The iPhone That Never Was
In 1990, three former Apple employees launched a company that epitomized the Silicon Valley dream. What they invented looked like an iPhone—more than a decade earlier. The device never came to be. ⌘ Read more

‘Bear suit’ fraudsters sentenced to jail for elaborate insurance scam
The inventive crooks had been caught staging bear attacks on expensive cars by dressing up in a costume. Back in 2024, we reported on what must assure… ⌘ Read more

New study: the Voynich manuscript might actually be a cipher
The mystery behind the manuscript may be one step closer to being solved thanks to a newly invented cipher. The enigmatic codex, first brought to wide… ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

Steps to world domination:

1. “Invent” “AI” (by using other people’s data).
   
2. Get people hyped about it and ideally hooked on it.
   
3. Only provide it as a cloud service. But hey, if you want to, you can run it locally!
   
4. Buy all hardware available on the market, so that nobody but you can build more systems.
   
5. All PCs of consumers and competitors are too weak now and can’t be upgraded anymore.
   
6. Everybody depends on your cloud service! Win!
   

All of that is possible because corporations don’t have a “conscience” in capitalism. Nobody forces the RAM manufacturers to sell all their stuff to just one or two buyers, but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it.

Former Russian politician: ‘the aliens who abducted me invented chess’
Former Russian regional leader and chess administrator Kirsan Ilyumzhinov claims that he was once abducted by aliens. Having previously served as the… ⌘ Read more

So, is there anyone here doing stuff with #InventFramework?

https://invent-framework.github.io/

#invent #pyscript #education #eduComp

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Also thanks mate! 🥰

In fact, it’s a great little invention

@bender@twtxt.net Kaboom! Hahaha, I did not think of that at all, thanks for pointing it out, mate! :‘-D

But let me clarify just in case: I honestly do not want to bash this project. In fact, it’s a great little invention. It’s just that I’m not conviced by the current user interface decisions. Anyway, web design isn’t right up my alley. I just wanted to add some fun. And luckily, at least someone liked it so far. :-)

10 Inventors Who Died Before Seeing Their Creations Succeed
In the course of time, inventors, engineers, clever thinkers, and business-minded individuals have propelled humanity forward. Their unique ideas and remarkable creations have helped improve mankind and make society more seamless in countless ways. These advancements have ranged from incremental improvements to monumental leaps—and they span industries and inventions from medical breakthroughs to technological marve … ⌘ Read more

20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.

The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more

10 Incredibly Specific Oreo Facts You’ll Think About at 2 A.M.
You’ve twisted them, dunked them, and crumbled them into milkshakes—but odds are, you don’t really know Oreos. Behind the world’s best-selling cookie is a labyrinth of marketing manipulation, food science secrets, and flavor experiments so bizarre they’re hidden from the public. These aren’t your standard “Oreo was invented in 1912” trivia tidbits. These are the […]

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ROCKET PROPELLER #engine #inventions #rocket href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23science”>#science** ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net There is no aim. Just learning 😅 That way I can actually speak and write with authority when it comes to these LLM(s) a bit more 🤣 Or maybe I just happen to become that random weirdo genius that invents Skynet™ 😂

10 Normal Items You Didn’t Know Were Once Part of Burial Rituals
We tend to think of everyday objects—pillows, perfumes, makeup—as inventions born from comfort, beauty, or practicality. But dig through the layers of history, and you’ll find that some of these now-ordinary items have surprising ties to ancient burial rites, funerary customs, or corpse preparation. To be clear: not all of these items were originally invented […]

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10 Human Inventions That Are Rewriting the Future
Watching the local news in most parts of the world might lead one to believe that we’re completely surrounded by disaster, conflict, and societal decline. Bad news dominates the headlines because it demands our attention. However, it rarely tells us the full story of what’s happening across the planet. Behind the scenes, countless scientists, engineers, […]

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It’s more than a wind turbine for home — Unlimited, free energy at home with this 22-century invention
Laila A. ,  Contributing Writer  -  ECO NEWS

Stephan: Here is some potentially quite good news about renewable energy. I will follow this and let you know

