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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
Latitude and Longitude [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
[An image of the Earth showing most of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, with horizontal latitude lines and vertical longitude lines looking like a balloon tied tightly with string - like the lines are squeezed down into the surface.]
[Caption below the panel:] Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth's latitude and longitude lines in the wash.
victoria is still a really good choice for a protagonist
she's so different from taylor in almost everything except one thing: the stubborn conviction that things could be better if people just got their shit together and communicated and worked together
i wonder what victoria's eventual fall will look like
when i got to the part where they defeated the dragon robots im like "this is only 16.5.... thats really fast for them to settle the conflict for this arc.... if i were taylor i'd be really scared right now"
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i think this is my favorite video of all time. ive been utterly enamored with it for years – i really believe it captures such a genuine, delightful aspect of humanity and culture from the 2000s, and its so fun to watch!!
I could tell instantly from the way he was positioned on the bar that this video was going to showcase some serious skill. I was nonetheless cometely unprepared for what happened.
This is not in any sort of principled stance or hot take or anything, because I honestly am baffled by my own reaction here! But when I heard that there was going to be a movie adaptation of the odyssey my entire reaction was just, "why?"
I read the Odyssey in high school and I liked it! But I feel absolutely zero emotions about seeing it on screen. Just a big "why would somebody take the time to do that?" Which is weird!! Because I have been excited for movie adaptations of books before! But not this one???
Somebody needs to help me process my feelings around this, I fired my therapist when he got a little too supportive of my ambitions
That's not it, I haven't been keeping up with the discourse and I know very little about what choices were made for this adaptation. This is literally my reaction from the first announcement before I even knew who was directing it.
I really like seeing adaptations across mediums, especially of classic stories. Hadestown is a classic modern example.
When you change the medium of a story, a lot of it has to get changed, in ways that provide a lot of creative room for the people making the adaptation. A classic issue with adapting books to movies, for example, is that books can decide to leave out certain details and explain what a character is thinking through internal monologue, while movies can put a lot of contextual detail in a scene but can't fit as much narrative.
Imo adapting the Odyssey is very similar to adapting Romeo and Juliet. Since the story is so well known, you can decide to make a historical story, as accurate as possible:
Or you can have total fun with the setting:
One thing that I liked about the 2026 Odyssey is that the cast is star-studded in a way that I feel matches how famous different characters are in the story.
And also, the things you can communicate with camera, setting, costume, and intercutting can really help elevate an adaptation. And, as different directors and writers decide what is important, two different adaptations cab end up having very different meanings and feelings!
"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?
This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.
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You know what I know I'm usually pretty silent but I need you all to understand the horrible impact SpaceX and Starship has had on South Texas.
Yes, fuck those ugly ass cyber trucks but FUCK that Space Center.
Starship genuine danger to the people who live here. It's to the point many of the people here when they heard the explosion joked that it was probably another one of Elon's rockets.
This is a horrifying pattern we are becoming numb to, we hear about a planned test launch and brace ourselves for more debris.
Several of Musk's attempts at rockets, especially after the deregulation, have resulted in catastrophic explosions. Want the list? Here are a few!!
December 9th, 2020- Starship serial No. 8, or SN8. Exploded upon landing.
February 2, 2021- Starship SN9. Exploded upon landing.
March 3rd. 2021- Starship SN10. Landed in one piece. Fire at the skirt caused an explosion.
April 20, 2023- Starship. Exploded once more. Debris scattered in Port Isabell.
March 6, 2025- Flight 8. Spun out of control and exploded in a mass of fireballs. Planes had to be grounded due to the mass explosion and the debris are stills scattered in the ocean.
And now we have the most recent and the worse one yet.
June 18-19, 2025- Starship 36 during a GROUND test caused a mass explosion, the looming mushroom cloud causing locals in Cameron to believed they had been bombed.
The loser describes this it as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" instead of what they are: fiery failures locals have to deal with as a result.
Pretty much everyone locally knows Elon Musk and his negative impact on our home, people who have had the unfortunate curse to have worked with him and the center call it Cultish, 8 members of his staff who spoke out against his behavior and sexual harassment were all fired.
Its a well known fact he hates the people here, and he goes out of his way to find employees who are not from this area and move them down here.
Musk has tried to encourage even more white people to come down to South Texas and live in his "Starship City". An attempt to gentrify and push out local citizens.
Rebekah Hinojosa, a local Activist with Another Gulf Is Possible, even had her home unlawfully entered by police after an alleged graffiti on a mural he commisioned (which didn't even obscure the mural).
This article is a good read on everything Musk has done to South Texas
One day last month, Juan Mancias, the chief of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe of Texas, and two companions headed to Boca Chica village, a bays
I am TIRED of this going unnoticed and unheard of the People of The Valley. I need you to stop laughing and start taking this seriously.
If you want to read more on all the insane shit this man has done to South Texas here are a few more Articles I would Recommend
South Texas groups sue Texas for letting Elon Musk's SpaceX dump wastewater without permit, SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, which Musk calls a 'minor setback', What Is Starbase? Elon Musk Builds a SpaceX City With Shops, Worker Housing and Its Own Mayor — But Texas Locals Aren't Happy
I wrote this short The Amazing Digital Circus fan fic to practice writing character action in a low-action scene and to try out indicating who was talking by action alone (“Pomni said” was not allowed, nor was leaving it to reader assumption).
