⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Some may wonder why so many people talk about #starfield these days.

Here's why: for The Black Hole (1979), the model of the USS Cygnus was filmed in front of a starfield, not a blue screen.
#scifi #disney #theblackhole #spaceship #model #miniature #blackhole #1979 #cinema #bluescreen

Next Sunday 24/9 we'll be celebrating #RighttotheStreets in #Trafford from 10am at Stretford Public Hall.

Find out about the work done to understand the lives of local women and girls. #Talks #food #more!

https://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/event/right-to-the-streets-community-celebration-stretford/

On Thursday we're joining a ‘legislative theatre’ to help shape people’s rights in Trafford.

Part performance, part policymaking, led by young people with Trafford Council and Greater Sport. #WatchActProposeVote

For anyone interested in participatory approaches to making change, public space or active lives, young person, adult, community advocate, policymaker, or all of the above. 

Do share @northernjamie!

Thursday 21/9, 4.30-7.30pm. Full info >> https://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/event/legislative-theatre-right-to-the-streets/

#ICYMI: The legal theory surrounding Trump's ability to run in 2024 has taken a curious turn. Explore the legal arguments, experts' views, and potential impact Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment may have on the upcoming election. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-president-14th-amendment-disqualify

@foone RUBBER DUCKING WINS AGAIN

@timcoffman @cstross
That was my first association too. For context: Sci-Fi/Horror author Charles Stross' hacker conference keynote about how Corporations are just very slow AIs, running on people and paperwork. Well worth a listen.

Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
Transcript: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html

@futurebird: My takeaway: If not for the ants, corporations might be considered the dominant species on the planet already (and with insecticides and climate change, corporations might yet win).

please, my wallet, she’s very sick https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/venator-class-republic-attack-cruiser-75367

#LEGO #StarWars

MOC 51794 - The Card Players (Paul Cezanne)
#lego #art #paulcézanne #afol #afob #moc

A Collection of Imaginary Software

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-collection-of-imaginary-software/

#art #design #floppy

You heard that the BBC has set up a Mastodon server. Wonder what their thinking is?

@cubicgarden from their R&D organization is going to come to FediForum and explain what the BBC are doing and why.

If you are interested in media and how it relates to the Fediverse, you will want to come to this FediForum session.

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

#bbc #fediforum #media #press #news #tv #radio

Seven-day-long battery life? Better security and privacy? Who needs that? It has an action button and USB C port that was invented ten years ago. That is the iPhone 15 in a nutshell. The whole thing (event) could have been an email newsletter. 🤡😂

Brandon spitting fire over on gamedeveloper.com

(Title: "The Death of Unity". Subtitle: "If you're starting a new game project, do not use Unity.")

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity

And finally we have Apple saying it actually likes USB-C on its iPhones. Huzzah!
12/n
#AppleEvent #iPhone15

You know you’re getting older when the names of online services become nouns before you get around to finding out what they are.

The gates at the entrance to the church in the town I used to live in are falling apart. I know this because there is a GoFundMe appeal looking for... twelve thousand pounds... to replace the gates.

I cannot help but wonder if those people donating couldn't consider giving the money to a cause whose parent organisation doesn't have £10.3 billion of investments under management?

Just feels like there might be more deserving organisations, who, you know, don't have more than the GDP of Kosovo.

I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

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