I sporadically see his posts from time to time still Today included a particular amusing pair: > 'Is Obama the antichrist' conspiracy video > Extremely incorrect biblical history Space Twitter has been infested with nazis for a while but unfortunately I know the Apollo era folks aren't much better

People often say Lucas stole the idea of the Jedi from the Lensman books, but they aren't that similar at all so far

Current long term financial plan is to wait for the AI bubble to collapse then invest

My luck in avoiding seeing the Kirk death video just ran out :/ In a fucking Avatar 2 gif edit as well

This is an incredible video btw

Was reading the wikipedia page on plate tectonics because I was bored. Turns out the primary force moving plates isn't mantle convections, but ridges pushing plates away. It also might be subduction pulling plates around. We don't actually entirely know

Kinda nuts that yesterday the BBC started a police officer racism scandal and then today everyone was praising the response to the terrorist attack. To be fair 7 minutes from first 999 call to attacker dead is crazy fast

I most certainly did not expect to see a former teacher's husband on the news this evening. That's what you get for having a unique and memorable surname

If humanity ever does create an Artificial General Intelligence it will not be one based on LLMs. They will be a part of it but it will not be the intelligence part

Over the last week a large chunk of my twitter feed has turned into kind of conservative-christian-new-mom-posting-about-babies/pregnancy/parenting and it's extremely weird considering I'm male, single, and not conservative.

Watched Akira (1988) This film is utterly insane. Highly recommend

I think it's kinda funny that my technique of rectifying FTL travel in movies not violating causality by simply deciding that this universe does not have relativity at all works extremely well because it fixes everything without changing anything else in the story

Watched the new Naked Gun movie. Great stuff. Its similarities to Kingsman was funny since it too is a genre parody film

Took 8 days after my company announced layoffs for the first person to quit

I've read two more books since this tweet 4 days ago: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick Why Humans Avoid War - Daniel Pascap

Prior to these three I read Nightfall, which was voted as the best scifi story ever written in 1968. Nightfall was Isaac Asimov's breakout work, and almost 50 years later was expanded into a full novel.

Read three short stories at lunch today (I read fast & take long breaks): The Sentinel, Arthur C Clarke We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, Philip K Dick Technical Error, Arthur C Clarke

I saw a video last week of a guy riding down the street in a motorised step ladder and I want one so badly

What do you mean Hank Green was on QI?

45% of the company is being made redundant. And the other 55% have to relocate 35 miles. Yay

The Big Boss has come down to give a presentation today. Of course it's scheduled over my lunch break.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a watershed moment in history. The very concept of a nation was never the same again. The election of Donald Trump to the US presidency was a moment of similar significance. The world is changed forever.

I saw another quote tweet about this song where they expressed how utterly unsubtle the lyrics are. Then it occurred to me that right wingers have ZERO media literacy, so there is no way to hide a violent message in subtext, it has to be plainly stated.

Why am I just now finding out that the War of the Worlds film that came out this year had aliens edited on top of footage of terrorism, tragedies and real war destruction?

Casual reminder that multiple ancient stories refer to the Pleiades star cluster as being 7 sisters, but today Pleione is too close to Atlas to see them as separate stars with the naked eye, leaving only 6 visible stars. The last time they were far enough apart was 100,000 years ago.

webbed site (obscenely early concept)

Are we finally free?

Getting kicked out my house within a month and now I've dropped my phone and smashed the screen :(

I am becoming a big fan of nuclear-electric propulsion

Dude my actual ENTIRE twitter feed is talking about it

The other day I tried to code with chatGPT again It was a modification to a github repo I selected such that there were other examples it could see along with the entire repo It continually failed. It hallucinated large chunks of the original repo file structure along the way

Bruh my entire work department makes about one functioning adult between the five of us C: Ate only vinegar, lemon juice and pepper for breakfast. No I do not know why. Yes she should know better. K: (my boss) Got in a foul mood last night and only ate dry cornflakes for dinner

Absolutely phenominal Starship Flight 10

Just seen one of the best videos ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuR...

Reading about old sci-fi authors and how they started. It's like a glimpse into an entirely different world. Ray Bradbury, getting paid 2 years rent upfront to write full time based on one meeting and a few short stories.

Always funny when I spent multiple months thinking "There's gotta be a better way to do this" and it ended up to be staring me in the face the whole time.

Trying to figure out how to harvest deuterium from Jool. Can't get the nuclear planes to fly straight so a fryby trajectory it is then

Watched a 'Western Frontier' firearms demonstration and for a few moments I could understand American gun culture

Did I miss a memo or is it just not well known that Arthur C Clarke was gay?

Been watching Scott a long time. At least 12 of those 15 years. Pretty nuts now that I think about it

Today has consisted of 4 hours of ksp, followed by 4 hours of trying to stop ksp crashing after it decided it wasn't going to work any more

Watched Superman (2025) This was great. Superhero movies still have the sauce it seems

Lensman also inspired the Jedi, Babylon 5 and Green Lantern. The Skylark is arguably the first incarnation of an Interstellar Spacecraft ever. Landmark works of the science fiction genre that I just stumbled into at random. #scifi

Kinda bonkers that in the whole universe we ended up sat next to a trinary star system

Every now and again I try to play a AAA game.

JD having the water level of a river increased for his boating trip sounds like a overly heavy-handed demonstration of a movie villain's greed and contempt. It's shit the Baron Harkonnen or Immortan Joe would do.

Went to go find a cooking video for something specific and found a youtuber who's a walking British stereotype and I love him

In 2018 I bookmarked r/amoledbackgrounds because I knew eventually I'd get an OLED phone. Today is that day

Avatar 3 prediction: Colonel Racist attacks the Fire tribe and in doing so unwittingly engages in the equivalent of foreplay with the the Fire Na'vi lady.