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Slate ICYMI Podcast: Should We All Be Pirating More?
slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/

There are good questions surrounding this question. Entire shows can vanish on the internet - it's happened already.

I'm "just asking questions".

I asked #ChatGPT if the waves on the ocean are a sum of sine waves with different orientations, amplitudes and phases...

And here's the cool 3D plot it generated for me:
wolframcloud.com/obj/berniewol

I had to manually copy-paste the code because the embedded link wasn't working, but it's still awesome.

@Mastokarl

@seanmcarroll gave a fantastic presentation recently on the Wave Function in Quantum Mechanics

youtube.com/watch?v=HOssfva2IB

I've currently been re-reading his book "Something Deeply Hidden" (amazon.com/Something-Deeply-Hi)

Also, he's here on Mastodon in case you want to follow another really interesting person.

I actually remember this cover art when it came out. We had just moved back to the states, I was in NYC at the time, and this completely caught my attention:
70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/71

Some classic feel good morning wake-up music:
Three Dog Night, Live
Shambala
youtube.com/watch?v=xnyh6i9Nvm

If you sometimes feel as if you're missing the 70s, this video will not disappoint.

There's a petition on Moveon.org to keep Mifepristone legal.
I honestly have no idea what good these petitions do, but I do know that Moveon has had some impact over the last couple of decades, so I signed it. If you want to, here's the URL: sign.moveon.org/petitions/reve

The Common Sense Skeptic has yet another video with an entire forensics breakdown of the disaster that was the 4/20 launch of Starship. More and more has been coming out about what a disaster it has been, but a lot of it has been drowned out by the blatant ass-kissing in the press and websites from Musk fans. Well, it was a huge disaster and The Common Sense Skeptic breaks it all down. And not only that: They show where they predicted what would go wrong *before* the launch. Yet another huge win for them.

youtube.com/watch?v=ErDuVomNd9

If you're not subscribed to them, you're making a huge mistake.

#420

Another Brexit benefit! New jokes can be created by recycling old Soviet jokes. For example:

A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”

I promise you Boris, if you can nail these moves you’ll have your pick of the gals at the midwinter ball

French philosopher and author Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, who died OTD in 1743, proposed an international organisation to maintain peace, and influenced Rousseau and Kant cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc #travel #France #history

@damonoutlaw @micahflee Well I only got one reply, but it was an interesting article link. Do you have something else to show me? I'd love to read more about it.

#God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance - Neil deGrasse Tyson

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2018

I think the coronation ceremony would be better if they fully covered him in the oil, let him loose to run round the church and then if anyone could catch him they get to be king instead

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