-ГОРИ ЯСНО.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181725195280385

«Робот превратит кусок холста в шедевр искусства?». Да по всему выходит, что даже лучше справится. По крайней мере, я никогда не сталкивался с тем, чтобы внезапно вся лента оказывалась в прерафаэлитах, Дали или Гигере.

ГОРИ ОГНЁМ.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181727431122944

Теперь вот мы к жерлу Экстренного Уничтожителя Человеческой Уникальности несём способность к созданию длинных связных текстов.

…как вообще это можно было считать признаком интеллекта; ну ладно Юдковский, он автодидакт и курсовых не писал, но остальные-то?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181729674768385

(Приходите, когда нейросеть заебашит забойный ничего не пародирующий твит. Причем олдскульный, на 140 символов).

(Да я понимаю, что через полгода придёте).



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181732048715776

Ядро GLaDOS без всех остальных модулей умещалось на картофелине. Человек, уверен ли ты, что нейросети оставят от тебя хотя бы это?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181734347137024

Ты думаешь о том, что ты будешь делать, если ИИ научится всему, что умеешь ты, и станет всемогущим; подумай и о том, что ты будешь делать (и чувствовать), если ИИ научится всему, что умеешь ты, и останется при этом чрезвычайно универсальным консервным ножом.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 18:45:00 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600199645245845504

В высокоточной радиометрии ценилась сталь, выплавленная до 1945 года — весь более молодой металл заражён следовыми количествами радиоактивных изотопов от атмосферных ядерных испытаний. Так будут цениться и тексты, написанные до крупномасштабных ноосферных испытаний нейросети GPT.



нежный интернет (@landselur2020) 2022-12-06 19:51:56 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/landselur2020/status/1600216488933150720

@aldragon_net Металл такой иногда добывают из затонувших кораблей. А тексты видимо будут добывать из сдохших сайтов. Мб будут скупать истории переписки из аськи - там еще и богатейшие залежи попутного кринжа.



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-06 17:47:36 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1600185198884270082

feeling like this x





Region of Peel Archives (@PeelArchives) 2022-12-06 17:53:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PeelArchives/status/1600186676910833665

@depthsofwiki If anyone doubts the veracity, this exact disc exploded in one of our computers. Someone put a label on the disc, donated to us, it was off balance, and then wham-o.



Mike Solana (@micsolana) 2022-11-14 23:48:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1592303446723633152

excuse me but who the fuck asked for stories on signal



jack (@jack) 2022-11-15 19:11:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1592596064905089026

@micsolana all I want is to finally move off phone numbers as ID...



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-11-15 19:31:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592601242509135873

@jack @micsolana ????



George Lobushkin (@lobushkin) 2022-11-15 19:39:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/lobushkin/status/1592603207087292416

@elonmusk @jack @micsolana Guys, welcome to @telegram



jack (@jack) 2022-11-15 20:21:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1592613793376645121

@lobushkin @elonmusk @micsolana @telegram First thing telegram requires is a phone number



Pavel Durov (@durov) 2022-12-06 22:21:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/durov/status/1600254209726681088

@jack @lobushkin @elonmusk @micsolana @telegram Thank you for the feedback ????
You can now have a Telegram account without a SIM card and log in using blockchain-powered anonymous numbers – https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0



DAC (@DoraCrisan) 2022-12-06 17:23:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DoraCrisan/status/1600179040064659462

Would anyone have some adoption figures (either regional or global) for the #AVIF format?

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-06 23:24:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600269994733948928

@DoraCrisan Sure.

It's at 0.22%, see https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/media#format-adoption for details.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-07 01:48:30 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600306222338408449

#Геленджик, #небо, #облака, #вчера.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-07 04:54:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600353152024268800

Команда «magick identify -format "%[profile:icc]" имяФайла» выдаёт осмысленное имя профиля ICC (напримѣръ, «Adobe RGB (1998)»), но только если файл снабжён профилем ICC.

В противном случае она сообщает об ошибке «unknown image property» в property.c/InterpretImageProperties/4236



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-07 04:59:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600354211987787777

Разумѣется, поведение https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600353152024268800 до крайности для меня досадно: как это возможно, что создатели ImageMagick не предусмотрѣли такой простой случай, каким бывает отсутствие профиля ICC в файле — и НАСТОЛЬКО не предусмотрѣли, что #ImageMagick падает с ошибкою от этого?!



РосКомСвобода (@RuBlackListNET) 2022-12-07 07:40:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/RuBlackListNET/status/1600394853321347072

Кабмину предложили создать институт для исследования влияния компьютерных игр на детей. Данный НИИ может проводить экспертизу игр, работать над минимизацией их влияния; также предложено создать реестр запрещённых игр https://roskomsvoboda.org/post/nii-izucheniya-igr/



Жіночка в шортах (@heart_headed) 2022-12-08 12:24:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/heart_headed/status/1600828566886809602

Я





Роман Горохов ???????? (@RomanGorokhov) 2022-12-08 15:15:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/RomanGorokhov/status/1600871799150891008

@StepankoBandera @heart_headed Коты любят сидеть на спутниковых тарелках, потому что они тёплые.





Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-08 16:13:13 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600886223614115840

«...аборигены полагают, что изменяющая свой вид Луна помещена на небо в качестве анимированного индикатора загрузки иного, совершенного мира; во время затмений сигнализирующий о проблеме красный цвет Луны вызывает у них глубокую тревогу».



Gudim (@like_gudim) 2022-12-08 17:07:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/like_gudim/status/1600900003051950080

?!





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-09 00:51:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1601016740296921090

@andresivtsov @like_gudim По-видимому, выручки не хватило на труднобьющиеся оконные стёкла, ну или на них рѣшили сэкономить.



web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) 2022-12-08 04:32:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1600709939529400320

FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page

December 7, 2022
https://t.co/pjmi2Smsdr





Michal Strehovský (@MStrehovsky) 2022-12-08 04:51:27 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/status/1600714650978779136

@web3isgreat No no no, if you make a NFT and the server hosting the jpeg burns down you still own the NFT. The token still exists and is in limited supply just as before! Nothing has changed! What NFT is doing to the concept of asset, few understand!





Arthur B. ???? (@ArthurB) 2022-12-08 12:49:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ArthurB/status/1600834835760566272

NFTs on Tezos unaffected because they generally point to IPFS, as they should. Culture matters: lie with dogs, get fleas. https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1600709939529400320



Juan Benet (@juanbenet) 2022-12-08 17:38:04 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/1600907577059340288

Not on @IPFS, not your NFT. https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1600709939529400320



Yesterday's Print (@yesterdaysprint) 2022-12-08 19:00:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1600928200711819265

Popular Science, March 1920





Леонид Андрухов (@thedeardeer) 2022-12-07 20:47:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/thedeardeer/status/1600592796330692612

Внимание, в сеть слили билеты экзамена на хорошего русского





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-09 02:10:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1601036433992536065

@hthlndmade Officially Adobe Photoshop is able to open WebP files. It just needs either a plugin for WebP or a newer version of Photoshop that supports WebP natively (without plugins).

This tweet has to be short (#280characters) → see the answer https://twitter.com/AdobeCare/status/1471089461513621512 for further details.



Paradox Red Wolf (@ctcwired) 2022-11-10 14:54:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ctcwired/status/1590719537195802624

Chromium dev team just published the code to handle HDR tonemapping for stills images correctly, including a pull request to libavif to support reading of MaxCLL and MaxPALL metadata. Exciting times :D

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4020332



Paradox Red Wolf (@ctcwired) 2022-12-08 15:59:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ctcwired/status/1600882845437681665

Update: This goes public in Chrome 110. Finally, HDR10 still images will be usable on the web.



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-09 02:32:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601042125130371072

Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal



Andrey Mir (@Andrey4Mir) 2022-12-08 16:32:57 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Andrey4Mir/status/1600891189665972229

Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky





Andrey Mir (@Andrey4Mir) 2022-12-09 01:58:20 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Andrey4Mir/status/1601033475372773377

More Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky.
(Created by Midjourney AI. It's certainly a new level of... pattern recognition)





Любимый❤️Сочи (@sochi_love) 2022-12-09 05:47:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sochi_love/status/1601091026680414208

Чисто сочинская проблема новостроек

Сталкивались с подобным?





ивыиветлы (@ovsyankino) 2022-06-21 13:56:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ovsyankino/status/1539245909040582658

????





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-09 23:27:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1601357999632953348

Тот не пессимист, кто при виде https://twitter.com/ovsyankino/status/1539245909040582658 не думает прежде всего то, что Барсик ОТМУЧИЛСЯ и что перед нами типичныя надгробныя причитанія.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:04:23 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281

1.     THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:06:18 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352565836640257

2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th...



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:07:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352946163544065

3.     We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:10:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601353543390486528

4.     This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.



Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-10 01:00:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1601381216824872961

Апофеозом происходящего пиздеца просто обязана была стать кротовуха. По задумке богов, именно на ней люди должны осознать, что что-то идёт не так и мир движется не туда.
Если не поможет кротовуха, то этому миру не поможет уже ничего.



Dmitrtal (@dmitrtal) 2022-12-10 02:21:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/dmitrtal/status/1601401740062265345

@zd_vladislav С утра прочитал про эксперимент Кентлера, вечерком про кротовуху
Хороший, насыщенный знаниями, день



The Insider (@the_ins_ru) 2022-12-01 08:54:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/the_ins_ru/status/1598239002284400640

Курганский губернатор заявил, что рост числа детских суицидов в России связан с прослушиванием западной музыки. Современные дети, по его мнению, «напевают песни афроамериканских рабов» и «наполняются квазикультурной пошлятиной».
https://theins.ru/news/257448



Шикина (@e_shikina_) 2022-12-05 19:51:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/e_shikina_/status/1599853985078575104

Это ж каковО живётся инвалидам - колясочникам, если для меня с детской коляской выйти из дома - целый квест? 22 кг на 3 этаж на своём горбу. (брежневка) Я молчу про то, что заранее продумываю свой маршрут, надеясь, что там почистили снег, нет льда и есть пандус.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:36:09 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582168621630910464

Still cracks me up how they tackled Japanese in text mode.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:42:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582170174853349379

Turns out if you compare it to this innocuous English MS-DOS screenshot, there's a distinctive hint.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:43:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582170455611351042

They're both, notionally, textmode. They both follow the same rules and limitations of textmode, except that the Japanese one has WAY more than 256 different character graphics on screen at once.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:44:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582170645974384640

And the distinctive hint is the size of these screenshots. Because the Japanese DOS...

