Notices by Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)

Penguins? Under my car?

So many colors!

I'm slowly adapting to southern hemisphere facts like shadows that point south at noon and that the moon is upside down, but this evening I noticed that the sun sets to the left and I can't even.

No rooting. No tooting. And absolutely no hooting.

We saw the Alps, the Med, the Sahara, and the Cape in a day. The return trip by sail is going to be much slower.

The human origins exhibit at the Iziko museum is not equivocating about the bad origins of scientific racism.

I thought they were only doing this for users inside the US.

turn off the AI, kagi, it's not helping.

@quixoticgeek the same way you type é but with a different wikipedia page

Beaker has seen some things

@NanoRaptor my new years resolution is 80x25

Does anyone have telecine recommendations for Super8?

@foone you should sign up for my new SaaS: sorting as a service. Not every business has the space and engineering skills to operate their own IBM 83, so send your card deck to our servers, where they will be radix sorted by our operators and sent back to you in less than one week.

It looks like oil paintings on wikipedia are being infected by phone camera software that automatically "fixes" skin textures.

@foone did you know that QR codes have a 5.5 bit alphanumeric option? A-Z (uppercase), 0-9, and a few punctuation marks.

This is wrong in several ways.

The original artist describes their Fortran code that rendered the Nostromo's vector landing display in "Alien": https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-06/page/n51/mode/2up?ui=embed&view=theater

@valhalla the problem with unicode is that the SHIP section is very short and does not have have a way to easily send "ARRIVED HERE AT —, ENCOUNTERED A SEVERE GALE AND HEAVY SEAS, WHICH CARRIED AWAY BOATS AND WHEEL, STANCHIONS AND BULWARKS, BROKE MAST AND JIB-BOOM, ALL SAILS GONE"

@valhalla "UNICODE"

Did you know that "opleiden" in Dutch means "supposed to be a Fenian outrage"?