Watching a library burn is tragedy. It's loss. Lots of things are mass-market, replaceable but every library will hold some things there are very few of. Maybe no others. And when things are gone it can be impossible to bring it back. I know, I just spent 5 years of my life on a project that as good as it is can likely never be complete.

Watching a library burn because the fire was deliberately set is a straight-up obscenity. That it was set by fascists makes my blood boil.

War never changes.

@JoscelynTransient

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51yyq0g5x3o

LOL

The Telegraph is reporting how British PM Sunak is likely to oversee the Conservatives being wiped out at the polls, even losing his own seat.

This would make him the first sitting Prime Minister in history to do that.

It's kind of fitting; he is barely a real PM anyways. He's more like a vulture venture firm office manager put in as CEO of their latest acquisition to chop shop the thing for parts and milk the brand name subbing out cheap shit for valuable assets.

Like our guy Poilievre.

If you've updated to Mozilla #Firefox 117, there's now an un-enabled translation option built in to the browser.

It works locally on your computer so you're not leaking data to any giant corporations as may be expected with the other major browsers.

It's beta so caveat emptor.

Available languages:

Bulgarian
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish

Go to about:config
Set browser.translations.enable
to TRUE

Go to Settings
Under Translations
Install offline language packs

ICYMI Mozilla #Firefox 117 has a built-in translation mode that can be manually enabled.

Unlike Chrome and Edge, the Firefox translations are all done locally on your own computer, not sent to Google or Microsoft for their files.

Dunno about you but that suits my ass to a 'T'. I hate it when soulless corporations read over my shoulder.

I wrote a post with how to enable this here:

https://mastodon.social/@adwright/110987973582339164

@curtisysmith

The first episode I saw was "The Enemy Within". Mum said there was this space show she thought I might enjoy. I was the kid used to write NASA and they'd treat me like an adult and send me these huge press release packs full of tech. That shit was like blood transfusions to middle of Hell me.

So I watched evil and good Kirk duke it out and I wasn't sure what to make of it but I was there next week. I built the AMT Enterprise model not long after. :)

57 years ago, a Thursday, NBC aired the first episode of a new space show that would go on to transform society in ways big and small, inspire 11 spin-off series, several movie franchises and whole reams of novels, models, tie-ins and more.

It started as a pitch for " 'Wagon Train' to the stars" but became whole detailed fictional universes inspiring our own real one with a promise that we'll figure this all out and we'll be the better for it. That there's a whole universe out there.

#StarTrek

On this day, 60 years ago, a junkyard with an old police utility shed sitting in it became the most amazing place anyone had ever seen.

The shed would go on to thousands of adventures and become more famous and more widely known than any other shed ever. Even its signature tune and sound was like nothing anyone had ever heard before.

It would travel further and see more things than any other shed before or since.

It travels still.

#DoctorWho

OK. I now have a feel for it.

Edit: The Dali is 300m long, so the Enterprise-A is a mere 5m longer. The ship pictured is a larger design. It's carrying more than 20,000 containers to the Dali's 9,971.

Not following the Lower Decks logic at all.

Family Guy's been running 22 seasons and counting. The Simpsons are now a multigenerational temporal anomaly with middle-aged Marge and Homer meeting in high school simultaneously in the 1970s through the early 2000s.

Lower Decks could run forever.

#StarTrek

Well, good news and bad news for Star Trek fans.

Strange New Worlds is renewed for Season 4.

Lower Decks is cancelled with its final 10 episode season this fall.

An unspecified Star Trek origin movie is scheduled for 2025 release.

#StarTrek

That thing where the cat jumps on your keyboard deleting your last 20 minutes of work and _he_ is the aggrieved party.

The cat's discovered and figured out the stay-cold mat I put down for him.

@OldAndCranky @cowvin

Well, happy happys.

I'm 64 and amazed how little that means. Zero of the social norms for the age apply to me; I'm not retired nor can I foresee that even ever being a possibility. I didn't skew right politically in my old age, though apparently a number of my contemporaries did, etc.

I dunno, don't you think we define ourselves in whatever you wanna call this stage? It seems to reveal peoples true selves like the New Yorkers in original Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

Anyone else notice how the climate-related deaths are being normalized exactly like the covid deaths?

1000 die of heat stroke at Mecca, heat dome killing seniors in North America.

It's becoming like everything is traffic accidents - deaths we accept as a random inevitable part of our environment but that we directly cause.

Death by contagious airborne vascular infection, death by heat, death by flooding, death by drought, all just part of the landscape now. Normal as sunshine.

God's will.

@cowvin

Trouble is it's in the best interests of the monied to keep everything in play as-is to keep the gravy train rolling as long as possible while they build compounds and bunkers and mega-yacht fleets.

Kind of like playing soothing music to animals headed to slaughter, if you'll forgive the darker imagery.

People are normalizing insane amounts of BS already, I attended a tech gathering at the height of the forest fires, air choking with yellow fog of burned houses; they said nothing.

@OldAndCranky @cowvin

I never thought they'd go full doomsday growing up, though as history teaches us, that had elements of luck to it such that there's gotta be timelines where they did, but I'll be honest I have kinda been amazed someone somewhere hasn't blown off a nuke being morons so a merciful Providence be thanked for the overtime work there.

I mean as a species we sure do produce some thickies, esp. lately, and give them access to atomic weaponry, so miracles are likely involved. :)