I was excited to realise yesterday that not only is there a second season of Andor starting next month, but I only watched the first half of Season 1. Onto episode 8 tonight.
The prison complexes on the ocean planet immediately reminded me of the floating super-prison in the MCU. Then I had a dark thought. What if this is the endgame of SeaSteading technology? The ultimate Guantanamo ...
#TV #SciFi #StarWars #Andor #MCU #SeaSteading #PrisonIndustrialComplex
The Seasteading Institute is looking for help with their wiki. They have planned two event dates to organize work:
Event Details:
Session 1: Wednesday, October 30 at 9AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC Nov. 6 at 16:00).
Session 2: Wednesday, November 6 at 6PM Pacific Standard Time (UTC Nov. 7 at 02:00)
Location: Zoom (Link will be provided upon registration)
If you are interested go to their website: https://www.seasteading.org
The wiki is on: https://wiki.seasteading.org/
@MOULE Cool! Good on ya. The #federated (er) the better.
All this `verse stuff reminds me of #usenet and also #seasteading (the latter never being a thing afaik)
Good feels.
Regarding pronunciation, I thought/hoped it was a portmanteau of "mule" and "mole" (the sauce), pronounced "mule-ay".
Hey #solarpunks, are you familiar with #tidalpunk? What are your thoughts? I rediscovered an older post by @solarpunkgnome that got me thinking.
https://solarpunkstation.com/2019/03/22/tidalpunk-come-home-to-the-sea/
I'm nearer to the Great Lakes than I am to any ocean, so this is all mostly abstract for me, although this Sea Level Rise slider from NOAA makes things concrete (for the case of the U.S. anyway...) https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
-Ariel
@Npars01 the island tax havens are probably why #seasteading is a thing
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#10yrsago #Skype’s IP-leaking security bug creates denial-of-service cottage industry https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/privacy-101-skype-leaks-your-location/
#5yrsago The oil industry just told a judge that #ClimateChange is undeniably real, but they still found a way to weasel https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17151532/climate-tutorial-san-francisco-oakland-lawsuits-judge-alsup-chevron-exxon
#5yrsago #Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery/
#1yrago Facebook's #genocide filters are really, really bad https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/23/false-genocide-negative/#metacrap
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