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On earth most animals aim to be symmetrical and so have an even amount of limbs. Reading that Rocky had five left me puzzled, obviously he's an alien, but was there precedent in nature for such a phenomenon? What was the point of five rather than 4 or 6? ...Then, I looked at my own hands and felt silly. Still, that connection made me happy.
SUPER TOP SECRET WORK HACK!!! If you explicitly tell people, "You are an adult and a professional, I trust you to do your job; just keep me in the loop and let me know if there are questions," then thank and/or praise them when they accomplish your mutual goals? they will keep doing things for and with you. Sometimes they will even side with you over other people in the organization, because you've taken the time to establish that baseline respect and trust! hashtag winning or whatever
I just want to say this can work with kids too, mostly because of the 'respect' thing.
This past month, Parks & Rec has been doing a lot of work on the field adjacent to my school. They have trucks with flatbeds, mowing/tree-cutting/postholing machinery, etc. And when they arrived, I (campus monitor) was told I would need to herd the kids away from the trucks/machinery and basically prevent them from creating a dangerous situation.
So when recess came around and the kids stampeded out the door I held them up and I said (being funny but at the same time serious, you know how it is, kids listen better if you're funny)
"Okay, I know that you're all smart AND mature, right? And talented and good looking? Definitely the smartest and most talented class in this school? (I say this to every class, they're all 'my favorites'.) And because you're SO intelligent and mature, I don't need to actually TELL you that these guys have vehicles and machinery that you need to stay clear of, right? Because I know you figured that out already, and I also know that YOU know how sad I would be if any of you were run over, or squashed, or had a pole fall on you. I would be SO SAD, like, I would probably have to lie down on the floor and cry. So you're not going to make me cry, right? I can trust you to stay away from the trucks and machines no matter where they are on the field? Because you're wonderful and amazing? My favorites? My inspiration?"
And they're laughing at me of course, because I'm being so dramatic. Some of them are "Yes, and-"ing my dramatics and inventing more involved mourning processes I should undertake if any of them get run over. Some of them are yelling at me that they are NOT mature yet and they are VERY STUPID and I should know this.
It's been three weeks. We had one conversation about it. None of them have gone anywhere near the trucks. This is actually in excess of the typical elementary-schooler's working memory and I'm very proud of them. I haven't had to blow the whistle at ONE person for getting too close even when the trucks were literally 40 feet from the actual playground.
"I know I can trust you to do this", even when phrased with humor, is like a magic key that unlocks teamwork+cooperation.
I usually phrased it to middle-schoolers as, "I was a weird artist before I was a teacher, so I don't understand how children work, really. So I am going to treat you guys like adults unless and until you give me a reason not to." It's amazing how far they'll go to keep that adult status.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own.
6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time).
7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use.
8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.
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Hiii if you're still taking phm requests I think it would be very cool for Grace to get some Eridian celebration jewelry from Rocky + Adrian :') or something along those lines
take the ring ryland. im not asking 💢💢💢
anyways i kind of smushed your request and a silly idea i had - hope you like!
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3 written by murray leinster and published by pyramid books, and one i was reminded of via a comment on my old series of LotG update designs over on dA that was written by carl henry nathien and published by the western publishing company (a whitman book?)
