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Monday, September 30, 2024
Terrified kids menaced by a small dinosaur
Today's news and jokes
(The listing)Pizza Hut are doing a Venom The Last Dance collab where their pizzas and chicken tenders are covered in "Black goo" (it's black aioli)
— Spider-Man News (@SpiderMan_Newz) September 27, 2024
(https://t.co/1FJxYu7OuW) pic.twitter.com/dFTYbGLQuQ
A fanmade miniature Wii concept called the Kawaii
@YveltalGriffin and I have been cooking up something special over the past year or so and we are now happy to show it off.
— Wesk Mods (@WeskMods) July 21, 2024
A Wii console the size of a keychain!
CNC'd, anodized, laser marked, and passively cooled
Follow the link for more details: https://t.co/MgZT0ZBV6V pic.twitter.com/3trRBqoNiU
I'm making good progress on the Kawaii!
— YveltalGriffin (@YveltalGriffin) September 23, 2024
It's a keychain-sized Nintendo Wii (60x60mm) in an anodized aluminum chassis (co-designed with @WeskMods and machined by @haoxuanding2)
See my latest forum post for details: https://t.co/5JqAyRISzC https://t.co/Vakondeu9Y pic.twitter.com/Hx6WuLvnDw
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Kris Kristofferson as Han Solo in the Donny & Marie show from 1977
(Shows up at 2:45, sings around 4:00) (Confronted by dancing Stormtroopers later on)
"Pro bettors have taken to disguising themselves as gambling addicts so sportsbooks keep the free money flowing"
Bloomberg (in a long article that's mostly about the percentage of gamblers that suffer devastating results, and possible tactics to reduce those outcomes while keeping money flowing):
Among the main challenges for a pro bettor is finding places that will take your money. If you show signs of being good, or even just highly methodical, most sportsbooks will drastically limit how much you can wager.
...
“If I open an account in New York, maybe for a few weeks I just bet the Yankees right before the game begins,” says Rufus Peabody, a pro bettor and co-host of the Bet the Process podcast. If this trick works, the book sees these normie, hometown bets as a sign that it’s safe to raise his limits.
...
“One pro bettor I know set up a bot which logs in to his accounts every day between 2 and 4 a.m., to make it seem like he can’t get through the night without checking his bets.
"Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror" edited by Jordan Peele is $1.99 right now
at Amazon. (386 pages, published 2023.)
Today's news and jokes
one of our cheerleaders just absolutely demolished an oklahoma with some wild crouching tiger hidden dragon move pic.twitter.com/bTlRCFAIXx
— Brice (@dBriceJ) September 28, 2024
Auburn cheerleader accidentally takes down an Oklahoma player pregame
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 28, 2024
📹 @dBriceJ pic.twitter.com/01euIoWkzz
Here's a much better look at the Delicious in Dungeon monster figures you can disassemble to make a meal
(They're up for preorder here.)
【#ダンジョン飯】
— メガハウス_メガホビ (@mega_hobby) September 27, 2024
解体パズルFANTASY
TVアニメ「ダンジョン飯」
🍄魔物コレクション フルコース🍄
紹介動画公開！！
ご予約受付中🍽
パズルとしても遊べる魔物のフィギュアコレクション！
あの魔物達を自分の手で実際に解体して、
調理まで楽しめちゃいます🍳https://t.co/IGRZqRDlJA… pic.twitter.com/7Srmo6wuIf
Promotional video for China's lunar EVA suit
This is just a promo video, but there's a considerable chance that Wang Yaping becomes the first woman on the Moon. https://t.co/KIRPamv8Cq pic.twitter.com/IRE9Pr0XhQ
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) September 28, 2024
Related:
Every single Apollo image is hard as hell pic.twitter.com/SgTbETkq3O
— Delta9250 (@deltaIV9250) September 25, 2024
Saturday, September 28, 2024
"Olympos" by Dan Simmons is $1.99 right now
at Amazon. (I read Ilium and Olympos years ago, and remembering enjoying them a lot--more or less featuring the Greek Gods as essentially post-humans with super-advanced tech, experimenting on humans at will, if I recall correctly.)
"Bears have learned to open doors in Sierra Madre, 'like Jurassic Park'"
In 2020, there were about 100 reports of bear sightings in Sierra Madre but no reports of break-ins into homes, authorities said. Last year, those numbers jumped to 380 sightings and 50 break-ins.
