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59 years later. (Photo stolen from reddit.)

(Photo shows workers loading an electronic computer on the back of a flatbed truck in the top frame, and in the bottom, the same location, with someone holding a raspberry pi computer in their hand.)

By the way, here's the source code for the Apollo 11 mission
github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-

In case you want to do a mission to the Moon. But I don't know how to compile it to the ESP8266 found in your smart toaster.

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"[The Interpreter] allowed them to run five to seven virtual machines simultaneously in two kilobytes of memory." 2 KiB! theatlantic.com/science/archiv filed under Apollo Guidance Computer, Margaret Hamilton

It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws.

uspol, read if you use any amazon services 

Amazon quietly removed a line from its transparency report saying it had "never participated" in the NSA's PRISM program.

techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/amaz

The US government is holding American citizens (I've seen at least three cases) claiming they're not citizens and detaining them unlawfully for extended periods - weeks, months, years!

We've seen the US also revoke some citizenships!

I don't feel safe crossing the US border.

pix11.com/2019/07/31/u-s-citiz

thesis: the internet is a truck

antithesis: it's a series of tubes

synthesis: the tubes have trucks in them

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

Technology is great, but undocumented proprietary hardware is Terrible.

A good lecture by Brian Earp given to the UK National Secular Society: "Religious freedom, equal protection, and the child’s (gender neutral) right to bodily integrity": youtube.com/watch?v=GBH0g_Cl7R

"A united front is needed: all children have a right to bodily integrity and protection from medically unnecessary genital cutting- female, male, intersex"

I just ran across a good article with illustrations and explanations of different kinds of intersex genitals. It explains how many of the operations performed on children without their consent are unneeded and often harmful. intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/

"We need society, the medical field, and intersex communities themselves to acknowledge that nature provides humanity with a wide range of forms, so that all of our bodies can be recognized as valid. Unless there is an actual rare functional problem, our bodies should not be altered in infancy, and only those functional problems should be addressed. Our genitals should be altered only if we ourselves request it, to make ourselves comfortable in our own skin, not to make society comfortable by our medical erasure. Society must come again to embrace the diversity that is nature's gift to us."

All children deserve to be protected from genital cutting without consent, whether they are male, female, or intersex.

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