Tootfinder

Not sure if those work with a prepaid sim card on a modem (nor if it’s legal to setup such an answering machine on one of them here), but I’ll do some research on it
As for voip numbers, no idea how those work and if they’re universal or if I have to get one from a provider explicitly made for Asterisk compatibility, but they seem quite expensive (specially since the prepaid ones would be basically free since it’s only for receiving calls from nerds, not making calls) anyway.

The idea is to provide a safe haven and a fertile ground for the next generation of scientists to work in peace and freedom to solve the most significant challenges of our time; but the geopolitical argument will prevail. As Jorge Luis Borges said in his short story “Nathaniel Hawthorne” from his book “Other Inquisitions” (1952):
“The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things return, and one of the things that return is the project to abolish the past.”

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

The mild-mannered David Brooks gets fierce. Eloquently.
I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion

Opinion | The Trump World Idea That’s Pushed Me Over the Edge
Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_med…