AspiringLuddite @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host

Boost if you remember the times when GIFs were used for transparency instead of animation. #retro #RetroCompuing

In the early 1400s, Edward, Duke of York wrote a hunting and game guide that included a list of over a thousand "names for all manner of hounds."

Some good ones:

Cachefaste
Honeydewe
Symfonye
Garlik
Christabell
Terry
Havegoodday
Lewde
Rage
Crabbe
Beste-of-all
Pretyman
Pretiboy
Joliboye
Mercurye
Oribull
Brente

A paper including the list of names: https://www.academia.edu/44222801/THE_NAMES_OF_ALL_MANNER_OF_HOUNDS_A_UNIQUE_INVENTORY_IN_A_FIFTEENTH_CENTURY_MANUSCRIPT

A copy of the manuscript at auction: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4654654

"Transport Secretary Grant Shapps responded to a suggestion from Jeremy Corbyn that pay was inadequate by saying: "The median salary for a train driver is £59,000, compared with £31,000 for a nurse and £21,000 for a care worker."

https://www.bbc.com/news/61840077

That seems to be directly proportionate to union membership and militancy in the sector.

Nurses and care workers clearly underpaid. They need more militant unions!

Gangstagrass is seriously good! Who would have said that hip hop + bluegrass would be such a good mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DwNEiUcurc

The music used in the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy advertisement was pirated
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/#:~:text=Most%20of%20us%20will%20remember,Dutch%20musician%20named%20Melchior%20Reitveldt

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1537605916346007553

The thing about large language models like GPT-3 and Lambda describing the experience of being self-aware is they can also describe the experience of being a squirrel.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/interview-with-a-squirrel/

Someone had a granite headstone made for Internet Explorer and placed it beside a tiny church on the rooftop of a cafe in Gyeongju, South Korea: https://m.clien.net/service/board/park/17331335

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