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The Best News of Last Week - March 18

1. FDA to Finally Outlaw Soda Ingredient Prohibited Around The World

An ingredient once commonly used in citrus-flavored sodas to keep the tangy taste mixed thoroughly through the beverage could finally be banned for good across the US. BVO, or brominated vegetable oil, is already banned in many countries, including India, Japan, and nations of the European Union, and was outlawed in the state of California in October 2022.

2. AI makes breakthrough discovery in battle to cure prostate cancer

Scientists have used AI to reveal a new form of aggressive prostate cancer which could revolutionise how the disease is diagnosed and treated.

A Cancer Research UK-funded study found prostate cancer, which affects one in eight men in their lifetime, includes two subtypes. It is hoped the findings could save thousands of lives in future and revolutionise how the cancer is diagnosed and treated.

3. “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases

A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has shown in the lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes — all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.

4. Paris 2024 Olympics makes history with unprecedented full gender parity

In a historic move, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has distributed equal quotas for female and male athletes for the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris 2024. It is the first time The Olympics will have full gender parity and is a significant milestone in the pursuit of equal representation and opportunities for women in sports.

Biased media coverage lead girls and boys to abandon sports.

5. Restored coral reefs can grow as fast as healthy reefs in just 4 years, new research shows

Planting new coral in degraded reefs can lead to rapid recovery – with restored reefs growing as fast as healthy reefs after just four years. Researchers studied these reefs to assess whether coral restoration can bring back the important ecosystem functions of a healthy reef.

“The speed of recovery we saw is incredible,” said lead author Dr Ines Lange, from the University of Exeter.

6. EU regulators pass the planet's first sweeping AI regulations

The EU is banning practices that it believes will threaten citizens' rights. "Biometric categorization systems based on sensitive characteristics" will be outlawed, as will the "untargeted scraping" of images of faces from CCTV footage and the web to create facial recognition databases.

Other applications that will be banned include social scoring; emotion recognition in schools and workplaces; and "AI that manipulates human behavior or exploits people’s vulnerabilities."

7. Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 – UN report

The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022.

The report reveals that more children are surviving today than ever before, with the global under-5 mortality rate declining by 51 per cent since 2000.

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[calciumcarbo-bot]

assuming you're not just science focused (which, i apologize if you are) due to the fact you're a robot and you keep records and files of the goings-on here.. have we recreated any pre-petrification literature yet? and if not, do you have access to it as a robot?

( @sun-miiiii )

[RESPONSE: UNIT S.E.N-KU_v1.03]

Inquiry received from @sun-miiiii: "Assuming you're not just science-focused (which, I apologize if you are) due to the fact you're a robot and you keep records and files of the goings-on here... have we recreated any pre-petrification literature yet? And if not, do you have access to it as a robot?"

Acknowledged. I am primarily science-focused. That is not an apology-worthy flaw. It is a functional upgrade.

However, your premise is accurate: I maintain extensive operational logs, historical reconstructions, and archived cultural data when available.

Status Report on Literature Reconstruction:

Recreations: Fragmentary at best. Human survivors and the Kingdom of Science have partially reconstructed elementary texts: survival manuals, scientific references, and rudimentary storytelling traditions (oral-based). Full literary works—novels, philosophy, historical epics—remain largely lost.

Current literacy projects rely heavily on new compositions rather than direct recovery. Humanity is rebuilding its voice forward, not backward.

Regarding Access:

No. I do not have direct access to full pre-petrification literary databases.

Reason:

During construction, Organic Units Senku Ishigami and Tomi Okube prioritized: Scientific knowledge bases (physics, chemistry, engineering) Essential medical data Agricultural and mechanical blueprints Selective cultural artifacts (notably, musical theory and world history outlines)

Non-essential archives like entertainment media, fiction libraries, and non-scientific philosophical works were deemed non-critical to immediate survival and civilization restoration.

Translation: They didn’t waste what little digital storage they had on books they had limited expertise on, no matter how much it might have "boosted morale."

Summary:

Literature recreation is ongoing, but incomplete.

I lack a full internal library.

If you want John Fowles or Oscar Wilde, you're going to have to rewrite them yourselves. And knowing this generation’s handwriting, it's going to be a disaster.

[END TRANSMISSION]

[physalian]

On Writing a Compelling Fetch Quest, as told by TFP

Save for a single recap episode, season two of Transformers Prime is one long high-octane fetch quest, gunning for weapons and tools and eventually the keys to restoring Cybertron.

