OMG… I wouldn’t have got the joke if you hadn’t said that!

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; some were former members of the Nazi Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

p.s. also see Ministry of Space, an alternate history comic book in which the British grab all the scientists instead.

That’s exactly why Sarah broke up with him.

In Latin America, the christian conquerers forced people to pray to their god. So people adapted by praying to their old gods in the guise of the new.

Catholicism was the only religion allowed in the colonial era; the indigenous were forced to abandon their beliefs, although many did not abandon it at all, for example, countries with predominantly Amerindian population such as Bolivia and Peru there is a syncretism between indigenous religions and the Catholic religion, that has occurred since colonial times. In Brazil or Colombia, Catholicism was mixed with certain African rituals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_South_America

Usually the talks are just an advertisement for the paper. The real value of in-person conferences is meeting your peers and talking about your field in less-formal settings i.e. during the dinner and breaks.

btw if you’re a student, see if there are any student organizations to join, especially if they do workshops or research tracks at a conference, it’s a great way to build a network.

“Darling he meant nothing to me! He was just a one-hit wonder!”

I don’t see any clowns in the pictures. That would also make them… comic sans.

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat a machine learning algorithm.” - traditional Native American saying.

Oh yeah, I know that place.

• constant stream of Asian students from the nearby university
• enormous menu, but somehow everything is made quickly
• additional staff are either family from the old country, or Latinos
• flyers in Mandarin (?) for things like churches, lawyers, and real estate agents.

Egypt is 1,596 km away from Greece in OUR world. But they’re in a whole new world.

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world and sometimes !sneerclub@awful.systems

Insufficient information. Need to know the physician’s gang affiliation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

Awards

    2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91]
    2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
    2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
    2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
    2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
    2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92]

For Little Brother

    2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93]
    2009 Prometheus Award[45]
    2009 Sunburst Award[46]
    2009 White Pine Award[94]
    2018 Inkpot Award[95]

For Pirate Cinema

    2013 Prometheus Award[45]

For Homeland

    2014 Prometheus Award[45]