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@nerdoftherings1 We’ve had books about books, yes. What about books about books about books?

How you know you’ve reached the innermost depths of a bookstore.

@RMBee "It is a material and a DEVICE…which prevents attack against us!" (Kirk, lying through his teeth)

The very first regular STAR TREK episode (after the two pilots), “The Corbomite Maneuver,” started filming 60 years ago today. Written by Jerry Sohl and directed by Joseph Sargent, with music by Fred Steiner, it was the tenth episode aired (that’s how long the VFX took).

@CovfefeAnon We wuz jezuz n' sheitt

Suspect has been crucified...

@EchoChamYT He’s not dead. I’m sure he’ll pop up with a podcast you can follow soon.

Through the grotesqueries of the Trump age, the Lafayette Square photo-op, attempt to overturn the 2020 election, outrage of the Jan 6th riots, family separations & Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings Stephen Colbert was an intelligent and needed salve, & will be greatly missed.

@MelbourneFooty Great decision Dees.

Round 11. In: Caleb Windsor. Out: Latrelle Pickett (managed). #AFLDogsDees

@RalphyHeraldSun @FOXFOOTY For people who say booing has no place in the game, else can fans register their disapproval and derision for players who stage?

I would imagine this would be one of the most obvious staging fines the AFL ever handed out. Josh Rachele can accept the $1000 fine @FOXFOOTY

@adrianjhoughton Don’t reckon petracca or Oliver would have rocked up to help move house.

Maybe Perty was actually right

@lauriewired You can encode the entire works of Shakespeare in the slowness of my internet traffic then.

A cool way to watermark network packets is to (very subtly) adjust the timing. Packet comes in a tiny bit late, maybe that’s a 0. Packet arrives on time? Maybe that’s a 1. Of course, the neat part is that everything can remain entirely encrypted / the side channel doesn’t “touch” the underlying data flow, so it looks relatively normal. You can actually get this timing to survive through multiple network hops + switches, because statistically they are (mostly) adding fixed delays. Queueing can mess you up, but as long as your information is above the network jitter noise, you can still decode it. There’s basically an arm’s race going on. Some networks attempt mixing flows with traffic shapers to preserve anonymity…but you also can’t infinitely pad/delay packets without users getting really annoyed. So, so many ways to hide a bit when you think about it. …also a lot of ways to detect it too.

@SamaHoole It's also the foundation of civilization. Now that the civilization has been built, return to meat.

If you walk into any major museum with a palaeoanthropology collection, you can compare the skeletons of pre-agricultural humans with those of the early farmers who replaced them. They are not the same animal. The pre-agricultural human was, on average, around 5'9" if male, 5'4" if female. Robust bone structure. Wide pelvis. Substantial muscle attachment points. Excellent dental health, almost no caries, almost no malocclusion. Strong jaw, wide enough for all 32 teeth to fit, including the wisdom teeth, without crowding. The early farmer, in the same region, two thousand years later, was around 5'5" if male, 5'1" if female. Lighter bone structure. Narrower pelvis. Less robust musculature. Significant dental caries. Crowded teeth. Smaller jaw. This is the transition from a diet of hunted meat, fish, eggs, fat, occasional tubers, and seasonal fruit, to a diet built on grain. The transition shortened human beings by four inches. It rotted their teeth. It narrowed their jaws. It made childbirth more dangerous because the pelvis got smaller while the infant skull stayed the same size. None of this is contested. The skeletal record is public. Any anthropology textbook from the last fifty years will tell you the same story. The transition to agriculture is the largest single nutritional downgrade in human history. It is also the foundation of every dietary guideline ever published. We are still being told to base our diet on the food that shrank us, weakened us, and rotted our teeth. The pyramid sits on the wrong end.

@DaltonRoss lol

Final battle in #Survivor Winners Bracket matchup! This vote determines fan vote winner for best Survivor winner ever. Todd vs. Aubry! VOTE AT LINK: ew.com/best-survivor-…

@RalphyHeraldSun Every club should play 11 games in states they're not based in. That way they should bring all that interstate commerce and the contacts that go along with it. This is a brand new idea I've just come up with.

It's been the little things for Launceston Mayor Matthew Garwood. Launceston hosted the Foo Fighters on Australia Day Eve. It was bigger than Ben Hur. It was arranged because Hawks CEO Ash Klein had a contact with their touring group. When the Hawks play the city can sell out the 5000 total beds (hotels, short stays) because they bring another interstate team and they stay for 2-3 nights. It's why its been worth $20 million in economic impact a year and why they are so crestfallen its gone in 2028 @FOXFOOTY

@HubPointless Not the independence day one though. That one is beyond reproach.

I regret every video I make

Lifelong Libertarian activist Ayn Rand enrolls in Social Security and Medicare, as she has gotten lung cancer after years of heavy smoking.

@TheBoysOOCC In a hundred years Donald Trump will be long dead, and the Boys will be utterly meaningless. Great work on your timeless art pal!

Eric Kripke reveals Antony Starrs goal was never to create Homelander as a Donald Trump Parody. #TheBoys “I totally understand Ant's point of view. He's like, 'I'm not doing a caricature. I'm trying to create a character with a consistent internal life.' And I absolutely agree and respect that," Kripke says. "So we'll just work on purely internal logic and character motivation and we won't bring Trump into it all that much." (Via:@EW)

@7NewsAustralia I don't think he's here in Australia.

Police are searching for a man who smashed a bakery window using a beer keg in Washington DC on May 17. Georgetown Cupcakes captured the incident through their CCTV and reported it to police who said the damage caused more than $A10,000. #crime #washington #usa #bakery

@HubPointless Excuse me hell’s kitchen but just who do you think you are fooling with a name like that?

They really called that city Yonkers

@nicbarkeragain The same goes for big accounts that go on repost sprees. Not only do they often repost things that are debatable to say the least, they fire off 10-20 in a row, clogging up their followers feeds. At least you can turn reposts off for individual accounts you follow.

I have literally had to mute people I know and like, because every time I see some ridiculously obvious bait in my feed, if I open the replies, they will be in there arguing. I wish we had a setting to turn off reply visibility for certain accounts.

Hello, this is your yearly reminder that if you have a decent number of followers, it’s your moral responsibility not to reply to rage bait. Replying gives it a huge visibility boost and pushes it into all your follower’s feeds. Take a deep breath, block / mute and move on.

@Sierkovitz @BDEgameowners Of course! “Life is a stage and we are all merely players. When on the play, data shows 0.07% better chance of winning.” The memes write themselves really.

@ChookMFC @BDEgameowners So now I'm a meme template?

Never cut lands (via @sierkovitz)

@CovfefeAnon This is like blaming the drug dealers rather than the drug addicts, which is…oh, oh my.

A certain type of women talks constantly about all men being "porn addicts" but the real problem in society today is that women are almost all addicted to *producing* porn and the attention they get from it ("porn" understood as "using the implication of sex for attention")