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10 Real Ways Scientists Think Humans Could Evolve Next
Human evolution didn’t stop when we stood upright or invented cities. In fact, it’s still happening—just under new pressures. As technology, climate, medicine, and global lifestyles reshape how we live and reproduce, scientists ask: what’s next? These aren’t science fiction fantasies but real hypotheses based on current evolutionary pressures and long-term trends. Here are 10 […]

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10 Ancient and Obscure Strategy Games from Around the World
Strategy games have been part of human culture for thousands of years. Long before modern board games or digital entertainment, people across ancient civilizations invented clever ways to test their wits, train their minds, and challenge their friends. Some of these games, like chess, Go, and backgammon, survived and are still played today. But many […]

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How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer
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Invention no 13 in A minor by J.S. Bach - YouTube Soo amazing! 🤩

We invent docker, we invent kubernetes, we invent portainer, why we still not invent solution to migrate data volumes between hosts? :(

Stargazing 4
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Announcing Two New Cloud Native Heroes Challenges
Help us defeat a patent troll claiming methods for “manipulation of complex hierarchical data” and “analysis of hierarchical data” were invented in 2005. We’re excited to launch 2 additional Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contests in which… ⌘ Read more

Cams in feeders are the best invention of mankind in the last 1000 years ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, horizontal scrolling is an invention right from the devil himself. :-D It’s awful, I can’t stand it.

Delicious Foods That Were Born from Mistakes and Stubbornness
History is filled with inventions born out of necessity, but some of the world’s most famous foods exist simply because someone felt petty. Whether it was a battle against big corporations, a middle finger to social norms, or just a chef refusing to admit they made a mistake, these foods exist solely because someone wanted […]

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Everything has been created in huge quantities for a long time, there is no need to invent anything. You just need to download and run it.

10 Societies with Unconventional Concepts of Time
We like to think of time as an unshakable force, ticking away with military precision in measured increments. But here’s the thing—time, as we know it, is completely made up. Sure, the sun rises and sets and seasons change, but the rigid structure of seconds, minutes, and hours, really, is all a human invention, like […]

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Who invent gopher, commi?!

Announcing the second Cloud Native Heroes Challenge
Help us defeat a patent troll claiming “network isolation with cloud networks” was invented in 2017 We’re excited to launch another Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contest in which you can earn swag, a ticket to attend… ⌘ Read more

10 Shocking Facts About the Electric Chair
Since 1887, the electric chair has fascinated and horrified people around the world. The stiff, uninviting planks of wood the chairs are made of have become synonymous with the controversial method of execution. Since its invention, the chair has continued to evolve, for better or worse. Here are 10 things you might not have known […]

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(#ilgttfq) @slashdot Have to agree with the comments on this one 😆 Zuck hasn’t invented shit. Period.
@slashdot @feeds.twtxt.net Have to agree with the comments on this one 😆 Zuck hasn’t invented shit. Period. ⌘ Read more

10 World Events That Made the News a Century Ago in 1925
So, what was going on in the world a century ago, in 1925? We’ve scoured the archives to find ten of the most compelling events of that year that made the headlines, and there are some humdingers. The year saw America’s deadliest tornado, the invention of television, Italy’s emergence as a fascist dictatorship, and a […]

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Fuck me OpenAI sucks ass. ChatGPT has to be the most stupidest fucking thing ever invented. It is so bad it’s not even funny.

Fuck me OpenAI sucks ass. ChatGPT has to be the most stupidest fucking thing ever invented. It is so bad it’s not even funny.
Fuck me OpenAI sucks ass. ChatGPT has to be the most stupidest fucking thing ever invented. It is so bad it’s not even funny. ⌘ Read more

**You really cannot beat UNIX, no really. Everything else ever invented sucks in comparison 🤣

$ diff -Ndru <(restic snapshots | grep minio ...**
You really cannot beat UNIX, no really. Everything else ever invented sucks in comparison 🤣

$ diff -Ndru <(restic snapshots | grep minio | awk ‘{ print $1 }’ | sort -u) <(restic snapshots | grep minio | awk ‘{ print $1 }’ | xargs -I{} restic forget -n {} | grep -E ‘{.*}’ | sed -e ’s/{//g;s/}//g’ | sort -u) | tee | wc -l; echo $?
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(#qysqpaa) @movq@movq Oh 🤣 I hate flies, and lately our house has been buzzing with these pesky flying little annoying ass cre …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Oh 🤣 I hate flies, and lately our house has been buzzing with these pesky flying little annoying ass creatures! 😱 I wish I could invent a laser weapon to vaporize the bastards 🤣 ⌘ Read more

My 7-year old invented the word guakilijion which is a 1 with a bazillion zeroes following after it. He wants to be a word inventor.