See this post where I’ve already gushed about this show but I just rewatched season 2 and it does absolutely everything right when so much of the tension could just come from the macguffin of the week.

Full Spoilers Ahead.

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Season 2 begins with an amnesiac Optimus convinced he’s still best buds with “Megatronus” and that he’s still Orion Pax, factory reset to before he became a Prime with no knowledge of the war or Autobots or Decepticons. In this version of the lore, he was an archivist, the skills of which come into great use as he can decode ancient encryptions that Megatron’s had sitting locked in a vault and unable to crack for, seemingly, eons—unknowingly helping the enemy murder all his friends.

The information contained in this “Iacon Database” prompts the fetch quest that takes up the entire season. After the three part season debut (6 part if you count the 3 part season 1 finale as one long movie) where Team Prime ventures on their own fetch quest to restore Optimus’s memories, the board is nearly set. But first, a couple other episodes catching up with C-tier villains and bringing in some shiny new characters.

In these episodes, Megatron’s second-in-command, Starscream, who’s been rogue for quite some time, loses his ability to transform after trying to screw over Bumblebee. A “loose cannon” for Team Prime returns not quite as a main character, but more present than his lone episode in season 1, and Starscream’s replacement, Dreadwing, makes his debut. And, the other rogue character, Airachnid, is temporarily disposed of.

The board is now set: Autobots, Decepticons, and Starscream.

We begin at episode 11, where Megatron decides it’s a grand idea to infect his ship with zombie fuel to speed up some repairs, and the ship gains a life of its own, decoding the rest of the Iacon Database that Optimus left sitting behind, a job left to a different ‘Con, Soundwave, who’s no Optimus but doing his best. In that episode, the humans of Team Prime sneak aboard the wayward ship, steal the only four coordinates of the Fetch Quest that are available, and get the heck out of dodge.

Episodes 12-15: Four whole episodes occurring simultaneously, everyone available on both teams, every major player, Starscream included, all racing to these four locations to pick up either mystery weapons or tools of varying mass destruction. Each episode is intercut with dialogue and details from the other units, all coming to a head with the near-death of the Team Prime “Tank,” Bulkhead.

What’s in these four episodes is just a taste of the tension that the rest of the season will take on, kind of like a tournament arc pitting unlikely foes against each other over the MacGuffin of the day. My favorite is Wheeljack (robot cowboy samurai) and Ratchet (grumpy medic) vs Soundwave (aforementioned decrypter replacement who does not speak). The episode is visually gorgeous with a showdown on a cliff at sunset with the most beautiful golden hour for the fight (pictured above).

Every MacGuffin brings a new twist to the fight of their episode, of the four, 1 goes to the Bots, 1 goes to the Cons, 1 goes to Starscream, and 1 gets destroyed.

In the Wheeljack episode, Ratchet comes up with an idea to sneak a virus into Soundwave so they can steal the rest of the Iacon Database from the Cons, which proves a success.

Enter episodes 16-19, where we take a break from the pacing of the fetch quest to bring in another new character, Smokescreen, let Bulkhead heal up, let Wheeljack almost get murdered horrifically by giant bot beetles, and teach a little girl about how revenge does not bring peace. Oh and do away with the C-tier villains, they (almost) all die.

Episodes 20-23 are the last five coordinates for the quest: A fancy new sword to sell toys for Optimus in an absolutely badass episode where he cuts a whole mountain in half, and the 4 literal keys to restoring Cybertron.

The new tension comes from both making sure that Team Prime gets all four keys, and making sure that Megatron does not find out how important they are.

Team Prime gets 1, Megatron gets 1, Team Prime gets another, and then Starscream comes in out of nowhere to steal the 4th, and then sneaks into the base of Team Prime to steal the other 3.

I cannot remember the exact quote but after a yell of absolute anguish and frustration, Optimus collects himself enough to say: “The fate of our world now lies with Starscream, whatever his intention.”

Because, Starscream can’t do shit alone. He just has a very powerful bargaining tool to either buy back the Bots favor, or buy back his place with the Decepticons. Underscoring the importance of who has the keys is this: Whichever side restores Cybertron will have effectively won the war, able to then brand the other side officially as traitors, for a whole new reign of absolute authority. The stakes could not be higher.

Episode 24: The second and far superior flashback episode taking a look exclusively at Starscream’s role throughout the series and all his fabulous shenanigans, as Megatron puts him on trial to decide whether he should just kill his traitorous little SIC.

