Jan Vaněk jr.

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SF fan (among others™; sometimes I pub an ish, even if noone LoCs: https://sites.google.com/site/janvanekjr/newtnews )

Most of my xTwitter contacts are Czech but should understand (my) English, so let me try that for now.

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Clearly, EU's office for protection against objects falling from the sky (I never knew there is such a thing) is unexpectedly effective (cf. ESA's lousy webpage). Though they could work a bit more on the PR / SEO / soc. media marketing / using ordinary words like "debris of the jettisoned battery".

EU SST on X: "⚠️Update on #EUSST’s monitoring of object #ISS DEB: the re-entry window has narrowed down to 2024-03-08 19:13 UTC ±30 min. The below figure shows the latest ground track map for the re-entry window. Find more details here: https://t.co/rLTYkVWVWf #EUSpace https://t.co/495RHisCgK" / Xtwitter.com ⚠️Update on #EUSST’s monitoring of object #ISS DEB: the re-entry window has narrowed down to 2024-03-08 19:13 UTC ±30 min. The below figure shows the latest ground track map for the re-entry window. Find more details here: https://t.co/rLTYkVWVWf #EUSpace https://t.co/495RHisCgK

Another part of the Internet of my youth gone, gone, gone. (Today I managed the "cache:" work once at an old PDF, about about a week of failures.) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are deadarstechnica.com Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

And I wondered why another #Wikipedia reference link was broken. I've run across ugly #font #substitutions of the-most-exclusive-#Latin2 characters for decades, but just when I thought I've seen everything, something this radically new comes along. How did they do it? (Also, when did he play it?)

This is even less intelligible (allusions-wise, not the language itself) than Zimozi Natsuco's, and no interesting curses :-/ Still, I am somewhat/-how reminded of the Czech hardcore fandom's displeasure with the "commercialization of the genre" in the post-1989 publishing, and then media, boom.

With the news that has subsequently broken, I fear this item that I submitted to Mike will get overlooked. Please remember that there are many, many more victims of this mess, and who don't have large followings on English-language social media to hear their anguish.

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Pixel Scroll 1/30/24 Ocean’s Elven file770.com/pixel-scroll...

Jules Verne: Un prêtre en 1839, trans. A Priest in 1835. French editor (Wikip. paraphrase): "it is permissible to hesitate between the two dates". US foreword castigates him for changing the MS's explicit title based on (implicit) argument that indeed seems to contradict the rest of internal logic.

Slept badly, so started doing (what passes for my) research early: almost literally before breakfast, ran into a Guide du Roman de Langue Francaise (by a well-known, though not to me, US prof) which indexes entries not just with topics but all foods and beverages mentioned. What a country, right?!

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