(#un3uawa) @movq Best presentation ever of the worst programming language ever invented 🤣
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Best presentation ever of the worst programming language ever invented 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Kedging Cannon
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If all Orange Face Elefant party voters would take them on their words and make them actually do whatever insane world they invented, then perhaps people will realize the grave mistake that was made today. Many people have to feel consequences before they believe it. I hope there will still be history books in the future to disclose the insanity for future generations. But whatever happens, the World will keep spinning…

We haven’t reinvented the wheel, so why the toilet flusher?
Just because we can invent something doesn’t mean we should. ⌘ Read more

James built a $28b fortune after inventing Dyson vacuums. Here is his next radical idea
Britain’s fifth-richest man says there’s a good reason he’s been growing out his hair. ⌘ Read more

How a 60s Nuclear Scientist Invented a Rocket Gun ⌘ Read more

Sydney cinematographer pushing technology at home and Hollywood
A Sydney-based cinematographer has invented his own camera. ⌘ Read more

Taxes were invented by the communists

Myth: “HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee”
Full article: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5499910/myth-html-was-invented-by-tim-berners-lee Lunduke Journal Info: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4619051/lunduke-journal-link-central-tm How to support the Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5460921/how-to-support-the-lunduke-journal ⌘ Read more

It’s now loved all over the world, but who really invented the flat white?
This is the little-known story of how Italian sugar growers in the Sunshine State are said to have inspired the “invention” of the flat white — a drink that would go on to become a global sensation. ⌘ Read more

the Wrong Stuff
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This Invention Powered The Industrial Revolution! ⌘ Read more

How a ‘wrestle’ with the rough end of a pineapple inspired a classic Aussie invention
In the 1970s, the pineapple peeler was a staple in many Australian kitchens. But the story behind this Aussie invention shows why life’s little pleasures are often the sweetest. ⌘ Read more

Immobilier, startups, hydrogène : les profiteurs d’illusions
Un article de Henry Bonner Les dirigeants et les politiciens passent leur temps à inventer des prétextes pour la déformation des prix dans l’économie. En général, ils induisent ainsi plus d’agitation dans l’économie, c’est-à-dire plus de transactions, d’investissements, et de consommation qu’ils croient être de l’activité économique. Selon les modèles et croyances de ces dirigeants, […] ⌘ Read more

How Could Time Have Been Invented Differently? ⌘ Read more

Victorian flower farmer invents award-winning app encouraging people to buy local
In a bid to encourage Australians to buy locally grown flowers, a young entrepreneur in western Victoria designs a digital marketplace to connect producers with the local market. ⌘ Read more

“nono these entities are human” “huh?” “well, made of humans anyway” “that is not exactly a good sign where I come from, also how is it so fast then” “well humans and machines” “machines?” […] “demons, you’ve invented demons, and that from first principles”

“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”
It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community. ⌘ Read more

I’ve realized that trying to strictly follow what is on the IndieWeb wiki won’t work well for me. Thus, I have to invent and change some things to make it work better. ⌘ Read more

topics i will never research: how the prussian military inventing boardgames with dice to train military strategists influenced modern eurogames and not amerigames

@niplav@niplav.github.io and I thought evidentials were invented by the Lojban people or maybe North American amerinds, not Eastern Europeans

humans have invented mathematics surprisingly early (while the status of the number zero was still being debated in ancient greece), and programming surprisingly late (although algorithms were around for a long time, they didn’t catch on until later, even though they seem like an at least equally intuitive concept?)

a vector field is just a kind of graph, mathematicians are silly for inventing unnecessary stuff

