Booked tickets for #Avatar 2 for Dec 16. Can't wait :)

Fabled.ai is sweet -- you enter a prompt, and the AI is crafting a story around it and creating a few accompanying pictures.

#History -- 150 years ago today, the first-ever international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. It was watched by 4,000 spectators and ended as a 0-0 draw.

#History -- 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong, the first commercially successful video game. And hey, it was my first too! I have fond memories playing it as a child.

(Photo is from the Computerspielemuseum Berlin, 2017, taken by by Shadowgate - https://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowgate/35522359383/)

Joke of the day:

What's the difference between Trump and a flying pig?

The letter F.

(Sorry 😅 )

#History -- 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

And hey, it was my first too! I have fond memories playing it as a child. Playing Pong jumpstarted my interest in computers; I got my first C16 shortly after, then a Plus/4, then another, and a C64 after that (my precioussssss). Then PCs 😁

#History -- 100 years ago today, the media company Time Inc. was founded in New York City, which later rose to become the largest publisher in the US.

#History -- 50 years ago today, the Soviet Union made its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket. It was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V, a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit. Underfunded and rushed, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed, and the program was canceled.

My list of major natural calamities that happened last week is now online -- is your country featured? https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/z16a4p/what_happened_in_the_world_nov_13_20_2022/

My list of major natural calamities that happened last week is now online: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/z16a4p/what_happened_in_the_world_nov_13_20_2022/

#History -- 100 years ago today, 87-year-old Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia took the oath of office, becoming the first female US Senator.

Before you celebrate: She was also a white supremacist and Congress's last former slave owner, she spoke vigorously in favor of lynching, and she served for only one day.

(As for us taking shrooms: here's a link) https://www.livescience.com/49666-prehistoric-humans-psychoactive-drugs.html

My own hypothesis, hoping for your ideas and comments.

- Humans took psychoactive mushrooms in the stone-age

- Those shrooms jumpstarted our brains over years and years and gave us an edge over other species

- But it might have been too early for us, our brains are still hardwired like "us against the rest of the world", we lack several evolutionary steps

- That's why we keep killing everything, and that's why we still love all kinds of hocuspocus (religion, esoterics etc)

Watched "Arachnophobia" as a child when I was deathly terrified of spiders. Now, decades later, I totally love them. Let's see how I react this time 😁 *clicks on 'play'*

#History -- 200 years ago today, in Valparaíso (Chile), at 06:30 local time, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake lifted the coast between Copiapó and Valdivia, generated a tsunami and left a toll of "many" dead.

Ate deep-fried onion rings and drank pineapple juice. No, I'm NOT pregnant.

https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/ -- nice resource if you want to have a timeline of events 😂

The stupidest thing about being an adult is that it's no longer enough to clean your room. Now you have to clean up the whole damn apartment! I'm off -- see y'all soon.

"Let that sink in" became "I'ma sink this company in a week"

Update on this year's #monsoon season in #India -- 2,125 people died (drowning, lightning, landslides, etc), 101 missing, 1,463 injured, 333,093 houses totally destroyed (no joke, most of them in #Assam), 90,149 houses damaged, 69,850 livestock lost, 1,880,438 hectares of farmland damaged.

Here's the source (Indian government), but beware, it might take quite some time to load despite only having three pages. https://ndmindia.mha.gov.in/NDMINDIA.../viewWhatsNewPdf-D995