As it's now Wednesday in enough of the world - this is looking like a banner year for Acta Prima Aprilia, with a number of submissions in this year's issue:
www.actaprimaaprilia.com/2026-issue
Here's some highlights
How can the answer to protecting privacy be age verification?
The ICO seems to think so. Their fine against Reddit for relying on self-declaration is met with a call for intrusive biometric scans or ID uploads.
All this when privacy dangers are emerging within the industry.
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Guess what I have to do today
Today on arxiv, a preprint of Richard Cannon's (my excellent PhD student) freshly accepted paper! If you enjoyed the Rosetta mission to comet 67P, you'll like the looks of this space-duck asteroid, as revealed by radar 🔭☄️ 📡🪨
It should be illegal for estate agents to list somewhere as having parking when it doesn’t
I once received similar feedback about one of my presenters, who was not a native speaker, but spoke English very well.
I looked up the person who left the feedback, and they were an immigration lawyer, so you’d think they would be used to mild foreign accents 😐
I LOVED this game. Spy Fox too.
Just another reminder that it's a horrible idea for any retro or hobbyist project to use Discord as their sole repository for documentation, updates or troubleshooting docs. 🙃
People who pronounce pronunciation as proNOUNciation should have their passports removed.
Misleading article title, I sincerely doubt the carrier shot it down.
Just found out that my student loan payments are higher than my parents’ mortgage was 😒
I’ll have to look that one up! I do have both books sitting on my shelf, collecting dust…
This scenario is begging for an xkcd ‘what if?’ article
I used to work here - happy to give advice to anyone who’s considering this 🔭
I was playing with some weather data the other day, and without even meaning to, I found that mean temperatures have steadily increased over the past 50 years.
It’s just so damn obvious. Denying it is almost on par with saying the Earth is flat.
CORRECTED MAP:
there was a sign error in the input so the CSpOC location was plotted wrong. Here is the correct version:
May I suggest you publish a template letter for people to write to their MPs about this?
The Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
The reviewers will probably be quite suspicious when authors’ responses to comments begin with “You’re absolutely right!”
The amendment would require everyone in the UK to perform age verification to use a VPN.
If you think that’s fucked up, sign this petition and write to your MP.
Isn’t that what happened to RFK’s brain worm?
Millions of people will see something like this, and by the time it’s debunked, it’s too late. They’ll never know.
What if we had a system that notifies you after the fact? When something is removed/flagged for being misleading, everyone who saw it should be told about it (maybe a weekly report?)
I suddenly don’t feel as tin-foil-hat about the fact I maintain a downloaded copy of Wikipedia…
Cloud-based home surveillance was always a terrible idea.
