NOTING that many of the holodeck episodes start with malfunctions
CONSIDERING that many of these endanger the bridge crew and/or the whole ship
CONSIDERING they are, then a menace to starfleet staff and guests
WE SHALL HEREBY mark them "use at your own risk" areas and rename them as "Yolodecks"
my wife (a journalist): how did you manage to get chocolate chips in the bed *again*?
me: typical lamestream media fake news. you can't prove that I've ever so much as seen a piece of chocolate. do you ever investigate any of the real issues facing this country? where are the Epstein files?!
Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.
The thing is, media never "mirror" society, because society isn't uniform.
Media mirror a specific distribution of power and access within society (pretty much like "the state" does).
That's why the mirror of a multiracial pluralist society like the US is so rightwing - fascists have the resources.
If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.
TIL there is a Kermit Roosevelt III, son of Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Kermit Roosevelt (central figure in Operation Ajax), great-grandson of Kermit Roosevelt, and great-great-grandson of Teddy Roosevelt www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
You say it like it's a bad thing??
(Der Nervenzusammenbruch von Rechten über den linken Wahlsieg in Frankreich fast so schön wie der linke Wahlsieg selbst imho)
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
okay. do you guys remember that white girl who was saying the n word on tiktok like a couple weeks ago and started trying to become the new alt right darling? because the direction that this story has taken is INSANE. there are more twists in this tiktok than in an M. Night Shyamalan movie
New paper from the lab! w/@davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social & Mina Cikara
We show that merely viewing a prejudiced person’s intergroup behavior induces bias in observers—a novel learning mechanism for prejudice formation and propagation
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Star Wars take I hadn't thought of but which is probably lukewarm:
The first trilogy establishes that SW is a Flash Gordon style serial where stuff happens off screen & we start in medias res.
Episode 3 didn't have to show us how everyone got to their place in A New Hope.
I need to share this with anyone who would be as happy about this info as I was when I learned it:
Brontosaurus is called Brontosaurus again since 2015
That's so cool
Brontësaurus.
Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014.
Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓
Schon klar, dass es vielen Menschen gerade schlecht geht. Was ich mich frage ist aber:
Was hat die extreme Rechte je Gutes für Deutschland & seine Menschen getan, dass sie schon wieder das Vertrauen so vieler Wähler*innen genießt? Ich meine historisch. Zu irgendeinem Zeitpunkt.
Weiß nicht, ob Leute bereit sind, das zu hören, aber Abschiebungen werden nicht dazu führen, dass Juden*Jüdinnen sicherer sind in Deutschland. Der riesige Elephant im Room ist hausgemacht. Und die Verschärfung der Asylregeln ist Ausdruck einer heftigen Verschiebung nach rechts.