Latest bookmarks (page 129 of 147)

Art depicting a fox battling against a spidery droid.

WW2 rationing, trying to save on packaging material and metal for slicing machines.
It didn’t last long.

"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. "
via https://wordtothewise.com/2013/04/goodbye-mr-ebert/

"The results are in for the Best of 2023! People around the world voted, and here are the winning space images, missions, exploration milestones, and more."

"We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI."
2017 reference to the corporations-as-AIs concept.

"Charles Stross will give a rambling, discursive, and angry tour of what went wrong with the 21st century, why we didn't see it coming, where we can expect it to go next, and a few suggestions for what to do about it if we don't like it."
2018 reference to the corporations-as-first-generation-AI concept

"Guide to 34 leading UK bookshops, with best buys. Includes alternatives to Amazon and its various book-selling brands and how to find ethical online and local bookshops.
We also look at the best options for ebooks and audio books, sustainability, buying secondhand books, and how to support independent authors, publishers and bookshops." I didn't expect Kobo to be rated so low. Better than Amazon of course, but close to Apple and Google, and way behind ebooks.com -- which isn't too far behind Better World books!

"You may have old Gmail accounts you’ve forgotten — and which Google will delete."
TLDR: Use the recovery process and see what comes up.

How parodies of Kirk were misremembered as the real thing over the years, and how eventually he became the parody himself in the Kelvin timeline.
"There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit. Kirk, as received through mass culture memory and reflected in its productive imaginary (and subsequent franchise output, including the reboot movies), has little or no basis in Shatner’s performance and the television show as aired. Macho, brash Kirk is a mass hallucination." via https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/102401374783127038 "Kirk Drift makes an interesting argument: that despite Star Trek TOS being steeped in the sexism of its time, Kirk's reputation as a womanizer is mostly a retroactive reclamation by 80s-90s nerds seeking to bend him into a prototypical modern action hero and normalize a specific contemporary brand of nerd sexism.