Human folly for 02025-09-30

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• Orrin hatch and the etymology of shot their wad (slate.com):

  Orrin Hatch used the phrase “shot their wad”, which has nonsexual meanings dating back to the 01860s (when you used a wad to load a gun) and sexual meanings dating back to 01930’s Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam and Henry Miller’s Sexus.

• (dw.com):

  #Milei’s Hayek medal last year #politics #Germany

• Bessent asegura El negocio de sus socios en wall street (lapoliticaonline.com):

  InfoBAE claims #Citrone convinced #Bessent to convince #Trump to bail out #Argentina at the #IMF. I’m skeptical. #USA #politics

• Dgsh (www2.dmst.aueb.gr):

  Diomidis Spinellis wrote a “directed graph shell” called "dgsh" that supports somewhat more general DAG dataflow.

• Nukit torch quality provenance (nukit222.com):

  222nm far #UVC germicidal lamp history and development by #SexyCyborg

• (archive.warplane.com):

  scan of old Westinghouse Employees Magazine featuring the new Westinghouse Sterilamp: “The death ray that guards life” #UVC #history

• AI slop attacks on the curl project (daniel.haxx.se):

  #AI #slop attacks on the cURL project

• Why not matrix (telegra.ph):

  criticism of #Matrix from 02023. #toread #chat #protocols

• Bluepill diags V1 (mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io):

  #Bluepill #microcontrollers #electronics #hardware diagnostic guide for use with #Mecrisp #Forth.

• Weiher 2020 canprogrammersescapethegentletyrannyofcallreturn acmdl (hpi.uni-potsdam.de):

  #PDF #paper #toread by mpweiher about transcending call/return programming #toread