Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Regulations are written in blood:
"Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs."

Three years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.”

This is completely wrong.

Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 today, October 14th 2025. Windows 11 doesn't work on 3 of my PCs due to CPU incompatibilities. However, I shall keep running Win10 on them now as they are used for lots of retro related stuff. I know I can 'force' an upgrade, but they may break in the future.

Talk about burying the lede BBC.

He was trying to drive through the Channel Tunnel in a silver Bentley he didn’t own, with £15k in cash in a bag, and hadn’t bought a ticket.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"we should not assume that technological revolutions are productivity revolutions. The rate of productivity growth has been in sharp decline since 2003, and today sits where it stood before the widespread adoption of the personal computer"

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Scientists in China have developed a tough new bamboo-based plastic that biodegrades in 50 days. The new material matches the strength of engineering plastics used in cars and appliances while retaining 90% of its durability after recycling. buff.ly/zXWVoIS
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Except I'm wrong - this view *just* catches the edge of the newly-discovered continent of ZEALANDIA: population 5.4 million, with only New Zealand, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island now above sea level - just 5% of the original 4.9m square km (making it 64% the size of Australia).

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

This would be *incredibly* effective.

Good lord that sound.

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach.

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. One photographer captured this dramatic change in behaviour.

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Works on my machine

Lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZB1...

frog

They're streaming the behind the scenes doc right now.

Here they are.

youtu.be/Z5kmE2lC2_o?...

Bring it on. The farce keeps going until a critical mass of finance types realise.