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The Broth of Khan

Darmok and Salad at Tanagra

OR: a food and video arcade concept whose only game is VR headsets with the disc and funnel game

YouTube video by LegalEagle Authoritarianism Is Here

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans.

Never before in my life have I been so worried about the future of democracy in the US.

Devin over at Legal Eagle sums it up perfectly:

youtu.be/zn-rkKIMNAs?...

This is not the future the Founding Fathers envisioned when they formed this country.

THE DINNER PLAN IS OUT NOW

WATCH IT WITH YOUR WHOLE FAMILY

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes Hackaday Article

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes

I cannot begin to describe how little interest I have in an AI web browser.

What's that thing called when you see someone post something so mind-numbingly wrong you need to go get some facts right before replying, go down a rabbit hole, and 14 months later you're probably one of the top 5% of experts in this niche subject and can't find the original wrong post to refute it?

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

If you're wrong, admit it
If you're grateful, say it
If you love someone, tell them
If you learn something, pass it on
If you see wrong, try to make it right
If you're struggling, reach out
If someone is despondent, encourage them.

A bright green grassy meadow with a single large tree in the middle. The sky is blue with scattered clouds. There is a row of trees on the edge of the pasture. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

I was going to post more about stress in trees, but I think we've all had enough stress for this weekend. Here instead is a more sooting view of a tree standing alone in a pasture.

Wie schön wäre es doch, man bräuchte gar kein Erdöl

Wait

Everyone stop, I'm trying to write.

"Fahrraddemo am August-Bebel-Platz in Halle (Saale) mit Kugeln aus Kunststoff und Metall beschossen, 7 Teilnehmende getroffen."

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Murderbot Is ‘More Relatable Than Most Characters I’ve Played’, Says Alexander Skarsgård The True Blood actor plays an android simultaneously influenced and repulsed by humanity in Apple TV+'s sci-fi comedy. Read more at Empire.

www.empireonline.com/tv/news/murd...

Nebula Sans Nebula Sans is the brand typeface for Nebula, available under the SIL Open Font License.

@timesnewboman.com (nice username, btw, didn't notice before)
Are you planning a video about nebulasans.com ?
Please say you are!

Thanks!

Sex workers tried to warn you. KOSA was designed to chase sex workers off the internet and any sex worker can tell you nothing unites the left and the right like hating sex workers.

Yes lbtgq content will be suppressed but if you want to know WHY senate Ds are for this bill- talk to a sex worker

The Importance of the Oxford Comma   Owing to ambiguities caused by its omission, the Oxford comma was the subject of a petition raised by serious serialists keen to ensure its mandatory use in lists of three things or more.   And what a response! From across every nation, the signatures poured in beyond all expectation – from the investment bankers, robbers and thieves, to the politicians, self-servers and exponents of sleaze.   There were the Daily Mail readers, the clowns and deluded; the climate change deniers, the daft and the stupid; the morally bankrupt, Donald Trump and Piers Morgan; Elon Musk, a Bond villain and a trafficker of organs;   plus the poets, the drug fiends and chronically poor – all supported this change to grammatical law. This formal petition was then presented in hope to Sir David Attenborough, the King and the Pope. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.

California Proposition 6. Prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude. This proposed amendment to California's constitution would bar slavery in any form and repeal a current provision allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. 52% reporting Vote % Vote count No 54.9% 5,018,605 Yes 45.1% 4,117,555

In the midst of all the other WTF, who the hell are the millions of people in California who voted *against* ending slavery and indentured servitude?

A four-panel comic of two people blaming each other for Trump's electoral win while Trump stands off to the side, gorily devouring a baby. The comic's website is listed at the bottom as amultiverse.com

Created in 2016 by @jonrosenberg.bsky.social

Panel from Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, in which a stout brunette man in a suit and tie waving a lit cigarette is saying "Your first deadline's tomorrow. I want to see eight thousand words. Printable words. I still remember that essay you wrote when the Beast got elected. I do not want to see the word "fuck" typed eight thousand times again."

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Suzanne Palmer

I went checking for new stories by @zanzjan.bsky.social in this useful list on the @clarkesworldmagazine.com website: clarkesworldmagazine.com/author/suzan... -- and while there was, sadly, nothing new this year, I discovered that I had not read all of them, yet.

And that improved my day.

Here is my one pithy post:

Approximately half of the country's population is looking at the same man yet seeing and hearing completely different things. That should freak you out no matter how you slice it.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,358,795, ((( H. N. ))) ‪@hn3000.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 5, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,358,795!

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