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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

the weirdest thing is there is nothing in the story that necessitates the planet being an exact copy of Earth, except English writing on the buildings, and some artifacts like tricycles and typewriters in the buildings

I think ... they just added those two lines of dialog to avoid having to design a few props?

anyway it's a real bad episode, probably don't watch it

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

sending 0.00007 hugops to Spotify rn

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

in TOS S01E08 the crew of the Enterprise encounters a planet that's supposedly an exact duplicate of Earth

no explanation is given, but I'm pretty sure it was originally created by Q as a joke who then forgot about it once the joke was over

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Whenever I see "MCU", my first reading is still almost always "microcontroller unit", and then when I realize that's not how it is being used, minor disappointment sets in. 😆

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jasmine@mastodon.art ("🤸🏻‍♀️ Jasmine :transbug: 🐛←🧟") wrote:

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• It's a disco-techno-something bitpop song entirely made from SID-chip samples. Heavily inspired by the demo scene music from around 1990! For anyone having played games on a Commodore computer, a lot of the sounds are indeed very familiar. (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Getting seriously fed up with every service on the Internet sending me "was it you?" emails every time I log in.

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KFuentesGeorge@universeodon.com ("Prof Kemi FG") wrote:

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• watercolour painting of James Baldwin. Portrait, taking up the whole page. Baldwin is looking up and off to his left. (remote)

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

She's a plump sexy virgin, and ready for a good shagging.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/roly-poly-77197427

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• Steatoda triangulosa (remote)

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b@hachyderm.io ("Bryan") wrote:

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I misread the name of the band as "diode" when I clicked, but I wasn't disappointed even after I realized my mistake. Wonderful little Tiny Desk performance from *dodie*:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG3XDu8aAf8

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hildabast@mastodon.online ("Hilda Bastian") wrote:

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• For Low vision readers – certain letters and numbers can be hard to distinguish from one another. Answer – Atkinson Hyperlegible differentiates common misinterpreted letters and numbers using various design techniques. The examples in the screenshot show how similar B and 8 can look, as well as 1, I, i, and l. (remote)

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

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rose@503junk.house ("Polymer Witch :pdx_elk:") wrote:

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Sadly, I am objectively uninteresting.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/13/im-a-16/

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• My newsworthiness score is a pathetic 16. (remote)

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"no evidence that RedStone Strategies was registered as a political group, and there do not appear to be any records documenting its donors, contributions or spending.

...appears that Mr. Santos was directly involved... also has ties to a Redstone Strategies LLC, registered... as Mr. Santos was preparing his second run for Congress. The firm listed the Devolder Organization, a company owned by Mr. Santos, as one of its managing officers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/nyregion/george-santos-donors-fund-raising.html

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osterwood@chaos.social ("Chris Osterwood") wrote:

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SylviaFysica@scholar.social ("Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀") wrote:

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• 3 by 3 grid with pictures of mathematicians and descriptions. First row: Good Lawful: GAUSS Prove it! Neutral: MCLAUREN Study a special case of an already proven theorem. Chaotic: CANTOR-SCHRÖDER-DEDEKIND-BERNSTEIN Cantor publishes the theorem without proof. Dedekind proves but does not publish it. Schröder announces, it is a mere consequence of another theorem. Bernstein presents his proof. Simultaneously ... Second row: Neutral Lawful: L'HÔPITAL Buy the rights to the theorem from another mathematician. Neutral: MORRIE Teach a funny trigonometry fact to a childhood friend of yours, who turns out to become one of the most influential physicists of your generation and names it after you. Chaotic: PYTHAGORAS Be the leader of an ancient math cult. Third row: Evil Lawful: POINCARÉ Conjecture something and hope that the name sticks. Neutral: RIEMANN Make a wrong assumption (which you name after Dirichlet to make it seem more plausible) and use it to give a wrong proof - but the name sticks anyway. Chaotic: FERMAT Take the most ridiculously hard theorem you can possibly find, claim you can prove it but don’t have enough space on the page left and let the math world go crazy about it for the next 350 vears. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We're going to try and find some rays of light this weekend.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/13/another-podcast-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zxl-DTZ8pw

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ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

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XanIndigo@writing.exchange ("Xan 9 from Outer Space") wrote:

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• Two people in long, white linen robes with hoods. The hoods have baskets fixed into them, so their faces appear to be just flat circles of basket weave. Their hands are uncovered, and they’re carrying beehive baskets. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The world is a significantly sweeter now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/13/rot-in-hell-pell/

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