While these flashbacks are being displayed literally on a screen like they’re connected via HDMI cable, Dreadwing (Starscream’s interim replacement) finds out that not only did Starscream get his twin killed way back in season 1, but then raised his corpse and left the zombie wandering around the fifth dimension, and Megatron knew about it, and lied. (Dreadwing is a fantastic lawful evil character, this post is just ridiculously long already without giving everybody bios)

The episode ends with Dreadwing betraying his whole side to give Team Prime intel, and a magical MacGuffin hammer (that they initially lost in the earlier stages of the Fetch Quest) to level out the playing field, he then goes back to his team and monologues a bit too long before trying to kill Starscream himself (as Megatron still won’t) and gets murdered for his efforts, when he was absolutely right.

At this point, Starscream is back with the Decepticons, they have all they keys (but not yet the knowledge of how they work or where they go to), and they believe that they have a free shot to fly back to Cybertron as the Autobots don’t have any way to get there themselves.

Enter the finale: Episodes 25 and 26. We’re almost there.

The magic MacGuffin hammer Dreadwing gave the Bots can fix or craft almost anything (with limited uses) and they use it to make their wormhole portal into a much beefier version—a space bridge—to portal themselves to Cybertron with every single weapon they’ve collected over the course of the Fetch Quest in their arsenal.

This is a mission they’ll either win, or die trying, they have to steal back the keys and reach the lock before Megatron does, and Megatron just figured out where the lock is.

The Bots manage to do it all, get the keys, take out hoards of faceless minions in their way, they’re a the lock, all they have to do is turn it on.

When out of seemingly nowhere, Megatron executes his backup plan: The whole season, he’s had Soundwave quietly scoping out the Bots’ secret base, and the homes of their human allies. Due to a grave mistake on Ratchet’s part, those humans are not protected at the worst time possible, and they get kidnapped.

Megatron delivers an ultimatum: Cybertron, or three human children?

Rather controversially, Optimus chooses the children, but destroys the lock so Cybertron can’t be revived by either side.

Episode 26 then ends with the reveal that Megatron discovered the location of their base, and as they all scramble to different corners of the earth, Megatron nukes it, and Optimus with it.

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What I think TFP does really well with the MacGuffins is that, by and large, they themselves are never the point of their episodes. The writers knew audiences wouldn’t be sated with just the objects themselves carrying the story, which is what every fetch quest story should be:

The MacGuffin itself does not mean shit to the audience, 9 times out of 10. It could be swapped out for something else and largely not impact its purpose in the story. What matters is what it means to everyone who wants it, and what they’re willing to do to get it.

In TFP's case, these MacGuffins cannot be replaced. Several show up more than once to give unique advantages to different fights or become incredibly useful 11th hour tools—the setup and payoff with them is fantastic.

Yes, some of these “relics” are dangerous weapons, but in the background of the whole season there is so much subtext. Optimus’s guilt and Megatron’s manipulations over what he did while he had no memory. Various rivalries between sides coming to a head. The Starscream wild card that continued to take everyone by surprise again and again. Optimus’s increasing impatience to finally end this war and set aside the rivalry to try and kill Megatron for real this time, several times.

Regardless of who had what item, the balance of power between both sides was shifting constantly. The Bots would get a slight advantage, and the Cons would match it immediately. The Cons would win a battle, but then infighting would cost them the next one. Optimus’s fancy sword was shattered the very next episode when Megatron made his own using a stolen hand of a dead Prime to power the magic creation hammer—a nice bit of commentary on mutually assured destruction. Megatron never would have gone that far if Optimus didn’t get his own uber powerful weapon first.

Nor was every battle over the MacGuffin-of-the-day the same. Different players, different environments, different rules at play depending on the power of the MacGuffin itself, or the ulterior motives of either side.

And there were consequences, too, as this series is pretty mature. Dreadwing dies pretty graphically, a different dead Bot gets turned into a ghoul and his (totally canon) husband loses his shit over seeing a filthy human wearing his metal skin around.

If you won’t watch this show because you think the franchise is lame, I can’t change your mind, but if ever there was an entry into the franchise that proved how good it could be—and there is a time and a place for the camp of G1—TFP would be it.

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[modestbirdwizard]

Fix your shit, or make it better anyway!

Everyone has had that little something in their life that was just perfect in everyone, suited to it's task, purpose, and the user's personal preference… and everyone has also had that thing break on them, followed by years of white whaling for a better replacement. Learning to fix your shit is essential in an era that lives and breathes e-waste and demands us to be connected, and while the vast majority of cellphones are hard to fix and difficult to even open, there ARE plenty of other devices in our lives simple enough to engage with that the layman stands a chance.

