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#fakealgorithm

This one is mostly false, with tons of historical references, temporal twisters, and other Easter Eggs. Have fun!

#history #streamers #twitch #youtube #FDR #repeat

Although an avid streamer, FDR was confined to a wheelchair so he rarely did IRL, instead limiting his online social engagement to Fireside Chats. His frequent use of social media, at the time known as “bulletin board systems”, gave Roosevelt an advantage over his frequent rival, Adlai Stevenson, who didn’t even know how to use a mouse.
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

This was a great movie, but the ending was somewhat anticlimatic.

#FTW

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #future #revolution #technology #deception #economics #dystopia #ageism #genetics #twentyfive #poverty #action

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

In Time (2011)

This one is definitely in my top-ten list of best science fiction films ever made.

When I sat down to watch this, I thought it was going to be some cheap, exploitive film to take advantage of Justin Timberlake’s fame, but it turns out that he can actually act. And he’s a very good actor, world class.

The premise of the film is that time, instead of money, is the currency. Everyone is genetically engineered to stop aging at 25 years old, but then their built-in clock starts ticking and if they don’t refill it, then they die. People who acquire a lot of time can live forever in their 25-year-old body.

Highly recommended. (The film, not the economic system :)

(fair use image from the film)

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Black holes that accrete whole star systems are on a planet-based diet.

#blackhole #bigbang #star #planet

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In case any of you font designers are confused...

#TruthBeTold #nasa #asteroid #ass #hemorrhoid #extinction
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NASA’s planetary defense spacecraft mission (DART) has successfully altered the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos and they have determined that it will not hit the Earth. The asteroid is about 170 meters in diameter and if it hit Earth it would have caused immediate massive casualties on impact with a crater more than a mile in diameter and likely spewed dust and debris into the atmosphere effecting the climate for years.

The success of the mission means we will not have to face the same fate as the dinosaurs - - at least this time.

Here’s the full briefing:
https://youtu.be/Zhzn0U2m5wQ?t=13

(Public domain image of the Barringer Crater)
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

It should have been called the Godot Constant.

#UVcatastrophe #time #QM

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Happy Mental Health Day!
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"NASA will host a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 11, to discuss the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos."

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-update-on-dart-world-s-first-planetary-defense-test

For the historical record (or for anyone not in on the joke), someone just bombed the Kerch Bridge on Putin's birthday, and the freedom-fighters in Ukraine posted this video of Marilyn Monroe just to rub it in. (The bridge was a pet project of Putin's)

This one is 100% correct. The spacecraft missed Didymos because it was supposed to miss Didymos. The mission was to hit the smaller, companion asteroid in the system, P-Didymos.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #food #revolution #technology #deception #future #medicine #dystopia #flying #motorcycle #twins #johansson #action

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

The Island (2005)

The beginning of this film kind of reminds me of modern food laboratories or food manufacturers for some reason. It’s very similar to the film “Never Let Me Go” (2010) except this one is much more of a real scifi with lots of high tech, special effects and action.

For 21st-century films, each of these films have a lot of racial bias. I don’t remember seeing any black characters at all in Never Let Me Go. Screenwriters (and novelists who want their work picked up for the screen), know that Hollywood producers are racist and will often choose settings for their stories that are exclusively white, like European historical dramas or, for example, a mid-twentieth century English boarding school. That way when Hollywood gives the green light, the producers know that black people will not be cast for the leads. That’s racist.

The Island was set in the future and could have had black characters in the leads, but they just chose not to. There were a few minor black roles in the film, but they were deemphasized. There was, however, a reference to historical racial oppression at one point in the narrative.

(Fair use image from The Island)

#FTW

Loss of Sensation (1935)

Happy Birthday, Mr. President...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dud_DfNlbWQ

Beans, beans, the wonderful fruit.

The more you eat, the more you
tweet.

#musk
#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry

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Russa didn't "annex" Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

Russia *tried to annex* Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

I feel so special... today the newspaper printed my horoscope. :>