I started by ONLY writing the dialogue (sans quotation marks), then wrote around it.
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A generic NPC ambled over to the counter where Pomni was stationed.
Pomni squared her posture—as much as her cartoon Jester posture could be squared—and met the mannequin with her best customer service face. “Welcome to Spudsy’s. May I take your order?”
The NPC, one hand on the counter and the other on what passed for his chin, surveyed the menu. “Let’s see… Hm…” He vaguely pointed a hand at the menu. “I’ll… No, no…” He rubbed at his chin. “Uh… Hm.”
Pomni’s customer service face twitched as her posture tilted to one side. “If you’re not ready to order, could you—“
The NPC held up his hands with palms out. “Just a sec, just a sec, I got this.” He leaned forward with both hands on the counter. “I want… Uh… Oh!” He slapped the counter as his posture straightened. “Yes. Yes!” He slumped. “No.”
Pomni’s customer service face died, and she glared at the mannequin. “Sir—“
The NPC, elbows parallel with his shoulders and hands still on the counter, pushed what was meant to be his jaw towards Pomni. “Don’t rush me!”
Pomni’s glare turned to wide-eyed alarm as she looked above the NPC. “Sir, a line’s formed behind—“
The NPC slammed his hands once more. “They can wait!”
Through clenched teeth, Pomni’s voice came out a squeaky whisper. “One of them’s the Gloink Queen!”
The NPC might have blinked. It was impossible to tell. Hands never leaving the counter, he twisted his torso and neck parts just enough to behold several of the maternal monstrosity’s eyes staring daggers at him. “Oh. I… Sure.” He twisted back to Pomni and raised his right hand. “I’ll come back later.”
The indecisive Mannequin dashed towards the exit, his arms flailing as he cried out in terror.
Pomni put a hand to her chest. “Oh, thank gloinkness.” Her customer service face respawned. “Hello! Welcome to Spudsy’s. May I take your order?”
The many eyes of the Gloink Queen narrowed as she surveyed the menu. “Yes. I want, uh…” She twisted her maw. “Hm…”
Pomni’s customer service face lost another life. “Oh no.”
Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
This sent me down a bit of a research rabbit hole and I found a cool thing where afro Dutch women read Sojourner’s speech aloud in their contemporary Dutch dialects in hope of offering a more truthful rendition of her authentic Dutch voice.
crossing over seek with any other sci-fi setting is hilarious
"sir? sir you're. you're not going to believe this but. um. a bunch of planets have gone missing. yes. planets. they're just. vanishing. um. no sir. no we do not know where they're going. no there's just clouds of radiation where the planets used to be."
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Alright, I'm starting Claw 3.3. I didn't have much to say at the end of, partially because Wildbow did a nice thing and didn't end the arc at the beginning of action.
Though, before I get into Valentina and her relationship with Mia, I like how this world isn't just a dystopia, but also the kind of dystopia that would produce a ton of hyper competent soldier-spies for hire. A sort of law enforcement cytokine storm, as every government agency got its own police force, and the corruption necessitated new oversight agencies, with their own police forces, recursively.
It's like the cop version of the golden age of piracy: Spain and England massively expanded their navies to fight each other, then afterwards cut them back down, leaving a ton of experienced sailors with no job and no prospects. It's a recipe for anarchy, rebellion, and organized crime and I love that is just removes a little bit of the disbelief for why everyone knows everyone else.
Now, Valentina, and my continuing evaluation of Mia.
First, Valentina. She still reads as bland to me, but also putting her in a school situation that encourages blandness excuses it a bit. She's also got that asshole-due-to-asshole-friends side that seems to come out when she's around peers that sells it. Finally, she's stepping up to the plate amazingly.
I really like how her narration changed names once she took the time to internalize it, and it was nice to see Ripley's bookcase come in handy.
Now, Mia. We get to see Mia from a third point of view, and I love it. This woman is so off! She lies easily by lying constantly, even to people in on the lie. Are Tyr and Rip hers? Of course, every paper and document anyone can access says so.
I think in Mia we can see Wildnow's love of compartmentalized characters, and with Mia she really had no other choice. She had to compartmentalize like a ship with a breached hull, so of course doing it more comes naturally to her.
And I think the compartmentalization feeds to the other theme we've been seeing so much of in Ward and Seek: operating in heavily compromised environments. Victoria has to fight Goddess while under her thrall. Winnifred commits acts of terrorism while the cops can replay her every action like security footage. And honestly, my favorite so far, Valentina gets help from someone with no idea how involved she is.
To be honest, given how Mia and Josie acts, I wouldn't be surprised if her parents don't exist at all. The biggest argument against it is that it would require Mia being uncharacteristically open with her
Linus has always been very clear that what he values is technical merit, "how good is the Linux kernel", and for better or worse he doesn't give a fuck about social or philosophical issues around the technology. He rejected GPLv3 for Linux because all he cares about is the "share-back" nature of the GPLv2 improving Linux on a technical level; he doesn't care about Tivoization or any of the other social or legal priorities of the FSF.
This stance irks people who want software to be a philosophical or social battleground, and I won't offer a strong opinion on whether Linus is right or wrong, but it has firmly been his position for decades and he wasn't about to change it now.
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