Odd Stuff (Part 2)

A half-fucked country?

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The famous code machine was fished out of the sea last month by divers on assignment for the environmental group WWF.
The team was searching for abandoned fishing nets in the Bay of Gelting in northern Germany.

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Carpet Python attacks pupper; safely rescued.

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The nightmare is real: ‘Excel formulas are the world’s most widely used programming language,’ says Microsoft

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Boffins from China push quantum computing envelope for ‘supremacy’ in emerging photon field

Boffins from China say that they have managed to detect as many as 76 photons using a quantum computer, a result said to be the second demonstration of “quantum supremacy” or “quantum primacy” – solving a problem that a quantum computer can do far better than a classical computer.

Physicists from Shanghai’s University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), led by Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan, reported their results in a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.

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Amazon’s Zoox Driverless Car, or Possibly an iMac G3 on Wheels, Spotted in San Francisco

Red kangaroo scrotum ethically and legally acquired and assembled in Australia…

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buff-kangaroo

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'tis the season…

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Look Mom, it’s Goldie! I told you it was too soon to flush her!

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I’m glad they released the fish back into the lake.

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This is horrifying. I know the drones already dehumanize warfare, but this seems like a distinct step into the dystopian future so often shown in movies.
I’m often reminded of the passage from Diamond Age where they’ve realized they can do pretty much anything and so make a cultural shift to deciding if they should do things. I feel like we missed that boat. :frowning:

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