HUGE cat

I research and teach on the apocalypse and part of that is case studies of disasters and the thing my students learn almost immediately is that the first thing that happens when disaster strikes is that other people look for ways to help the trope of immediate anarchy is historically untenable

Marvel movie fever is breaking

Cinema is back, baby!

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Every plot summary I read for an upcoming film makes me feel like there’s a gas leak in my house

Was it even his framing? I first saw it in NYT and I was wondering if they whole-clothed it for him

Hold on, writing a macro titled do_crimes.vba

So if you’re going to do accounting fraud, find a random number generator that outputs lists of random numbers that accord to the Benford curve, got it

New from 404 Media: someone has put an Android phone on top of a pole in San Francisco, and it's constantly listening with Shazam as people go by. “This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals.” www.404media.co/hidden-bopsp...

Hidden ‘BopSpotter’ Microphone Is Constantly Surveilling San Francisco for Good Music

“This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals. It's about catching vibes."

This reminds me of the tungsten cube phase from 2020. Simpler(dumber) times

(Cross-post from The Bad Place) I suppose we're doing this again. This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including periods of its greatest success in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean.1/