i am unsure where exactly that single book takes place/fits into the book order, so for this ramble i'll read it last (and also wait for it to arrive by mail)
((despite there being a copy on the internet archive I NEED PHYSICAL BOOKS OKAY))
(((thank thrombeldinbar for thriftbooks.com)))
that said since these are short books and the longest one (the odd one out) tops out at 14 chapters, i'm not splitting the posts and keeping it to one entry per book
ANYWAY
chapter 1
summary: we meet the spindrift crew, a brief description of our passengers, and knowledge of space warps they will eventually find themselves in
TL;DR: a solid start, sets up the world and what they'll be leaving behind well enough, even if the dialogue is a little stilted
B-
The Good: the space warps are a known, albeit unexplained, phenomena, that airports are aware of enough to mention on the weather reports during the pre-flight checks, including naming 2 ships that may have gone missing due to the warps: the Marintha (departed from tokyo) and the Anne (cape town to seattle)
the Anne even managed to get some photo evidence of distorted star patterns
the reason the spindrift passengers are so few is the simple fact the rest of the passengers panicked at the discovery of the space warp and didn't want to take the risk so they cancelled (great fodder to add onto the remake/update because it only enriches the reasons why berry, mark, val, and fitzhugh still hopped on anyway)
steve and dan have known each other a long time (as was also stated on the show, they went to flight academy together) and they know they have nothing to fear from a space warp...despite the fact 2 ships of the spindrift's sub-orbital class went missing without a trace
"i won't invite more [publicity] for the spindrift, by letting her vanish somewhere between los angeles and london and never more being heard of." oh steve. oh steve oh steve oh steve. wait til you have to eat those words
"apparently nobody thought about cancelling his reservation." oof, barry, bud, that absolutely sucks shit. bad for barry, but great for the plot
i love you book!betty for bitching about your passengers before you've even taken off, giving us a view into their personalities, and for book!steve to not give a shit about your bitching
yeah it makes sense that there are like 40+ pre-flight checks to make on a sub-orbital ship, it's practically a spaceship already
"in the meantime, nobody cared" <- concerning the presence of space warps, and since no one has tried to monetize them yet why should anyone be concerned? bad for the spindrift, good for the plot
the description of the "modern" tech and how easy shit is to do or talk or make is setting up a nice contrast to how they'll all have to survive on the giant world. same with describing the familiar planets and stars as they lift off
the mention of how the spindrift could fly for 8 hours straight every 24 hours due to their atomic battery, which is a nice explanation why they can't just keep in the air later on
it's actually nice to know the airline/airport/tower control wants them to keep in constant communication as a precaution, as well as steve pointing out the magnetic field is fucking up
the space warp description being equated to the stars reflected in a lake so everything looks wobbly is a nice touch, and if the stars suddenly disappeared i'd be extremely concerned too
honestly having the radio slowly but surely losing strength and the desperate cries of voices trying to reach you would freak me the fuck out
"then, quite suddenly, gravity ceased to be. there was no weight. the sensation was appalling." ooo that is such a good line i may have to steal it for...something. something else. or maybe this. we'll see
The Bad: continuity error on the first page, where the show and the book (both released/published in september 1968) have different flight numbers. the tv series is flight 612 whereas this book series has flight 703. one or the other was switched at the last minute because i can't believe this was approved before it went to print if the show's flight number was locked down beforehand
"dan ericson, a dark man" i don't...i don't know what i was expecting, this was written and published in the 60s, but it still feels like a bad way to describe a black person
another continuity error, not sure if the book is inaccurate or the show itself was changed before printing (stefan arngrim being cast perhaps?), but book!barry is so far described as 14 and not 11-12 like in the show, as well as mark being described as bespectacled and nervous (again, maybe a change made due to don matheson being cast?)
Salvageable: 75% i'd say
i'll be honest, i'm dead set on keeping the og series cold open (with the credits moved to AFTER it's discovered they're tiny in a giant land) to give it some suspense, but this certainly sets up a potential flashback scene well enough. the only thing keeping me from using it as is would be, as stated, the idea of the credits/logo popping in too early and ruining the suspense. "but they already know they're watching a show called 'land of the giants'" I KNOW BUT MY VISION DEMANDS SOME ATTEMPT AT SURPRISE
we don't get much insight into the passengers right away, but we don't need to, not when the characters themselves don't know they're about to be yeeted across the galaxy for thrombeldinbar only knows how long
that said, having the 4 passengers be the only ones who didn't cancel their tickets helps with a remake's backstory/personality building: mark the CEO can't miss his business deal, space warp be damned; val's double already lured the press/paparazzi the other way and she needs to make her audition; fitzhugh just impulsively stole a very important valise and needs to get the fuck out of the USA; and berry doesn't have anyone reliable stateside to cancel her ticket nor can she afford to get off and wait for another ship since she's just a kid after all. it works out great, actually. deffo adding it into any pilot/series starting episode for sure
"hey bridget are you going to attempt to write out full episodes of this thing or is this all for shits and giggles?"
