They’re both men, but neither of them are Men.

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*IR light, in the interest of avoiding confusion.

Its functionality to integrate with whatever LLM you use - local or SAAS. I can’t say I’m excited about the feature, but I think it’s also a bit silly that people are angry about it (though I take the point about development priority).

It’s healthy for Firefox’s market share to keep feature parity with Edge and other browsers that have the same function but with a manufacturer-pushed service.

water bosses

Why is the AP writing as if their audience are children? I understand it from the Mirror.

The excerpt from Peter Brannen’s 2017 book The Ends of the World, to save a click through to Twitter:

“The meteorite itself was so massive that it didn’t notice any atmosphere whatsoever,” said Rebolledo, “It was traveling 20 to 40 kilometers per second, 10 kilometers-probably 14 kilometers-wide, pushing the atmosphere and building such incredible pressure that the ocean in front of it just went away.”

These numbers are precise without usefully conveying the scale of the calam-ity. What they mean is that a rock larger than Mount Everest hit planet Earth traveling twenty times faster than a bullet. This is so fast that it would have traversed the distance from the cruising altitude of a 747 to the ground in 0.3 seconds. The asteroid itself was so large that, even at the moment of impact, the top of it might have still towered more than a mile above the cruising altitude of a 747. In its nearly instantaneous descent, it compressed the air below it so violently that it briefly became several times hotter than the surface of the sun.

“The pressure of the atmosphere in front of the asteroid started excavating the crater before it even got there,” Rebolledo said. “Then, when the meteorite touched ground zero, it was totally intact. It was so massive that the atmosphere didn’t even make a scratch on it.”

Unlike the typical Hollywood CGI depictions of asteroid impacts, where an extraterrestrial charcoal briquette gently smolders across the sky, in the Yucatán it would have been a pleasant day one second and the world was already over by the next. As the asteroid collided with the earth, in the sky above it where there should have been air, the rock had punched a hole of outer space vacuum in the atmosphere. As the heavens rushed in to close this hole, enormous volumes of earth were expelled into orbit and beyond all within a second or two of impact.

“So there’s probably little bits of dinosaur bone up on the moon?” I asked.

“Yeah, probably.”

Quis lautus ipsos lavat?

Also Œ, Ȝ, and arguably W and U.

This is funny, but also, fuck Graham Linehan.

Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu were more or less equal partners in their despotic role over Romania, until their joint execution in 1989 during the Romanian Revolution.

I’ve never seen a convincing source for this factoid. As best I can tell, “killer whale” was never “whale killer” in recorded written text.

Obligatory Big Train link: “the actual train wouldn’t be quite as fast as that.”

And also probably Starfield 😉