The Public Domain ReviewStill Life with Asparagus (1697) by the Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen Coorte.
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gwire> Cambridge’s preservationists don’t just mount disks and hope for the best; they sample the raw magnetic signal itself. Specialized hardware, such as the KryoFlux and open-hardware Greaseweazle interfaces, captures the flux transitions — the tiny changes in polarity that encode data — and reconstructs the file structure later in software.
paulrickardsDid you know the Amiga Kickstart boot screen is stored as vector data? It uses only 412 bytes. 💾
Ars TechnicaOpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Ruth — of systems & design‘An Airplane has been defined as a collection of parts having an inherent tendency to fall to earth, and requiring constant effort and supervision to stave off that outcome. The System called "airplane" may have been designed to fly, but the parts don't share that tendency. In fact, they share the opposite tendency. And the System will fly—if at all—only as a System.’
— John Gall, The Systems Bible
LillyLyle/Count MelancholiaForget all the bad news; THIS is happening! Joy!
RT: William Gibson
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
SETI Institute#PPOD: This stunning photograph of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), taken by Yuri Beletsky on 19 January from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, looks almost like a watercolour painting. The comet is next to one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO
When viewed close up, it’s an abstract series of modulated horizontal lines with hatch marks in them. From a distance, the line work collapses into a recognizable portrait (at least for me).
Geoff 🏴Despite being semi-aquatic, hippos can actually run faster on land (~20mph) than they can in water, and they don't swim, they run along the bottom.
The upshot is that in a hippo / human triathlon, we just have to pray that they're not that good on a bike.
The upshot is that in a hippo / human triathlon, we just have to pray that they're not that good on a bike.