David @[email protected]

hahaha this sucks so bad

"Illium" was another name for the city of Troy

"-ad" is a suffix that can be used to mean "the story of"

Therefore "The Illiad" is properly translated as; drumroll please...

Troy Story

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Every C in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently

of course there is no neutral writing interface and even—especially?—the qwerty keyboard is a *kind* of language model, expecting particular intents and producing particular kinds of text. and I do want to see a larger variety of writing interfaces serving creative, expressive, accessibility-oriented needs. but the ultimate teleology of tech like smart compose seems to be a world where "language" doesn't exist (only its statistical properties), and that feels gross to me

I'm not pronouns I'm antinouns

A: dns record
AA: battery
AAA: battery
AAAA: dns record

Shout out to the homie Rami for this. Don’t let them box you in, bruh. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/3/rami-malek-rejects-terrorist-tropes-for-007-villain-role

things you can do in an NA miata
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Black mirror es un chiste a vuestro lado.

Thank you Ben

#TwitterIsDownParty

twitters big improvement theyve been teasing is shutting down the website

HEY. @Tusky is excellent. As of me writing this post, their Open Collective balance stands at $1592.59.

If people can get $200 more dollars in the till (that's $1792.59) by the end of the day tomorrow (36 hours for me, give or take a few), I'll match it with $200 dollars of my own.

I also challenge other folks in tech with a little money to throw around to match my match, even partially.

https://opencollective.com/tusky

ugh, why is the world, yknow
*gestures vaguely at everything*
like that
ugh

This is bizarre but true: in older (and by that I mean largely pre-1900) English printed alphabets, the character & was printed at the end, and was memorized as a 27th character.

It was recited in the alphabet as "per se and", meaning "'and' by itself". So the end of the alphabet went "X, Y, Z, and per se and."

The phrase "and per se and" eventually got contracted - and is how we got today's name for the symbol: ampersand.

No, really: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ampersand

As of yesterday #Microsoft's #DRM server is gone. If you have any ebooks through their store . . . bid them adieu ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Users will be given refunds but the books themselves will no longer be readable. If you made notes on the titles, you'll get $25 credit as a, "we're sorry you'll no longer have access to the notes you took on all those books. Here's $25 and we'll call it even!"

#DefectiveByDesign is a campaign run by the #FSF to combat Digital Restrictions Management and they work to prevent this exact kind of thing from happening.
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/

Bad English is the language of science.
-- Jan de Leeuw
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