70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Menswear Menagerie: That Fall feeling.

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I love old astronomy books. Here they are in 1902 struggling with the identification of my favourite emission line, the 500.7nm emission from oxygen. It is a forbidden transition, so not seen in normal lab spectra; here it is speculated to be from an unknown element, “nebulum.” 🧪🔭

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I am a Luddite, but not quite under your definition - I'm not extentially concerned that I'll stop being an academic, I'm far more disturbed that it gives AI users the impression that they're learning and practising science when it appears to do exactly the opposite.

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Haven't seen that one! The overview article on enclosure that I cite is also basically written as a takedown of Hardin and IIRC it may remark that half of his citations are criticisms (academic ragebait is definitely a thing)

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