"Warhound, based in Texas, will also equip its canines with 'Anduril’s advanced cybernetic Augments, software, and battlefield situational awareness,'" WHAT THE FUCK. THE BEGINNING OF SO MANY DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI STORIES.
If you work on making cyborg dogs for the military, you are a straight up monster. Sorry, you just cashed in your humanity card at this decision.
Look for the people who mistreat animals. They just can't be trusted with humans either.
Last day for the Strange New Worlds VFX team. If you need a great VFX Producer, Coords and a VFX Editor, I know some available ones.
Bummed.
One down….
https://www.avclub.com/david-zaslav-goodbye-video-to-employees
"[Zaslav] set about unsuccessfully reducing the company’s $43 billion in debt through rounds of layoffs and canceling film projects. His most high-profile cancellations were an unfinished Batgirl movie and shelving Coyote Vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes movie currently on track to outgross every single Warner Bros. release this year."
LOL, brutal.
RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/117363047091800048
IT'S FUCKING 2026 PEOPLE. *32* states
Imagine if Nick Offerman was the male role model to millions instead of, well most other people.
You *can* be everything that looks like a lumberjack and a woodworking outdoor guy (at least when he has his beard) and not be a bigot and care about other people instead. You can come off as a traditional guy but none of that means you're a retrograde conservative. You just like making stuff with your hands.
Happy Labor Day. Remember who got us this day off.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/private-equity-boom-hospital-job-layoff
If this destroys private equity and VCs; it would be a great thing. The companies are fucked anyway; hope the cycle of of VCs being able to wreck them ends.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-nspm-7-314a-patriot-act
Oh remember when we said the PATRIOT Act would be used against people domestically?
"HSI — DHS’ investigative agency, housed under Immigration and Customs Enforcement — used NSPM-7 to justify a wide-ranging investigation into the financial records of unions, climate groups, and more."
If you're following at home, NSPM-7 says antifa is a "domestic terrorism operation" and if you oppose this government, you're antifa.
Always using her fame and fortune for good.
Dolly: Trans peeps “cannot help” being trans “any more than I can help being Dolly Parton”.
“I just want everybody to be treated good,” she said.
“I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees… I’ve got transgender people. I’ve got gays. I’ve got lesbians. I’ve got drunks. I’ve got drug addicts—all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.
“And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are”
Be a fourth as good as Dolly Parton and you'd be an amazingly good person.
Books for kids, charitable work, helping sponsor research that resulted in a COVID vaccine; she did so many good things.
May her memory be a blessing.
LOL they wanted the practical ring to light up on Lanterns. Oh, sweet summer children.
It probably worked until the first time an actor bumped against anything and never again.
Props *has* to know by know even *if* they got it to work consistently, there's no way show runners aren't going to replace that glow with VFX every single time.
Every single hero phaser in Picard was dropped and broken at least twice and I think only 1/3 lit up inconsistently by the end
I dunno man, they've made Hal Jordan too much of a dick for my tastes. Enough that I don't think they can justify or explain it through the show in future episodes. I think that's a bummer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DoiansHqk
This is the energy and messaging the left needs. Messaging like this *all* the time.
It's fun to look at an AI thumbnail on YouTube and just block that channel forever.
Assembling doll cases for the spouse and listening to the new book from Adrian Tchaikovsky "Green City Wars" is a pretty decent way to spend the day.
"The Brannock Device" is everything that used to be good about American invention and business, and everything that is wrong with it today.
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/100-objects-011-brannock-device/
99 Percent Invisible is my favorite podcast, hands down, and their collaboration with the BBC on "A History of the United States in 100 Objects" is a good one.
This episode is the perfect 99pi episode: Something you've probably seen, never thought about, which has an amazing story behind it, and fits into the larger world in an interesting way, and can be related to modern issues.