the latter, mostly, but considering how easily i've gone from vague description -> detailed description -> detailed description with bits of dialogue -> writing passages out as if i were writing an actual chapter of something in my series bible word document, i am almost tempted to post it and see if it makes sense to anyone else in the world
chapter 2
summary: the spindrift hangs out in the space warp longer than expected, make a landing, only to take off once it's realized they are in...the land of the giants DUN DUN DUUUNNN
TL;DR: decent descriptions, so far only 2 passengers get speaking lines, but so far so expected of an emergency situation
B-
The Good: a better insight into the passengers personalities by showing us how they're reacting to the sudden turbulence/space warp travel/wahey: barry the kid is excited; mark the science guy is curious; val is trying to be stalwart but is nervous on the inside; fitzhugh is paralyzed by fear
betty having to keep boiling water from floating out of the coffeepot while keeping her seat so SHE also doesn't float away is a nice visual
steve desperately flipping every other switch hoping for something to work only to have jack shit happen
steve knowing how the ship sounds at certain heights due to how the hullplates rattle (or in this case, DON'T rattle) is a nice character detail and shows how long/how well he's being doing this job
barry thinking he could smuggle chipper into england is such a kid thing to do
betty hopping into crisis mode, stating they're gonna need fresh air eventually and they've snacks for food, nothing substantial
the sudden return of gravity/stars/wahey after a few hours stuck in anti-grav/the space warp/wahey could explain why so many actual crashes happened to previous flights if no one knew when things would return to normal and pilots weren't prepared to take over quickly enough
when shit comes back to normal, and they see a planet in front of them, steve wastes no goddamn time diving toward it cuz hey any port in a space warp, am i right? even going so far as to theorize maybe if they get low enough they won't go missing like the other sub-orbital ships did (she says, knowing damn well they're already fucked)
the first signs they are not back on earth, because they haven't landed yet, are the lack of responses to their mayday calls and their altimeter showing they're in a mountain country...where the mountains are too damn high
when steve volunteers to check out the air and scenery dan pipes up that he himself should be the one to do it. "if anything happens to you-!" dan says. "it'll be because i guessed wrong. then it'll be up to you to guess right." oof i love that line. steve/dan 5eva
the details of the giant car that almost runs over steve and dan being just different enough to know it wasn't a human sports car, but also being recognizable as a damn car at all. the show didn't really go out on the giant world's difference in design, and i get why (budget constraints, low priority probably) but it's still nice to know it isn't all 1:1 (or i suppose 1:12 ahyuck hyuck hyuck) ((that's a gt scale joke there kiddos)) (((laugh goddamnit)))
yes dan thank you for automatically think "we've shrunk?!" and attempting to play in the genre you have found yourself in
ah, the tried and true method of "blind the giant who's trying to figure out what you are so you can get the fuck out of there" is used successfully to get the spindrift up and away after landing for a total of like, 5 minutes
The Bad: the dialogue continues to feel stilted, and i know i shouldn't be blaming it on the time it was published, but it 100% is because it was a 60s book
ok book!mark being so casual to ask "any idea what's up?" about the space warp situation isn't ACTUALLY a bad thing, but knowing how confrontational tv!mark was to steve, especially in the first season, just took me out of it for a second
i can't decide if it's a sign of betty no thinking straight or the writer refusing to use the word, but if i had gone through a space warp that felt like it was done on purpose, i wouldn't think we've been "kidnapped" i would assume we'd been "abducted"
3 HOURS?! THEY ARE STUCK WITHOUT GRAVITY IN THE WARP FOR 3 GODDAMN HOURS?! yeah no shit i get the time is more believable or whatever but you should know i would absolutely be freaking the fuck out at that point if i wasn't dead from lack of oxygen first
sorry but the visual and eventual rescue of steve by dan because the former fell off the sidewalk curb they'd landed on is so great that i am retroactively mad at the show for not recreating it for the series
what do you mean it took you until almost getting squashed by a giant car and getting discovered by an actual factual giant to point out how wrong the stars were? YOU PASSED BY THEM TO GET TO THE PLANET?!
