I can't blame them--I'd wear one all the time too if I could get away with it.

www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10269 Here's Peter Watts on chatbots and the Jovian Duck (the duck doesn't show up until near the end of the blog entry, before the comments start).

I think that's the duck that Peter Watts once described--looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but we found it in orbit around Jupiter, so yeah, don't let it in, because whatever it is, it ain't a duck.

Noticing that at least some of national TV news is increasingly focused on local/human interest stories, because other than a couple of national/international items they don't think it's worth the struggle to get into the main issues of our time (to extent they aren't already completely captured).

I'm occupied--otherwise a band with the motto of "mono no aware" sounds excellent.

Lord of Light blew my young mind. (Yeah, it's problematic, but young mind still blown.)

That would practically be a home gig for him!

"Antichrist Superstar" YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

A perfect hoot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYR...

Never get in a war that's so long you only end up teaching your enemy how to fight you. (See e.g. Pyrrhus and Rome.)

Her Lady Astronaut books have some fun resonances and contrasts with the Artemis 2 mission.

We manage to make jokes about that on jam nights.

And talk about infrastructure week, those Roman roads were something. Like the Appian Way--you could line it up and down with crosses. Very tough on crime.

@petridishes.bsky.social Just did a viewing party with 3 other guys of Jupiter Ascending on your rec. We had a gas of giant proportions--thank you for that!

Give me some of that pre-Little Ice Age heat!

This is Hungary calling, this is Hungary calling, not the last remaining station, but the first of a new day.

Someone recently posted that the best reply to Apollo moon landing skeptics was that the Soviets called to congratulate us. Post-Artemis II seems a particularly pleasant time to remember Gagarin's achievement as well.

FatBoy Slim Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha YouTube video by bonio-T3

Asha Bhosle has passed away. Here's a tribute to her that those of us of certain age may know well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Bk... (I like both versions, but this is the one I danced to more often.)

So many films of the late '60s to early '80s were both ridiculously bad and extremely important to me. AYK, that's what cult film used to mean (not this current def of underrated good). A24, Ben Wheatley, etc. among the current few that actively strive for that cult feeling with better prod values

Are autocratic personalities particularly vulnerable to the sunk cost fallacy, or is it just the usual limits on rolling the dice again on the Risk board are absent?

With the section 31 ep., I want an aging Bashir like Smiley summoned back as an outsider to clean up the mess. It'll be Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and we all know who the Tailor is.

Because I thought of All-Star Superman's images a few times during the film.

Was this the image the film was riffing on in the closing credits, or was it the other way around?

I guess if it isn't broke, don't fix it, but still, weird how many things 54 years haven't changed.

Yeah, I've just revisited the Lady Astronaut series in the last few months, so at least I wasn't surprised by it happening!

That same look of something from my childhood 54 years ago makes this both wonderful and yet strange. (Also, your books were a bit prescient with the woman astronaut having to fix the toilet!)

Wow, it's been 54 years since I've seen a moon mission.

Meanwhile, some progressive protestants have been pleasantly surprised.

The complete disregard of differences in the 10 Commandments in the display laws should've been a canary for them.

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Chuckling at the thought of someone who is definitely not holy, roman, or emperor getting into an argument with a pontiff.