A form of pareidolia, then.

One could argue that a modern pathetic fallacy is thinking that a statistical word prediction engine understands things.

Nature is efficient, and he is only as smart as someone with effectively infinite means needs to be.

Mark Zuckerberg: “You are like a little baby”

In the age before cars, many cities had such a railway (sometimes a branch or spur of an existing line that’s conveniently close). Some even had special stations for mourners to use, like the gothic-style Mortuary Station in Sydney.

I wonder if Londoners ever referred to the Necropolis Railway as the Necropolitan Line, in the way that they referred to the Overground as the Ginger Line and the Gospel Oak-Barking Line as the Goblin.

We could do with fewer data centres and more dada centres, bringing avant-garde artistic provocation to every community to shake the people out of their complacency.

Oh no, not Mark “they trust me, the dumb fucks” Zuckerberg too

I recently realised that David Bowie’s “Jean Genie” is essentially the same concept. In both cases you have someone who’s not American speaking/singing in a bluesy southern-American diction, the content being asemic but the impression being one of a casual insider cool, like some hepcat dishing the dirt on what’s going down.

I wonder if Rockbox can be ported to this.

I’m surprised Nokia never made a sauna-proof phone

In the EU, buying online from Germany (or occasionally Poland) is generally the best value option.

New grift just dropped

Breakfast cthurrito

This bodes well for them getting an exemption from the ban on Red Chinese RAM.

It’s not impossible that Microsoft put the Windows source on Github (as they have done with DOS) before this is ready for use.

Now that corporate intellectual property is on the line, shit just got serious

Somebody once suggested removing all restrictions on the sale and possession of firearms, but severely regulating ammunition.

2015 was a big year for them, it seems

throw an Indian router, an Israeli router and a Turkish router into the chain for extra security

The band’s release that had by far the most cultural impact.

To borrow a tenet from another abrahamic religion, trust in God, but tie up your camel.