The Voyager probes are amazing in many regards but they may ALSO be the longest continuously running computer programs (by some definitions). Each probe has three computers each of which has a backup. I wrote this eight years ago for MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/08/06/166822/what-is-the-oldest-computer-program-still-in-use/
For more on Voyager probes, see these many articles I wrote about them, including an interview with the original and long-time project lead, Ed Stone. https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/8/4/if-you-love-voyager-like-i-love-voyager
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Better get Edna Mode to make you a new one.
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I’m a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The Voyager probes are amazing in many regards but they may ALSO be the longest continuously running computer programs (by some definitions). Each probe has three computers each of which has a backup. I wrote this eight years ago for MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/08/06/166822/what-is-the-oldest-computer-program-still-in-use/
Is this $267,000 RV the one that Clarence Thomas says he likes to park at Walmart? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html
nostr:npub19kr9jlq66y804t0a64adl39n5ztp3wunvaqv4q52k4cq3q685z2qu48m4r he's a man of the people, but the people are rich racists
I've booked a ticket to SPX in Maryland in September to meet folks for my upcoming book about the history of reproduction of newspaper cartoons!
nostr:npub1sdunjhskgvp3aghxsz8gds5acts5a5pkwa5gk5kff3dt6lzwfe6qvvw074 put another shrimp on the
I check in on my Twitter account from time to time
nostr:npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9 we still haven’t had it. But beginning to feel like Robert De Niro in the Deerhunter - Russian roulette scene
nostr:npub1r866wy7c4g40c3sq80sc52g02dxa34k4rgn87ymevus5899qwgeqdh8kl6 Smaller and smaller bullets each time you spin is what I hope.
Well, 2 of the 4 of us in this family managed to avoid COVID so far—#3 is now down (but just nasty cold symptoms). 3 1/2 years is a pretty good run of it (and all the shots and boosters). Hilarious that we did two weeks in Europe in June and my kid got it in Seattle, and we’re not sure where! They haven’t been many places in the last several days.
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was just trying to explain #SatanicPanic to someone who missed it and they thought I was making it up
and thanks for the tip. gotta get me some dentures for my next invocation
nostr:npub162dqndxn30uudg4ftllg9envelm6wa7045gse8aekd7z5lv27w2ska5lvt Phthwang pthwang oral-B!
nostr:npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9 i don't know. QAnon is basically an update to Blood Libel and the Great Reset is White Supremacy, which aint exactly new
some of the men seem upset that other men have capitalized their hobby. but that's what capital does
#Conspiracy begets #Meme begets #Brand
nostr:npub162dqndxn30uudg4ftllg9envelm6wa7045gse8aekd7z5lv27w2ska5lvt The article was nuanced—I thought it didn’t “reward” the theorists or let them off the hook but described how much more extreme and dangerous the new ones were. I remember the Satanic Cult Panic. A neighbor across the street was broken into in the 90s and her wisdom teeth were taken (she had them in an envelope that probably looked like jewelry). A cop said, “oh, these are used in satanic rituals.” !!!
nostr:npub1s69n4td37hpm4q2hf6ar4dj2e52lnyp0n3y50htyd9vqkw406v8qjql9l2 I mean, we apparently could have been wearing masks during flu season just in high-transmission situations (transit, medical contexts, etc.) and dramatically reduced its transmission and saved 10,000s of lives a year and 100,000s of hospitalizations…yet social norms prevented us. So we’ve slingshotted back to that. The article notes that COVID might reduce to flu levels of death…most of which are preventable, too.
Classic conspiracy theorists find the shift in conspiracy theories troubling. Wonderfully nuanced article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html?unlocked_article_code=BDV3YBFENqNRdnDwqR1oA855poi_cuE1FlToizdWSe8EK_yllPeowIr89rJ4BUiRiOsvyICqC2b4wMX8g7hKL_ViI6p6dldweKl_O-4y8nsKRldhD4Km-DJkOKw45PZuZoLYGmjdXjhM-LRej0Y5-y8_5_0yXyYD1hq3aSIYZFGenzRjcvniXQHnL5qylQXGfRaeWKAKKFZKZPleJJ7MYKroMn6W3T20aZt2rj8Rk8uZwyWFMNN-LTN1Q_RqXiJQdLqn9dgW4KPRalfJGfUTtoQy95vQb9n1OLbu4oHjzAn8QWMEU4rswlyX6Bu8lWAlus5ok1l_15-C7fs8fwo&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
nostr:npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9 Front page of the NYTimes labeled as sensitive?????
nostr:npub1e3kk3fnxeh242cse5j6ur4wjx5n75293n8gt8059guke5w6xtnmsmxndy6 some people don’t like the trump guy in their feed
I've read about The Villages in Florida for many years but hadn't a clue; nothing comes close to the unique voice and the intimacy, sensitivity and excellence of this essay
https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-17/shadow-on-the-sun
nostr:npub1l6y7v07gyc0mpusywf2ectrymt5g4gyp0xhm6e6g76gnfk3t9nmstr2e4y I started in and the reporter admits lying several times. Can't get past it when he's not investigating, say, violence in a slaughterhouse or something.