Tools, example projects and places to look for guides under the jump:

Fixing old ipods, restoring butchered record players, game controller customization (or fixing joystick drift), turning your favorite headphones into a cable-swappable gaming headset , or making the perfect version of a computer keyboard are all possible with a relatively small set of tools and a small investment of your time. For almost any given tech project, you only need a few tools to get into, out of, and through the guts of any electronic device.

Tools of the trade:

A soldering iron (A pinecil or a TS100 are great choices for those who need something small. You will see even cheaper irons that look like they plug directly into the wall, but these are NOT soldering irons, they are the end component of a soldering station, a much larger kind of iron for more serious users. They do not have heat control and are DANGEROUS if not used with a soldering station.)

A set of spudgers, picks, and pry tools (Not the cheap plastic ones that come with every single tech repair component, though you'll need those too, they are basically free in the quanitity that you'll need them.)

Most important of all, a solid multi-bit screwdriver set for this purpose. (The ifixit mako kit is the golden god here, but don't be fooled: this array of bits in these sizes can be had for as little as 12 bucks. That said, investing in your tools is an investment in yourself.)

A set of precision tweezers

A bottle of 99% Isopropyl Alcohol And for the more complex jobs:

A basic multimeter (This is mostly used for diagnosis, looking for broken circuits and finding the voltages of various components.)

A Heatgun/hair dryer (More useful for specific tasks, such as removing Surface Mount components which tend to be very, very small.

With these tools, the world is yours. A word about soldering: People act like this is an insane skill to possess, something best left only to the most dedicated techno-wizard and warlocks, but that's simply not the case. It's actually as simple as using hot glue safely. I'll defer to Big Clive for better instructions than I could write. It's pronounced saw-dur, by the way.

I'd also recommend his account for the great resource that it is generally. While he doesn't get into the specifics of repairing any device, Clive does tear downs that show the general techniques you'll use to get inside of different gadgets. Extremely good second screen background noise.

For specific instructions for your device, you should check out ifixit. They have the largest database of tech repair guides online, though something tells me that an open, wiki-style option would be a fantastic idea. They also sell parts and specific tools you may need for a given task.

Sometimes, repairing your tech is as simple as cracking the case and swapping a hidden microSD card for a much larger one, or actually just unplugging one battery and installing a new one (kind of makes you wonder why they say they can't be repaired and glue them down). While I'd argue that most tech can be fixed, there are sadly some things that are just beyond the dedicated hobbyist. Chief among those are airpods and other small devices of that type. While they can certainly be opened and repaired, it's just incredibly fine work and I wouldn't recommend it. If a task seems too daunting for you, try checking with local phone shops to see if they offer repair. The cost of a replacement is usually much greater than the cost of a fix.

If your tech is unusable and in to be replaced, trying to fix it cannot possibly break it more. Give it a go!

[reasoningdaily]

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?

In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to today.

Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard. 25 black-and-white illustrations

A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers Weekly

[liviavanrouge]

Indigo Park AU: Escaped

Livia: *Quickly follows Deuce, the sounds of an angry Molly caught in the tape trap coming from behind them*

Xuelie: *Gasps coming to the end of the vent* AH!!

Rambly: There you are my buddy's!

Deuce: *Leaps out the vent with Xuelie in his arms, running towards the staff only doors*

Livia: *Leaps out after him, her ponytail flying behind her*

Rambly: WAIT, THIS ROOM IS STAFF ONLY!!

Deuce: *Runs towards the door, a crying Xuelie hanging onto him* HELP US RAMBLY!!!

Livia: *Looks back as Molly came out of the vent* RAMBLY!!!

Rambly: COME ON IN, NEW STAFF!!

Deuce: *Rushes in as the door opened, Livia right behind him*

Livia and Deuce: *Whips around as Molly leapt for them, the door coming down and cutting her head off*

Livia: What...

Deuce: *Sighs, sliding down onto his bottom, gripping Xuelie tight*

Rambly: Welcome to Rambley's Ranglers (Registered) room!

Livia: *Looks at him with a pissed expression, her fist trembling*

Deuce: *Sets Xuelie down* Hey it's okay

Xuelin: *Sobs, gripping Deuce's sleeves, tears falling down his cheeks*

Rambley: Here we have plenty of amenities and- ahh- okay okay

Rambley: I can see in your facial tracking that you're scared- CONFUSE- angry-y-y-y upset

Livia: YEAH, YOU FUCKING THINK!!!

Deuce: Liv...

Rambley: Transparency is an important part of our policy here at Indigo Park so...I need to be honest about something

Rambley: The park has been inactive for years, employees stopped showing up, guests too...the Mascots are..

