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Category: Sci-Fi
FOMC Defies MAGA!
Trump demands that Jay Powell quit immediately as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmv4ldv923o
The reason why is revealed in this leaked video, taken at a remote clandestine meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
There’s Powell at the table, a puppet of the Deep State that doesn’t want Trump to know about their secret project!
Reading for Enjoyment – 2
Seeking to free myself from following politics on the Internet, I picked up an old, paperback collection of science fiction short stories. John W. Campbell wrote “Who Goes There?”, the short novel that was adapted into The Thing From Another World.
Campbell wrote a fantastic forward-thinking short story, called “Twilight,” in 1934. Predating WWII, mankind’s end doesn’t come from atomic war. Instead, it has a Rachel Carson ending. Reading “Twilight” this morning reminded me of how much I enjoyed reading science fiction as a kid into my young adult years.
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/artfuldesign/think66/2019/stuff/twilight.pdf
Imperial Rebellion, There Then and Here Now
I’m re-watching season 1 of Andor, a series that takes a springboard leap from a single throwaway line in the original Star Wars. “How will the Emperor maintain control, without the bureaucracy?” Sorry about the low sound volume.
Andor shows us the bureaucracy in all of its relentless oppression and cold brutality. Without the Jedi and their lightsabers, with only a passing nod to The Force, what Tony Gilroy has done to expand the Star Wars backstory is just frickin’ complicated superb. I can’t say “simply” superb, because the workings of the Rebellion against the Empire are as complex as the Empire is itself.
You don’t even need to know anything about Star Wars, except that it exists, to get caught up in the series. Take an old prison movie, like 1930’s powerful The Big House, and filter it through George Lucas’ THX-1138, and you have some of the most compelling television I have ever seen.
The power goes out, an alarm sounds, and “something’s really wrong on two!”
Wait. How the ding-dong heck did I miss this? Diego “Andor” Luna had a guest host run last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Useless Science News!
Two government agencies spent billions on pretty pictures that AI could have made for free! Thanks to Trumpelstiltskin, we know the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy are a waste of money and they should be defunded.
Despite Dr. Paul Armstrong’s claims to the contrary, it’s a fact that we have too much science!
The Universal Smith
As a child I learned about the dangers posed by a selfish, insufferable narcissist. An “injustice collector” with an uncanny knack for self-preservation to the detriment of others, who suddenly becomes incredibly powerful.