Damn jeanstealers

Fun fact, George Soros was involved https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/08/08/funds-representatives-arrested-in-china/24e8b72c-d6fe-4753-a007-51d181239cb6/

Like phones, laptops, and doorbells?

They’re going to build a great firewall of Europe just for futbol

Please talk to your doctor if it makes Bose–Einstein condensate.

Reminds me of one of the worst academic papers I’ve ever seen https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1075317

It’s an AI program specifically to use AI models to recognise birds. If you’re against AI you should probably learn to recognise them manually.

It can run on device on your phone https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ueZo5i6GPg

Baseball cards were the original NFT.

That makes sense.

What is the point of asking for an ISBN when it doesn’t seem to check stock?

That’s a Wily Coyote.

I don’t want any wine, thanks.

Neat.

I’m guessing those emoji happen to encode the opcodes for a program?

Unfortunately it’s a lot easier and quicker to scan a book if you remove the spine, since it’s then just a bunch of pages that can be fed through an auto feeder. Proper book scanners that turn pages are slow and expensive.

I don’t like the idea of destroying books, but it’s certainly a lot less unsavoury to destroy a single copy to create a publicly available archive.

Not all, in fact probably the minority, of rare books have anything special about their binding. There’s one reference book I’ve been looking for a copy of that was only published 20 years ago in paperback, but copies regularly sell for £150+ on ebay.

Literally part of the dsm5 criteria is “symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning”, which is just a pretentious way of saying it “hinders average behaviour”.

I say that as another autist.

Same, sousveillance is fine, it’s when it becomes surveillance it’s a problem.

“today’s water is bought to you by raid: shadow legends”