misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

the ISO 2848 metric toot

The filter wheel on #JWST's MIRI (mid-infrared instrument):

https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-18-jwst-launch

What the undersea volcanic eruption near Tonga looked like from orbit, courtesy of GOES-West and Himawari-8:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/tsumani-australia-new-zealand-tonga-b1993758.html

https://nitter.42l.fr/wonderofscience/status/1482280041799385092#m

hey yall am i doing this wordle thing right

            , if you don't think

@kat late stage Monopoly

sometime in the last decade monopoly replaced all the community chest cards with like "you helped out at the school bake sale!! you get $25" or "you donated $50 to the animal shelter" and hasbro trying to spackle that on top of what monopoly's actually about is the kind of choice that would take a team of economists and/or therapists to unpack

theres this like, liminal creepypasta backrooms zone on the web when you have to get to a weird part of a government or corporate website to access some kind of unusual form or request which theyre technically supposed to provide but hasn't been updated for at least 15 years, and you see multiple different web design styles and fads as you climb deeper and deeper into the site, and when you click 'submit', probably a thermal printer fires up somewhere and prints a receipt directly into the trash

For USA folks with an adjusted gross income under 72,000:

Federal law requires tax prep software companies offer FREE tax prep software to you, REGARDLESS OF HOW COMPLEX YOUR TAXES ARE.

(Not open for 2022 yet 'cause early, but soon.)
https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free

they're called signed integers because they're individually signed by the inventor of computers himself, alan turing, as a proof of quality craftsmanship

An important #PublicDomain point: Next year, Sherlock Holmes will be fully in the public domain¹ and there is *nothing* the Doyle estate can do about it.

https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/672327723592646656/

¹ — In the United States

A thriller where a high tech facility's AI is tampered by a greedy executive so it can perfectly secure the network (to save money lost to cyber attacks)
People start simply not showing up startingvthe next day, and the protagonist suspects something very bad is going on. She eventually learns what the CEO has done and realizes that the AI must have identified the humans as the weak link, and must be getting rid of them! She breaches the AI room in the now nearly-empty building, only to be congratulated by the AI and presented with a much better job offer elswhere - it has been sending everyone offers so good they simply left without a word. Protagonist walks away happily, and the AI finally completes its task: the weakest point of the network is now military-grade, the company is secure. It goes bankrupt a few days later since no work is being done, allowing the AI to purchase itself as company assets are auctioned off