Some things I noticed 06/21/2020:
- “That old berk, Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did.” ? — Aberforth re: Elphias Doge re: Albus
- “CERN would build an electron-positron to maximize production of Higgs bosons. Later, the machine would be replaced by a proton-proton smasher“
- “The hand-to-hand fighting lasted for up to eight hours, in pitch darkness, and while no shots were fired the battle was fought with rocks and clubs.”
- “Nobody has intruded into our border, neither is anybody there now, nor have our posts been captured“
- “As far as I know China hasn’t seized any Indian personnel”
- “Activists just toppled the Junipero Serra statue in Golden Gate Park here in San Francisco“
- “Serra sought to defend the dignity of the native community, to protect it from those who had mistreated and abused it.”
- “Converted natives were kept separate from those who had not embraced Christianity, missions flogged and imprisoned those who tried to leave.”
- “The company has never been able to break into the social space, online activity that generates scads of lucrative data for targeting ads.”
- “My experience convinced me I was not smart enough to be an expert in the theory of algorithms and that I liked procedural languages better than functional ones“
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It