Steve Foster

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Amateur astrophysicist. (An MSc was one way to start off retirement!) . Tom Waits fan. AKA @boredtownboy on Twitter. One planet. One species. One nation.

(Brentwood, Essex, UK)

In about 1981 Neil Harris was traveling along the autobahn with his boss at Commodore, Jack Tramiel. They were headed to the Hamburg computer expo.

Harris commented on how smooth the road was.

"Thanks." Said Tramiel, who'd been imprisoned as Jewish slave-labour nearby in WW2. "I built this one."

@cemedia Untrue (kind-of). There are jobs that require no skill beyond a pulse, but that doesn’t mean the workers themselves are unskilled. Regardless, anyone who contributes to society is entitled to dignity and a fair slice of the pie.
@davidallengreen
I think Gov is confusing native (born there) with indigenous (historically original populace). They’re correct if they mean the latter since the islands appear to have been uninhabited until the start of the colonial era.
Happy Autumn
Elon Musk’s X social media platform sues a coalition of major advertisers, claiming it violated antitrust laws by coordinating with brands to dissuade them from buying ads on the former Twitter. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25033227-x-v-garm
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@garius Were none of the rhymes “weigh” or “whey” ?
@davidallengreen Days do not stay constant when a leap second is introduced.

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I accidentally spilled some coffee in the hummingbird feeder and now I'm seeing flashes of blue Cherenkov radiation outside my window.