Tom Hannen

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Working as executive producer for video at the Financial Times. Previously worked in BBC Global News
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What happens when a large open source project dies?

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/21/whale-fall.html

Whale Fall

What happens when a large open source project dies.

Andrew Nesbitt
Scrolling in the iOS Gmail app… Why is it like this? Does this happen to everyone? #butterysmooth
#askatp

Students ask me iF vIrUsEs NeEd ceLLs tO LiVe aRe ThEy ReAlLy aLiVe?

And I answer "If I sent you to the rings of Saturn, you're not alive. If you need the biosphere to live are you really alive?"

#biology #evolution #gaia

So Google Colab sometimes just disconnects and you lose all your data? Even if you’re paying to use the GPU? Wtf Fun times great system
@marcoarment “I was being bundled into an unmarked van by masked ICE agents when my Apple Watch notified me that my heart rate was unusually high”
Sometimes catching up with Mastodon is like rewinding my own thoughts.
The original artist describes their Fortran code that rendered the Nostromo's vector landing display in "Alien": https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-06/page/n51/mode/2up?ui=embed&view=theater
Creative Computing Magazine (June 1981) Volume 07 Number 06 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Internet Archive
Volumetric 2D tamagotchi - Bitzee Disney toy @ancientjames
I don't think I've *ever* encountered a situation where my geographic location affected how I use Adobe products. And yet, I see this popup almost every week

January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all (only in United States), as are sound recordings from 1924!

By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle
Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

#PublicDomainDayCountdown

Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law

Update: see what's entering the public domain on January 1, 2026! Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[1] On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.