@urschrei “Ooh! Ooh! Writing is so good now! Ooooooh!” will be a common thing to overhear on the bus or in line at the cinema.
@urschrei I’m grateful that a public rightly incensed by such impostures will demand a new level of scrutiny on all writing in papers of record, thus tightening up standards across the board and no matter the origin. Soon, thoughtless sophistry will seem as dated as cat-eye glasses and bushy sideburns.
@allafarce @alexismadrigal @henryfarrell Wow, they invented radio for NERDS.
@nelson This came up!
Many #Roman tiles with #children's footprints are known from all parts of the empire. But this is a special one, as it can be dated precisely due to the stamp: in 123 AD a #toddler stepped on the tile that laid out to dry before firing.
Found along the Via Appia, now in Museo Nazionale Romano -Terme di Diocleziano
Photo: https://www.archeokids.it/quattro-passi-nella-storia/
Good month to be an aerosol. https://botsin.space/@dscovr_epic/110341110053167051
I kid, but if you broke down how we do it now at a similar level of detail (which is subjective, granted), I think the diagram would be about as complex.
They don’t want you to know, but this is how it still works most of the time. https://vis.social/@maarten/110033143162477225
wow this is just quietly eviscerating, on all fronts: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-new-reading-environment/
@sgillies The more I think about it, the more I want to try this.
I appreciate a discussion among a bunch of people who are all, so to speak, capable of flying space shuttles, yet understand why not every interface should look like the space shuttle cockpit. https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110300512767913104
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