Eigil Rischel - abstr/acc 💎 @ayegill@schelling.pt

@TetraspaceGrouping Basically the universe used to have more spatial and temporal dimensions, a higher speed of light, and probably some other stuff. Advanced civs developed weapons that collapsed some of these dimensions locally, and protect themselves by restructuring their own civilization to work in lower dimensions. Eventually our own solar system is wiped out by a 2-dimensionifying weapon.

@TetraspaceGrouping Oooh this is in Remembrance of Earth's Past as well! (the "Dark Forest" trilogy by Cixin Liu).

Wow, I'm internet famous now. How do I cash these in for sex and money again?

(It's because "kubernetes" mean's "helmsman" in Greek, which is also how Wiener came up with the word "cybernetics" - which, hilariously, we're forced to conclude he must have originally pronounced with a k-sound)

For a long time, I thought Kubernetes was called that because it involved encapsulating different systems in "cubes" (idk I didn't really think about it, I've never used it).

I realized the truth when I read the introduction to Wiener's _Cybernetics_

Like why are these three pictures "sci-fi"?

About a third of the pictures are weird uncanny valley monstrosities. Apart from that, the weirdest thing is that, although it generates the pictures in various categories ("anime", "rockstar", "sci-fi"), about half the pictures have no relation to the category

More good ones

Did the Lensa thing - results were very hit and miss, but pretty impressive in general. Here's some of the ones I liked

Out of all the crazy stuff that's happened at Twitter since Musk bought it, by far the worst is that it now keeps putting me on the terrible algorithmic timeline ("for you").

Dwayne Johnson, professionally known as "Peter",

Famous pro wrestler Simeon "The Rock" Bar Yonah.

I wanted to end the first sentence with an exclamation point, but I just know you smartasses would have gone "DURRR blind since age 720?? Wow he really lived a long time"

Noo babe your exact sequence is perfect the long ones scare me.

Bernard Morin, a successful topologist who was part of the team that exhibited the first sphere eversion, was blind since age 6.

Pretty incredible to do this sort of stuff with no visual aids at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Morin

Anafunctor is a beautiful name for a girl

Literally one of my most treasured possessions.

The 4th/5th generation kindle is an unsurpassed piece of electronics

- Fits in your pocket
- Battery lasts for weeks
- Has physical buttons that do the two things you want to do (next page, previous page).

I love fan wikis