ジュエリーブランドの広告（？）と思いきや、 Netflix「Lupin」シリーズ3の告知ポスター。モデルがつけていた貴金属がすべて盗まれている。出演者や劇中の写真は一切なし。とてもいさぎが良いデザイン、アイデアフル💡です。 pic.twitter.com/MTOahc2M0v
— IDEAFUL (@ideafuls) October 2, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Clever advertisements for Netflix's "Lupin" series 3
Kickstarter for Cory Doctorow's new audiobook
The novel itself is up for preorder at Amazon, but Amazon's rules on audiobooks are onerous, so the kickstarter is to fund one that can be sold without DRM.
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?
For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.
But there are still those Americans
Meanwhile in the UK:
What % of the population would have a clue what "luxury beliefs would reign supreme" even means? https://t.co/jFIuOCfShh
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) October 3, 2023
Today's news and jokes
An incredible sign at the Shanghai History Museum #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/4M3rIqx6i1
— Dr. Peter E. Hamilton (韩墨松) (@peharch) September 22, 2023
I was trying to figure out why I added this book to my wishlist, and found this article about a film adaptation of Neuromancer
The novel Delta-v by Daniel Suarez is $1.99 today at Amazon:
*A Prometheus Award Best Novel Nominee*
“Daniel Suarez's hugely impressive Delta-v fuses the real world with sci-fi, giving the space genre a new boost and new hope.”—Tom Shippey, The Wall Street Journal
While trying to find out why I added the book to my wishlist, I found this post from 2017:
[Deadpool director Tim] Miller will direct an adaptation of the 1984 sci-fi novel Neuromancer for Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Longtime X-Men producer Simon Kinberg will produce the film.
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[He] has a number of other projects in the works, including an adaptation of the Daniel Suarez sci-fi novel Influx for Fox
Monday, October 2, 2023
Learned about a new rapper last night after he closed down Fairfax in Los Angeles
Sounds like their is a crush happening. The building is over capacity and multiple people are injured including children https://t.co/zI5YdfJfYd
— Downtown LA Scanner (@DowntownLAScan) October 2, 2023
I posted more below:
FCC enforced its first ever penalty for creating space debris
CNBC:
Dish admitted it was liable for failing to properly dispose of the EchoStar-7 broadcast communications satellite, and agreed to pay a fee of $150,000, the FCC said.
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Dish launched the EchoStar-7 satellite in 2002 and planned to remove it from service in May 2022. But a few months before then, Dish found the satellite did not have enough fuel remaining to navigate to a disposal location.
Senior member of the Department of Defense charged with participating in a dogfighting ring for more than 20 years
"authorities had received complaints about [the men] for years" (Details are graphic.)
Today's funny posts
(The store itself is in Singapore)very on-the-nose merch from this Kyoto speciality coffeeshop pic.twitter.com/bMTFCxrhUj
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) September 10, 2023
3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire
The 3d reconstruction.
Wikipedia on the city:
The city was connected to the mainland by bridges and causeways leading to the north, south, and west. The causeways were interrupted by bridges that allowed canoes and other water traffic to pass freely. The bridges could be pulled away, if necessary, to protect the city. The city was interlaced with a series of canals, so that all sections of the city could be visited either on foot or via canoe...The city was divided into four zones, or camps; each camp was divided into 20 districts ; and each calpulli, or 'big house', was crossed by streets or tlaxilcalli. There were three main streets that crossed the city, each leading to one of the three causeways to the mainland of Tepeyac, Iztapalapa, and Tlacopan. [An expert] reported that they were wide enough for ten horses. Surrounding the raised causeways were artificial floating gardens with canal waterways and gardens of plants, shrubs, and trees. The calpullis were divided by channels used for transportation, with wood bridges that were removed at night....In the center of the city were the public buildings, temples, and palaces. Inside a walled square, 500 meters (1,600 ft) to a side, was the ceremonial center. There were about 45 public buildings, including: the Templo Mayor, which was dedicated to the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli and the Rain God Tlaloc; the temple of Quetzalcoatl; the tlachtli (ball game court) with the tzompantli or rack of skulls; the Sun Temple, which was dedicated to Tonatiuh; the Eagle's House, which was associated with warriors and the ancient power of rulers; the platforms for the gladiatorial sacrifice; and some minor temples.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
"2034: A Novel of the Next World War" is $1.99 right now
at Amazon (it was on my wishlist):
An instant New York Times Bestseller!“Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever—and it happens to be a rippingly good read.” —Wired“This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . ." —The Washington Post
She's definitely Dazzler in the next Deadpool movie, right?