Salvageable: 70%, i mean it already pretty much follows the opening scenes of the series
the lack of gravity affecting the ship and its passengers could work as a way to explain why many of the "lost" planes/ships/wahey crashed spectacularly upon arrival on the giant world: it took them all by such surprise that they weren't ready to act when it "turned back on" that quickly and that randomly
the rules about the united kingdom's strict quarantine rules for animals, especially dogs, is something that would deffo be part of berry's backstory. see, while chipper is a trained service/emotional support dog, he's also not officially registered as such so berry was taking HELLA chances that she'd still get to slip him through once they'd landed (the few months between her parents' deaths and immigrating to live with her grandmas was kind of a blur for a grieving kid and getting him registered properly wasn't exactly a major concern)
i get that being stuck in the space warp for a decent chunk of time is probably more "realistic" concerning such phenomena, but at the same time they were concerned they could've suffocated or starved so maybe like...just the disappearing stars, sudden loss and return of gravity, and all that jazz is good enough for a show, okay?
if i did manage to get this thing greenlit for an actual factual revival, i would want the designs for the giant world to be just "off" enough to differentiate them from earth styles. maybe in a faux "this is how the 50s thought the future would look" kind of deal
i am 100% recreating the Steve Eats Shit Off A Sidewalk scene for any future attempt at writing a first episode, i tell ya wut -adds it to the To Draw list as well-
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Hey here's the food that I've figured out his the right combo of cheap, easy to make, tolerably tasty, and relatively nutritionally sound for when my brain is bad:
2c rice (2c is dry, prepare as you usually do. Whatever kind of rice you have is good, brown rice works well)
2 cans of pinto or black beans, drained (or one can of each. Whatever.)
12oz frozen broccoli
1c chunky salsa
Optional: .5c sour cream, .5c shredded cheese.
Also optional: salt, garlic powder, and cumin to taste (to season the rice)
Cook the rice in one pot (with the seasoning if you want to). Put the frozen broccoli, drained beans, and salsa in another pot and bring to a boil. When the rice is done and the bean broccoli salsa stuff is hot, mix the rice into the beans (if adding cheese or sour cream, stir into the beans before adding the rice).
Now you have a food. It's got protein and carbs and fiber and a vegetable (and fat if you add the cheese and sour cream).
The amount described above is a lot. You can portion half of it into single servings to freeze and still have like four meals.
It's not the kind of thing I'd serve to anyone else, but it's a better option than eating instant oatmeal for dinner for another week.
If you want to make a less-cheap (still pretty cheap) and better-tasting version of this, you can add a diced onion (sautee in the pot before adding the broccoli bean salsa stuff) and replace one of the cans of beans with one cake of marinated tofu (marinate it in spicy sauce if you like spicy stuff) diced in small pieces, one pound of ground meat (browned with the onion before adding the other stuff) (i like frozen turkey for this) or two cups of TVP (soaked with the salsa before adding to the pot - if you do this option add an extra half cup of salsa).
Someone in the notes described this as a cheap burrito bowl and that's a good way to think of it, and also means that if you can eat tortillas you can eat it in a tortilla as a burrito or freeze servings as burritos. (I can only eat very small allergy safe tortillas, too small for burritos, but this is pretty okay as a very messy taco)
