December 3

Better Than News

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  The Andromeda Citrus is a 1971 American science fiction foodie film produced and directed by Robert Wise about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly citrus fruit of extraterrestrial origin.

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  The Toroid is a 2023 science fiction adventure film about a baker aboard a deep space station who encounters a mysterious alien force.

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  Soylent Gazoo is a 1973 science fiction buddy comedy dystopia film starring Charlton Heston and Harvey Korman.

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  Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film which tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.

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  Sleeping Beauty: Resurrection is a 1997 science fiction horror romance film about a space-traveling princess (Sigourney Weaver) who is awakened from hyber-sleep by a deadly alien prince.

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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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  HAL 9000 Design Group is an interdisciplinary firm of architects, UX designers, and artificial intelligences based in the spaceship Discovery 1.

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  "Help Me Make It Through the Tweet" is a song by Sammi Smith.

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  Baby Blue Airwolf is a 1976 American action-adventure film about a failed Marine helicopter pilot who deceives the staff of a small Colorado airport into treating him as a hero.

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  Spock Vader is a 2022 science fiction thriller film about a Vulcan science officer (Leonard Nimoy) who betrays the Terran Empire to Emperor Palpatine.

Beyond Plausible

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  Donnie Pinko is a 2001 American Christmas science fiction psychological thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Billingsley.

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  LARP Fiction is a 1994 live action role playing game directed by Quentin Tarantino.

In Other Words

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  Star Trek: Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film about a group of gifted students at Starfleet Academy High School who design a mind control parasite intended to improve their grades.

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and computer scientist John Backus (3 December 1924 – 17 March 2007) invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax?

Topic of the Day

Non-Fungible Tokens

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  Portrait of the Artist as a Young NFT is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A nichtfungibletokenroman written in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and financial awakening of young Stephen Dataloss, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to the loss of data, which undermines the non-fungible token economy.

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  Planet of the NFTs is a 1968 science fiction NFT film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future where non-fungible tokens have been deleted.

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  Dial N for NFTs is a 1954 American crime thriller film about decides to murder his wife for her NFTs and because she hacked his Tindr account the year before.

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  The Adventures of Rocky and NFTwinkle and Friends is an American animated television series about an anthropomorphic flying squirrel, Rocket J. ("Rocky") Squirrel, and an NFT-minting moose, Bullwinkle N.F.T. Moose.