My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Discovered a website that enables you to create annoying music that is almost too easy to share on social media www.beepbox.co#9n31s6k0l00e...

[rushing into the Situation Room clutching a sheaf of papers] Change of plans I'm afraid — in a poll 52% described Cuba as "the big one that Florida points to" and Panama as "the little neck bit", which our lawyers reckon would stand up in the International Criminal Court. Where else have you got?

[the morning after I conduct air strikes on North West Essex] There's a lot of noise from people who couldn't find Saffron Walden on a map yesterday

It's all very well saying "don't give out your name" but it's not as simple as it seems, as explored by Constance Cooper in a related field escapepod.org/2006/02/06/e...

2024: President Joe Biden withdraws from re-election. Vice President Kamala Harris is defeated by Donald Trump South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached after declaring martial law Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is overthrown The UK closes its last coal-fired power station #YearPerDay

In 2026 I swear I will get to the bottom of the biggest conspiracy of silence: why is IMDB hiding that one thing you've seen that actor in before?

2023: Hamas launches a surprise attack on Israel, killing around 1200 people and taking 251 hostages. Israel bombards Gaza, killing tens of thousands of people Military contractor Yevgeny Prigozhin briefly leads an armed rebellion toward Moscow. Weeks later he dies in a plane crash #YearPerDay

"What troubles you Theseus?" "Oh I'm thinking about all the things we've seen and experienced, and how they've changed us. I worry — are we truly still the same men who hunted the Calydonian Boar together so long ago? The same men who..." Pirithous stepped closer. "Perhaps this will convince you?"

2022: Russia invades Ukraine Liz Truss becomes UK Prime Minister for 7 weeks Queen Elizabeth II dies, aged 96, after a 70 year reign. She is succeeded by her son Charles III The world population reaches 8 billion people Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion OpenAI releases ChatGPT #YearPerDay

As a consequence of my extremely high degree of personal moral virtue I developed an innate knowledge in utero of every bad deed committed by any person or institution throughout recorded history. If someone has to learn these things via exposure to facts they deserve nothing but contempt

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The same issue arises in philosophy of cooking: if a recipe says to cook something for N minutes and that “meanwhile” you should carry out some other steps, is it true in the fiction of the recipe that those steps can be completed within N minutes? (no, don’t be daft)

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

2021: After losing the presidential election, Donald Trump sends a mob of supporters to attack the US Capitol The Taliban rapidly retake control of Afghanistan as US forces withdraw Container ship Ever Given runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for 6 days, disrupting global trade #YearPerDay

2020: The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Many countries close their borders and implement lockdowns. With more than 80 million confirmed cases worldwide, the global death toll exceeds 1.9 million. By the end of the year several vaccines are approved #YearPerDay

2019: Fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, destroying the roof and main spire Chinese probe Chang'e 4 lands on the far side of the Moon President Trump is impeached Volodymyr Zelenskyy is elected President of Ukraine The first human case of COVID-19 is found in Wuhan, China #YearPerDay

"Die Hard is copaganda" factoid actualy just statistical error. Spiders John, who lives in ventilation duct & kills over 10,000 terrorists each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

2018: Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal is poisoned with novichok in Salisbury, England 12 boys and their football coach are rescued from a cave system in Thailand NASA launches the Parker Solar Probe #YearPerDay

メリクリ(meri-kuri), the Japanese abbreviation for Merry Christmas, sounds a lot like “Marie Curie,” so I’m officially treating it as a physics holiday too 🧪⚛️🎄

If you've ever wanted to actually watch a laser beam bounce through a light clock, AlphaPhoenix just dropped the most incredible video

2017: The Grenfell Tower fire in London kills 72 residents Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is assassinated A genocide against Rohingya Muslims begins in Myanmar Asteroid ʻOumuamua passes through the solar system Emma Morano, born in 1899, dies aged 117 #YearPerDay

2016: The Paris Agreement on climate change is signed after the COP 21 summit A Zika virus outbreak spreads worldwide In the Brexit referendum, the UK votes to leave the EU Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature Nintendo releases Pokémon Go Donald Trump is elected president #YearPerDay

"What would you like for Christmas?" What I say: "Oh, you know, there are a few books I've got my eye on, or maybe a fun seasonal jumper!" What I think, sadly, privately, hopelessly: "Don't suppose you could get Netflix to commission a second season of Scavengers Reign?"