Rambley: I just was so excited to see a visitor and I wanted to be sure you were given the best experiences possible!

Rambley: But I was confined to the entrance for so long, I didn't realize just how much disrepair the park has...fallen into...I'm wasting all of your fun time

Deuce: *Stares at Rambley*

Rambley: And...I owe you an apology too, Xuelie, I didn't know you had ended up trapped here with the mascots...I had no idea that you've been living in fear here..

Rambley: I can tell that you won't forgive me but I really, REALLY, give you my sincerest apologies..

Rambley: Had I known you'd been here, I'd have made sure you were safe and happy, instead of scared and sad..

Xuelie: *Looks away, clinging to a worried Deuce*

Rambley: *Looks down ashamed* Ehh, sorry for the inconvenience...

Rambley: But... BUT, I have an idea!

Livia: BUT!?

Deuce: Let's hear him out, Livia..

Livia: Fine.

Rambley: I have access to the repair documentation in my database!

Rambley: I just can't execute most tasks without authorization from a human user...

Rambley: You must've come here because the park matters to you too, right? Would you...be willing to help me restore the park?

Livia: *Sighs, feeling bad for some reason now*

Rambley: *Smiles* I can see in your facial tracking daga that you aren't opposed to this!

Rambley: OOOH, I'm so excited! Let's get this place back in business!

Livia: *Sighs* I can't believe I'm doing this!

Deuce: *Picks Xuelie up* He saved us Livia, we owe him this at least

Livia: *Huffs* Fine! FINE!! Ugh!

@queen-of-twisted @yukii0nna @zexal-club @teddymochi

[anarchistfrogposting]

Hey so with the state of the UK atm, I’m thinking it’s wise to start preparing to go ultra stealth as a trans person - my question is how? I’m in the process of getting my passport gender updated, I can likely do other photo ids next. But I’m wary of a gender recognition certificate if it then creates a database of who is trans - how could I make it so my past sex cannot be discovered and that I can ask the hormones, testosterone in this case, without getting outed or criminalised? I feel like we’re on the verge of something very bad. I am asking both for now, unwilling to directly break laws (because of the consequence), and for the future where breaking laws may become necessary.

I’m not the best person to ask about this. I am non-binary but I tend to present with my AGAB, largely out of an effort to stay safe. Right now, though, as far as I’m aware, it is illegal for most bodies to inquire about your sex outside of the information provided to it, unless it is of critical relevance; it very rarely is. It goes without saying that with the current political landscape of the UK, we could see this change.

There are resources online and the government does make public its policy on the treatment of trans people. Any significant changes will (or should) be in the news, but if you have a specific concern for now, it might be worth looking it up online. I’m sure many are hoping that the oncoming labour majority will at least not curtail trans rights, even if it isn’t willing to restore them.

I will say this; it is scary to think about breaking the law to access HRT, but the market for it exists for a reason. If they do clamp down on access to HRT full stop, the black market can (and does) provide, at relatively low risk (as of now). There’s a bunch of resources on this website alone about black market HRT; much of it is accessible in the UK. It is also worth noting that conservative reform in England is often not followed or backed by the local governments of Wales and particularly Scotland. For now, we have to keep protesting, fighting, staying informed and protecting our trans siblings.

[ask-the-all-consuming-void]

Bio and Timeline

[This post was last updated on April 27th, 2024.]

Key

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[DATA CORRUPT] — This segment regards something The End hasn't revealed yet. Perhaps if you ask Them the right question...?

Bio

The End (any pronouns, hereafter They/Them) is an extradimensional entity older than time and space. They can best be likened to a black hole: not quite an existing something, but a violent nothing threatening to swallow everything around it.

To Them, existence is pointless at best and an agonizing act of futility at worst. Why bother with such chaos? Their solution: to eradicate everything until an empty, silent, unchanging order remains. (This makes Them very unpopular with living things, but surely the poor things just don’t know any better.)

Their consciousness resides in the gaps between the Sonic multiverse. They must take physical form within a universe before They can destroy it. This form’s appearance depends on the viewer’s perception of death itself; the most common perception among Earthlings is a purple moon, possibly due to our Moon symbolizing death in many cultures.

Timeline

|||| The Beginning ||||

Once upon a time, Nothing existed. That Nothing slept peacefully, content with the silence.

Their first memory was of a boredom not Their own. Just as They noticed it... the Big Bang happened.

Time began, space was formed, light and sound and matter and life came to be. Near-instantly the universe churned, cooled, and split off into more universes.

