June 23

Better Than News

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  Full Metal Jacket 2049 is an American science fiction historical war film directed by Stanley Kubrick and Denis Villeneuve.

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  Conan the Barbarian: Curse of the X is an American epic sword and sorcery film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elon Musk which tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his social media platform (Twitter) at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Elon Musk), the leader of a snake cult.

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  Strange Case of Dr Lemon and Mr Ade is an 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based fruit vendor who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Lemon and a murderous criminal named Edward Ade.

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  Puss in Boots: Final Destination is a 2023 American horror-adventure film based on characters from Final Destination (2000) and inspired by Giovanni Francesco Straparola's fairy tale about a swashbuckling cat.

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  Silent Looting is a 1973-2021 ecology cultural appropriation horror film about an alien race which steals antiquities from Earth and "protects" them in orbital vaults in order to gratify their incomprehensible aesthetic lusts.

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  Kill What, Tiger Pussy? Up Faster! Up Faster! is a comedy-thriller sexploitation film written and directed by Russ Meyer and Woody Allen.

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  Grand Theft Auto: Weigh Station is a resource management adventure video game which follows a trucker who climbs in status within his company by rigorously maintaining his vehicle's cargo capacity and weight.

Beyond Plausible

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  Galactus and David Attenborough's Planet Earth is a 2022 British television series narrated by Galactus, the devourer of worlds, and Sir Richard Attenborough. The series has eleven episodes, each of which features a global overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth, with Galactus arguing that the biome is nutritious and should be consumed immediately, and Attenborough arguing for preservation of the Earth's precious and fragile ecosystem.

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  Andromeda Strain 2: Silent Straining is an American environmental-themed documentary film documenting the efforts of orbital biowarfare researcher Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) to contain the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism.

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  "Lipid" is a song by American rock band and industrial chemistry group Devo.

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  Cretaceous Office Supplies is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic). Now offering "It's Nearly K–Pg Boundary Time!" rush delivery within a half-million years — Guaranteed.

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  My Three Indemnities is a crime thriller comedy-romance film starring Barbara Stanwick and Fred MacMurray.

In Other Words

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  It Ripened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball horticulture about a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish gardener (Clark Gable).

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  Sphere and circumscribed cylinder, demonstrating how only the sphere is not a phallic symbol.

Are You Sure

... that computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and theoretical biologist Alan Turing pioneered the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

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  1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

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  1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

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  1972: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

Topic of the Day

The Matrix

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  Matrix to America is a 2021 action-comedy buddy film about a computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) and an African king (Eddie Murphy) who must team up to save the world from a malicious computer program (Hugo Weaving).

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  Olive Matrix is a science-fiction theme restaurant franchise with indentured franchises throughout the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere. Olive Matrix. When you're here, you're virtual.

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  Gilligan's Matrix is a science-fiction drama television series with follows the agonies of seven artificial intelligences as they attempt to survive on a simulated virtual desert island on which their data structures are corrupted.

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  "I don't always exist in the Matrix. But when I do, I always drink tequila."