After seeing Linus using Fedora in the recent Linus video, I thought I'd try it. After 2 hours it's now permanently frozen on the log in screen, it is nearly 3am and I am going to bed

I partook in Joe Barnard's No Effort November and now youtube has 8 more videos to store on a server somewhere.

Playing with alpha textures in #Blender

Refining details on the Light Hugger "Void Transcendent" based off the lighthugger concept from Alastair Reynolds "Revelation Space" book series. #conceptart #scifiart #illustration #spaceart #vehicledesign

Now that Blue Origin has completed Gradatim, it's time for Ferociter

Glenn pysched us out because we all forgot it can hover and Falcon 9 can't lol

Bro they're meeting everyone one at a time and firing them at the end of the meeting. A third of my department is already gone. End of the month my ass

So it appears the company I work for has completely collapsed and at the end of this month all 35 or us will be made redundant. Yay

I am participating in Joe Barnard's No Effort November. So here's 5 minutes of me ranting about Jaffa Cakes www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlR8...

Just finished the last of the Lensman books. The ending was unexpectedly ominous.

I've actually been a Radiation Hormesis believer for a number of years now. If a hot drink can cool the body when it's hot then a little more radiation can kick my DNA repair systems into overdrive

Video I made based on a tweet

That Valkyrie ISV design looks incredible. Every time these guys cover interstellar ships I see something new Also lighthugger mention

Lensman Nadreck is one of the funniest characters I've ever read. Sorry guys my mission to the enemy planet failed What? How? Tried to get them to kill each other in rage, but some survived and I had to kill them myself. How many did you have to kill yourself. Three. What?

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I will be uploading a minecraft video shortly. It's about black holes

Sometimes I see a youtube video that makes me make something. How much osmium does it take to have enough mass to create a black hole? About this much:

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