Apple weather app says 500 rn, also known as “the top of the weather app scale” online measurements go beyond it to a peak of 6-700 today

ReaderCon! sitting out on the back patio to secure our section. it’s a beautiful early evening with good shade there will be no service to our section, you’re welcome to get drinks at the bar and bring them out (or not) I certainly did

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the traitor/monster/tyrant paul atreides, cruel in equal measure to the imperium, the fremen, his loved ones and himself

we spent a GOOD amount of time cackling at the upcoming rugpull and now? remember that sweet restless boy doing his best? what senses did he lack that he couldn’t see another future for himself than this

god damn fuck

the other dislike! 1. is this really chani?? kind of doesn’t look or sound like her? without this caption i would have guessed ATJ’s alia? 2. this new line sounds written for a trailer, i’m having trouble imagining anyone in the story saying and meaning it maybe it’ll work but that’s my truth

every now and then i find more evidence for "what we are doing now is about the fall of rome"

in case anyone is wondering how seriously i take this technology and where it's heading (<10 years in my estimate) bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

maybe y’all thought this was a lil joke! serious business at 4th street!

things i will not be qualified to talk about usefully any time soon: -the extended brian herbert duniverse lore -the state of dune fanfiction -islam i will be honest: when i think of brian herbert he looks and acts like this guy

back on my bucket o’ blood bullshit

i watched tron: ares earlier this week and have been accumulating Thoughts, so, a thread

my feed has been full of straw dunks on dawkins but these are perfectly fine questions claude and other current-gen LLMs are demonstrably not conscious and also able to think and reason, and we’re not used to meeting one without the other as blindsight asks: is consciousness then superfluous?

and by “the source texts” i mean the rpg and likely whatever brian herbert-ass timeline it sources from

the book: if you lasgun/shield explosion on purpose, it’s game over, no exceptions me: …so you can straight-up end a house by convincing the landsraad they lasgunned a shield? there’s no WAY that wouldn’t happen

john is our generation's samuel clemens, protect him at all costs and invite him to parties

many are certainly saying

1) gaslight gatekeep girlboss, we love a politically aware queen 2) starting with the weak and fearful is the fascist playbook: get them to abandon norms and support a strong leader who will take decisive protective action

omg staying at home all the time is so bad for the self-messaging

some gangs have themes i guess

one thing more about what’s NOT in the trailer: STILGAR MY BOY he got everything he wished for (on the monkey’s paw) cannot wait to see more of what time (and paul the imperial butcher) has done to the best of fremen

one last thing about chani: pair these two non-canonical lines together and see how they are both metatextual digs at paul leto’s wisdom was in not starting fucking wars, paul, maybe visit your father’s skull now and then, think about that

should chani be in rebellion or conspiracy against paul, the result would be similar to book|chani: he’d just lose her earlier where it matters more is with any potential children—their twins are born canonically in this text, and their son leto II goes on to be, uh, fairly important

at the end of this trailer, it looks an awful lot like movie chani is squaring off against two desert fremen if so this would be singularly painful for her, who chose love of her people over paul, a terrible loss for her even in victory

the plot of the book centers on a conspiracy between representatives of the bene gesserit, the spacing guild, and the bene tlielax, a faction new to the setting they meet and scheme to bring down an emperor with the known gift of foresight in the movie, chani might be conspirator instead of victim

in the books, chani is a) much less agentic and b) much more reflexively loyal to paul, and thus one of many attack surfaces for his enemies to exploit in the movie, chani can’t abide paul’s terrible choices, fleeing in rage and pain—leaving her role in messiah a new mystery. a possible enemy?

one ought! can we please, as a treat, not oversimplify and flatten until our brains fall out especially not here on holy bluesky, our last refuge from the howling wolves of malinformation

the immortal man was a very nice funeral for tommy shelby like when an honored klingon gets old and his war friends make up a quest so he can remember his glory and die in battle with bonus rebecca ferguson who improves everything she touches

it's very twitter