What does it say in the image?

It says 'minimum'.

Hard to read? Medieval scribes thought so too.

That's why they invented the dot on the i.

This way, you could at least see which strokes represented vowels - and that helped a lot.

For similar reasons, the letter j was invented.

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Artificial intelligence is a commodity, but understanding is a superpower | InfoWorld

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4018265/artificial-intelligence-is-a-commodity-but-understanding-is-a-superpower.html

Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.

— Mikko Hypponen

#quality #security

It's Disability Pride Month!
In spite of the fact that all people will experience disability at some point in their lives, disability studies does not receive the same attention as other fields of study

I encourage all non-disabled academics to engage with disability studies scholarship and consider the ways in which you can highlight our work

Nothing about us without us

I wrote an Open Access paper on epilepsy 💜

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2025.2455088#d1e284

More than a quarter-century ago, a group of hackers decided that, as a label, "free software" was a liability, and they set out to replace it with a different label, "open source," on the basis that "open source" was easier to understand and using it instead of "free software" would speed up adoption.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/#gnus-not-utilitarian

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