"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health...what have the Romans ever done for us?"

By the same token, when you look closely, what has congestion pricing done for #NYC anyway?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.t_Bn.qoLgactqxcNq&smid=url-share

ACM is Now Fully Open Access!

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2026/january/acm-open-access

#ACM

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With the retirement of HP-UX and Oracle’s lack of recertification for Solaris, we’re approaching a world where the only UNIX(tm) systems of note are Macintoshes and IBM mainframes.

The future is weird.

#unix

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

Carl Sagan called it over 30 years ago. And the saddest thing is that too many under 30 don’t even know what the fuck he was talking about. For the very reasons he was talking about. #WASF

https://stzl.ink/9wjruk

When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts

https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/when-christmas-was-legally-banned-for-22-years-by-the-puritans.html