Kaphka

@kaphka.bsky.social

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From Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969): "These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
A portion of the screenshot above: I kick myself every single day for not flipping this production. I was encouraged not to and I naively listened.
A photo of a random old 5.25" floppy disk on my floor. It is labelled "diskette".
From the linked article: "The floppy disk is placed in a disk drive and eventually gave way to what were called diskettes—contained in a hard plastic case, not as floppy, and usually about 3 and a half inches in width."
A screenshot of the above post, but the video won't load (apparently due to a Bluesky issue.)
A screenshot showing the above post blocked as "Suspected Inauthentic Behavior".
An open book that just says "IT'S MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT".
Dave Bowman jogs in a loop inside the Discovery spacecraft in the film "2001".
The awkward dinner scene from Star Trek VI, with a speech bubble added to make it look like General Chang is speaking the skeet from ‪@rikergoogling.bsky.social‬ above.
The classic Far Side cartoon in which a penguin sings "I gotta be me" in the midst of thousands of identical penguins.
A page of Google News results showing headlines about COVID 19 that Google has dated to 2018 or earlier. The dates are obviously wrong.
Certain examples that Aristotle attributes to Democritus and Leucippus clearly prefigure it, but its belated inventor is Gustav Theodor Fechner, and its first exponent, Kurd Lasswitz. [...] In his book The Race with the Tortoise (Berlin, 1919 [sic]), Dr Theodor Wolff suggests that it is a derivation from, or a parody of, Ramón Llull's thinking machine [...] The elements of his game are the universal orthographic symbols, not the words of a language [...] Lasswitz arrives at twenty-five symbols (twenty-two letters, the space, the period, the comma)[footnote a] ,whose recombinations and repetitions encompass everything possible to express in all languages.
A portrait of Spike, Snoopy's brother. He looks like Snoopy with a ratty mustache and a cheap hat.
"The Department of School Safety and Security quickly reviewed and canceled the initial alert after confirming there was no weapon. I contacted our school resource officer (SRO) and reported the matter to him, and he contacted the local precinct for additional support. Police officers responded to the school, searched the individual and quickly confirmed that they were not in possession of any weapons."
A shot from the film "The Two Popes" in which actors playing Pope Francis and Pope Benedict are watching football on TV. Francis is very excited about the game. Benedict is politely trying to care.
The cover of the They Might Be Giants album "Apollo 18", which features a giant squid fighting a whale, apparently in space.
A shot from Spontaneous (2020) in which someone has texted a picture of Richard Nixon, followed by: "Sorry it's crooked : ("
The initial, deceptively pleasant title screen from Ultima VII.
"The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated."
Ticker underneath the CNN interview reads: TRUMP SAYS THERE'S A TIKTOK BUYER THAT HE'LL REVEAL IN 'ABOUT TWO WEE...
"One thing the candidates share, I suppose, is that both get accused of being nepo babies. Mamdani’s mother made the 1991 indie romance Mississippi Masala. Cuomo’s father was governor of New York."
A paragraph from the linked article: President Donald Trump in recent days raised the idea of punishing the Ivy League university for not complying with what the administration has sought to portray as a campaign to fight antisemitism.
a screenshot of the skeet reposted by @joshuajfriedman.com , but the image is blocked and labelled "Sensual Alf"