In 1969, Stanley Kubrick was struggling with the film making technology required to simulate the surface of the moon, so as a stop-gap measure NASA loaded some astronauts onto a rocket cadged from ICBM research along with a lander with barely enough fuel and sent them to the Sea of Tranquility.
There are wooden antecedents from places such as Hong Kong, for sure, but rubber and plastic bullets were developed by the UK Ministry of Defense to overcome problems with wooden rounds for riot control in Northern Ireland, with the L2A2 rubber bullet being first deployed there in 1970.
Reminded how Ursula Le Guin also had a reckoning with her early Earthsea work through writing Tehanu
Very few of those buildings were abandoned, it's just the industry changed to things like art production, now decimated by condo conversion/construction. Sunday painters can get by with a corner of a spare room, but professional artists are really doing light manufacturing and need studio spaces.
"Games are both easier and harder than the real world. They’re easier because there are fewer levels of abstraction. They’re harder because games are much more diverse. The real world has the same physics everywhere."
Good thread showing negative economic sentiment isn't just vibes — people who actually changed their spending behavior (buying cheaper, saving less, delaying purchases) were way more negative about the economy at every level, including on personal finance, in 2024. Conditions matter as much as party
This is in fact very reminiscent of what trying to have a house party in our NYC apartment looks like.
So do you all just... throw away extra ketchup packets?
Borag thungg!
2000 AD. Signature monochrome art, anti-authoritarian, made English readers deal with Irish orthography, almost no crossovers between strips, and none of those little "*-see Superman #245" boxes referring you to another comic book series, which was important b/c newsagents only carried a few titles.
Lol!
"This makes it especially important to believe historical disabled actors’ statements, even statements that attest to an internalised ableist eugenic logic."
A battered cardboard box with "Science Fair 150 in 1 Electronic Project Kit" written on it.
I'll see your 130 and raise you to 150 :) This particular one actually belonged to a former executive director of the IEEE, proving your point about the value of these kits!
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To be fair, the Gaffer saying "Mr. Bilbo has learned [Sam] his letters, meaning no harm, mark you, and I hope no harm will come of it," is consistent with functional illiteracy, & implies that Sam's family is completely illiterate (& it's Merry, not Sam, who illicitly reads a little of Bilbo's book)
Wait till you see what's in the pipeline for the next Hands On :)
The latest hands on column from @spectrum.ieee.org: finally the graffiti technology of Demolition Man moves from science fiction to science fact! spectrum.ieee.org/spray-paint-...
This is a great idea! Especially if the bundle crosses multiple subject areas. Each writer could share the same editors and lawyers. They could all even work in the same buildi...
Any book about the history of maintenance that doesn't spend a chapter on 19th century home sewing machines is certainly making choices...
Irish twitter: did you know Kay McNulty, one of the first programmers of ENIAC, spoke Irish as her mother tongue? spectrum.ieee.org/amp/eniac-80...
You can't read them right now anyway, they are flashing by so fast it's like the WOPR trying to find a winning nuclear strike scenario....
There's also a temporal component. People have seasons. When someone happens to have a genius season early in their career, they tend to be declared a genius, period. But seasons don't last forever. Think of say, Nikola Tesla, who couldn't make the transition to modern radio physics.
While we don't have access to the astrophage from #ProjectHailMary in real life, scientists are designing space probes that rely on the same basic principle it uses to travel between the stars: very low mass objects accelerated to very high speeds using photons. spectrum.ieee.org/high-speed-i...
“The Paper” premieres 32 years ago today.
Not just a stellar cast (including Duvall, #RIP 🙏🏼 ) ..
.. but David Koepp’s script beautifully captures the sarcastic, weary and competitive nature of a local news editorial meeting.
macOS already ships age verification
You have angered Ananke, the goddess of “inevitability, compulsion, and necessity,” and “the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance” and who, as such, was a shoe-in when the position opened up for a deity in charge of elevators. You must find her temple in ancient Corinth to make amends.
haha, with MOLLE webbing on the spine so you can attach a small tactical pen for scribbling tactical marginalia!
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