@swiftspeace Taylor, Ryan, and Hugh tonight #taylorswift #swifttok #nfl #ryanreynolds #hughjackman ♬ original sound - Rachael
From an interview with Brian Duffield about No One Will Save You
Fangoria (long interview):
And when we meet Daddy in the backyard for the first time, he's kind of ambling along like, "Doop-de-doo." You could talk about him being a kind old priest, so he's a little goofy and he's kinda doing these little jokes. And then the sound guys came up with this thing - and I don't know how many people will pick it up - but [the Daddy Long Legs] has a little musical thing he does, like this [Duffield makes alien singing noises], and he's singing back to Kaitlyn the song that she dances to earlier in the movie.
Oh, no shit?
Yeah, because he was probably outside and [heard the song] and thought, "Hey, that's kind of catchy!" So, by singing he's like, "Hey, you remember this song?" A couple of times in the movie you hear, in the distance, him doing that and it's really creepy. He recognizes [Kaitlyn Dever's Brynn] as "the song girl," and then he's so excited! They traveled however many thousands of light years to get here, and he's like, "Okay, we're finally doing our big religious colonization. I'm so excited to be doing this with you! It's so great!" But then Kaitlyn messes it up and embarrasses him.
[Regarding it being dialog-free:]
there were definitely places that were like, "If people are doing their laundry, they're going to get lost immediately." So I'm excited that Hulu looked at it as, "It's going to make people pay attention."
Indecipherable sign on a ferry in Quebec
My contribution to the confusing sign discourse. Spotted on a ferry in Quebec. pic.twitter.com/knGN0JaYdv
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 1, 2023
Today's news and jokes
Happy Monday! Here is every known character that survived Jabba’s sail barge explosion:https://t.co/S9YUOiYyV1 pic.twitter.com/z85SAN1SRp
— Star Wars Explained (@StarWarsExplain) September 18, 2023
Scientists are using puppets to train crabs to eat the algae that's killing Florida's coral reefs
[A marine ecologist] has roughly a hundred crabs in the Florida Keys, and just shy of 200 at a new breeding facility in Sarasota. He’ll start dropping them into the ocean as soon as the end of the year or in early 2024, he said.
But there’s one step before then, and it may involve ... hand puppets?
Because the crabs are raised in a lab, they don’t have any experience with predators. So before putting them onto the reef, Spadaro and his team may have to condition them to fear things like octopuses, snappers, and groupers.
One way to do this is by using puppets modeled after predators.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
NECA revealed a Toony Terrors Angela Lansbury/Murder She Wrote figure
Murder She Wrote! pic.twitter.com/kwmUKc2CYJ
— David @ Toy Fair NY (@FakeEyes22) September 30, 2023
The Wednesday Addams figures in the photo went up for preorder today.
I didn't see very many totally new reveals, but the Mutant Mayhem baby mutants are adorable:
Here's some #TMNT #MutantMayhem reveals from #toyfair! Baby mutants, young Splinter, and single carded April and Costume Turtles.
— Pixel Dan (@PixelDan) September 30, 2023
More was in display but unfortunately under embargo, do no photos allowed.
Video up on my channel if you want to watch!#nytf #nytoyfair pic.twitter.com/eSTam9AdFn
"Condiment Cow," where the bottles of condiments are arranged like an udder
Still can't embed or link to Bluesky posts without requiring a login. (But can link to images...)
