Keishu Asada

Immediately thought of this video too

This is insane. They got, like, rule of law or some shit over there

My answer too. To me, the matter with Prometheus in a nutshell is this: It caters hard to the sense of wonder about the origin of life, but at the same time, its writers were so uninterested in the topic they bothered to learn nothing about it. Empty cargo cult version of wonder and intrigue

I know that song

A translucent nudibranch, a nomad of the sandy dunes

It will never stop being funny that jpegs are in fact the most fungible things that have ever been invented. The copyright of an image is a unique commodity, but usually isn't transferred with the NFTs at all.

Honestly, odds are you do understand nfts, but the people really into them didn't, and you kept waiting for there to be more to this when there wasn't. Like a plan so dumb that you expect the explanation to continue but the guy has finished talking, grinning at you with stupid triumph

Let's go

The SAVE act is one of the most cunning attempts at voter suppression I have ever seen. They know women are less likely to vote for the GOP, and they found a way to make most married women have to pay to vote.

Underwater snowfall. A bloom of what I think are radiolarians

Pygmy seahorses, blending into their world

There's something especially disgusting about using people's kindness against them. This is the kind of strategy that would only occur to an evil person. And it forces people to adapt by suppressing their instinct to be kind, to help.

New Vegas is a great game to be sure, but I have so little interest in Vegas as a location that it's one of the big drawbacks of the game. I think I went and explored literally every single other location on the map before dragging my feet towards the Strip as the main quest required

I bought my girlfriend a copy of The Devil's Dictionary a while back and the quality was kinda infuriating. Images were blown up jpegs where you can see the messy pixels and the formatting was just weird and off. Lazily copypasted from some file and no one did anything after the 'ctrl v'.

Octopus cyanea - decloak/recloak

The so-called Pikachu nudibranch (Thecacera pacifica) going about its business

Ctenophores glimmering like alien angels

As I was looking at it, I was thinking of the scramblers from Peter Watts' novel Blindsight

(if you haven't read it, in involves aliens that look roughly like brittle stars and the move very fast)

As someone who can be frightfully forgetful, this news feels like it has ominous suggestions as to how much my faculties are propped up purely by coffee

This tiny brittlestar is impossible to see when it stops moving

Photos of the wobbegong. Impressive how well it blends in when it holds still.

Cargo cult is certainly an apt description, and I've thought that many times. Whether it's about money, intellectual property, creating things... one of the threads these booms all have in common is people going through the motions without understanding the things they think they're innovating.

Yes.

I love these freaky little guys. (I'm thanked in the acknowledgements for this paper)

A rare reward exploring at the crack of dawn: A wobbegong shark cruising out of the morning gloom

Honestly it's an unhinged thing to want. Imagine looking back at the memories of a loved one and realizing that you can't remember which things they said were real and which were generated by a bot.

YourMovieSucks has a bias towards talking about movies that don't suck??? What is this scandalous false advertising

You are one of the writers I like enough that I don't need to know the premise of a book or read any blurbs; happy to crack it open completely cold.

Looking forward to whatever this is going to be

"I thought terrorizing vulnerable people was going to be FUN, but instead it's surprisingly COLD???!?"

It's comical for Susan "I'm sure he learned his lesson" Collins to voice 'concerns'. No one cares about your 'concerns'