Tom Standage

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

27.07.2025 21:01 — 👍 8610    🔁 3622    💬 143    📌 713

Sorry, which post are you referring to?

23.06.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ooh, how does it compare with their current stuff? I like the red one

13.06.2025 10:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do we know where he stands on the pineapple question?

08.05.2025 21:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It’s amazing. I need to come back so I can visit more of them!

22.01.2025 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, not Mars. This is Rådhuset subway station, my favourite of several I saw in Stockholm last week

21.01.2025 14:38 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trump dropping his own memecoin means he has the wrong people in his ear re crypto policy. I’m now getting very concerned about the Trump presidency.

nic carter @nic__carter · 11h Something that hasn’t been much discussed - creating a bunch of personal memecoins opens the door to secretive foreign buyers trying to curry influence with our leaders. If you hated hunter biden’s anonymous art sales, you should hate this too. nic carter @nic__carter Basically, we used to have an informal rule that presidents wouldn’t start or run businesses that could pose a conflict of interest. Creating a bunch of memecoins and defi protocols opens the possibility to rampant violations of the emoluments clause. Not to mention the obvious COI given the fact that trump can set crypto policy.

Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸 @twobitidiot Dear @realDonaldTrump : Please fire whoever recommended going forward with the Melania launch today. 1. They don’t know what they’re doing. 2. They cost you a lot of $ and goodwill. 3. They don’t have your interests in mind.

Brent @Brentsketit feel bad for anyone trying to build anything serious rn president just making a complete mockery of this industry fighting another biden admin prolly would have been better longterm

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

20.01.2025 15:24 — 👍 6416    🔁 1315    💬 434    📌 410

Fascinating: Nokia’s internal presentation in response to the launch of the iPhone, 18 years ago this month

“Nokia impact minimal in terms of financials”

aalto.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

21.01.2025 14:27 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I included it in #10.

18.12.2024 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How could I have chosen any other headline?

28.11.2024 17:30 — 👍 92    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2

Thank you!

28.11.2024 17:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Opinion | The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

The next pandemic? H5N1 is the most likely candidate

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

25.11.2024 08:40 — 👍 27    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

DoD MWR Libraries

Some exciting news from @economist.com. All American service members—all 1.3m active duty, and those retired—now have free access to The Economist's website, thanks to a deal with DoD. If I'm not mistaken, you can access it through DoD's library pages: www.dodmwrlibraries.org. Happy reading.

22.11.2024 11:32 — 👍 2893    🔁 589    💬 81    📌 47

Have You Spotted Starlink's 8 Martian Easter Eggs? Here's How to Find Them Mars-themed secrets are hidden in the Starlink hardware, the app, and even the terms of service of SpaceX's satellite internet service. What do they all mean?

Starlink kit contains Mars-related in-jokes from Elon Musk
uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...

21.11.2024 00:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

20.11.2024 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2025 Now that the world knows that Donald Trump will return to the White House, here are ten themes to watch in 2025 from Tom Standage, editor of The World Ahead

Ten trends to watch in 2025, from my excellent colleague @tomstandage.bsky.social
www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
from The Economist

19.11.2024 19:02 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

And maybe thousands more in the villa! The ones recovered from that cupboard are possibly not the most exciting ones…

26.10.2023 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts Computers could let archaeologists read hundreds of burnt scrolls from a Roman library

Fine explainer by @tomstandage.bsky.social about how computer scientists are slowly beginning to "read" the texts in ancient Pompeii scrolls which were so charred by the volcano that buried the city that the scrolls can't be opened without them falling to bits.

18.10.2023 21:46 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

“…and he’s holding a thermal detonator!” #Maythe4thBeWithYou

06.05.2023 12:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same

02.05.2023 01:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0