FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Looking for a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe, serving old school interfaces? Meet Departure Mono. I love it soooo much!

https://departuremono.com/

I'm going to test out Threads just to see what it's like and because I have some friends there who would never touch mastodon

My most normie friends wouldn't use Threads. My mostly normie friends would use it. My nerdiest friends would more likely be here

I'm not considering it as a replacement for this. Nerdy or technical stuff will definitely be here but might post more chill life stuff here: @geneticjennifer

Feel free to follow but mostly recommend for friends obvs

"real" names are such a funny concept, like buddy, you let the government tell you what your real name is? what next? let the government tell you your gender? don't be ridicules.

acab includes "real" name policies

What if instead of being elephant-themed mastodon had been owl-themed and posting was called hooting

The weaving of a Pentium is so accurate that I could label the functional blocks of the processor. Amusingly, the gallery hung the weaving backward. The wrong side is facing outward, so the chip is mirrored. I had to flip the image to make this diagram. 2/6

I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. Intel commissioned the weaving as a gift to the American Indian Science & Engineering Society. 1/6

Nintendo was founded in 1889, making playing cards.
Coca-Cola was founded in 1892.
Levi's blue jeans were invented in 1853.
Dracula was published in 1897, set in that time.
We could have had Dracula wearing jeans, drinking a Coke and playing Nintendo and it would be accurate.

X wasn't banned in Brazil because of censorship. It was because Musk refused to abide by a court order to block accounts linked to the invasion of the Brazilian Parliament, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace in 2023. Musk preferred to close his Brazilian offices instead of helping to catch those who tried to overthrow a democratic elected government. If someone tells you otherwise, they're either dishonest or misinformed.

This reminds me of those old science videos we watched in middle. School when the teacher was hung over. #cybertruck

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

math youtuber: the Torment Nexus has gotten a lot of hype recently. But did you know there's some interesting math about how the nexus torments? In this video, we're going to show how the rendering of flesh is actually carried out by really cool applications of algebraic topology

Today's prize for on-brand academic behaviour goes to the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, for disguising their building as a chalkboard.

(I'm informed that the elements were collected from working chalkboards in staff offices.)

Server has a strange log on it... 🪵🤔

Wow, pretty sure I've never seen this feature in any other language...