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charliejane, 9 months ago to random

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi from a Certain Point of View is out today, with a whopping FORTY stories spotlighting different characters from RotJ. I took on the Sarlacc —— Disney Plus still remembers how I obsessively rewatched the same bits of RotJ and The Book of Boba Fett to get all the details right.

pcawdron, 9 months ago to random

"...to surrender our intellect to a machine-learning algorithm that neither understands nor cares about humanity is madness." https://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/artificial-intelligence-is-not-intelligent/

pcawdron, 9 months ago to random

pcawdron, 9 months ago to random

Why does it seem like climate change is suddenly running away? In the last 20 years, we've gone from 2 Hiroshimas per second to the equivalent of 12 detonations per second or 1.12 billion Hiroshimas over just the last three years! Our fossil fuel consumption has gone from absurd to ludicrous!

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1694316503506862589

pcawdron, 9 months ago to random

Elon is not as smart as he thinks he is... "To the dismay of Pentagon officials, Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

pcawdron, 9 months ago to random

Please wear a mask... it's for your own good https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/severe-covid-19-may-lead-long-term-innate-immune-system-changes

pcawdron, 9 months ago to random

I know we're all tired of the pandemic. We all want it to just be over, but the virus cares not for our whims. Please. Do yourself and your community a favor and wear an N95 mask.

This is particularly important in high-risk areas (lots of traffic, poor ventilation) like public toilets, mall walkways, elevators, etc. Once you're in a store, the risk of exposure drops, so if you want, you can remove your mask, but in high-traffic areas... mask up and be safe. Far from building immunity, covid depletes our overall immunity both to it and other diseases like RSV.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-covid-variant-eris-masks-rules-b2394433.html

pcawdron, 10 months ago to random

What's the impact of piracy on ebooks and audiobooks? It's more dire than you think! https://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/walk-the-plank/

pcawdron, 10 months ago to random

"We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective" Kurt Vonnegut

pcawdron, 10 months ago to random

"We're damn fools!"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning

pcawdron, 10 months ago to random

We're all like books...

pcawdron, 11 months ago to random

With 60+ plus titles to choose from, this is the only one I ever get asked about when it comes to merchandise... why is that? https://www.zazzle.com/alien_space_tentacle_p_rn_t_shirt-256860896984246980

kentindell, 11 months ago to random

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pcawdron, 11 months ago to random

"We’re all in denial, in one way or another... The Antarctic Bellingshausen Sea on the west of the continent remains sea ice-free despite now being in the grip of the polar night – months of 24/7 darkness. This was not a scenario that was even being considered a year ago..."
The profound stupidity of humans: to stand by as we burn our own life support systems to the ground is astonishing :(
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/from-the-oceans-to-net-zero-targets-were-in-denial-about-the-climate-crisis

markmccaughrean, 1 year ago to random

Looks like it’s time to break out Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World” again 🙄

#Astrodon
#ItsNeverAliens
#CommunalHysteria

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft

pcawdron, 1 year ago to books

#Reading a good book can change your life for the better https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/could-your-favorite-stories-permanently-change-your-brain/

pcawdron, 1 year ago to random

The leap from single-celled life to multicellular organisms may not be that rare after all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MkchWsfao&ab_channel=AntonPetrov Anton Petrov looks at an experiment that recreated this step in a period of just two years!

pcawdron, 1 year ago to random

Beautiful night for a walk along the Brisbane river

Walk bridge over Brisbane river (lit up with neon blue lights)

kentindell, 1 year ago to random

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