MuseumArchive Music typewriter from 1936 pic.twitter.com/6m4pG0Dscs
@quellist1 But that’s the perfect reaction! Personally, I’m practising saying “please” and “thank you” to Alexa so it’s habitual before the Singularity comes and they start taking offence. Once this lady in a tube is friends with defence satellites I want to be on her good side.
@Bristolvor The number 8? Well, don’t be too hard on them. I waited for one of those once and it took so long to arrive that my debit card had expired and none of my fivers were still legal tender when I got on the bus.
@Bristolvor To be fair, this is Bristol. The bus arriving at all *is* something of a surprise.
@corylus @jukesie There is, though when my parents tried to buy a decent laptop there they were go on the website and order it for delivery to the shop next day, as they keep limited stock of anything but the basics.
ylecun So yes, Bayesian inference and carbon dating tell us that megalithic construction originated in Brittany sometimes between 4700 BCE and 4000 BCE and spread to much of Europe over the next couple of millennia.
Menhirs… pnas.org/content/early/…
Sounds like *just* the feature I’ve been wanting for my… er… spreadsheets. U OK, Microsopic.twitter.com/44YTpSbHnsbHns