I don't understand what it means to "see the curvature of the globe." The horizon is always circular. It's a circle when I stand on the ground and it's a circle when I float in orbit and it's a circle when I look down from the Moon. It doesn't change shape, it's always circular.

Hey guys, don’t take your chances, although the damage is done, change your passwords just in case and change to 2F authentication Who would have thought this could happen right after using sensitive personal information for age verification?? Surprised pikachu face

🕵️ Several people in Czechia work for spyware firm Intellexa, accused of aiding human rights abuses and now on trial in Greece. We found the address of a key Israeli figure in a Czech town — marked by a huge Israeli flag. @investigace_cz @VSquare_Project

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Going back to do studies again, as it's been long since I did some. Here's a 1hour study of a sculpture of St Elizabeth of Hungary by Alfred Gilbert. Trying to be painterly and spontaneous!

4 days until the end, the extended updates enrollment still hasn't appeared.

I just finished watching the entire Bionic TV franchise ($6M Man pilot films, $6M Man episodes, The Bionic Woman episodes, later TV movies, 2007 reboot episodes). A lot of stories focused on the mental state of cyborgs, be them spies, criminals or a dog. It's an early example of cyberpunk on TV.

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The writing of ep8 of 2007 Bionic Woman is even better than ep7. This would've been a great show.

Wait, did they cast Miguel Ferrer in Bionic Woman as a reference to RoboCop?

Fond memories of being a 17-year-old fan eagerly awaiting the new Star Wars movies, and suddenly finding yourself becoming a Jedi Knight in the first person. Between two spectacular (for this era) FMV sequences. Jedi Knight was released 28 years ago, and it feels like it was yesterday. 🥰

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Who killed the world, George Miller? Who killed it?

"I, space, am, space…" come on, English, this is way too much. youtube.com/shorts/888Nu...

When Steam starts downloading the smaller files first, the funny situation appears where installation is further along the progress bar than the download (because the earlier is the number of files, the latter is storage space).

5 days left. ESU enrollment still isn't active. At what point do I make decisions?

Do native English speakers ever use "how do you do" as a greeting? I only ever heard it in English class.

No wonder Batman has the best rogues' gallery in DC. I'm in 1941 and Superman only met Ultra-Humanite and Luthor, meanwhile Batman already met Joker, Catwoman, Clayface, Scarecrow, the Monk… and no-one else has met anyone yet. Batman is the only guy with a rogues' gallery.

Bionic Woman (2007) is starting to get good at like episode 7, which is totally normal for a 22 episode season (Sky Full of Stars was episode 8 of Babylon 5), but it was cancelled after 8 episodes. Yeah, most of the episodes released are not amazing, but it could've become a great show.

I find it incredible that 2007 Bionic Woman was remaking not just the generic concept of The Bionic Woman, but episodes were remakes of episodes of the original show. Imagine if the Battlestar Galactica remake did that. Like that episode where they turned into angels… wait, did they do that?

I don't have strong opinions, I can be persuaded by Bill Burr that doing a gig for a dictatorship is fine. I love that Queen came to Hungary in '86. But I don't want to fucking hear him ever again cursing out anyone else. Other people, too, can have excuses for their behavior, so shut the fuck up.

remember how burn is useful for 2d masks? it works just as great for 3d masks

If you run D&D 5e, you might find that your boss monsters die easily. There's actually a simple reason for that! The game was built around the assumption that characters would engage in about 20 rounds of combat between long rests. We were probably off by a factor of 5.

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Reposting some personal works I made during the last years. I wish I could be more ambitious with my own work but I often end up doing very safe illustrations. I really like them but I wish I had the energy to try some new subjects

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social

Oh, god, the tripod I bought has one of those photo heads that's horizon agnostic. I'm used to video heads that can't tilt sideways. And this doesn't even have an arm that usually makes me feel like a studio cameraman.

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

My October random magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is this 1996 issue of PS Extreme. I have no memories of this magazine and I was reading everything back then. 🤷‍♀️ Highlights include a baffling ad for Reloaded, declaring Tomb Raider “the adult Mario”, and GIVING BUBSY 3D A 93%! “

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I see no future where the Chinese spaceflight documents are declassified. We might never learn the real history of Chinese spaceflight the way we learned about the Soviet spaceflight.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

That's a reason to not release the product, to not even make the product. If your lawyers advised it was okay to release the product, fire them. If you did not have lawyers to say this, fire the person who said you didn't need lawyers, hire some, then fire your whole team and pull the product.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

new paradigm

For fucks' sake, they should just stay off their own stuff.

Why does this matter? I call it from another class. Am I supposed to write a function in the class that uses the signal, and then call the function from the other class? Am I going to get an error message then that I don't call the function?

Fun fact: In The Witcher 1 the magic storm Triss starts in the defense of Kaer Morhen rages on throughout the entire chapter and is visible over the parapets. (I'm guessing it might be Merigold's Hailstorm?)

Sackhead Jason (2009 Remake) appreciation post. Almost preferred this to his final look!

Today we're leaving Kaer Morhen. 🕹️LIVE with THE WITCHER🕹️ twitch.tv/algi80 #Witcher series playthrough on hard after having read all the books. (Enable VSync to avoid the hair glitch!!!)

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

Inktober Day 5, "Deer": The Peryton is a creature which first appeared in the "Book of Imaginary Beings", inspired by medieval heraldry. Though they appear as seen, they cast the shadow of a human, their preferred prey. According to D&D, they particularly enjoy dining on the heart of their victim. 🦌

Lara's braid was replaced for a presentation at E3 as it would clip right through her back and neck which looked rather grotesque. Then we had a huge list of higher priority tasks to crunch through before launch so it stayed as the temporary bun. Nothing to do with polygon count as stated here⬇️🤦

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

Joe Jusko via FB 👉 #noaiart

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