(The article basically describes a relatively remote area of Los Angeles that has had population growth, and the difficulty neighbors had dealing with an apparently abandoned home that a bear claimed as its den.)
The Miami Hurricanes' offensive line coach is 5'4"
From Mirabal’s time at Marshall. pic.twitter.com/p59d298NV8
— Moonshine Throwdown (@MoonShineTD) September 13, 2021
Smartest guy on the staff apparently:
Miami could have kneeled the clock out, they instead ran the ball, FUMBLED and GEORGIA TECH GOES 74 YARDS IN 25 SECONDS TO WIN THE GAME
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) October 8, 2023
I think the one assistant (super short, likely their math guy) walks up and says "knee" or "kneel", but Mario and Dawson look right at him and ignore him.
— Jay Moore (@JayMoore555) October 8, 2023
It was right at 1:00 mark left on clock. The guy kinda slinks away as Dawson starts barking out to Offense.
Watched it again. He told him twice.
— Jay Moore (@JayMoore555) October 8, 2023
Walked up along sideline at 1:04 to 1:00 and yelled knee/kneel, backed off a few yards, definitely yelled at Dawson/Mario again at :55. Dawson acted like dude was invisible. Those 2 deserve all the heat. pic.twitter.com/65SebNHH3k
Really?! The little dude?
— Jay Moore (@JayMoore555) October 9, 2023
Wow. Serious props to him. (Both for managing the bigs and having half a brain)
The new humble Bundle features the Transformers card game
It's physical cards, not digitial downloads. $45 for the entire bundle, which is apparently an excellent deal since the first item featured alone currently sells for $39 at Amazon.
Today's news and jokes
(All the winners.)("Made from 99.9% pure medical-grade silk fibroin")Intrigued by the inclusion of $1,200 "wound closure" strips in the 2024 Allure Best of Beauty roundup. No explanation pic.twitter.com/vvf51sGGFV
— Kim O'Connor (@shallowbrigade) September 27, 2024
"Hacker's Cradle" illustration
Hackers cradle, for ecopunk2044 pic.twitter.com/2M07HvcHXz
— MEAT (@NicBoone) September 24, 2024
For this TTRPG, I assume
"Ambient Shipping is a design intervention that enables participants to listen to the contents of cargo ships as they float by"
"Installed on a beach overlooking New York Harbor in 2017, Ambient Shipping uses a software generated voice to read aloud the contents of each ship’s containers as it floats by."
Friday, September 27, 2024
Remote controlling an excavator
Doing it on purpose:
Here's a walkthrough at the convention:
Doing it by accident:
And speaking of excavators, check out this diorama:
NEWS: @Starlink being used to remotely operate a 320 Cat excavator from 200 km away in Tomago dig pit, Australia 🇦🇺
— ALEX (@ajtourville) September 26, 2024
(via National Diesel Dirt & Turf Expo in Sydney) pic.twitter.com/iXrBSLpjgt
Here's a walkthrough at the convention:
@westrac Take a full walk through the entire WesTrac site at The National Diesel Dirt and Turf Expo 2024 #DDT #DDT2024 #WesTrac #Caterpillar ♬ Longing Song - FraterNoizezz
Doing it by accident:
True story: Caterpillar parked a trailer outside a local trade show. I went in, sat down in the simulator seat, and had a great time driving a simulated bulldozer. Full throttle bouncing over berms, etc.
— Stephen Fleming (@StephenFleming) September 27, 2024
Until the PR rep came in and freaked out. I wasn’t playing a simulator. I… https://t.co/qZvbg0CndU
And speaking of excavators, check out this diorama:
Today's news and jokes
Today's cover: Eric Adams becomes first sitting NYC mayor indicted in historic federal probe — claims feds persecuting him over migrant crisis https://t.co/elMZKiIqCU pic.twitter.com/tIZYLNKBOv
— New York Post (@nypost) September 26, 2024
lol it must feel cool as hell to buy off the mayor of the biggest city in america with 10k and he texts you stuff like "you are my brother. i am hear to help" pic.twitter.com/zcKPp8fp5n
— leon (@leyawn) September 26, 2024
Adams did all that schmoozing up to Turkey and didn't even get a fresh new hairline out the deal???🤦🏾♂️🙄
— *2020-*Sh#t got wild. (@BMoreDaviano) September 26, 2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
"The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters" is $1.99 right now
The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden age of Chinese science fiction. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world.