Friday, September 29, 2023
People are lining up and sleeping outside Shanghai Disneyland
Scenes at Shanghai Disneyland last night and this morning. Some people started lining up in the middle of the night and SLEPT at the entrance. pic.twitter.com/tY6quZLDHO
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) September 29, 2023
That and Linabelle celebrates her 2 year anniversary si ce debuting in Shanghai. pic.twitter.com/jHKtPQ85r7
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) September 29, 2023
One month after she appeared publicly, she was on Weibo’s hot topic ranking board more than 32 times. That popularity is something that not many celebrities or KOLs are able to achieve in their entire career. Yet LinaBell made it just in one month.Who is she? What makes her a huge superstar among Chinese people, especially girls? What commercial plans are hiding behind her?...When visitors say something that she doesn’t like, she would pretend to pull out her sword. When she sees handsome boys, she becomes shy and wants to hug them. She’s also very sporty, showing fans how she lifts dumbbell to strengthen her body.
McSweeney’s first ever horror issue is up for preorder, and comes nicely bound and in a special ghastly slipcase
Up for preorder individually at Amazon:
Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some time, our seventy-first issue is one for the ages. Guest edited by Brian Evenson, McSweeney's 71: The Monstrous and the Terrible is a hair-raising collection of fiction that will challenge the notion of what horror has been, and suggest what twenty-first-century horror is and can be. And it's all packaged in a mind-bending, nesting-doll-like series of interlocking slipcases that must be seen to be believed.There's Stephen Graham Jones's eerie take on the alien abduction story, Mariana Enríquez's haunting tale of childhood hijinks gone awry, and Jeffrey Ford on a writer who loses control of his characters. Nick Antosca (cocreator of the award-winning TV series The Act) spins out a novelette about the hidden horrors of wine country. There's Kristine Ong Muslim exploring environmental horror in the Philippines; a sharp-edged folk tale by Gabino Iglesias, and Diné writer Natanya Ann Pulley reimagining sci-fi horror from an indigenous perspective. Hungarian writer Attila Veres proffers a dark take on the not-so-hidden sociopathy of multi-level marketing. And Erika T. Wurth explores the dark gaps leading to other worlds. If that weren't enough: an excerpt from a new novel by Brandon Hobson; a chilling allegorical horror story by Senaa Ahmad; a Lovecraftian bildungsroman by Lincoln Michel; unsettling dream cities from Nick Mamatas; M. T. Anderson's exceptionally weird take on babysitting; and, improbably, much more.
Today's news and jokes
During a shutdown, many agencies such as the National Park Service are also not permitted to update websites and social media pages.
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 28, 2023
That means the viral park service social media promotions of Fat Bear Week would halt. https://t.co/beuxDluZpP pic.twitter.com/h5x4puMbky
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Air Force men's golf coach gambled on Air Force football games
ESPN:
He created an account for online wagering by using his then girlfriend's identification and his own personal email address
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For the former golf coach, there's a five-year show-cause order in place. The report adds that any member institution that employs him "shall restrict the former head coach from any athletically related position. If the former head coach becomes employed in the first year after the show-cause order, he shall be suspended for 50% of the men's golf regular season."
Jews in America rely on a single farm run by a Presbyterian to provide the obscure fruit they need for their annual harvest celebration
LAT (the harvest this year was dire):
For thousands of years, the citron has been a part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. A vital element of the tradition, the fruit is held while reciting a daily blessing during the weeklong harvest celebration, which this year begins Friday at sundown.
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Among Jews, a citron is known as an etrog, the fruit’s Hebrew name. Ahead of Sukkot, they can cost more than $100 apiece, owing in part to their rarity and the stringent rules that govern their cultivation and use.
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John Kirkpatrick, who’d established Lindcove Ranch in the mid-1960s, had for years been a grower of lemons, oranges and other fruit. But the increasing industrialization and consolidation of citrus farming made it harder to compete with larger enterprises, Greg Kirkpatrick said.
