Hmm dehydrated brains might need a second take if she were searching in a dark freezer. I like it.

The first episode showed the Others collecting the dead. A few episodes later it’s revealed that they don’t kill, but are perfectly fine consuming already dead organisms.

Helen’s corpse is a recurring reminder up until this episode to the point that Carol has to bury it—an act we never see the Others do, so the popular theory right now is that the bodies are probably consumed. I keep coming back to my Aquamation theory because of the result of the contents in the milk cartons and now also because of the previous energy conservation efforts. Aquamation takes a fair bit of energy to heat the bodies that get processed, and doing it to nearly a billion people would be no small feat.

The powdered substance found in the dog food bags are likely crushed bones (basically calcium) or crystallized aquamated people used to fertilize or be consumed.

Of course Carol is shocked to see something, but we’ll need to wait and see what exactly.

Whether or not I’m onto something it’s an illuminating look into the funerary world and the alternatives that exist to embalming and a casket.

So 6 days of 12-hour shifts? Sounds like a pretty novel way to tank your economy because no one’ll have the time to spend money or raise a family.

In the age of AI satire and comedy are dead.

I think it could be a Soylent Green misdirect, but only because I want to believe that Vince Gilligan is smarter than spelling out the twist this way. Until we find out more next week my guess is the bodies are being Aqua cremated. How the milk cartons are involved is anyone’s guess.

Necroprinting is the new Necromancer skill upgrade I’ve been waiting for.

I think I’m mixing the two because there are services that kind of turn Mastodon into an RSS reader.

That’s true that it is somewhat more robust than requiring a federated account, but I think that comes at the cost of discoverability which may or may not be something you might want to broadcast on a social network anyway 🤷‍♂️

So basically government fediverse instances.

It’s so clean I thought I was looking at a diecast Tachikoma at first!

Certified bullshit

I like how threads are organized and how there’s a profile preview, but the profile pages themselves could use some work. I could see myself switching back and forth between this and Ice Cubes.

I completely forgot about this app. Coulda been interesting to try it out during the recent World Series.

How’s everyone’s experience with the Sports app?

Most of the items in the Vatican collection were sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries for a 1925 exhibition in the Vatican gardens. The Vatican insists the items were “gifts” to Pope Pius XI, who wanted to celebrate the church’s global reach, its missionaries and the lives of the Indigenous peoples they evangelized.

But historians, Indigenous groups and experts have long questioned whether the items could really have been offered freely, given the power imbalances at play in Catholic missions at the time.

The rest of the article is an interesting read.

The iPad is a great ultra-light and portable device for drawing, document annotation, and reading/media consumption. Overall it excels at viewing tasks that require little-to-no text input.

I know that some people swear by yoga-style laptops, but I just see that as a novel liability by subjecting your device to extra external stresses. At the end of the day it’s just a tool, and if it doesn’t fit your workflow don’t use it.

It’s already hard enough to get people to donate even $20 towards fediverse projects like Lemmy or Mastodon.

If he does lose his position as leader, he’ll still maintain his position as MP, right? I’d be shocked if he abandoned his step-stool constituents.

Scavenger’s Reign and Infinity Train died via HBO Max. I think these shows would fit so well in Apple’s growing sci-fi portfolio.

My hope is this translates into Canada strengthening its position as a global scientific research hub as the US drains their talent pool.

Plug the nostalgia into my veins!

It’s a bit of an oversimplification, but the bags are melted down in large quantities and then chopped up into plastic pellets which can be used to make new plastic bags.