I've had it on my wishlist for a while. Here's an excerpt from an interview with the author:
You make the case for studying Chinese fiction: Because it is less censored than non-fiction (although certainly not uncensored), fiction could ironically provide a “truer” portrait of contemporary China. “For many writers, the best way to present inconvenient truths is to do the opposite, to willfully present fact as fiction,” you write. Can you elaborate for those who have not (yet) read your book?
I wrote it specifically in relation to Yan Lianke’s decision to turn his field study about China’s AIDs crisis in rural Henan (caused by unsanitary blood markets in the ’90s) into his haunting novel “Dream of Ding Village.” Yan said he did so to avoid censorship (even though the book was eventually banned anyway), and this is certainly one of the main reasons many other writers also choose to present “fact as fiction” – it is less risky.
But there’s another motivation. Yan’s novel about a “spreading fever,” narrated by a dead child, is arguably a much more immersive and accurate depiction of the nightmarish reality created by ruthless bloodsellers – or “bloodheads” – in these small, rural communities. Like Yan, many other writers – from Yu Hua, Can Xue, and Mo Yan to the next generation of surrealists – have created new absurdist or magical realist literary styles and genres to mirror what they experience as “unreality” in contemporary China.
Small plane loaded with drugs made an emergency landing on a Southern California highway
Two Oceanside residents, trying to fly from San Diego to Phoenix.
The superyacht that sank in August is believed to contain watertight safes with sensitive intelligence data
CNN:
Specialist divers surveying the wreckage of the $40 million superyacht that sank off Sicily in August, killing seven people including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, have asked for heightened security to guard the vessel, over concerns that sensitive data locked in its safes may interest foreign governments
...
The sunken vessel, lying on the seabed at a depth of some 50 meters (164 feet), is thought to have watertight safes containing two super-encrypted hard drives that hold highly classified information, including passcodes and other sensitive data
...
In what appears to be a tragic coincidence, Lynch’s business partner Stephen Chamberlain — who was his co-defendant in the US fraud case and the former chief operating officer of Darktrace — died on August 19, the same day the Bayesian sank, after being hit by a car while out jogging two days earlier.
Man who contolled the crypto platform Zort allegedly paid several L.A. County sheriff’s deputies to perform unlawful searches and arrests as part of an extortion scheme
LA Times (federal charges have been filed against the crypto mogul):
The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on whether the deputies — who are not named in the complaint — will be charged.
Several deputies, including a detective on the department’s notorious anti-gang unit, were recently relieved of duty in connection with a federal investigation, authorities said earlier this week.
An interview with the pole dancer hired to perform at the unauthorized Bridgerton-themed event in Detroit
Was there any part of you that was like, Why would they have a pole dancer at a Bridgerton-themed event?
I didn’t really think about it too much because of the Great Gatsby event I did; they had pole dancing there. But now, thinking about it, Great Gatsby is in the ’20s. Bridgerton is the 1800s. But I just had a role to play, and they were paying me, so I did it.
...
Tell me about your actual performance. What song did you dance to?
They played two Bridgerton classical songs for the first two stage performances, which was really fun. For the very last stage performance, they put on “Moves Like Jagger,” which was very uncomfortable. They said they were trying to switch up the vibe of the event, trying to make it more upbeat.
New Humble Bundle is the "Ultimate D&D 5th Edition Adventure Bundle!"
Starts at $1 for three issues of "Fifth Edition Fantasy" including "The Archmage's Lost Hideaway," and "Glitterdoom."
Today's news and jokes
my parents went to peru for a friend’s wedding and inexplicably got mobbed for photos by strangers. turns out they all thought my dad (a floridian real estate agent) was some famous actor and posted a bunch of tiktoks of him
— paris martineau (@paris.nyc) September 24, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
I saw people wishing Michael Douglas a happy birthday, and it reminded me of this wonderful photo of him showing off his Ant-Man costume to his dad
April 2017, Beverly Hills. Kirk Douglas presides over Michael’s first Ant-Man suit fitting for ANT-MAN AND THE WASP. pic.twitter.com/kE9Kpq4Lff
— Peyton Reed (@MrPeytonReed) February 7, 2020
"A Russian ship loaded with 20,000 tons of explosive cargo - and has previously been dubbed 'the floating bomb' - has been spotted near the Kent coast today"
The headline is from the Daily Mail:
This comes shortly after the damaged Malta-flagged cargo ship was seen near a Norwegian military base, mere days after the NATO country gave the boat the boot.