Hypothesis: the people who say "LLMs are completely useless because you have to check their output" are also the people who regularly have to reply to their own posts with "Oops, damn autocorrect"

Hypothesis: the people who say "LLMs are completely useless because you have to check their output" are also the people who regularly have to reply to their own posts with "Oops, damn autocorrect"

2015: NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around dwarf planet Ceres; New Horizons flies past Pluto Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British monarch in history The LIGO observatory detects gravitational waves Terrorist attacks in Paris kill 130 people OpenAI is founded #YearPerDay

2014: After a disputed referendum, Russia annexes Crimea The West African Ebola epidemic spreads. It will kill 11,000 people Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board In a referendum, Scotland votes against independence from the UK #YearPerDay

2013: Benedict XVI is the first pope to resign since 1415. Pope Francis is elected Euromaidan demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Yanukovych rejects an alliance with the EU A meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring almost 1500 people Disney releases Frozen #YearPerDay

"I'm sorry ⬛⬛. I'm afraid I can't do that"

2012: CERN announces the discovery of the Higgs boson Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Adventurer Erden Eruç completes the first solo circumnavigation of the globe using human power Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier during a 39 km free-fall #YearPerDay

2011: An earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Libyan rebels overthrow and kill Muammar Gaddafi US forces find and kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan The final Space Shuttle mission lands Markus "Notch" Persson releases Minecraft #YearPerDay

2010: A catastrophic earthquake hits Haiti Greece suffers a debt crisis Julia Gillard is the first female prime minister of Australia The Burj Khalifa opens The Large Hadron Collider begins operation Apple launches the iPad Germany makes its last reparation payment for World War I #YearPerDay

2009: After a bird strike, pilots Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles safely ditch into the Hudson River Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to running a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme The first block of the Bitcoin blockchain is established Michael Jackson dies, aged 50 #YearPerDay

British sign language also has directional verbs. So if you establish two spots as two people, and you want to say that A helped B, you do the verb symbol, moving from A to B. And that's different from moving from B to A which is how you'd say that B helped A. It's super cool.

2008: The subprime mortgage crisis breaks, leading to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and a global financial crisis Kosovo declares independence from Serbia Russia invades Georgia SpaceX launches Falcon 1 to orbit Marvel Studios releases Iron Man Barack Obama is elected President #YearPerDay

2007: Apple launches the iPhone Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the US House of Representatives Tony Blair steps down as Prime Minister. He is succeeded by Gordon Brown Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, is assassinated Google launches Street View #YearPerDay

2006: Twitter is launched Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet Australian conservationist Steve Irwin dies after being stung by a stingray Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB officer and critic of Vladimir Putin, dies after being poisoned with polonium-210 Nintendo releases the Wii #YearPerDay

2005: Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, killing 1,392 people and displacing millions Four suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people Pope John Paul II dies. He is succeeded by Pope Benedict XVI Angela Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany YouTube is founded #YearPerDay

2004: NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars Mark Zuckerberg launches "TheFacebook" In Ukraine, Orange Revolution protests force a re-run of the presidential election; pro-EU Viktor Yushchenko defeats incumbent prime minister Viktor Yanukovych Ronald Reagan dies, aged 93 #YearPerDay

At 17:00 UTC today I'm going to give a talk at the Topos Institute. You can watch it here! youtube.com/watch?v=GzBV... (1/n)

2003: US-led forces invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry, killing all 7 astronauts The Human Genome Project is completed The Three Gorges Dam begins electricity generation China launches Shenzhou 5, its first human spaceflight #YearPerDay

Far down in Saloni's post, an example worthy of becoming a standard reference argument against extending the y-axis to zero (or showing full range)

2002: Euro coins and banknotes are introduced Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Golden Jubilee Jemaah Islamiyah detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 people The first case of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus epidemic is recorded in Guangdong #YearPerDay

2001: On September 11th two hijacked Boeing 767s are crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, destroying the towers and killing almost 3000 people US-led forces invade Afghanistan Apple launches the iPod Wikipedia launches The Netherlands legalises same-sex marriage #YearPerDay

2000: Nokia releases the 3310 mobile phone Precise Global Positioning System data is made available to the public The first resident crew travel to the International Space Station The US Supreme Court halts vote counting, making George W. Bush the winner of the presidential election #YearPerDay

1999: The Euro is established Teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 students and one teacher at Columbine High School The Napster music downloading service is created Boris Yeltsin resigns as president of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president #YearPerDay

You can buy 'The Researcher's First Murder' by John Finnemore directly from him (he's had to pay for a storage unit to keep them all in). Unbound made sure it couldn't sell last Christmas, let's make it a hit for this one: johnfinnemoreshop.com/shop

1998: President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky leads to his impeachment Andrew Wakefield publishes a (subsequently retracted) paper claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism In Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement is signed Google is founded #YearPerDay

1997: The UN adopts the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas reduction After a 99-year lease, the UK returns Hong Kong to China Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car accident IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov NASA's Pathfinder probe lands on Mars Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister #YearPerDay