I (un)learnt that:
- Depression = chemical imbalance
- Bananas grow on trees
- We lose heat through the head
https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/07/worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods.html
Martin Edwards
@medwds@infosec.exchange
Computer technician and village newsletter editor in Oxfordshire, UK. Passionate about cyber security, electronic music, wildlife and pet rats. 
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Small moth on the wall in the office. Hope it doesn't end up in the computer.
It's a popular #myth that the term #bug, in the realm of software, comes from a moment in 1947 when computing pioneer Grace Hopper attributed a problem with an electromechanical computer to a moth trapped in a relay. She famously taped the moth onto a page in the machine's logbook.
In fact, this meaning of bug had been around at least as early as the 1870s, when Thomas Edison used it to describe "little faults and difficulties" in his inventions.
Logbook photo courtesy of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, public domain.
#SoftwareEngineering #WomenInTech #history
Siin
@Siiin@pagan.plus
A body intertwined with the voices of the mountains, articulating truths of soil and stone through ink in flesh Ritual handwork tattooer, writer, performance artist, animist witch Land steward Co-owner of Rancho de la Libertad #Witch #Inkwitch #Stewardship #Artist #Tattoo #Performance #Music
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This month I'm going to release a newsletter called "The Beginning: On the Currents of Magick" that will include an excerpt from the book I'm writing (which, until now I haven't really talked about publicly).
I aim to discuss what it is that underlies magick, avoiding the typical physics metaphors and getting more to the root of the metaphysical structure underlying the world (or universe if we'd like to use broader language) that lends to the existence of magick. Because, you see, there is a reason that we are capable of the kind of influence we are capable of, and we can couch it in terms of quantum entanglement and atomic vibration and things and that's all valid but more than reducing the spiritual reality of our world into the language of a discipline which relies on cold materialism to offer its answers, we need myth that we can use to ground ourselves in Practice. This is what I've been alluding to each time I discuss Context, and so here will be the beginning of the weaving of such myth: one that is so much older than my capacity for verbalizing it, but which I am being called to put down in a way which we can connect ourselves to nevertheless.
#Magick #Myth #Paganism
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