Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

Galactic centre black hole imaged #space #astronomy #astrophysics
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61412463

Got my $5.29 petrol just now. Although the "US Mart" that's only accessible from one side of the highway is still $4.95

If your projects don't hit bureaucratic or regulatory obstacles at least 50% of the time, you're not being creative enough

Reuters reckons Finland and Sweden might join NATO https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-welcome-nordic-members-ukraine-pushes-back-russian-forces-2022-05-12/

Function does not have 347 arguments

RT https://twitter.com/slembcke/status/1524448721001455620

(also at @slembcke )

Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit
https://www.wired.com/story/leaky-forms-keyloggers-meta-tiktok-pixel-study/

#Rocket nozzle test video
#space
RT https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1524386115511324672

My mum found this sign for a business making wooden duck decoys

I encountered an ".heic" file in an attachment. Windows told me to pay 99 cents for the codec 😆

The #IPAC22 Jacow Latex template doesn't work straight off for me in MikTex. I had to switch to the v2.7 "testing" version of jacow.cls to clear a "keeplastbox" error and then run the magic command
initexmf --mkmaps
to fix a font error.

Wi-fi car tyre pressure monitors were maybe not a good idea

RT https://twitter.com/ThrillScience/status/1524105131414810625

They're not even being subtle about it any more

RT https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1524022831188688905

What Google knows about you (there's a link to find out further down the article)

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/online/what-google-knows-about-me-and-you/news-story/675494e1b7588e72190fd1db066fced3

Autonomous truck trailers
RT https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1524080506559766530

Smart IoT soap dispenser?
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1524054909926223872

Paramedics in England are being trained to use 3D-printed jet suits to reach stranded casualties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvQQebae6eU

Some "infrastructure law" #energy initiatives on battery manufacturing have made it all the way through to the funding call stage (with $3.1B in this case)
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339950

22TB HDDs on the way #computing
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17377/western-digital-announces-22tb-cmr-and-26tb-smr-hdds

Maybe the 2nd-to-last time ever

Re: https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk/status/1417605106078568449