I very much enjoyed the moment in an episode of The Librarians where two women were literally in a refrigerator (one of the big walk-in ones).
While they were in there, they passed the Bechdel test.
Originally shared by Standout Books
Fridging is a lazy device – digging deeper will usually leave you with a stronger story.
Find out more with ‘What Is ‘Fridging’, And How Can You Avoid It?’
I refuse to use Gmail’s autosuggested reply “Ok”.
Because the correct capitalization is “OK”.
This kind of “nagged by our tech into decisions we don’t really mean” issue was something I touched on in “Aspiration Value” (though in the final version of the story it got deemphasized a bit): http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/aspirationvalue.html
Originally shared by Walter Roberson
Mike Reeves-McMillan for multiple reasons
https://www.fastcompany.com/90205359/google-you-auto-complete-me
I see this error surprisingly often.
Originally shared by Grammar Girl
“Capital” has many meanings, including meaning the city that is the seat of government for your state or country. “Capitol” refers only to capitol buildings. http://ow.ly/nsqV30kCROI
Tofugu: a vegetarian dish that, unless prepared very carefully by a highly trained expert, risks boring you to death.
Here’s some useful handwavium for you. Comes with a shelf life; a lot of research is going into figuring out what this stuff is actually good for and how to make it do that. But for now, you can probably use it to justify all kinds of crazy materials properties in your SF if you need to.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Graphene and Beyond: The Astonishing Properties and Promise of 2D Materials https://suhub.co/2KvRQux
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
Wasn’t there a woman in the team at the end of the last film? Why has she vanished without trace, never to be mentioned?
Oh, I get it. There can only be one named female character per action movie.
Otherwise they might have a conversation about something other than a man, and then where would we be?
Originally shared by Judah Richardson
The total short-run impact of automation on low-wage employment may be economically small even when technological substitution is taking place.
My almost-finished WIP is full of punched cards. Full.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
I suddenly had visions of a dystopian zee-rust future with people surfing the web via punch cards. And the piles of cards that would accumulate when reading a flame-war.
https://twitter.com/mainframed767/status/1025023780416966656
Colonising space is a lot harder than, say, colonising Pacific islands. Even though in space you know where you’re going and (more or less) what you’ll find when you get there.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
David Fickling tweeted:
Here’s a thread about how Polynesian war canoes prove that humans are never going to colonize space in any foreseeable future…
https://twitter.com/davidfickling/status/1024923442594738176
Privacy: not really a thing soon.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
In the Future, We’ll Know Everything—Thanks to This Tech https://suhub.co/2KneLIp