Hangul "is not the only [writing system that we know and can trace who exactly created it]. We know exactly who created the Cherokee and the Cree-Inuk syllabaries. There are also several new scripts in parts of Africa and elsewhere who’s creators are still alive among us, e.g., Herman ‘Mogri’ Mongrain Lookout for the Osage alphabet."
#TIL #alphabets #linguistics
https://xcancel.com/avzaagzonunaada/status/1907497588074672518
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/osage-nation-master-language-teacher-herman-mongrain-lookout-receives-k-state

TIL that when I press C-x C-f in Emacs, then I shouldn't remove line with the current path to enter path to the another file in the another directory.

I can just start type ~/... and the current path will be shadowed and the new path will be used instead of the old one

#TIL about this really cool Data Rescue Project. Here's a good coverage about how this voluntary archival project came to be and what they are working on now: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge

#TIL how to create a #WhatsApp broadcast group. Nice.

#TIL: Es gibt neben Comic Sans auch Comic Serif.

https://www.hvdfonts.com/fonts/hvd-comic-serif

#TIL #TodayILearned

For those kitchen chemists and physicists out there - apparently, you can create plasma in your microwave with just a couple grapes!

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Scientists now know why microwaved grapes make plasma fireballs

https://www.snexplores.org/article/why-microwaving-grapes-makes-plasma-fireballs

Okay, I'm occasionally dipping into the senate coverage today, and it's worth it to see Cory Booker chew this scenery even while exhausted. Booker is now on hour 20 or something of this "non-filibuster."

a) We just heard Senator Hirono from Hawaii say, "wtf comes to mind!" Priceless.
b) Today I learned that Cory Booker has a "favorite federalist paper." What a lovely nerd.
#TIL #USPol #USPolitics #CoryBooker

Cory Booker just yielded the floor to discuss M&Ms which were invented in New Jersey.
#TIL

#TIL that the word "transmogrify" has been around since the 1600s. And here I always thought Bill Watterson invented it just for #CalvinAndHobbes.

#transmogrification
#etymology
#EtymologyNerd
#EtymologyForever
#language
#linguistics

#TIL that #WordPad is being discontinued. MS is recommending that my fellow WordPadians migrate to Word, despite its absolute lack of pad. I realize the date, but this is actually real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad #software

#TIL: Der Begriff #Nazi war ursprünglich ein Kosename für Ignatz, was in Süddeutschland und Österreich ein gebräuchlicher Vorname war. Zudem war es auch eine abwertende Bezeichnung im Sinne von dumm, peinlich oder ungeschickt, wie es aktuell Horst ist.

Die #Nationalsozialisten wurden erst mit Naso abgekürzt und erst später von Gegnern als Nazis bezeichnet.

https://www.gespraechswert.de/sprachwandel-nazi-etymologisch/

TIL that #NellyFurtado's famous song Maneater is about Facebook- and Instagram-remorse.

"You wish you never ever Meta at all."

Aus der #SoLaWi Email:
"Topinambur [ist lecker und] hat [viele] Vorzüge, zum einen sind sie sehr schnellwüchsig und werden binnen kurzer Zeit über 2m hoch. Damit geben sie uns den notwendigen Windschutz, damit die feuchte und Co² gesättigte Luft in Bodennähe erhalten bleibt. [...] Falls Wühlmäuse auftreten, bevorzugen sie Topinambur und lassen alle andern Pflanzen unbeschädigt. Und die späte Blüte macht sie für Bienen und Hummeln so interessant."

Wieder was gelernt.

TIL that in some European parliaments, the members can be tried for crimes but don't suffer the consequences because of "immunity."

However, in some cases, the ballot shows what crimes they've been tried for so that people have that info when they vote.

#TIL (from 2017) Former #GE CEO #JeffImmelt used to have an empty private jet fly next to his — just in case there were delays https://www.businessinsider.com/ge-jeff-immelt-two-private-jets-2017-10

#3dprinting
#TIL if I print directly from the dryer box and filament is not running smoothly (there is a tension in filament), there are strange inconsistencies and gaps in print, mostly visible in top layer.
I needed a year to figure it out.

Today I solved the secret whether or not a film on modern multiplex cinemas is always on, even if nobody is attending the screening.

They do! I arrived a little late and was the only one in the audience. The trailers were already running. #TIL #cinema #portugal #anora