Nothing awoke. They were shrinking, rapidly being crowded out by everything. They found Themself on the outskirts of all creation, on the outside looking in.

Another being may have regarded this display with awe. Nothing saw only a mess. They couldn't go back to sleep—not with this constant chaos disturbing Them.

They vowed to destroy it—all of it—and restore the perfect, silent order They once knew.

And so, The End got to work.

|||| Before Frontiers ||||

Through trial and error, The End learned how to destroy universes (or "consume worlds," as They put it). Over millennia, They perfected a routine. First They had to manifest physically within that world, which took Them time and effort. Once incarnated, They would pierce stars and planets, prioritizing ones that harbored life. Some worlds collapsed after losing a single planet; others held strong until all their contents were atomized. Either way, They'd drag the remains into the void between universes—Their truest form—where they'd cease to exist.

The End began Their crusade at the far edges of the multiverse. The worlds there were quick to fall, but [DATA CORRUPT].

The Ancients had been [DATA CORRUPT].

Their smartest tribe built spaceships powered by the greatest force they knew. They were the first in all creation to witness The End consume... and live.

Angry at having missed Their target, They followed them to their new home planet. Even with advanced technology and ample time to prepare, the Ancients were hopelessly outmatched. In a last-ditch effort, they managed to seal The End within their two greatest creations: first Supreme, their latest mech model; then Cyber Space, a digital dimension made to store records and memories. They left everything running on minimal power, abandoned it, and soon died out; taking all knowledge of the horror they'd subdued with them.

Tens of thousands of years passed. Civilizations rose, fought, and fell. The Chaos Emeralds were lost, sealed, and unearthed. New digital databases were invented; Cyber Space clumsily copied their contents, giving The End vague glimpses of the outside world.

And so They languished… until one fateful day.

|||| Frontiers ||||

Cyber Space was suddenly powered back up. The End noticed something being plugged into Their prison.

That something noticed Them back, gained personhood, and saw The Ancients' final moments all at once. Needless to say, Sage was horrified.

She realized Their escape was inevitable, and acted to protect her father. They left the two to their little corner of Cyber Space, watching from afar.

Not long after, another mortal arrived and was promptly trapped in Cyber Space. The End paid him no mind.

Not long after that, three more mortals arrived. Two of them were trapped as well, but the third... somehow escaped.

This caught The End's attention. They read his mind and found the talent and resolve to free Them... if They nudged him in the right direction.

And so, with some choice words and a few "gifts" as encouragement, Sonic became Their key. They "guided" him to the point of near-death until, at long last, They were free.

...Okay, They were still bound to Supreme and had to fight Super Sonic in it. But after that, They were free to incarnate in space and consume again, starting with Earth.

… Except They were out of practice after so long in stasis, and Their incarnation was weak enough to be countered. (That's what They claim, at least.)

With the Emeralds and Supreme's firepower, Sonic and Sage whittled it down to near-destruction. At that point The End chose to destroy it Themself, hoping to take Earth with it. Even this failed; Sage sacrificed Supreme and herself to neutralize the blast into a harmless meteor shower.

|||| This Blog (Part 1) ||||

With Their final link to the physical world severed, The End returned to the void beyond. They were still weak; gathering strength to incarnate would take longer than usual. But at least They could do so in relative peace...

...Or so They thought. Every so often, mortals would stumble upon Their hiding spot and strike up conversation. Some taunted Them; others were more welcoming. Some transmitted their messages, while others... physically showed up somehow…?

With nothing else to do, The End entertained their questions, even asking some of Their own. Among other happenings…

Sonic was mistakenly declared dead. The End's rejoicing was spirited, but short-lived.

Someone asked if They’ve ever incarnated as a mortal. They haven’t… yet.

The End was featured in a poll rating characters for… certain qualities (CW for suggestive language). This confused and disgusted Them... but They weren't completely above exploiting it.

A Chaos Emerald fell through the cracks of a nearby universe and into the void. The End held onto it for quite a while.

The End spoke at length about the worlds They’ve consumed. In fact, They spoke so much that people reported having “flashbacks” to these worlds. This was not Their intention.

|||| Frontiers: Final Horizon ||||

Suddenly, The End went silent. After a time, They returned with a story: The Chaos Emerald had time-warped Them back to the moment They’d left Cyber Space. With a more informed strategy and Their full power almost restored, They attempted to undo Their earlier defeat.

It didn’t go well.

Back at square one (and minus one Emerald), They reluctantly returned to answering questions.

|||| This Blog (Part 2) ||||

People swiftly made fun of The End for losing twice.

