That's one of their two prototypes. the other one is PK-XDP: they've been running test flights since the start of the month. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indones...
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That's one of their two prototypes. the other one is PK-XDP: they've been running test flights since the start of the month. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indones...
Screenshot from Variety article: “ 'Project Hail Mary' Director Says 'There's No Green Screen in the Movie Whatsoever' but Clarifies There's 2,018 VFX Shots: 'Not a Single Green or Blue Screen Was Used By Zack Sharf”
I saw this Variety headline and the mini @tvaziri.com, who lives in my head, laughed.
As if a well-coordinated challenge phrase and response, one of my Distinguisheds answered this with:
"It's a mistake to make sand think. It's a bigger mistake to make sand conspire."
a learned co-conspirator just perfectly phrased it thus: "the horrors of giving the angry vibrating crystals agency in an adversarial environment"
grith.ai/blog/clineje...
The concerning background:
-CEO of the Thiel Foundation
-Managing Director at Thiel Capital
-Managing Director of Clarium Capital (hedge fund led by Peter Thiel)
-Managing Director of Mithril Capital Management (VC fund founded by Peter Thiel that funds Palantir)
-Co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship
100% it's the bad-guy version of "the West Wing is how American presidential power works." You're not wrong.
Tomorrow People into Danger Mouse hit perfect when I was a kid.
Friends from outside Minnesota have asked me if there are celebrations in the street over Noem being fired. To anyone not in MN: no. people are still buying neighbors groceries and collecting for their rent and patrolling. If ice is abolished or trump dies, then mpls will celebrate
Trump 2.0 is a neocon project in practice
Maybe not! Maybe all he did was come up with the letter where they backed Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior, causing everyone who's ever bought a Nalgene bottle there to actually bother to use their votes at the REI board meeting.
Also great! Knocked them both out last summer.
Honestly just thinking of @kashana.blacksky.app's excellent first novel, The Survivalists.
I got... kicked out... of the SETI office in Silicon Valley... by the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in CONTACT. because my housemate was letting me hide out at her gig and IRC from there.
the iOS 26 password app lock screen: three keys of different cuts, yellow, green, and blue left to right. It says “Passwords Is Locked,” and I have AEW brainrot.
shrimps is bugs
Some of us are old enough to remember REI and a lot of other outdoor industry companies endorsing Doug Burgum. Now he’s meeting with the acting president of Venezuela. outdoor industry really showed its ass on that one
Shit registered on me as "what is that? libertarian hacker chud churu?"
Question for the hive mind! Has anyone making whistle kits come up with kid/teen friendly instructions for assembling them? (folding the zines, describing safe use of the whistles, connecting kit making to safety, etc.)
our other officemate asked me if things were OK at our house in the DMs
Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.
TL;DR: America is a shit place to innovate on product design of this technical nature rn. www.newsshooter.com/2025/01/03/r...
Nice. Probably easier to find on the secondary market since Rhino Seattle shut down last year. Thanks! :D
What's the brand on the ol' slider rig? I have curious VFX nerds.
Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!
I read this from the library recently and it's excellent. Highly recommended-- not a breezy read, but a stylistically audacious one with fantastic character building.
Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.
Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.
(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)
Context:
Markwayne Mullin *did* say that "this guy" had been running Iran since 1979, yes.
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
"Don't say he ballsnastymaxxed Rob"
"He ballsnastymaxxed"