Wiktionary says the etymology is from the latin for weasel: furrittum or “little thief”. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ferret (View Post)

IIRC this was immediately contrasted with Jason Bourne as a stand in for the equivalent “company man” of the modern era - the deniable external contractor who’s pension is a pile of gold bars in a sa… (View Post)

I think it was Charlie Stross that pointed out that Bond was aspirational fantasy for the “company man” of the 1960s. He gets the upmarket, exciting & exotic versions of everything that organisat… (View Post)

Anti-abortionists with professional legal advisors behind them funded by US anti-abortion groups are very, very good at walking right up to the line of what is / isn’t legal & then spinning the o… (View Post)

It’s almost certainly a GAN of some sort. (Or rather it would have been a GAN a few years ago - not sure what the current state of the art in image generation is these days.) (View Post)