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Just pretend the collapse of civilization is an underground rave.

 

  • You couldn’t believe my surprise in finding out the last 1 year and 5 years that I had no idea a large part of our country is gloriously stupid, and deliberately mean. Makes no sense to me. Pound your face into the stone wall of oblivion all you want, I’m just going to try to find joy in all the dark corners of existence and shine into it like a goddamned light.

SPACE

More technical: Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope

Sounds like there are backup systems, but it’s kaput for now.

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally deployed on April 25, 1990, from the space shuttle Discovery.

 

 

Panelists at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society discussed geoengineering Earth's atmosphere to reduce the impact of climate change and the effect it might have on night-sky viewing and astronomy.

 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  • I’m always a day late and dollar short on a good idea:

 

 

  • Anyone that wants fireworks instead of drone shows is a selfish imbecile. Fireworks? –> traumatic for PTSD, they are meant to represent war sounds, it’s the biggest day of the year for lost animals, and the whole point is the world is a tinder box. Look at this and tell me you want THAT…. VS THIS!!!

 

 

  • Back to Deep Fakes… I can’t even tell what is going on, but this is truly horrifying:

 

 

  • Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke: One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades. the South African Cape honeybee (Apis mellifera capensis) — can create perfect copies of themselves, with one individual found to have done so millions of times in the past three decades. With this perpetual-cloning ability, the Cape honeybees sneak into the hives of their lowland honeybee rivals and churn out copy after copy (no need for a queen). Even worse, these clones are freeloaders, refusing to do any work. https://www.livescience.com/bee-creates-perfect-clone-army.html

 

 

  • THERE CAN NEVER BE TOO MUCH FEYNMAN. So casual and chill.

 

 

 

 

  • The Earth has finally attained popular recognition for its fifth ocean, with a decision by the National Geographic Society to add the Southern Ocean around Antarctica to the four it recognizes already: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans. https://www.space.com/earth-fifth-ocean-confirmed.html

 

 

3D rendering of Michelin's Wing Sail Mobility (WISAMO) autonomously-deployed, inflatable sails on a cargo ship

 

 

 

MOVIES, CONTENT, MORE AND MORE YOUTUBE

 

  • CONAN STAN BLOG… this is perfect, because it’s just been a utter shame the shadows his fame and talent has fallen to in the money wars of late night TV:

Conan O’Brien Deserved Better: One of the most influential late night hosts in history is saying goodbye, and it should be a bigger deal. https://collider.com/conan-obrien-show-ending/

 

 

 

  • “This house is forever”.

I found this Mumblegore indie title that clocked in at 1h37m.  It’s a surreal tale of creeping dehumanization, and a cosmic horror of millennial’s complex situation regarding home ownership as a trap, and that it’s all a scam both in trying to become part of the grid, just as you have to sell so much of yourself to exist in that world. I watched this during the darkest days of the pandemic. It was so ultimately fitting and just perfect. Quite a big recommendation for horror fans.

About mentioning the length, even horror has crept up in runtime so that it’s nearly impossible to have an efficiently paced and edited story, coupled with some modern insecurity in not being able to be a straight ahead script without layers of complex subtext and meaning. This movie delivered just over 90 minutes, and it’s one case where there’s a lot going on but you don’t need a degree to get it, while not being all exposition and smack you in the face bad writing.

I’ve so much respect for directors who get that horror doesn’t always have to be complex drama, and 87 minutes can be a FANTASTIC film. Mumblegore gets this… and Coherence, Invitation, etc are good at that. Benson and Moorhead are great. i truly appreciate it. I think Gravity is a great example a HUGE and ambitious film that can still use thematic language and simple story efficiently enough to get in at 91 minutes, whilst still blowing up the box office and winning academy awards.

If you aren’t going to watch, or already did, a good review:

https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/2020/03/23/movie-review-vivarium/

 

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

  • “There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”

Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/world/global-population-shrinking.html

 

MUSIC

  • RIP Gift of Gab at 50 years old. Stupid tragic sad gifted lyrical genius that was also THE NICEST DUDE.

Here’s one he’s most famous for:

 

  • IF BIZ MARKIE IS DEAD IMMA FREAK OUT.

 

FUNNY HUMOR THINGS

 

 

 

 

  • This is so weird. 1min to Steamed Hams mark, but the time this took…

 

 

  • LOOP DADDY ACCIDENTALLY SCAMS A DUMMY IN HISTORIC UNEARTHED JOY

Vehicles

 

 

Look at this one…. because no one was hurt: https://jalopnik.com/watch-a-wooden-plank-yeet-itself-off-a-truck-through-a-1847147562

 

 

 

  • I COULD HAVE USED THIS IN THOSE CANYONS!

Porsche’s New Infotainment System Might Play Background Music That Adapts to How You’re Driving It essentially aims to make every drive you take feel like you’re in a movie. https://www.thedrive.com/tech/41146/porsches-new-infotainment-system-might-play-background-music-that-adapts-to-how-youre-driving

 

 

  • Whoah: Jaguar F-Type R AWD V8 vs. Lamborghini Huracan, Porsche GT3RS & Corvette C7 Stingray

 

 

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