As the prophecy foretold ...

I don't want any of these people to die but I wouldn't mind them losing a kidney.

I wept when they said gas was $3 a gallon.

IYKYK

True story: Frankie Avalon is in this movie and his acting is better than in any of the Beach party films.

And is that pre-alcoholic coma Jean 'Lina Lamont from Singin' in the Rain' Hagen???

One of the thing we learned from Panic in Year Zero: nuclear war sounds better with a snappy jazz soundtrack.

The biggest plot hole in Panic in Year Zero is where the dad can always back up the car with the travel trailer without any mistakes or his wife yelling at him.

Panic in Year Zero - still one of the best first post-apocalytpic movies.


#scifi #sciencefiction #art #scifiart #fantasy #space #cyberpunk

Your bridge to wealth is being pulled up For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the window that remains.

AI may close the path from talent to wealth. Meritocracy seen updating its Linkedin profile. danielhomola.com/m%2... #AI #economy #writinglife

Obsolete Sounds The world's biggest collection of obsolete sounds and disappearing sounds - remixed and reimagined by artists all over the world.

A library of lost sounds. Dial tones. Old machines. Audio fossils. Worldbuilding gold for writers. citiesandmemory.com/... #writing #sounddesign #scifi

Superhero Shrink: Alpha – Scifi Short Story - Inkican Superhero Shrink: Alpha is a razor-sharp, hilarious dive into the fallout of powers gone wrong— canceled podcasts and failed marriages no cape can fix.

Being a superhero is rough - being their therapist is rougher. Read Superhero Shrink Alpha: inkican.com/emergenc... #superhero #mentalhealth #scifi

Justice Heuristic – Scifi Short Story - Inkican Justice Heuristic – Follow David Keller, a tech pioneer trapped in a virtual prison of his own design. Tormented by the consequences of his AI creations, which caused global chaos, David must choose between saving himself or undoing the devastation he unleashed. Fast-paced and thought-provoking, it explores guilt, redemption, and the price of escaping our past.

Can justice be programmed? Or is empathy still the better algorithm? Explore Justice Heuristic: inkican.com/emergenc... #AI #ethics #scifi

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Will Save the Open Web How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens

Big Tech is not magic. It is policy. The internet could be weird and open again. spectrum.ieee.org/do... #tech #internet #scifi

Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029 Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete

Quantum computers may crack encryption by 2029. Or not. It's not like we need encryption for anything - am I right? www.theguardian.com/... #cybersecurity #STEM #future

Some of y'all never had reduced lunch and it shows.

Some of y'all have never been dragged by your parents at 9:00 on a Monday night to the Dollar Store for science project materials because it was due on Tuesday morning and it shows.

Some of y'all never went to the Day-Old bake shop and it shows.

Some of y'all still don't know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop and it shows.

Some of y'all never begged mom for a Trapper Keeper that absorbed all the smell of every lunch until you had a plastic homework folder that smelled faintly of tuna fish and shame and it shows.

Some of y'all never had square pizza for lunch and it shows.

Some of y'all never had parents who made you go door to door selling those stupid chocolate bars because they wouldn't take them to work sell to all their coworkers and it shows.

Some of y'all never made a memo keeper in woodshop and it shows.

Some of y'all never had to record a song off the radio because you couldn't afford a CD and it shows.

Some of y'all grew up without a Pee-Chee folder for all your homework and it shows.

Star Wars: Trapper Keeper edition

Best Star Trek crew. wrong answers only.

Spaceship!

When a nerd spends time on you, that's how you know you're loved.

I like to drive up to the front door of a Buc-ee's and go 'what's a Buc-ee's?' just to see the look on their face.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