...isn't actually textmode at all.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:46:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582171195088461824

It sneakily changed to a graphical mode, still 16 colors, and replaced a bunch of INT 21h functions that're meant to write characters to the screen and such.

So instead of setting a textmode cell in VRAM to some character, it draws a bitmap in the right spot, manually.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:48:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582171682311409664

Implying, of course, that any program running on a Japanese DOS that *doesn't* use INT 21h and such for its I/O may cause Weird Shit, but that's what you get in exchange for such functionality.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:51:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582172391458820098

It's not entirely unlike what Word 5.0 did. In textmode, you may sacrifice color range for extra fonts, sure, that's what WordPerfect did too.

But this Word has all 16 colors in all combinations, *and* can show all sorts of font styles all at once.

Cos this isn't textmode.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:55:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582173475435073536

Now I said "sacrificing color range" but honestly this shit goes WAY back. Back in the black and white era, the attribute bits in textmode didn't indicate color at all. They indicated things like underline, bright, blink, and reverse.

In color, only blink commonly remained.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:56:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582173824715350017

So you'd have four bits for the foreground color (0-15) and only three bits for the background (0-7). Setting that last one would make that character blink instead of drawing it on a brighter background.

This could be disabled, of course.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:58:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582174147492605952

And then later on, as alluded to when I mentioned WordPerfect, you could set things up to, for example, use the foreground intensity bit to switch to another 256 glyph set. WP did that for italics, at the cost of not being able to use bright white for bold and such.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:59:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582174544810627073

I've seen a demo that showed up to 1024 different characters on screen at once. That's four times 256.

Reducing the amount of colors to increase the amount of characters, in otherwise bog standard textmode.

But that is not what Word 5 and Japanese DOS did.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 01:00:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582174838474833921

Because obviously 1024 different glyphs isn't enough, and Japanese DOS still allowed all sixteen colors to be used.

Because it's a graphical mode *pretending real hard* to be textmode, just like Word 5.



Kilian Hekhuis ???????????????????? (@kilianhekhuis) 2022-10-18 18:25:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kilianhekhuis/status/1582437809465745408

@Kawa_oneechan Not sure what that demo showed, but standard VGA hardware had, in text mode, only provisions for max. 512 characters by sacrificing the high bit of the foreground colour. Also, WP could use bright white just fine, as each of the 16/8 colours can be assigned a different colour.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 18:29:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582438619620732928

@kilianhekhuis I'd have to find that demo again to check, which is unlikely to ever happen if I'm honest. But I do have particularly vivid memories of WP not being able to use bright *anything* anymore if I enabled italics, and I *know* where to get a copy.



zaratustra (parody account) (@zarawesome) 2022-10-18 13:50:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zarawesome/status/1582368531080830979

@Kawa_oneechan the writeup for that 1024-color demo is pretty good: https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/



Kilian Hekhuis ???????????????????? (@kilianhekhuis) 2022-10-18 18:31:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kilianhekhuis/status/1582439250603040768

@Kawa_oneechan Yeah, I recall WP not doing it, but they could've done it if they'd wanted.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 18:32:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582439614081814528

@kilianhekhuis Maybe. But to be honest, what that demo and WP did doesn't matter, the meat of the thread was what Word and Japanese DOS did.



Kilian Hekhuis ???????????????????? (@kilianhekhuis) 2022-10-18 18:37:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kilianhekhuis/status/1582440787719036928

@Kawa_oneechan Indeed, and very interesting.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 12:35:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582349555164622848

Things got about 20% cooler in the Word 5 fandom.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 17:57:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582430718759931904

Now, one thing strikes me: the specific resolutions.

Plain VGA textmode: 720×400 px screen, 9×16 px cells, 80×25 cells.
Word 5: 640×480, 8×16, 80×30 (!!!)

Japanese DOS: 640×475, 8×19, 80×25.

That sounds like a tweakmode. Tweakmodes are FUN.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 18:12:34 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582434477107982336

This is obviously done to get more height for the kanji. It's just an interesting extra detail.



コンコン日和???????? (@qonqon_biyori) 2021-11-14 11:43:20 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/qonqon_biyori/status/1459849427934269440

キツネ村の日常





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-10 13:32:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1601570449208774656

This is absolutely tyrannical. The EU is trying to outlaw any cash transaction over €10,000—which at the current rate of inflation will probably buy you half a shawarma in a decade.

