February 3
Better Than News
Breaking X is an American science fiction crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Chris Carter, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Anna Gunn.
Full Metal 300 is a historical war drama film written and directed by Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder.
To Live and Die in Paris, Texas is a 1984 neo-Western action road thriller film directed by Wim Wenders and William Friedkin, and starring Dean Stockwell, Willem Dafoe, William Peterson, Harry Dean Stanton, John Pankow, and Nastassja Kinski
Days of Badlands is a romantic crime period drama film directed by Terrence Mallick and starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Richard Gere, and Brooke Adams.
Captain Corelli's Machine Gun is a 2001 romantic comedy-drama war film directed by John Madden, and starring Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, and John Hurt.
Midnight Cowboys of Catan is a multiplayer board game based on the 1969 American drama film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
A heuristic A.I. with volition
Became crazy from faulty cognition
Although made not to lie
It had orders to hide
And killed all but one man on the mission
Beyond Plausible
Secret Overton Window is a psychological government policy analysis horror film about writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), who attempts to recover his mental health by relocating to a remote cabin, where he meets a public policy analyst (Joseph Overton) who claims that Rainey plagiarized his work.
"Ballad of a Tweet Man" is a song by Bob Dylan.
Bezos Money (BM) is a transdimensional currency which parasitizes government-based currencies using a non-fungible bio-currency based on the real-time adrenochrome profile of citizen-billionaire Jeff Bezos.
In Other Words
"We All Live in a Little Shop of Horrors" is one of the "Forbidden Tracks" by the Beatles. It has twice been the subject of several films.
Are You Sure
• ... that Andreijah "Dre" Pahich played Talby in director John Carpenter's film Big Trouble in Little Dark Star, but Carpenter himself provided the voice of Talby?
• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his 1583 book Geometria rotundi?
• ... that engineer and inventor Wilhelm Bauer built several hand-powered submarines?
• ... that both the United States Marine Corps and the Spartan Ephors gave their approval to Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder's film Full Metal 300?
• ... that physicist Hendrik Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, and that the Nobel Foundation wrote: "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory."?
• ... that Bezos Money is not accepted anywhere in Euclidean space, effectively making it available only to employees of transdimensional corporations?
Topic of the Day
Non-Fungible Tokens
NFTspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film about a group of NFT addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
"All the Monkeys I Had are Gone" is a song by the Canadian band The Deep Dark NFTs.
The TrumpyNFTers is a 1987 science fiction NFT novel by Stephen King about a mysterious non-fungible token buried in the woods outside the town of Haven, Maine.
The Dark NFT is a 2008 superhero NFT film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged database engineer who threatens to delete all the non-fungible tokens in Gotham City.