In other news, 400,000 sound recordings from 1922 and before have become public domain. The Internet Archive has 38,000 of them up, ready to go. archive.org/details/george…

In 1972, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) was adopted worldwide. UTC is determined from six primary atomic clocks that are coordinated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures located in France. The abbreviation - UTC - was chosen as an international compromise ....1/4

Today I've learned that if you tweet about Star Trek, one of the genre of replies you get are folks who maybe don't know their Star Trek so well, but are really convinced someone must have made the whole thing internally consistent and scientifically rigorous.

Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare my success to other people and then I remember that they are smarter, more talented, and harder working and then I feel better.

Poppy Northcutt Great news. Tensioning is successfully underway.

It's the same pattern other doctors have reported. People vaccinated with booster shots are getting Omicron but mostly not showing up in the ER. Vaccinated without boosters, worse but they recover soon. You don't want to be unvaccinated.

Can you feel the tension? Webb is feeling it...in a good way! We tensioned 3 of 5 sunshield layers yesterday. Today we start with Layer 4: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/0… Follow along LIVE for the final layer starting ~9:30 am ET (14:30 UTC): nasa.gov/live #UnfoldTheUniverse

Motor stop. All 5 layers are tensioned! Shine on you crazy diamond!!!! #jwst

In the unlikely case that anyone wondered, I've been taking a break from Twitter for the sake of my mental health. Just poked my head back in and it seems like it's pretty much the same as before, except people are complaining about a different set of hot takes I didn't see.

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Daryl "Ridged Chips" Bartley Josh Fruhlinger Looney Tunes is weird, because four generations of kids grew up watching the same cartoons. There's this huge cultural discontinuity where I, like my father and grandfather before me, grew up with anvils and telegraph delivery gags and someone born ten years later didn't.

If I ever get into making YouTube videos I want to make the one with all the further ado.

Puerto Ricans ARE American citizens you compilation of birdcage lining

One last treat. Ever curious about the fights I had with the censors on Gravity Falls? I probably shouldn't share this buttttt here are some REAL NOTES from DISNEY S&P and my REAL REPLIES. You are not prepared #10YearsOfGravityFalls

Oh look, it's a thing: mathstodon.xyz/@mattmcirvin Might put my talking about math and science there.

Sometimes I post stuff on Dreamwidth: mmcirvin.dreamwidth.org Maybe other places too!