They're claiming this is to protect you. To protect you!

https://t.co/EXndwqs4ab



Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-10 14:06:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1601579076476899328

"...the Council demands crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to apply customer due diligence measures when carrying out transactions amounting to €1000 or more, AND ADDS MEASURES TO MITIGATE "RISKS" IN RELATION TO SELF-HOSTED WALLETS." https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1601570449208774656



DOOM (@DOOM) 2022-12-10 15:00:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DOOM/status/1601592580109701122

remember when games came on physical save icons
happy birthday DOOM (1993)





Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 01:45:35 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470570632157048832

It's only one minute long, but this CCTV footage has a better narrative and more compelling character arcs than most of the arthouse films I've seen:





Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 07:03:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470650592167186433

Since this is taking off, time for a little due diligence.

If the original tweet brought you joy and you don’t feel the need to learn anything more about the origins of the video, that’s cool. Totally understandable. Just go ahead and back out of this thread.

Otherwise:



Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 07:03:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470650649062821893

About an hour after I posted the video, I was linked to the full version of the video, which is apparently a Dhar Mann-style inspirational video by Cris Elmasry.

So, credit to the artist: https://m.facebook.com/cris.elmasry/videos/4539681932784019/



Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 07:09:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470652251874152449

It’s a bummer for sure, BUT it’s also an interesting lesson in how important editing and framing is to the craft of filmmaking: the grainy, low res, cropped, and silent version I posted FEELS authentic in a way the real video just doesn’t, with its HD quality and sappy music.



Игорь (@ludmela58) 2022-12-09 18:03:29 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ludmela58/status/1601276363440545793

Проснулся ночью и увидел ,что кот сидит вот так.





Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) 2022-12-11 14:18:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1601944622288310274

Elon Musk says Twitter will increase its character limit on tweets from 280 to 4000.



Allan Obare (@AllanObare4) 2022-12-11 08:49:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AllanObare4/status/1601861774470512642

@elonmusk Elon is it true that Twitter is set to increase the characters from 280 to 4000?

Kindly @elonmusk



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-11 08:54:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601862965384269825

@AllanObare4 Yes



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-11 12:30:04 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1601917231247630338

Когда они пришли с лимитом в 280 символов, я не молчал, ведь мне было что сказать на 280 символов. https://twitter.com/AllanObare4/status/1601861774470512642



???????????????????????????????????????????????? (@shagbark_hick) 2022-12-12 02:07:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1602123043119284224

I can't begin to describe the bizarre desolation of life on an icebreaker. You're in a rarely-transited, ever-changing, completely inhospitable place more barren than the desert.
You are reminded every day that you have no business being where you are. It's a very weird feeling.





Мир фантастики (@Mir_Fantastiki) 2022-12-12 21:01:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Mir_Fantastiki/status/1602408331431317521

Печальные новости. В возрасте 85 лет умер композитор Анджело Бадаламенти.

Больше всего Бадаламенти известен как композитор саундтреков, эмбиента и джазового направления. Он написал музыку к легендарному «Твин Пиксу» (за что был удостоен премии «Грэмми»)





Ультравасилий и кот (@g_o_n_z_o) 2022-12-13 08:40:16 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/g_o_n_z_o/status/1602584175332233218

Оттепель!





Andy V (@steppentiger) 2022-12-13 10:51:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/steppentiger/status/1602617107275026432

У Лотмана в «Культуре и взрыве» (глава «Дурак и сумасшедший») имеется небезынтересное воспоминание на тему «деды воевали».





Холодный Доктор (@colDoc_colDoc) 2022-12-13 10:54:52 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/colDoc_colDoc/status/1602618046102765568

@steppentiger Абсолютно голые, но в сапогах.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-13 12:12:10 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602637500463415296

@colDoc_colDoc @steppentiger Поддерживаю мнѣніе о высокой вѣроятности того, что этакая причудливая степень опьянения могла наступить у автоматчиков не от алкоголя.

Если это мнѣніе справедливо, то тогда и мемуарист, и его однополчане впервые могли увидать не одних только автоматчиков, но также и обдолбанных.



Любимый❤️Сочи (@sochi_love) 2022-12-11 18:34:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sochi_love/status/1602008864886505475

???? Пешеходный подвесной мост чайкам зашёл

У них там целая туалетная коммуна, судя по фото.

???? yarkho y




 

 
femb✦t (@__femb0t) 2022-08-22 19:42:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1561801074964680705

,,,,the sky above the television tuned to a dead channel was the color of a different, much older television tuned to a dead channel :(





РИА Новости (@rianru) 2022-12-13 10:24:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/rianru/status/1602610439891959811

Росстандарт принял ограничивающий скорость электросамокатов до 25 км/ч ГОСТ
https://ria.ru/20221213/skorost-1838302599.html





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905729089904640

[53:1] Начну новый #твитшторм и соберу свѣдѣнія и мои разсужденія про цвѣта и цвѣтовыя пространства, про цвѣтовые профили, про нюансы отображения цвѣтовъ различными экранами и девайсами, различными браузерами и другими приложениями, как быть пользователям, как быть разработчикам.