It was an out-of-the-blue telephone call from a part-time etrog importer named Yisroel Weisberger in 1980 that would change the course of John Kirkpatrick’s life — and give his farm a new vitality.
Weisberger asked Kirkpatrick if he could help him find a grower to cultivate citron trees. “And I said, ‘I think you’re talking to him’”
Today's news and jokes
HOLY COW.
— Coach Beans (@CoachBeansTTU) September 24, 2023
Cletus Johnson of Texas Tech University just won the NCAA Blade Sport National Championship.
Blade sport school!!
Here are some of his highlights: pic.twitter.com/PXnxvzj4tE
Elmore Leonard's "Get Shorty" is $1.99 today
at Amazon. (My favorite movie.)
John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" is also $1.99 today at Amazon. (Good scifi page turner)
Archaeologists found a wooden structure in Zambia that's estimated to be 476,000 years old
CNN:
The wooden structure has no real parallel in the archaeological record, according to the study.
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Researchers aren’t certain which species of ancient human made the structure and wooden tools, but it is highly unlikely to have been our own. The earliest known Homo sapiens fossils date from around 300,000 years ago
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the complexity of the structure suggests the people who made it were cognitively sophisticated and were able to make and execute a complex plan — something that likely required the use of language.
Disneyland Paris's giant squid animatronic
Here’s a video compilation of Disneyland Paris Nautilus, Mireille, the giant squid. One of the most ambitious animatronic ever created by Disney at the time (1994) now gone forever, replaced by screens… pic.twitter.com/CfCXVgtVL5
— Themountainking (@Themountainkin1) July 1, 2023
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Today's news and jokes
A Polish government minister has launched a bid to extradite the 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian who received a standing ovation in Canada’s parliament.
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) September 26, 2023
Yaroslav Hunka served in a German Nazi unit that was involved in war crimes against Poles and Jews https://t.co/dQOHwWngpc
Mortal Kombat One motion capture featuring some complex moves
@karate.jewels MK1 Stunt Performer vlog. Whole team killed it, much love and respect to all the talents that came in to make this game come to life. Excited to play 😈 childhood dream come true. #mortalkombat #mk1 #mortalkombat1 #videogames #stuntperformer #mocap #motioncapture ♬ original sound - Rememberthe80sn90s
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Very cool (spoiler-filled) script page from Hulu's new alien invasion thriller No One Will Save You
“Screenwriters” are losing their mind about this page from Brian Duffield’s script for NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU.
— Joshua Hull (@joshuathehull) September 24, 2023
Three things: pic.twitter.com/4TXsSnGJ7L
It's a dialog-free thriller that does a lot of fun things with the aliens. The writer-director gave a two-part interview to THR. Also:
I don’t think Guillermo even knows I’m a missionary kid that grew up in Ireland so this is a wild Sunday morning. https://t.co/EbiPXWu9Qe
— Brian Duffield (@BrianDuffield) September 24, 2023
I haven't read it yet, but his screenplay for Underwater (featuring Kristin Stewart) is here.
Coming soon, free football broadcasts, if you place a bet on the game
ASN:
Typically, streams can lag from live broadcasts anywhere from eight seconds to a full minute, depending on the company. Live TV broadcasts lag from the live action by around seven seconds. Genius says the lag time at sportsbooks will be about three to seven seconds — a massive edge if you're planning to live bet.
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There are also wager requirements. At Fanatics, you need to bet at least 10 cents on the game you want to watch. At Caesars, the net will be cast far wider — you only need to have placed a wager on an NFL game over the past year.
35% MAFEX Boba Fett figures
The weekly sale includes 35% off MAFEX Boba Fett figures, and also the MAFEX First Order Executioner Trooper.
An energy company in Peru employs its own archaeologists because they discover ancient tombs so often while digging
Energy company workers in Peru discovered a dozen centuries-old tombs from pre-Inca cultures during the construction of a gas pipeline
AP:
the company’s excavation work to expand its system of gas lines over the last 19 years has produced more than 1,900 archaeological finds of various kinds, including mummies, pottery and textiles
Monday, September 25, 2023
New short story collection by Ann Leckie
Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction up for preorder at Amazon:
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie's short fiction, including a brand new novelette, Lake of Souls.Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe.Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower.Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls.