Cube-shaped croissants
Just tasted the square croissant from Zeppola in NYC, in pistachio/nutella.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 25, 2024
Cost? $14.50. Verdict. Worth it! pic.twitter.com/8iodasgY4c
@socialsami Viral Croissants are in Vegas @The Venetian Resort Las Vegas 🥐🥐. They are from Zeppola Cafe and are insanely pretty 😍. Also not overly sweet. Baked fresh daily. Have you tried one? Have you seen them online? #rollycroissants #cubecroissant #zeppolabakery #lasvegasfood #lasvegaseats #bakerylasvegas ♬ original sound - Samiya Jakubowicz
Pittsburgh Pirates released a player four plate appearances short of a $200K contract bonus
The general manager "said that he's not worried that the decision will have a negative impact on the clubhouse."
Here's ESPN's coverage, asking why the team was so cheap as to even use that player at all (and also posting a tweet, which took someone else's graphic about the franchise's cheapness):
"The Rowdy Tellez situation happens when ownership doesn't treat things seriously..
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) September 25, 2024
Why do the Pittsburgh Pirates have an $86M payroll to start the season" ~ @JeffPassan #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/sTk3JJk2z0
Okay, gonna break my silence now...
— Ethan Hullihen (@EthanHullihen) September 25, 2024
This is why proper accreditation is important.
One of the biggest ESPN personalities, one of the biggest baseball reporters, and that is my graphic on the screen.
Stolen
I mostly didn't care to this point, but this is disappointing https://t.co/rySd5UhH6p
Credit to @EthanHullihen for the graphic that was used in this video. He does an excellent job assessing the Pirates through a financial lens. It’s the sort of local baseball coverage that holds teams accountable and should very much be appreciated by fans and media alike. https://t.co/0ZPCgH4TEZ
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) September 25, 2024
Today's news and jokes
freaking out over the disclaimer rn pic.twitter.com/8u5KZk18Fw
— Jared Gilman (@realJaredGilman) September 24, 2024
Can anyone tell me how to know if my screening of Megalopolis is "immersive" or not, and if not, how do I find tickets that are? 20 mins of googling is not helping, nor is the official website.
— Aaron Moorhead (@AaronMoorhead) September 24, 2024
“Boundary pushing” and it’s something they do at Muppet*Vision 3D everyday https://t.co/UrJcaPMDIl
— Wesley BOOtilier 👻🎃 (@WesleyBout) September 24, 2024
The daily deals at the BBTS are up, and feature Mortal Kombat and other video game figures
S.H.Figuarts, Storm Collectibles and more, including 40% off the Ghosts 'n Goblins Arthur Nendoroid.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Today's news and jokes
GUYS!!!!! pic.twitter.com/oOainNhcLI
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) September 23, 2024
dreams really DO come true pic.twitter.com/vDyaEp209e
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) September 23, 2024
Animated promotional video featuring Nike combiner mecha
(Fun campaign, terrible sneakers.)
And speaking of animated promotinal videos, here's a cyberpunk adventure team promoting Acer Predator computers (I like the music for this one):
Warhammer 40K Tyranid invasion diorama
@_jamesinframes FUN FACT! In the “Retreat from Kitzu VII” diorama at Warhammer World, there is a lone guardsman hiding from the Tyranid onslaught! Or is he just waiting for the right moment to strike, for The Emperor! 🔥 Highly recommend coming down and taking a look for yourself! This diorama is one of my favourites, so much absolutely astonishing work has gone into all of the dioramas here. 💯 Props to the gang that work on these and the awesome little Easter eggs like this! Remember - Cadia broke before the Guard did! 💪🏻 “Stand strong, hold your ground! For the Emperor and the Lord Protector, we shall hold the line! We shall not let them pass! Only in death does duty end.” 🫡 #warhammer #warhammerworld #diorama #exhibition #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #40k #warhammercommunity #funfact ♬ BACKBONE - Chase & Status & Stormzy
More photos here, here's a photo of the Guardsman, and here's some making of photos.
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