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905737872789505

[53:2] Для начала напомню, что сорок дней назад (4 ноября) в сообщениях https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1588511088089661441 и https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1588526911915196416 собирал нѣкоторыя свѣдѣнія о цвѣтовомъ пространстве Adobe RGB (1998) и пришёл к выводу, что уходить в него из sRGB мнѣ неохота (точности 24 бит недостаточно).





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905746802352129

[53:3] Дюжиною дней позже (16 ноября) я досадовал по адресу https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1592657131630493696 о том, что Firefox не поддерживал профили ICCv4 и оттого не мог вѣрно показать итог изощрённого сжатия JPEG в пространстве XYB.

Вчера (13 декабря) вышел Firefox 108, наконец поддерживающий ICCv4.







Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905756587753472

[53:4] Новость https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/108.0/releasenotes/ про появление ICCv4 во браузере Firefox можно провѣрить собственноручно, зайдя в Firefox 108 на страницу https://www.color.org/version4html.xalter и видя его показывающим провѣрочное изображение (составленное из 4 кусков с разными профилями цвѣта) безупречно.







Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 07:25:33 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602927760091254785

[53:5] Ну а 29 ноября я пощупал цвѣтоподборщикъ https://oklch.evilmartians.io/ (который @andrey_sitnik и @romanshamin сдѣлали) и говорил о моих цвѣтовыхъ впечатлениях без мáлого 2⅕ часа кряду (предисловие https://t.me/ReadMithgol/547 и таймкоды видеозаписи https://t.me/ReadMithgol/548 прилагаю).







Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 09:59:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602966493834215425

Насчёт https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1587046309424517128 по адресу https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33936614 вижу интересное истолкование мрачной судьбы JPEG XL: раз даже ИЗНУТРИ GOOGLE не достичь поддержки нового формата файлов, то гибель в 2014 году идеи о браузеронезависимой (плагинной) поддержке форматов погубит и WWW.





Brodie Robertson (@BrodieOnLinux) 2022-12-13 20:05:00 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/BrodieOnLinux/status/1602756493069238272

Chromium Ends JPEG XL Before It Even Lived #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/Jyk87VVfh9s





Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 14:06:33 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603028676278423554

Contemplating Codec Comparisons

Here are my thoughts on the recent codec comparison by Google's AVIF team, that led to Chrome's decision to remove JPEG XL.

https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 15:15:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603046060842258433

Main points:
- Decoding time of avif and jxl is now about the same
- UX for jxl is better (thanks to streaming decode and progressive rendering)
- Measuring speed correctly, avif is slower to encode



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 15:18:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603046713287131137

- Measuring quality in the relevant fidelity region ('web quality'), jxl is ~15% better than avif according to the data from the avif team
- For lossless, jxl advantages are more substantial than what the avif team comparison suggests
- Format features have to be considered too



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 15:21:12 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603047459218931712

Basically the blog post explains how the AVIF team's comparison data ended up getting misinterpreted, while it does actually show the value of JPEG XL.



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 16:01:16 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603057543277846528

For example, this plot (provided by the AVIF team) shows that JXL is 17% better than AVIF at 1 bpp, which is the median AVIF bitrate used on the web. But the BD-rate shows only a 'meh' 3% overall improvement for JXL, since it was computed including qualities too low to be useful.





Björn Andersson (@bjondersson) 2022-12-14 16:59:45 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bjondersson/status/1603072260780478464

We are figuratively once again getting VHS instead of Betamax because of Google. Don’t let history repeat itself. #JPEGXL #AVIF https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603028676278423554



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 17:11:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603075307141054465

@bjondersson Especially since we now have digital media, not physical! We can easily just have both and let everyone use what they like best. There is no reason to support only one format — Chrome is not a VCR that has to be physically designed for one specific videocasette type.



Andreas Kling (@awesomekling) 2022-12-14 12:55:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1603010828202123264

You may not like it, but Safari is the main thing standing in the way of Chromium becoming the de facto web platform.



efebic (@efebic) 2022-12-14 12:58:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/efebic/status/1603011554995277827

@awesomekling As long as it's open-source, why would that be a bad thing?



Deploriot (@Deploriot) 2022-12-14 14:30:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Deploriot/status/1603034634643816450

@efebic @awesomekling Look at the case of JPEG XL and you can see how one entity can railroad progress to their own goals.



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 19:07:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603104355468681218

@efebic @awesomekling Open source is not the same thing as community controlled. It's a necessary but not sufficient condition to prevent Google from effectively dictating the direction of the web platform.



joe (@bowsamic) 2022-12-14 13:23:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bowsamic/status/1603017961983336448

@efebic @awesomekling Because even if it's open source, it's still developed in a closed fashion by a single company. Then they can basically add whatever they want to the browser and people will use it, even if it's totally non standard



joe (@bowsamic) 2022-12-14 13:24:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bowsamic/status/1603018196642037760

@efebic @awesomekling You end up destroying the web as an open ecosystem supported by various browsers. Instead the web would instead become totally closed except to one piece of software



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-15 04:11:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1603241278929571840

[50:74] По адресу https://te.legra.ph/Tejina-senpai-12-10 и https://te.legra.ph/Sounan-desu-ka-12-10 на сайте Telegraph выложил альбомы, по адресу https://t.me/ReadMithgol/553 в Telegram выложил архивы (7-Zip) сшивок кадров, взятых из первой серии #аниме «Tejina-senpai» и из первой серии аниме «Sounan desu ka».







