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The replies and quotes to this were full of polio vaccine and antibiotics but dudes. Smallpox. We eradicated smallpox so hard that people don't even think about it anymore. A disease that is estimated to have killed 300 million people in the 20th century alone is just GONE.

you give a room full of millennials markers and the inevitable happens

P = NP, but the smallest exponent for the algorithm is BusyBeaver(7).

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

whats your favorite emoticon mine has to be this one: :(){ :|:& };:

🎂 Happy Birthday, #NYCsubway! 📽️ Behold! The first-ever known footage of the subway, and we're sharing it today on the subway's 122nd birthday. #TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1904, New York City’s first rapid transit subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) opened.

Can you land a fixed-wing hybrid-electric aircraft at a heliport?! Electra is trying that right now in NYC with its Ultra Short aircraft, landing at the Downtown Manhattan heliport, KJRB. Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/bmB0v_s... @flightradar24.com link: fr24.com/424c141e

TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...

I think it's fair to say this could have gone better...

my favorite game to play as i get older is "how long has my phone's flashlight been on?!"

tiny neural net navigating a field of black holes to goals with some relativistic effects from the ball's pov visualized. the ball/nn also experienced time dilation so it runs slower when going faster/in a deeper gravity well.

Any technology that's distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

if you don't hate C++ you haven't seen the iceberg and clicked every link victorpoughon.github.io/cppiceberg/

A HEMS B407 helicopter reverses into a CCTV mast at an elevated hospital helipad in Dallas. Article: aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #airambulance #flightsafety #aviationsafety #helipad Video via NTSB

what's the correct gesture to indicate "we agree on nothing but i respect yourv love of cats and legendary hatred of Andrew Cuomo'? a salute didn't feel quite right.

This is cool - volunteers from the WY Aviation Heritage League repainted an old airmail arrow this week. Learn more about the organization here: www.wyomingaviationheritage.org/general-1

FULLY FUNCTIONAL

The inventor on this one was a former UK patent examiner, and he spent a ton of his own money applying for and maintaining like 30 bizarre patents The below patent, which was granted, is directed to a kitty door, which if the wrong color car uses triggers a nuclear weapon

🧭 Need an idea for how to celebrate International GNSS Day today? 🎬 Check out our documentary, “Finding Our Way: Inside the Galileo project”, which takes you behind the scenes of Galileo, Europe's Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS). 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0aJ...

Every mundane thing around you is a wonder inconceivable.

I am a huge disaster nerd (hi @nameshiv.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social) and my first obsession as a kid was the Titanic it really cannot be overstated how absolutely heroic the Carpathia was once they learned what had happened to the Titanic, this is worth your time

The captain said: We need more speed. And the ship replied: I can only do this once. But yeah. I can do it.

“Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys.”

*President Shoggoth will be able to rely on lucid, folksy charm of Vice-President Clippy, that AGI, boy-next-door, man-of-the-people

a message from the future

The commercial space station competition finally begins www.thespacereview.com/article/5340/1

Transit in today's DAILY NEWS: Work is set to begin on signal upgrades along the A and C line in Brooklyn and parts of Queens — the installation of CBTC signaling, which will allow for better tracking of trains and thus faster service, is expected to be completed in 2032.

At this rate I’m expecting an announcement of vulnerabilities in Maxwell’s Equations

real friend this time

if only this had dropped while mtgox was still kicking.

The MTA is proposing a new 125 Street Subway, which would extend west from the future 125 St/Lexington Av Q station. The project would connect existing subway lines—including the Second Avenue Subway—and bus routes along the corridor.

I don't want to hear any whining about fixing certs from the information security types today. you chose to join the techno-priest caste, now shut up and perform the rites of exorcism

just forked over $107.79 for Enhanced ids just in case my litter box runs php. stupid timeline.

me knowing i’m not responsible for any php application right now

www.ft.com/content/4fb4...

It sounds like a joke, but this here is genuinely a wind-powered rocket ship.

`session.upload_progress.enabled = Off` is a stopgap, so at least it isn't as demonic as like, heartbleed remediation was, but enjoy figuring out whether your router has been weaseled or whatever I want to say that only the PHP team could cause a heap UAF, but someone else will live down to that

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

If anyone wants to put the eMudhra private key on a T-Shirt: -----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY----- MA8CAQEEAQSgBwYFK4EEACI= -----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----

Now technically 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004 is a 116-digit key

I had to read the sentence "Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237" several times, because despite knowing @dangoodin.bsky.social superior attention to detail, my brain was *certain* that could not be correct.

computer, play art blakely radio. deep cuts. i swear to god you play Moanin' one more time and I'm bridging your water block to the bus bar.

Today is Vermont Libraries Day, the first annual, signed into law earlier this year. There are 183-ish public libraries in Vermont, the most per capita of any US state. Hannah Miller has been to all of them. They are all locally funded. This is the logo. At least we are not using AI. 😂 📚

i don't know what features http/4 will have but http/5 will feature sticks and stones