Absolutely losing it after discovering what3words took control of the whatfreewords domain by arguing that "three" and "free" are indistinguishable when spoken.
https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2019-2439
Nice book story
The co-op bakery in my neighborhood has a little book rack and a few months ago I gave them some zines including one of the first self published copies of Networks of New York. Today I learned there's a family with a little kid who reads it every single time they come to the store!! It's their favorite book!!
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-57/ this week in sentences: how lucky, severed, the Eighteenth Brumaire, laissez-faire dogmas, dog stew, the thing behind the dumpster, probably
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-57/ this week in sentences: how lucky, severed, the Eighteenth Brumaire, laissez-faire dogmas, dog stew, the thing behind the dumpster, probably
https://observablehq.com/d/c8fafa2b34282fb4 retrofitted an observable demo that did a neat trick with generating isolines to accept arbitrary geojson files--it's hella slow but I think it will make for some nice plotter drawings. this one is probably going to be a little gift for a friend who just had a kid whose middle name is, I am serious, California
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-56/ this week in sentences: hardship, most mighty, only, from Wales to chili night, death flavored, a season of death, druid email, as it turns out
Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/
http://www.techmeme.com/240119/p24#a240119p24
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-hires-erin-henderson-to-head-nuclear-development-acceleration-for-data-centers/ just a reminder that Microsoft wants to do lil nuclear reactors for data centers and that is apparently all going along smoothly
update: this was partly my own fault I shared the wrong link to the doc and no one told me lol