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Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS. Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past.
wapo.st/4c3qzA5

collecting photos for making DIY 長輩圖

can't speak to the "original" but an emphasis on 不 ("not") fits the stress patterns of modern mandarin recitations

This can apply to many things

I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am

Historian Adam Tooze replying "its a think of beauty" to an obvious AI slop image of a crying woman holding a bird ice sculpture with bomber slop tweet asking for comments

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Solidarity with the resistors in Minnesota!

剛起床

hi bluesky

Taiwan extends penalty range for damaging subsea cables, pipelines - Focus Taiwan Taiwan's Legislature on Tuesday approved amendments to several laws that will include penalties for damaging undersea power cables, natural gas pipelines or water pipelines and allow for equipment use...

Hard to know if stiffening penalties will be any deterrent for damaging infrastructure if the aim is to sabotage Taiwanese society as a whole

focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

我回來了

The superintendent ICE arrested in Iowa either had a fucking insane life or this is their next big screwup like Kilmar Garcia was.

Peter McCarty

Peter McCarty

> 開窗戶有風就很舒服，夏天其實也不是一定要開冷氣
> 颱風天

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

guy who snorts cocaine out of an antique qing era snuff bottle

NO japanese here (i support)

tawkify

y'all.... we did not do discourse on the word "crack" in food writing only to end up back here

now why are they playing the jet2 holiday song in the airport

the more i consider the concept of getting tattooed, the more i cannot disengage the fact of tattooing's austronesian florescence...

we need dense walkable neighborhoods + reliable high frequency all-hours transit so i can serve BOOZE at my little dinner parties wtffff (i do not host... yet)

internet culture is cooked... how did we go from arab spring to brat summer

my morning routine is being on social media for 2 hours a day

saw one of my old greenhouse volunteering crushes at the clothing swap

TIL of a band !!! (three post-alveolar clicks) from Sacramento, CA

cc @chloetankahhui.bsky.social

gotta love a bus boarding experience that feels like entering a cave (dimly lit, cool, general feeling of being enveloped)