*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@pschwede @pigeonkami And she never even settled here.

A really interesting book it seems (mentioned by Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing article) but rare are very high priced copies.

Bummer.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0955006139/downandoutint-20

"The clever, bizarre and poignant DIY housewares that fill the pages of Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts have stories to tell.

They communicate the textures of the lives of ordinary Russians during the collapse of the Soviet Union, they highlight alternatives to factory design and disposable goods, and they speak volumes about what goes on in other people's homes--how they spend and scrimp, how they make do.

Home-Made highlights the best of the everyday objects made by ordinary Russians during and around the time of the Soviet Union's decline."

Initial post on Cory's thread is https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1216379601976356864

Cory Doctorow just posted a really nice series of Tweets, and at the end cited this article as inspiration.

#Tech #science #computing #parallel computing #xp
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RT @doctorow
(this thread inspired by @jjn1's column in today's Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/11/we-are-approaching-the-limits-of-computer-power-we-need-new-programmers-n-ow
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1216380499712606209

#Math and #Cats all in one post.

Great #photography too. #xp
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RT @CTrustme@twitter.activitypub.actor

https://twitter.com/CTrustme/status/1216390547780382722

...and then people ask, why do you need more than one instance??

For an active Local feed, for example, when things quiet down and you can hear insects chirping in your normal main one...

@float13

Excellent catch -- he is indeed. For 20 years now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick

Someone still operating a twitter account with his name, then, since he died before twitter was born.

@snow

From Z's status : https://hackers.town/@zpojqwfejwfhiunz/103468609517484112

* Not an Emergency, but an alarming thing to receive in the morning *

...and then you wake up to an alarming SMS message.

Happened before in Hawaii, last year, and this morning in Southern Ontario. Toronto is a large metropolis about 40 Km or so from a Nuclear power plant in Pickering, ON.

The image is the SMS sent out -- by mistake, and that nonetheless must have rattled many people.

CBC article has lots of details -- and thankfully it was NOT an emergency but a mistake.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pickering-nuclear-generating-station-1.5424115

@pigeonkami Hello and welcome!

I think you don't have to worry, as you are curious and the person you want to read is posting publicly and referring to it, not a secret.

There's lots of good things here in the Fediverse, which is more than Mastodon -- there's video, music, file hosting, blog services, all kinds of nice projects to get involved in and to explore.

Hope you enjoy it here, pegeonkami. Welcome.

@snow

Toronto, Canada has some excellent architecture. This is a nice example, although the Winter bleak landscapes are not a favourite for me.

High on my loved list are TD Towers, by L. Mies van der Rowe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

Buffalo, NY, not far away also has lovely ones. #xp
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RT @blogTO@twitter.activitypub.actor
Behold, the most beautiful places in Toronto during the winter http://bit.ly/36DcBR1 #Toronto
https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1215365151265828865

@snow A nice image for the thread?

And a "Happy Birthday HAL!" article that was published by Wired in 1997 -- HAL's birthdate in the novel as written by A.C. Clarke : https://web.archive.org/web/20111026014624/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffhal_pr.html

#scifi #art #writing #books #technicolorrainbow people might like this one too.

@snow I like this idea, although it's hard to even speculate on what hardware it would use. Things change so quickly. But interesting nonetheless.

And as I search for more info, I came across the wonderful Wikipedia page for HAL9000 - a great read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

Also, this still unvisited link, might be useful : https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/56416/what-is-was-the-hardware-specification-of-hal9000

#Economy is still in shaky grounds. #Growth as in previous decades has not resumed, and likely won't return. Low and Zero interest rates hurt savers and stimulate irresponsible borrowing, Real Estate bubbles.

Too important and not being discussed. #xp
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RT @JeremyWarnerUK@twitter.activitypub.actor
Is this 1929 in redux? Bizarre for a US President to be cheering on a bubble like this https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1215…
https://twitter.com/JeremyWarnerUK/status/1215338489073541121

@snow This must be a nice plate. I love the big Udon noodles myself too.

See also : https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/13/voice_of_hal_9000_douglas_rain_dies_at_90/

And @snow post concerning the possible hardware specs of HAL9000, the all seeing and controlling AI and master computer on board the "2001, A Sapce Odissey" spaceship led me to look for any possible info.

Found some interesting posts, including Cory Doctorow's post marking the passing of the Canadian actor whose voice was selected and used in the film.

https://boingboing.net/2018/11/12/hal-9000-douglas-rain.html

A really marcant performance. Some qualified it as the best participation on a film, by someone simply voicing over, never appearing.

RIP, Douglas Rain (1918 - 2019)

Stanley Kubrick, the genial film's director, posted about his passing too. https://twitter.com/StanleyKubrick/status/1061947188421582848

#scifi #HAL9000 #Kubrick #art