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#OnThisDay 1973: The Ascent of Man, a landmark documentary series, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski, begins. bbc.com/historyofthebb…

#OG_H_AM in America (30 JF Kennedy Street, Cambridge MA). The ogam reads ANALAIGH, i.e. ModIr. análaigh "breathe!".

I see wugs. I see them everywhere. They don't even know they're wugs.

TIL that the words "agnostic", "ignorant", and "uncouth" all derive from the same Proto-Indo-European word *nǵnh₃tós "uncouth" is also interesting because it's from the Old English uncūþ, which means that its modern pronunciation is an exception to the Great Vowel Shift

Pour célébrer la #EuropeanDayofLanguages, apprenez à prononcer le prénom irlandais de votre nouveau collègue de bureau! 🇪🇺🗣 @coe @dfatirl @Europarl_EN @EUCouncil @Irish_in_France @cc_irlandais @FranceinIreland

"I know it’s hard, but we have a moral obligation in 2023 to accept actual reality rather than invent alternate universes that comfort us. Bagels are like language: They evolve through usage ... yes, even into rainbows, and no snobby seed grammar can stop them." -- John Hodgman

They Might Be Giants first show was a 1982 Sandinista revolution anniversary celebration in Central Park. This is the only known photograph

"In Boston, nothing is handed to us. We earn our happiness, and then we beat it with a tire iron because joy should always be fleeting." nbcsports.com/boston/celtics…

Today's XKCD. Mouseover: "Donate now to help us find a cure for causality. No one should have to suffer through events because of other events." xkcd.com/2620

Nothing -- and I mean NOTHING -- says "Party on" more than a "Durian Party Box" miamifruit.org/products/duria…

Here's an idle notion that just struck me -- Instead of outlawing free speech and keeping social media, what about keeping freedom of speech and outlawing social media? At least until we regulate it, like pollution. I am aware of the irony of saying this here but there you are.

Offered without comment: a real (?) physics paper.

The explanation of the humor in a 5,000-year-old "dad joke" is surprisingly interesting.

PG WodeHouse, M.D. Positively gruntled to be narrating 'The Code of the Woosters'... with thanks to the televisual example set by @hughlaurie... sort of.

I will not be releasing the code, because you guys couldn't handle the power of a Python script cobbled together in 20 minutes with Requests, BeautifulSoup, and regular expressions. It would change algorithmic cyberwar forever.

Offered without comment: a headline and sub seen in this morning nytimes.com front page:

"February is the worst month of the year, but it's an *honest* month." youtu.be/38PB3sBZxf4

Escher's Rubik's Cube

Billboards in the new Watertown aren’t about junk food or mass market entertainment — instead, they’re ads for reagents. (Better that than NFTs.)