News from AWS re:Invent – Docker Official Images on Amazon ECR Public
We are happy to announce today that, in partnership with Amazon, Docker Official Images are now available on AWS ECR Public. This is especially exciting because Docker Official Images are some of the most popularly used images on Docker Hub, acting as a key and trusted starting point for base images for the entire container […]

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How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel?
George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels. ⌘ Read more

You need to go to shit-ton of schools to be able to make simple decisions. Otherwise you’ll start to invent all kinds of over-complicated solutions. Clever vs. Insightful Code | Hacker News

with !zet and !zetdo, I find myself constantly needing to type out UUIDs. thing is, they aren’t the easiest thing to type. might invent an intermediate typer-friendly intermediate UUID format that can then convert to the regular UUID format. #halfbaked

@prologic@twtxt.net “What the hell does cartesianly mean?! 😳” Me inventing a new adjective for “there is only a one-way flow of information” ^^

The Docker Developer Guide to AWS re:Invent ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/the-docker-developer-guide-to-aws-reinvent/

Each generation thinks it invented sex Robert A. Heinlein - Wikiquote

“Thinkfluencer” might be one of the most pompous nouns invented in the last five years but at least it isn’t as confusing as using “clerk” as a translation of “_clerc_”.

Hot take: gopher is not a failed attempt to invent the WWW, but its own crystallization of a coherent philosophy – to present jump links between text files, without all the other bollocks. That makes it as valuable today as it was 25 years ago.

Book Review: Inventing The Future | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/18/book-review-inventing-the-future/

invention is the discovery of a path through possibility space. it doesn’t have to be a good path.

TIL: the guy who invented the toilet wasn’t named ‘crapper’, but he WAS named ‘cummings’.

Invented here syndrome – Musing Mortoray https://mortoray.com/2019/03/06/invented-here-syndrome/

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

Out of the inventions to come out of Xerox PARC, which were the most grossly caricatured by others and which were t… https://www.quora.com/Out-of-the-inventions-to-come-out-of-Xerox-PARC-which-were-the-most-grossly-caricatured-by-others-and-which-were-the-most-thoughtfully-done

Band name of the day: invented forgeries

Best of 2013: The Man Who Invented Modern Probability - Issue 8: Home - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/8/Home/best-of-2013-the-man-who-invented-modern-probability

Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine

I don’t agree with this at all, but I’ve gotta respect this level of trolling: https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/36579366

GUIdebook &gt; Articles &gt; &ldquo;Inventing the Lisa User Interface&rdquo; https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/inventingthelisauserinterface

GUIdebook &gt; Articles &gt; &ldquo;Inventing the Lisa User Interface&rdquo; https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/inventingthelisauserinterface

The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/151098/personality-brokers-book-review-invention-myers-briggs-type-indicator

So you want to invent your own currency | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/so-you-want-to-invent-your-own-currency

Today, learn a new programming language that was invented before 1980

Velcro History: An Important, Yet Unfashionable, Invention https://tedium.co/2018/06/05/velcro-history/

Rarely do tidally bound worlds invent the lightbulb. The day side does not need it, the evening side evolves architecture that makes the most efficient use of light, the near night side (only recently colonized) is lit by gargantuan mirror arrays

This reminds me of the @swaim_corp / smallbeans George Lucas v Disney skit: http://aiweirdness.com/post/163491778652/darth-net-star-wars-characters-invented-by-neural

Sniglet History: The Art of Invented Words https://tedium.co/2018/03/01/sniglet-history-rich-hall/

Every Society Invents the Failed Utopia it… http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/every-society-invents-the-failed-utopia-it-deserves/

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/36579366

How Claude Shannon Rebooted Information http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented

“You mean they invented large brains, tool use, culture, swarming and malthusian trap evasion AT THE SAME TIME? Who leaked the cheat codes?”

In an insidious twist on cryogenic immortality, criminals have invented the cryolocker, freezing people and holding them for ransom

[tale of human ambition]↵↵[atrocious pun, but taken seriously]↵↵[neat invention, thinly disguised as story]

It appears that I have inadvertently invented a word: Golemistics (the art and science of golems and their creation)