Freeman Dyson popularized and expanded the concept of the Dyson sphere. (Technically it was in a sci-fi story first)
Buckminster Fuller based a lot of building concepts around spheres.
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Dyson conducts 'surprise' layoffs in Singapore, leaving employees in shock and in 'low morale' - CNA
You can set a background as an image. And if you’re worried about it not being convincing enough, you can use a greenscreen
Except since there’s no actual GPS tracker, it uses your IP address. Microsoft thinks I live in either Virginia or North Dakota or Florida, depending on which part of the company’s VPN I connect to.
Oh Martin House, home of both amazing and also “stunt” beers. Their stouts are usually quite good and their peanut butter/golden stout “Statement of Purpose” is fantastic. Peeps was godawful. Pizza Beer was a “have to try it once”, I think they made “pickle beer” a thing, and then there’s the Mayo, Ranch Dressing, Rum Ham, Mustard…
And if you understand this joke, time to schedule your colonoscopy
Look at that head spin!
I’ll be honest, when I first heard that Mozilla had come out with an AI I figured it was on the back of them trying a couple different ad scenarios, and assumed the worst. Pleasantly surprised by Orbit.
Actually, their new AI thing is actually useful: stays on-device, and summarizes web pages and videos.
But yes, they could stand to spend more money on the browser, and less on their CEO and other non-browser things.
“I love to be unhappy
I live to be a pain
When days are full of sunshine
I'm lookin' for the rain” - Gilda Radner
Didn’t expect to ever see these guys on tour, but they have a handful of dates here. And yes, the name is a play on American Football
And Abelia (Dallas support) is great, saw them at Plus Fest. Looks like the support bands are local to their area
Music: https://chinesefootball.bandcamp.com/
Article: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/chinese-football-announce-first-ever-north-american-tour/
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Pelagic Post-Rock/Metal Fest - Free Livestream this weekend!
(stager-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)
Title undersells it. There's an actual festival in the Netherlands this weekend, celebrating Pelagic Records bands. So there are performances by ASIWYFA (playing the entire new album), Oh Hiroshima, The Ocean (playing the entirety of Pelagic) and a ton more. Free livestream, here's Saturday's video.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKIcVHQ56M.
Sunday has The Ocean again, but also Ihsahn. I'm psyched to see Spurv, Briqueville, and EF. Tell your post-rock/post-metal/math-rock friends!
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Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not “Health Care”
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Yeah, Sanderson earned the cred on the original trilogy. It’s a fantasy series, but the magicians are basically Jedi. Great stuff!