Notices by Owen Blacker (owenblacker@dataare.cool)

@cstross it occurred to me after voting that magneto-optical drives weren't present there. Fond memories

@cstross I assumed it would be a while; you've talked about publishing timelines though that I know nothing would be quick anyway.

Oh wow, that's, erm, quite something! 😱

@cstross he sounds fascinating; I can't wait to read your remix of him

@cstross Zeynep Tüfekçi has been tweeting about it on birdsite. She published this piece a few days ago, which looks interesting https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html

@BethanyBlack It's such a good film for all the reasons you describe and I am still angry and frustrated that the main problem seems to be that the incredibly-blatant satire of US fascism was somehow still too subtle for Americans.

But then see also RoboCop and Total Recall, I guess.

Unrelated, it's probably best not to listen to "She Used to be Mine" immediately before needing to be collected and professional in a meeting 😂

@goatsarah @stavvers @Polypompholyx @Ellen omg that's so obvious in hindsight.

Thank you for teaching me that!

@goatsarah @stavvers @Polypompholyx @Ellen that would certainly make a lot of sense

@Polypompholyx @stavvers @Ellen @goatsarah I read an interesting thing forever ago about how we could work out when humans started wearing clothes based on the genetic differences between clothes lice and the other 2 human lice species.

Humans have had crabs and nits for long enough that there are at least *fewer* capital-Q Questions about their closeness to parasites of other primates, mind 😅