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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.

"A new study shows the pollen a queen bee eats affects the survival of her nest"

A fascinating look at historical descriptions and illustrations either known to be, or matching up with, migraine auras.
"Visual depictions of auras offer an inside peek into the sensory chaos that lies behind a migraine’s debilitating pain."

"The rule could generate up to $34.8 billion in health benefits each year."

JSON-based protocol for email clients designed by Fastmail, similar to IMAP in concept but trying to solve real-world shortcomings including spotty network connections, runs over HTTPS

"On flight day 13 (November 28, 2022) of the Artemis I mission, the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from its home world. Over 430,000 kilometers from Earth in a distant retrograde orbit, Orion surpassed the record for most distant spacecraft designed to carry humans. That record was previously set in 1970 during the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon. Both Earth and Moon are in the same field of view in this video frame from Orion on Artemis I mission flight day 13. The planet and its large natural satellite even appear about the same apparent size from the uncrewed spacecraft's perspective. "

"Fallible tech doesn’t get better when it’s backstopped by fallible humans, especially humans most government agencies feel don’t need any specific training prior to operating facial recognition systems."

Stable, capable desktop email application, works well with multiple accounts including Gmail, Nextcloud, easy to set up and use but with advanced settings when you need them. Open source and Free Software.

Feed readers that will sync with Nextcloud News, for lots of mobile and desktop systems. I'm already using NewsFlash on Linux and Nextcloud News Reader on Android. Windows and macOS appear to only have RSS Guard and Fluent Reader as options

"The steel man is the opposite of the straw man. It's being charitable, and building up the best possible form of the argument for the other side."