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Also: the classic essay by H P Lovecraft: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx (The last line is especially memorable!)

This dithering could also be an interesting variation: https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html (Featured few days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

An alternative vector: "cloud seeding" ( https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/sep/09/science.rese... ) Charles Fort collected numerous data for his famous "The Book of the Damn…

On the contrary, the video gives an excellent analysis of Putin's options, and it's definitely worth watching. You're right that Putin believes he's infallible, and the Nielsen mak…

russia's invasion of Ukraine is absolutely solvable. It's just a disgrace that Ukraine is left to do it alone, with huge casualties (civilian as well as military), and inconceivabl…

Color Out of Space (2019) ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/ ) Evolution (2001) ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/ ) Both fun movies, in completely different ways!

"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its traje…

And here's the original, in the mid-Dec 1989 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction magazine (at the bottom of the page) on the unparalleled Luminist Archives website: https://read…

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Precedent: A 1944 science fiction story accurately described an atomic bomb – so much so that it prompted a visit from the FBI to the NY office of Astounding Science Fiction. Defin…

This is a studied and documented propaganda tactic: flood the information space with conflicting accounts, in order to muddy the issue. This statement summarizes it nicely: "The pu…

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If Ukraine stops defending, it will cease to exist. russia can stop its invasion any time it wants to. Big difference.

In the early stages of the invasion, the russians had plans for an amphibious assault on Odesa[1]. These were scrapped when they realized they'd be obliterated before even touching…

Since when has Ukraine's defense against the russian invasion been a "proxy war"? Your very first sentence destroyed any credibility the rest of your comment had (not that there wa…

Correction: russia was stopped. Odesa is still on the cards: one of the most important ports on the Black Sea, and a long-time cultural and historic prize. And Putin wants control …

You don't have to advertise that you're a billionaire. You can live quite normally while quietly changing the world as a "side job".

Only up to a certain threshold – after which you can afford "creative" accounting which reduces the tax burden and restores the compounding effect ;-)

I'm surprised this hasn't received more attention. Pattern memory, morphogenesis, collective intelligence of cells? This is HUGE! This could be biology's "quantum physics" moment..…

I always use a screenshot – reliable, no internet connection needed. Never had a problem so far...