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Only surviving example of the code-cracking Banbury sheets at WW2 codebreaking base Bletchley Park. Alan Turing and his colleagues worked in unheated huts, so they stuffed the walls with magazines and waste paper -- including these notes.
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In the 1990s, Foster Wallace described a near future in which people would feel anxious about their appearance on 'videophony' and would use high-definition masks to look more presentable. Today, video calls and facial filters are widespread. Even plastic surgeons have coined the term 'Snapchat Dysmorphia', something equivalent to the 'Video–Physiognomic Dysphoria' he imagined. 'Fellows of ∞ Jest' on Tezos. Link below 🔗 🔻
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