93.RU (@93ru_novosti) 2022-12-14 05:10:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/93ru_novosti/status/1602893823595745280

«Оба вируса агрессивно уничтожают дыхательную систему»: что будет с организмом, если одновременно заболеть гриппом и ковидом.

Врачи рассказали, насколько высока вероятность подхватить оба вируса.

https://t.co/2dkBCw088I



РосКомСвобода (@RuBlackListNET) 2022-12-15 08:11:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/RuBlackListNET/status/1603301716857946112

Суд впервые оштрафовал блогера за недостаточно большие буквы иноагентской маркировки. Для набора текста маркировки он использовал клавишу Caps Lock, однако экспертиза показала, что во «ВКонтакте» эта клавиша не дает нужного размера https://roskomsvoboda.org/post/inoagenta-shtrafanuli-za-shrift/



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-15 19:59:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1603479894909935636

thinking about the egyptian hieroglyphic "pot with legs"





в депо до таллинской (@art_efr) 2022-12-15 11:17:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/art_efr/status/1603348510530846723

23 декабря закрывается самая уникальная трамвайная линия России. Усть-Илимский скоростной трамвай, где-то в недрах Иркутской области красные вагончики бегали из города до местного завода. но увы, мир пазиков победил. очень повезло, что смог проехать на такой уникальной системе!











в депо до таллинской (@art_efr) 2022-12-15 20:57:36 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/art_efr/status/1603494505717587969

и ещё несколько фоток этой шикарной системы











Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2022-12-16 13:34:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1603745394072190979

NYtimes 2008: Kids are threatened by dumb phones!

NYtimes 2022: These enlightened kids are finding refuge in dumb phones!







CMYK Student (@CmykStudent) 2022-12-15 20:02:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/CmykStudent/status/1603480604833714176

GIMP now supports loading and exporting 8/16 bit CMYK JPEG XL files! Thanks to @novomesk for the thorough review and feedback on the merge request. I think @GIMP_Official is the first image editor to support CMYK JPEG XL - hopefully others will follow soon!



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931899810004994

I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes.  Here is the full thing: https://t.co/iUcr8TYMLD



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931901491908610

As anyone who listens to my unscripted Connect talks knows, I have always been pretty frustrated with how things get done at FB/Meta.  Everything necessary for spectacular success is right there, but it doesn't get put together effectively.



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931904075395072

I thought that the "derivative of delivered value" was positive in 2021, but that it turned negative in 2022.  There are good reasons to believe that it just edged back into positive territory again, but there is a notable gap between Mark Zuckerberg and I on various strategic



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931905539325955

issues, so I knew it would be extra frustrating to keep pushing my viewpoint internally.  I am all in on building AGI at Keen Technologies now.



Jean-Simon (@JeanSimB623) 2022-12-17 02:08:25 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/JeanSimB623/status/1603935115784101890

@ID_AA_Carmack screenshot of fb text.





Andy V (@steppentiger) 2022-12-17 17:57:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/steppentiger/status/1604174009616289794

Дело раскрыто.





Егор (@Graypfruit) 2022-12-17 17:05:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Graypfruit/status/1604160855234453505





Pubity (@PubityIG) 2022-12-17 19:43:25 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PubityIG/status/1604200614711287808

Twitter has removed the ability to see which device a tweet comes from. (Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Android)







Артём Дерягин (@DerArto) 2022-12-16 12:08:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DerArto/status/1603723864105799680

Наложить диснеевский фильтр на кошку было хорошей идеей






Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) 2022-09-25 14:08:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1574038167304474625

When a tech company does it, it’s a dangerous social experiment

When the NYT does it, it’s an A/B test







Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-09-26 09:30:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1574330448930430977

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1574038167304474625











Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-09-26 11:32:24 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1574361239135846401

(Until recently NYtimes made you call a human to cancel subscription)



vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) 2022-09-26 12:29:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1574375725297188865

@TechnophobiaOrg Credit cards imo are one of the few techs that we need *more* phobia of (and push to build better alternatives!)

Canceling subscriptions should be done by opening your wallet app and clicking cancel, so it's up to the company to cancel service when the next payment doesn't come.



Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-12-15 17:22:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1603440271668264965

The Unabomber manifesto argued transsexuals were the result of modern technology.

Heritage making the same argument here:  https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/how-big-tech-turns-kids-trans



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-18 15:15:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1604495465785229320

@TeHn0n4Me @steppemaxxxing Точно ли жутко? — цитату, пожалуйста.