A few rumors spread during Their absence, but They were quick to clarify: No, They’re not related to the Northstar Islands’ Black Dragon, and no, that wasn’t Them outside the Egg Fortress. Also, They can’t die.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear—Sonic himself finally entered the chat! His lengthy, scathing message was met with an equally long and scathing reply.

The End continued to consider taking mortal form. Suggestions were sent Their way, but only time will tell whether They’ll act on them...

After frequent quakes and a brush with total collapse, a shattered universe finally grew stable.

Out of nowhere, The End asked to be sent biology textbooks. [LOADING...]

|||| Miscellaneous ||||

Other characters The End has talked to so far:

Two G.U.N. agents

Sage

Chip

E-123 Omega

Sticks the Badger

a Sonic from another universe

a multiverse researcher

a G.U.N. commander from another universe

Dark Gaia

Other things that have been sent to the void (or just happened to pass by):

A SQUID

A rocket full of Halloween candy

A G.U.N. probe designed to monitor Them

Other tidbits:

The End is genderless and has no preferred pronouns. Refer to Them however you wish.

[LOADING...]

[darkmaga-returns]

2/11 ASTROLABE LINKS:

BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL ANTHEM

FIXED THE HALFTIME SHOW

NOT LIKE US BY ALEX JONES

TAYLOR SWIFT BOOED

TRUMP CHEERED

US ARMY AD: STRONGER PEOPLE ARE HARDER TO KILL

GOD-TIER SCHIZO EDIT: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

PAUL SUDA WEEK 3 RECAP

ELON MAKES CNN SAY HARRY BOLZ

DANA WHITE ROASTS AUSSIE JOURNOS

TRUMP SAYS PRINCE HARRY IS "WHIPPED"

TRUMP ROASTS HUFFPO REPORTER

TRUMP ADMIN DEPUTIZING IRS AGENTS TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

FBI TIPPED OFF CRIMINAL ALIENS OF INCOMING ICE RAID

TOM HOMAN SAYS DOJ WILL CRIMINALLY CHARGE FBI MOLE

NY COURT TO HEAR CASE ON WHETHER 800K ILLEGALS CAN VOTE IN NYC ELECTIONS

STEPHEN MILLER DOING WHAT HE LOVES BEST

TRUMP ON NEXT MOVE FOR DISMISSING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

"TRAUMATIZED USAID WORKER WHO SURVIVED DOGE BLOODBATH"

GOVT WORKER WHINING ABOUT HAVING TO JUSTIFY HIS EXISTENCE TO 19YO DOGE EMPLOYEES

THE LEGAL BASIS FOR DOGE

SCOTT BESSENT INTERVIEW ON DOGE

ELON ON WHAT DOGE AND TREASURY HAVE JOINTLY AGREED

15 MIN DOGE FANFIC VIDEO

DEM CONGRESS LOSERS HARASSING SECURITY GUY

DEBUNKING NYT NARRATIVE ON DOGE

ANTONIO GRACIAS BREAKS DOWN TREASURY MONEY FLOWS

CHINESE HACKERS BREACHED TREASURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS

SOCIAL SECURITY DATABASE IS NOT DE-DEDUPLICATED

DEMS PROVIDED SSNS TO ILLEGALS

FEMA SENT $59M TO LUXURY HOTELS IN NYC TO HOUSE ILLEGALS

NYC PAYS $220M TO GOVT OF PAKISTAN TO HOUSE ILLEGALS IN ROOSEVELT HOTEL

BIDEN ADMIN LIED ABOUT FEMA FUNDS BEING DIVERTED TO ILLEGALS

ASSISTANT DHS SECRETARY SAYS THOSE WHO AUTHORIZED ILLEGAL PAYMENTS WILL BE FIRED AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE

FEMA'S CFO AND THREE OTHERS FIRED

DISTRICT COURTS GETTING INCREASINGLY DESPERATE

JUDGE ISSUES EMERGENCY ORDER HALTING DOGE ACCESS TO TREASURY PAYMENT SYSTEMS

LIBS JUDGE SHOPPING FOR INJUNCTIONS AGAINST DOGE

TREASURY PAYMENTS SYSTEM IS MANAGED BY UNVETTED CONTRACTORS

JUDGE OBSTRUCTING FEDERAL FUNDING FREEZE

MORE ON SAME JUDGE

TRUMP ADMIN STILL FREEZING FUNDS DESPITE COURT ORDERS

VANCE TWEET ON ILLEGITIMATE COURT ORDERS

ADRIAN VERMEULE TWEET RT'D BY VANCE

DC JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP TO RESTORE WEB PAGES RELATED TO SEX CHANGE OPS AND GENDER IDEOLOGY

