Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social), page 8

<< Another person involved with litigation against Epstein told me: “It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names. It’s going to be contagion numbers.” >>

Right. And you think all of those extremely powerful people are all going to just sit by and let their names be released.

Uh-huh.

<< Another person involved with litigation against Epstein told me: “It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names. It’s going to be contagion numbers.” >>

Right. And you think all pf those extremely powerful people are all going to just sit by and let their names be released.

Uh-huh.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-grows-more-grotesque

<< the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will release almost 2,000 pages of documents that could reveal sexual abuse by “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders,” ... “Nobody who was around Epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. It’s all going to come out,">>

Wanna bet that none of this is actually going to come out?

@dredmorbius I actually don't know if social media has made our global Internet ADHD problem worse, *or*, possibly and I think more likely, just provided a convenient work-around to it so that we can get bite-sized pieces of communication done and let the cognitive tsunami of the Externalised Planetary Astral Plane work *for* us.

except when it doesn't

@dredmorbius

It very me also.

I have three Firefox panes at home, each filled with... a probably uncountably infinite number of tabs by now.

I've given up on ever closing any of them. Closing would mean I've:

* completely read
* completely understood
* have no further use for ever needing to refer back to them in my entire future life, cos once they're gone, they're gone baby, good luck on finding anything in History

Needs a crocodile added for scale comparison

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1151508319980285952

<< View from a rear-facing motorcycle helmet camera in Australia. This is a Magpie >>

Needs some sharks, spiders and crocodiles added for scale

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1151508319980285952

<< View from a rear-facing motorcycle helmet camera in Australia. This is a Magpie >>

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1151654951203958785

<< I'd had a tab open with a bunch of text for about 6 hours and I've been meaning to read it and I haven't yet.

the best part? it's about ADHD and how it stops you from doing things. >>

"Excuse me, I believe this belongs to you."

@bstacey compared with, eg, JJ Abrams Advanced Star Trek Substitute, which is

'aaaaaagh! foreigners! and teachers! and rules! all the jocks who laughed at us nerds at school! kill kill kill! shooty shooty shooty bang bang!!!!'

ie, modern Star Trek (and also modern Star Wars) is more about America's relationship to its nerd pop culture (and mandatory homage to War on Terror propaganda) than a debate about the role of the military in science two decades after a huge war that smashed the world

@bstacey compared with, eg, JJ Abrams Advanced Star Trek Substitute, which is

'aaaaaagh! foreigners! and teachers! and rules! all the jocks who laughed at us nerds at school! kill kill kill! shooty shooty shooty bang bang!!!!'

@bstacey Yeah, the main Forbidden Planet things that I see in Star Trek are:

1) a heroic and heavily armed Earth-based space navy who are post-WW2 nuclear USA in space

2) weird mystery colony planets all over, with mad scientists and/or godlike magitech aliens

3) the Weird Mystery usually not being fightable with those weapons, but needing human psychology

The whole setup's a nuclear parable. 'We've finally achieved unlimited power... but can we use it wisely or will we destroy ourselves?'

@bstacey Yeah, the main Forbidden Planet things that I see in Star Trek are:

1) a heroic and heavily armed Earth-based space navy who are post-WW2 nuclear USA in space

2) weird mystery colony planets all over, with mad scientists and/or godlike magitech aliens

3) the Big Mystery usually not being fightable with those weapons, but needing human psychology

The whole setup's a nuclear parable. 'We've finally achieved unlimited power... but can we use it wisely or will we destroy ourselves?'

@leadore @InvaderXan @dredmorbius @anarchiv

The Chinese *names* (or rather: 5-element -> planet associations) of the planets are based on their appearance, yes, I think.

But the 7-day week and the specific association of planets to week days based on the Chaldean Ordering of the Planets and the concept of Planetary Hours extrapolated to Planetary Days in a 7-day cycle... that doesn't come from the Chinese Five Elements.

Also now I finally realise that Miami Vice was Scarface: The TV Series

in the same way that Star Trek was Forbidden Planet: The Series and Doctor Who was The Time Machine: The Series

Imagine making a movie about Cuban drug kingpins in 1983 and thinking 'hmm, I want someone a bit less weird and conspiracy-theory minded than the guy who did 12 Angry Men and Serpico... I know, I'll get Oliver Stone and Brian de Palma.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)#Development

Imagine making a movie about Cuban drug kingpins in 1983 and thinking 'hmm, I want someone a bit less weird and conspiracy-theory minded than the guy who did 12 Angry Men... I know, I'll get Oliver Stone and Brian de Palma.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)#Development

One day future civilizations will look back on this moment in history and judge us for this

probably as 'amazingly awesome'

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/reviews/92487236/review-glamour-cake-doughnuts-at-lyttelton-bakery-christchurch