From Africa? A lake full of trapped carbon dioxide might be about to flow downhill and suffocate an entire city.

Openstreetmap uses on the ground policy - if you want to change the name of something you need to change the local signposts, which New York state won’t be doing in this case

Meanwhile “made in England” brings to mind only Richard Ayoade’s fire extinguisher!

Serious answer? this is what’s happening

For taking an unlicensed uninsured motor vehicle on the road without numberplates or MOT certificate.

Obligatory Lindybeige - introduction to ancient slings, and comparison to archery.

“author” 🙄

Needs to be a Hans Rosling style animated scatter plot of all the countries!

Here are some people at DEFCON who have been making low-cost devices for identifying the radio fingerprint of nearby flock cameras: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw

Turns up with a tree harvester - “okay, this thing can process a thousand trees per day, who will pay 1000x rates?”

Are they specialised in this new type of war, though? I saw something about Americans being wiped out in simulated exercises against Ukrainian drone operators - and the Russians will be bringing that kind of experience to someone who has only been learning in classrooms from Ukrainians.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58801814

Plenty of people can’t book medical appointments, access government services, or buy things without it.

And individuals there can’t avoid it until their country’s whole culture changes.

Labor participation rate just went down to 61.4% - https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

ColotOS (android for oppo phones) just added adverts to their file browser!

somewhat - it’s pretty rare to find a server with more than a dozen people that has active roleplay happening, but there are a few. They persist.

Just having a fridge and a toaster helps loads in saving costs if you are staying for a while. Search “apartment” instead of “hotel” to find these places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Alloys

After several years of Word automatically changing a dash between two words to a wider dash (maybe not the same type as emdash?) it’s weird to see those same dashes becoming a tell of inauthentic.

When are we going to see the AI using two spaces after a full stop to try and pretend that it types like someone more than 50 years old?