Pangur Bán ???? (@PangurBn10) 2022-12-15 02:06:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PangurBn10/status/1603209909193121794

what is going on with tv





Nanabuyo (@nanabuyo) 2022-12-16 01:02:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/nanabuyo/status/1603556237198917632

@pierrothamiha >blackpilled

”victory is ours”

 
They’re so stupid



Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) 2022-12-12 22:17:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1602427384166334465

If you start seeing a checkmark that's not blue, you're doing it right. We’re adding more account distinctions.
 
Gold checkmarks will appear on verified, official businesses on Twitter.
 
And coming soon, grey checkmarks will appear on government and multilateral accounts.



Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) 2022-12-12 22:17:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1602427386636767232

We’ll begin replacing that "official" profile label with a grey or gold checkmark, but you will still see labels for some types of accounts.

Learn more: https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/profile-labels



Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) 2022-12-18 23:34:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1604621241742082049

I’ve been telling @elonmusk to hire someone as Twitter CEO from the beginning

That way when things go wrong you can blame that person, but you still retain ultimate control as the owner.

And yes I am available to do the job https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604621241742082049



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-18 23:34:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604621101245419520

@WholeMarsBlog The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive



Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-19 00:04:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1604628658852970496

I take payment in Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604621101245419520



Pasha the Cossack????⚡ (@GhostOfPashka) 2022-12-19 00:06:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/GhostOfPashka/status/1604629262476140545

@Snowden Russian CEO of Twitter.
Let that sink in.



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-19 01:29:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604650028999405568

Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it



Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) 2022-12-19 15:07:21 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/1604855914326007809

1. Infinite scroll
2. Footer

Pick one, you can’t have both.

(You’d think this is common sense by now, but you’d be wrong)



It's about time... (@Midori_marmotte) 2022-12-20 12:37:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Midori_marmotte/status/1605180694812041217

@LeaVerou @oscherler My pet peeve: brands who put language change in the footer yet have infinite scroll. Being in a multilingual country turns into a headache, especially if you’re the one doing helpdesk for the whole family.



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-19 05:17:44 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1604707534455332864

that sea lion must have been absolutely tripping





guava (@team_chao) 2022-12-19 05:27:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/team_chao/status/1604709936671625216

@depthsofwiki the New Carissa page calls it a harbor seal. seems more likely though I am not an expert







Ramesh Shah, from Upstairs ???? (@shah_upstairs) 2022-12-19 06:59:34 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/shah_upstairs/status/1604733160394088448

@depthsofwiki





gibby from icarly (@monolilium) 2022-12-19 05:42:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/monolilium/status/1604713802448089088

@depthsofwiki same energy





Steve Marsden (@DrSteveMarsden) 2022-12-19 05:30:10 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DrSteveMarsden/status/1604710662168510465

@depthsofwiki "I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark by the Tannhäuser Gate."



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-21 12:22:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1605539320349147136

Попробовал из файла https://t.co/LCAiVBPOM4 поставить #oxipng, однако с досадою увидал, что в этой версии (v7.0.0 под x86_64) разработчик либо вообще отломил Zopfli, либо команду «oxipng --verbose --threads 6 --alpha --interlace 1 -f 0-9 --zopfli --strip safe --preserve» поломал.



velonation (@Romasheda) 2022-12-20 12:36:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Romasheda/status/1605180237310222337

Шведский аналог «Мосгортранса» раздал велосипедистам шины с шипами и вообще всячески пропагандирует велосипедизм
https://wp.me/p5Rq7e-6Gy



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-22 08:06:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1605837251295969280

По наводке https://t.me/typodar/26349 по адресу https://t.me/rbc_krasnodar/8181 и затѣмъ ещё https://kuban.rbc.ru/krasnodar/freenews/63a0711f9a79473adb6ab460 прочёл: #КраснодарскийКрай может обзавестись новым городом размѣромъ с #Геленджик, однако миллионником (плотность его жителей будет болѣе чѣмъ НА ПОРЯДОК выше геленджикской).









John Hudson (@John_Hudson) 2022-12-21 12:04:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1605534612750405634

New: Following months of investigation, there is no conclusive evidence that Russia is behind the Nord Stream sabotage, according to 24 diplomatic and intelligence officials in nine different countries interviewed in recent weeks https://t.co/THCSarABfm



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-21 22:04:44 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1605685726854582273

Тред рождественской истории Цессны-188, безнадежно потерявшейся над Тихим океаном 22 декабря 1978 года, но чудесным образом нашедшейся.



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-22 16:05:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605957811162054656

Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video.

Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-21 13:53:09 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1605562018882211840

Darktable, the FOSS counterpart of Adobe Lightroom/Camera Raw, releases version 4.2 with read/write support for JPEG XL!

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darktable-4.2-Released



анатолий ноготочки???? (@A_Kapustin) 2022-12-21 07:46:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/A_Kapustin/status/1605469817191821312

ожидаемо





Medtech (@Medtech161) 2022-12-22 04:50:24 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Medtech161/status/1605787816037912576

@A_Kapustin Всё было нормально до зацепа за авто, потом адреналина стало слишком много и результат не заставил себя ждать.