Today's news and jokes
Danny. Coach Prime took over a 1-11 Colorado team. Then got 47,277 fans to sell out their spring game, which was more than the last 9 spring games combined. Then sold out season tickets for the first time in 27 years. Then knocked off #17 TCU and started 3-0. YOU ARE JUST A HATER https://t.co/t3F61lUaXz
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) September 24, 2023
I got time today Danny. pic.twitter.com/T2oam6m1NV
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) September 24, 2023
1-What Church do you go to that makes you feel you are better than everybody else?
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) September 24, 2023
2-Nothing wrong with making fun content with your family and around life on TikTok.
3-You have DRASTICALLY MORE hateful comments towards Coach Prime and we all know why @dannykanell https://t.co/SSkuMKgd8t pic.twitter.com/dtt1nRPHJW
Historians are racing to document shipwrecks in the Great Lakes before they're devoured by invasive mussels
AP:
The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so pristine they could practically fly again when archaeologists finally discovered them.
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The creatures have covered virtually every shipwreck and downed plane in all of the lakes except Lake Superior, archaeologists say. The mussels burrow into wooden vessels, building upon themselves in layers so thick they will eventually crush walls and decks. They also produce acid that can corrode steel and iron ships. No one has found a viable way to stop them.
"The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century" is $1.99 right now
at Amazon.
(I just picked it up. Nominated for various 2022 prizes, here's how the Guardian's review starts, "From the mysterious monoliths in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the impossible spaceship in Arrival, one of science fiction’s favourite tropes is the alien artefact that defies human comprehension. Danish author Olga Ravn’s brilliantly unusual novel The Employees, which has been shortlisted for the International Booker prize, is an SF epic in miniature")
Sunday, September 24, 2023
I like the theory his chainmail is Stormtrooper dog tags
See Ezra in @AhsokaOfficial, a Star Wars Original series, now streaming on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/PTPQ57k50q
— Star Wars (@starwars) September 21, 2023
Today's news and jokes
"According to local folklore, Muckle Flugga and nearby Out Stack were formed when two giants, Herman and Saxa, fell in love with the same mermaid. They fought over her by throwing large rocks at each other, one of which became Muckle Flugga. To get rid of them, the mermaid offered to marry whichever one would follow her to the North Pole. They both followed her and drowned, as neither could swim"Was absolutely not prepared for the name of this lighthouse https://t.co/amqhyOlaLm
— Jess in the Wild (@Jess_inthewild) August 31, 2023
If the Disney Starcruiser was Aliens-themed
Disney should legitimately turn the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser into an overnight Alien-themed horror experience.
— Seth Porges (@sethporges) May 22, 2023
First third: just hanging out as working Joes in space. Tension creeps in.
— Seth Porges (@sethporges) May 22, 2023
Second third: Alien boards and starts picking off crew members one by one.
Final third: A brigade of space Marines (including Ripley!) shows up to save the day... With your help
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Poster for "Disneyland Grad Night '79" goes insanely hard
Poster for "Disneyland Grad Night '79" goes insanely hard #Disneyland pic.twitter.com/nGlpA4gGMB
— lunequest 🚀✨🌒 (@LuneQuest) September 23, 2023
Today's news and jokes
Innovative ‘kiss me’ #JapaneseGP trophies 🏆 💋
— Motorsport.com (@Motorsport) September 23, 2023
Will come alive when picked up in the right spot thanks to touch sensitive technology 👀 pic.twitter.com/wFJA9ZhZTn
"The trophy has a special ‘kiss me’ area located on the outside, with indicator lights which will flash when it is picked up to guide drivers to the right spot."#JapaneseGP ‘kiss me’ trophies 🏆💋
— Motorsport.com (@Motorsport) September 23, 2023
📸 @auscarpiastri pic.twitter.com/mbGGokFn31
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