Replacing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee with antivaxxers is a deadly move that will lead to greater restrictions on vaccines and significantly increase the spread of health misinformation, making Americans much sicker.

So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"

@robertjames1971.blog The Star Trek TOS remasters were done from 2006 to 2008 and came out on BluRay in 2009.

@GossiTheDog Transparency ™️

@Slashline Cracked has a whole article about the history of that joke: https://www.cracked.com/article_39387_how-alan-zweibel-wrote-saturday-night-lives-best-joke.html

What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n

@MatthewChat And lo and behold someone built a supercut of the best ones. https://youtu.be/wGx1hTusKGo?si=zLMwl-96uSEC_hC-

@MatthewChat Could be! The series is streamable for free on #plutoTV S2E21 "The Computer Age" is fun - the characters start doing exposition and one says, "Hold it! Ain't nobody gonna pay attention to what's goin' on as long as they got them names up there."

#TIL that the TV show #GreenAcres had a running gag where the on-screen episode credits (writer, director etc) would appear in weird ways and even get noticed to comic effect by the characters in the show. I remembered one of these (the one with Drucker and the printing press) but didn’t realize it was a long running gag. #sitcoms #reruns https://decider.com/2019/04/25/green-acres-streaming-opening-credits-gag/

Fieldwork tip: if, in the course of a long elicitation session, your consultant translates "black pepper" as "may it get into your eyes", it may be time for a break. (from Barth's 1850 vocabulary of Emghedesie. My reconstruction: nda a-hur ni-n moo-yo if 3SG-enter 2SG-GEN eye-PL)

@jbayes @mcnado

We have the tools, but people are not using them.

Look at that inauguration. Lots of at risk people. Maybe they have hidden the far UV and HEPA, but so many people in such a small space. And singing too!

@overholt I was never told which unit of "Schmarvard" was involved. However, there were evidently competitions promoted by Schmeta to use the stolen dataset to train AI to either recognize or create 3D models of furniture.

@rjblaskiewicz I hate when they have gimmicky things you have to put in the grid and I can’t convince the applet to declare me done. Happy New Year to you too!

NY Times puzzles are frustrating me today.

Death Of A Forum: How The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/20/death-of-a-forum-how-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-killing-communities/

People used to see UFOs. Now they see drones.

Instead of wondering what these objects could be, now they wonder who is behind them.

Do you all want to know something super funny, the lab I did my PhD in actually did EEG work as well and THIS is why I NEVER talk about it, early in my tech career someone was like "omg you should put on your resume that you can do EEG and eye tracking and your entire career in UX will be set!" And I said no thank you, I will never! And ever since then people have mistakenly said I was "Qualitative" and maybe "not a scientist" but I sleep at night, so

A valiant effort has been made by Little Tim this year, who for some reason has decided to change his name to Tim'); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];--

HO HO HO! Nice try Tim. I don't use #SQL, I use several dozen interconnected #Excel spreadsheets, like a professional.

Having an "ñ" in my surname means constantly being gaslit by online forms that tell me my name can't contain special characters only to then tell me that my password must contain special characters, three emojis and a valid chess move.

In the best carriage

#StarTrek