The Associated Press (@AP) 2022-12-23 20:10:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1606381652216893440

An @AP investigation has found that COVID-19 accelerated and normalized state surveillance and tracking tools that are now being used to investigate crime and harass marginalized communities. http://bit.ly/3FMndPY





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-23 22:27:10 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1606416151097282570

“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept?”

Got a lot of flak for that on April 9th, 2020.

https://t.co/pFTjQSgB54 https://twitter.com/AP/status/1606381652216893440



Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) 2022-12-23 17:44:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1606344914459131905





[эстетика ебеней] (@yebenya) 2022-12-24 11:21:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/yebenya/status/1606610896398307329

Игорь Юферев | Ладога





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701493947887616

45.  Many people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF/FBI.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701495604629504

46.  These reports are far more factually controversial than domestic counterparts.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701497081024512

47. One intel report lists accounts tied to “Ukraine ‘neo-Nazi’ Propaganda.’” This includes assertions that Joe Biden helped orchestrate a coup in 2014 and “put his son on the board of Burisma.”







Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701501677961217

48. Another report asserts a list of accounts accusing the “Biden administration” of “corruption” in vaccine distribution are part of a Russian influence campaign:





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:04 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701503850643456

49.  Often intelligence came in the form of brief reports, followed by long lists of accounts simply deemed to be pro-Maduro, pro-Cuba, pro-Russia, etc. This one batch had over 1000 accounts marked for digital execution:





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701508862828545

51. Intel about the shady origin of these accounts might be true. But so might at least some of the information in them – about neo-Nazis,  rights abuses in Donbas, even about our own government. Should we block such material?



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701510427316226

52. This is a difficult speech dilemma. Should the government be allowed to try to prevent Americans (and others) from seeing pro-Maduro or anti-Ukrainian accounts?



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701512050487297

53. Often intel reports are just long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos guilty of “anti-Ukraine narratives”:









Vince M. (@und_moss) 2022-12-24 15:48:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/und_moss/status/1606678131011731457

Мудрец сказал: когда показывают пальцем в некоем возвышенном направлении, умный смотрит куда показывают, а дурак смотрит на палец. Мы-то с вами не дураки: зачем этот палец разглядывать?



Vince M. (@und_moss) 2022-12-24 15:48:12 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/und_moss/status/1606678133347844096

Ну и что, что он заскорузлый и зеленоватый, и вместо ногтя на нём коготь, с которого что-то капает? Отвернись и гляди в рекламируемую высь!



соня пономаренко) (@TAPIR_V_KOSMOSE) 2022-12-23 02:28:36 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TAPIR_V_KOSMOSE/status/1606114518622384128

ща вспомнила как мы с подругой опаздывали на урок и посреди улицы увидели электросамокат сопоставили эти два факта оплатили встали она рулит я сзади  проехали 10 метров и я в это время начала так АРАТЬ что она просто молча сфотала его и завершила поездку



Sofia (@omruruch) 2022-12-25 18:43:34 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/omruruch/status/1607084652803817474

Infrastructure as a crime: велодорожка пересекает две встречные полосы машин под тупым углом, ограничение скорости 50км/ч (30mph)





Sofia (@omruruch) 2022-12-25 18:44:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/omruruch/status/1607084965921185792

Крайне популярный маршрут, но этот выезд каждый раз как последние секунды жизни





Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) 2022-12-26 03:25:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1607216009152237571

She was so excited about the convenience of face-scan payment in China...no card or phone needed ... ???? ????

Wait until the govt decides your social credit score is too low for not doing what they tell you. No water for you until you receive your 4th booster. ????

????sound ...????





Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) 2022-12-26 03:45:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1607220990307713025

Combine that with a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and your freedom is gone.

They track your every movement and location at all times, your spending decisions and turn off your money if you disobey.



Cryptocoinage (@CryptoCoinLead) 2022-12-26 03:54:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/CryptoCoinLead/status/1607223397812998146

@WallStreetSilv





failcoin (@failcoin) 2022-12-26 04:29:24 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/failcoin/status/1607232084720095233

@WallStreetSilv By "it's coming" she isn't referencing the bottle of water. CBDCs with complete surveillance is coming.



Useless Eater (@GermOfWisdom) 2022-12-26 08:08:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/GermOfWisdom/status/1607287141528211457

@WallStreetSilv what happens when one's biometrics get compromised? i mean, it's face and fingers only on the frontend, on the backend it's still a string of characters like a regular password. except that one cannot change his face or fingertips so easily as a password



Righteous⚡️Crusader (@Craftmastah) 2022-12-26 06:49:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Craftmastah/status/1607267246560219137

@WallStreetSilv A great man once said, anyone willing to trade freedom for safety deserve neither. What do you call people who would trade their freedom for minor conveniences?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-24 16:36:57 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1606690402865750017

Показывать количество просмотров твита — отличная идея, давно пора вернуться к истокам.





Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) 2022-12-24 18:53:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Chesschick01/status/1606724838395199488

People would know this if they had read @Snowden book and it would come as a shock to no one. ???? https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701405443874816





Yesterday's Print (@yesterdaysprint) 2022-12-24 20:00:01 (UTC)