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lauren, 4 days ago to random

So I stumbled into this video, and I really was enjoying his presentation style. But all through it I was bugged that he reminded me of someone else -- not in appearance really but voice and related mannerisms especially. Took me a few minutes before the right identity dragged itself out of the slimy goo of my deep brain recesses, but yeah: Fred Willard! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KKSEevvGw

virtualbri, 4 days ago to scifi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzY2r2JXsDM

Woah.

As a UCLA student I was brought in for a test screening of Alien 3 (they got students all the time), which I thought was terrible, and I haven't watched the sequels since.

This I may watch.

#Alien #Scifi #Movie

lauren, 4 days ago to random

Cyndi Lauper is 70 years old. Ouch.

lauren, 4 days ago to random

Analysis: Google AI Overviews now on < 15% of queries, was as high as 84%

The lower the better. But for how long? -L

https://searchengineland.com/google-ai-overviews-visibility-drops-15-percent-queries-442850

lauren, 5 days ago to twitter

Elon turns #Twitter / X into a porn platform

I wonder if this will trigger age verification requirements in some states? -L

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/x-embraces-adult-content-amid-wave-of-porn-in-bio-bots/

lauren, 5 days ago to random

Noticed a video contest from DJI where they want videos submitted that use "tilt-shift" actions. Except they left a letter out of the latter word. Oops.

virtualbri, 6 days ago to random

Thanks to @lauren pointing it out, I'm enjoying "The Andromeda Strain" again, (free on YouTube with ads). It's one of those peak 70s sci-fi films; everyone should watch. Very 70s, but also very hard sci-fi, both in the best ways.

And once you're done watching read: https://theasc.com/articles/the-andromeda-strain-may-1971 which is a great article about all the special care taken to make the movie.

lauren, 13 days ago to random

Because Voyager 1 is so far from Earth, it takes almost 23 hours for a command to reach it at the speed of light, and the same for a response to reach us back, for a total of close to 50 hours.

Which means that interactions with Voyager 1, currently around 15 billion miles away, are still faster than many Microsoft Windows updates.