August 3

Better Than News

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  Breaking X is an American science fiction crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Chris Carter, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Anna Gunn.

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  X-Men: Cordyceps is an American science fiction superhero horror film about a parasitic fungus which takes control of mutant superheroes.

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  The Leo Sayer Who Fell to Earth is a science fantasy musical drama film starring David Bowie and Leo Sayer.

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  "Do You Know the Way to San Tropez" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Pink Floyd for Dionne Warwick, with lyrics by Hal David and Pink Floyd.

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  Drift is a 1971 American science fiction crime film about John Drift (Richard Roundtree), a Fremen martial arts master who uses desert lore to drive Harkonnen mobsters from Harlem.

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  Ex Machina 2: Fifty Shades of Ex is a neo-erotic science noir film about a sentient robot (Alicia Vikander) who begins a sadomasochistic relationship with young business magnate (Jamie Dornan).

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  Cool Hand Skywalker is a 1967 science fiction prison drama film about a prisoner in an Imperial prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.

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  Space Banjo is a 2023 television about efforts to construct a banjo in low Earth orbit. It is sponsored by Rider-Waite Space Elevator.

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  The Flanderian Candidate is a 1962 American animated neo-noir psychological political thriller film starring the voices of Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

Beyond Plausible

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  Parch and Rehydration is an American hydrological satire mockumentary sitcom television series about a perky, mid-level plumber in the Water Department of Drownee, a fictional town in Indiana.

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  "Good Morning A-Team" is a song by Oliver and the Gliddy Gloop Gloopy, Nibby Nabby Grabby Heroes for Hire Orchestra.

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  Tweet Free is a 1966 British drama film about Joy and George Adamson, a couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya with a Twitter-enabled tracking device.

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  "Ballad of a Tweet Man" is a song by Bob Dylan.

In Other Words

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  Microplastics and You (full title: Microplastics and You: The Miracle of Neuroplasticity) is a 2022 public health and planetary management directive from Gnomon Chronicles Industries.

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  The Multi-Species Home Pregnancy Test Kit is a consumer-grade build-it-yourself pregnancy test kit which is safe and effective for all higher primates, most vertebrates, and some invertebrates.

Are You Sure

... that "We've Only Just Begun (To Breath)" was released as a 45 RPM record during the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with "I Can't Stop Jabbing You" on the B side?

... that American chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb headed Project MKUltra, the CIA's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, and that NPR referred to Gottlieb as America's 'Poisoner In Chief'?

Topic of the Day

Non-Fungible Tokens

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  West Side NFT is a 1961 American musical NFT drama film inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and NFT.

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  The TrumpyNFTers is a 1987 science fiction NFT novel by Stephen King about a mysterious non-fungible token buried in the woods outside the town of Haven, Maine.

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  "All the Monkeys I Had are Gone" is a song by the Canadian band The Deep Dark NFTs.

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  How to NFT a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.