Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

A monolingual society is a boring society

Definitely just saw a written comment where someone used "Google" to mean search but then specified a different site to search on.

Word of the day: fakelore

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_tradition#Fakelore

Watching this has me at ten-year-old-Levi levels of giddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes

Maybe this is going on the (sparse) travelling bucketlist https://youtu.be/PEpcG5WEhqY

Movie recommendation: The Creator

Humans vs AI couldn't be more timely. I don't know why the reveiers didn't like this one but my brother, wife, and I sure did.

I get the sterotype of nerds wearing glasses is somewhat essential to a visual representation, but some of the other design choices done by the different emoji "typefaces" seem like they intend to promote negative stereotypes. Childish faces, funny teeth, etc.

https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/

Planed obselecense is a thing, sure, but my daily driver keyboard is 20 years old and, aside from missing two function keys, is working just fine

Lichen on Mars when? https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Lichen_survives_in_space via @ohryan

I don’t get the point of mixed alcoholic drinks that are tasty without the addition of alcohol

Considering "up" means nothing in space, you'd think NASA's logo would be less ambiguiously orentied—or should I say VSVN's logo?

My "technology" abilities seem to have always "wowed" my parents but the current thing that seems to impress them the most is my use of Shortcuts on iOS.

Recent example: I have one that checks the weather at noon and tells me if conditions are favourable for a little lunch-hour bike ride.

The classic trope of…

1. Person keeps a physical journal of their deepest personal thoughts
2. Person has problem
3. Person's loved one finds the journal, learns what's going on, and helps to bring about a stronger relationship

…makes me want to start a journal

Happy birthday to my best friend

How is stenography still a job?

For once, a "Dutch ____" idiom that isn't negative.

"Dutch roll" apparently comes from the way a Dutch skater going down a canal might look.

https://aviationsourcenews.com/incident/southwest-airlines-737-max-suffers-dutch-roll-at-32000-feet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhcUqARzd8c

There is no overlap in the Venn diagram of people who say "on route" to mean "en route" and people who are my friends.

So much flag lingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_pale