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hittitezombie

@hittitezombie@mastodon.me.uk

All I want is to read books now. Go away.

Who am I? Shouty SF reader, amateur radio tinkerer, dormant astronomy geek, he him.

Will curse, deal with with.

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SecureOwl, to random

Being a dual US/UK citizen really gives you a front row to all the strange little cultural differences between the two nations. For instance, tomorrow in the U.K. is a national holiday to celebrate the time we stopped a fella who tried to end democracy by force, but when that happened in the US they gave the guy a CNN town hall special, so weird lol.

hittitezombie,
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@SecureOwl Nope, we don't get 5th Nov as a national holiday.

garius, to random
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Just reached the 3rd Doctor in my Doctor Who rewatch and MY GOD does it reinforce my love for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

The perfect military officer. Strong sense of duty. Utterly fearless. Accepts that science matters, even if he doesn't understand it and the guy pushing it is a bit of a dick.

hittitezombie,
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@garius on the other hand, lower rank Unit members have a shorter life expectancy than a typical redshirt.

josephinelee, to random
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An 11 yo honors student from Brownsville ISD reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed, detained, and put in solitary confinement. https://www.texasobserver.org/why-was-this-11-year-old-honor-roll-student-put-in-solitary/

hittitezombie,
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@josephinelee what is wrong with America?

noelreports, to random Dutch
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Zelenskyi stated this morning that near Vuhledar a big attack was repelled. Footage emerged from the 72nd mechanized brigade operating in the area that shows parts of a defeated column. Deepstate reports that Russia lost 18 pieces of equipment, among them 8 tanks and 3 MT-LB's. The attack reportedly took place near Mykil's'ke, just southeast of Vuhledar.

video/mp4

hittitezombie,
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@noelreports Ahh, I miss the great Turrent Tossing Competition, I hope there will be some new contenders for the record breaking.

arstechnica, to random
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Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform

Ban came after owner's research showed growing influence of far-right accounts.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/major-critic-of-x-sues-after-being-banned-from-platform/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hittitezombie,
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@arstechnica Fascists taking over the site not a bug, it's a feature of the site.

arstechnica, to random
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Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried “can’t recall” what he did at FTX

SBF reportedly said he couldn't remember over 100 times in cross-examination.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/facing-110-years-in-prison-sam-bankman-fried-cant-recall-what-he-did-at-ftx/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hittitezombie,
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@arstechnica I hope he remembers every minute of his prison sentence.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Obviously this is super price prohibitive now, and doesn't work super great, but man I would love to have this when repairing something, or even just on a long walk. I wonder if in 20 years instead of a phone you have a tiny robot that helps you get through the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzOBZUFzTw

hittitezombie,
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@ZachWeinersmith or hunting you down with a shotgun...

evacide, to random
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If you have a uterus and you live in the UK, it's time to update your threat model to include police testing you for the presence of abortion meds and requesting data from period-tracking apps: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/30/british-police-testing-women-for-abortion-drugs/

hittitezombie,
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@evacide Ruled by the fringe part of the Tory Party for 13 years which is more and more a full-blown fascist state.

ComicContext, to comics
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hittitezombie,
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@ComicContext Galactus must need to calm down, why not have some camomile tea?

ComicContext, to comics
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hittitezombie,
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@ComicContext I like this, never seen it done this way. Which comic and do we know the illustrator?

ComicContext, to comics
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hittitezombie,
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@ComicContext Turns out Marvel artists not only don't know how to do feet, they also don't know how to do shorts and pillows.

Either he's shrunk, or those pillows are truly enormous.

BBCRadio4, to random
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🎬 It's Monday. What you need is an hour about The Big Lebowski.

But that's just like our opinion, man.

https://bbc.in/3FppIbv

hittitezombie, (edited )
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@BBCRadio4 Is it too early at 10:48 to drink a shot of White Russian?

bruces, to random
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*Meanwhile, on Bluesky:

hittitezombie,
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@bruces "Let's get out of a site that's controlled by a maniacal narcissistic billionaire, and move to a site that's controlled by another maniacal narcissistic billionaire because the site doesn't have too many self-righteous people" is a very good move.

ComicContext, to comics
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hittitezombie,
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@ComicContext WHAT is it with THE random bold LETTERS?

Chrishallbeck, to random
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I tried throwing this old point-and-click CD-ROM game into the trash from across the room but I myst.

hittitezombie,
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@Chrishallbeck that was a good game.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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19 years ago today, Battlestar Galactica started (excluding the opening 2003 miniseries) with "33", one of the best episodes of the show.

"Every 33 minutes, the ragtag fleet of human survivors make a jump to a new location. And every 33 minutes, the Cylons manage to find them."

A tense day for William Adama and Saul Tigh
A view of the ragtag fleet of human survivors, where no one has been able to sleep for several days due to the relentless pursuit of the Cylons.
Also, a tense day for Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace.

hittitezombie,
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@TheSpaceshipper I can't cope with the 19 years ago thing, leave lone "2003 miniseries"...

evacide, to random
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The notion that charging new users $1 per year will stop bots is laughable.

https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

hittitezombie,
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@evacide He's really, really bad at this.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/optimal

hittitezombie,
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@ZachWeinersmith I just hope my wife never executes this on me.

molly0xfff, to random
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Also introduced as an exhibit yesterday: the document in which Sam Bankman-Fried recaps a dinner party hosted by super-networker Michael Kives (with Michael Lewis tagging along, btw), to whom SBF paid $200MM, and wanted to give $1B for VC

https://mollywhite.net/storage/sbf-trial/GX-42.pdf

hittitezombie,
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@molly0xfff How on earth they thought they could 'give away' other people's (imaginary) money? It's beyond belief.

cstross, to random
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About that last RT: I think this is the first ever use of a laser anti-missile weapon in combat. The implications for future conflicts are immense as it shifts the offense/defense slider a long way back towards defense (war fighting has been dominated by offensive technologies since 1918: a tool for reliably zapping artillery shells and missiles in flight will be a game-changer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Beam

hittitezombie,
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@cstross
Finally SF made real.

I can't remember whose book it was - there was an war SF/thriller about a war in 21st century (obviously written in late 90s) which had laser weapons suddenly unleashed to an unsuspecting aircraft crew, blinding almost all of them etc. etc.
I guess it wasn't the only one.

hittitezombie,
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@cstross Rafael's ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6eHC4JBXA

hittitezombie,
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@ceemage @cstross
1980s Starwars was just to break this deadlock, and then we didn't have the technology.

We might have it now (although I presume that would require significantly more powerful lasers).

hittitezombie,
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@cstross My colleagues in Huntingdon used to joke about 80s, depending on which eyeball melted first they could deduce which of the surrounding air bases was bombed first (Alconbury or Wyton).

hittitezombie,
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@cstross @ceemage Those are very limited in number, and also didn't have a good track of tests conducted.

Arms Control Wonk's Jeffrey Lewis wrote a semi-documentary-fiction of such an attack and the outcomes. Quite a fun read, especially the way he portraits The Shitgibbon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against/dp/B07J2RDW3R

Frances_Larina, to random
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I think that for me the pinnacle of how bad offices could get was when companies were willing to pay $5,000 usd to $10,000 for "privacy / phone call / two person conference" pods rather than admit open floor plan was an absolute ergonomic failure.

hittitezombie,
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@PJ_Evans @Frances_Larina cubicles are all gone. Now it is all about hot desks with minimal personal effects allowed and no noise isolation at all.

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