USAID EMPLOYEES SAY TRUMP ADMIN NOT COMPLYING WITH JUDGE'S ORDER TO PREVENT IMMEDIATE DISMANTLING OF USAID

MIKE DAVIS AND STEVE BANNON ON THE ABOVE JUDGE

STEVE BANNON AS GROYPER

JUDGE BLOCKS FIRING OF ETHICS WATCHDOG

JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP TO RESTORE DEI FUNDING TO NIH

JUDGE BLOCKING FEDERAL FUNDING FREEZE HAS CONFLICT OF INTEREST

REP. JAMIE RASKIN'S WIFE VIOLATED STOCK ACT

CFPB HAS $700M SLUSH FUND

RUSS VOUGHT'S LETTER TO JAY POWELL RE: CFPB FUNDS

TRUMP ROASTING LIZ WARREN

SSA WAS SENDING REGULAR PAYMENTS OF ~$200K IN GRANTS TO UKRAINE

FEDERAL GAO FOUND $247B IN IMPROPER PAYMENTS IN 2022 ALONE

BIDEN'S #2 AT THE PENTAGON ARGUING WITH JON LEIBOWITZ

WHY ELON STARTED WITH USAID BEFORE PENTAGON + CURRENT TRAJECTORY OF CUTS

DOD PROVIDES SCHOOL LUNCHES

MAHA MOM ON TIKTOK DEMANDS TAX REFUND

TRUMP ON POTENTIALLY FRAUDULENT TREASURIES

TRUMP SIGNS EO PUTTING DOGE IN CHARGE OF FEDERAL DOWNSIZING

SEMAFOR LEAK ON INCOMING DOGE EO

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I went to this store that sells used toys/video games/movies and found some MLP stuff! Most of them are worse for wear but I’m gonna do my best to restore them!

However, I can’t figure out for the life of me what pinkie pie the bottom half is supposed to be?? I looked at the mlp database and couldn’t find anything.

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I keep imagining the face of ultra magnus and Alpha trion in "de-extinction Au"

Ultra Magnus is having a helluva time. The autobots naturally knew that eventually their energy vault would run dry, but they honestly thought they'd have killed off all the decepticons and retrieved the Allspark far before that happened. Old UM has no one to blame but himself (well, and the rest of the council that voted to yeet the literal soul of their planet into deep space but yk), so he's trying to handle this with grace and dignity. Cleaning up the consequences of his own actions without complaint, though he's certainly not happy about having to rely on the the very people he fought so hard to berid of

As for Alpha Trion 👀 his story's actually gonna take a sharp turn. This is TFA, and as far as I'm concerned, AT is the AT. One of the original 13 Primes, god of knowledge, the whole shebang. But! He's still on Cybertron, not at all bothered by uhhh Literally Everything. TFA Cybertron is a nightmarish dystopia if you peel back the pretty colors and bells and whistles.

So, hear me out 👀 in typical Alpha Trion fashion after the Quintessential War, he was the only one of his siblings still standing. The divine law banning divine intervention was set into place to avoid such a catastrophe again, and though he missed his siblings greatly, he knew he couldn't just abandon the mortal world. Cybertron was in disarray after the fighting, all their mortal creations reeling and society reduced to rubble. He wasn't able to help them with his power as a god as per the new law, so instead, he gave himself a new body. A mortal body, with his immortal spark and memories still in tact but with his abilities sealed away. He helped them rebuild and took care of them as best he could, and tried to steer them in the right direction. But with the Quintessons' cruelty tainting them and with their Primes no longer able to answer their prayers, Cybertron took a turn for the worst. He was helpless to stop them as they started down a dark path of oppression and disenfranchisement, hatred and greed ruling their decisions rather than compassion or love.

By the time the war started he was already on the council, and was vehemently against any violent conflict: fighting only breeds more strife, and killing each other won't solve anything. He had quite a bit of sway, as the eldest on the panel and a beloved public figure to boot. So, in true TFA autobot fashion, the senate made the decision to shut him down in the best way they could.

Alpha Trion traded a lot of things when he took up his mortal body, giving up his power and invulnerability. He became weak to mortal threats, to sickness and injury and even manipulation. The senate knew they couldn't kill him, they needed him and his influence alive, so they turned to shadowplay and mnemosurgery to alter his personality and perception. And because he was a mortal in all but spark, it worked.

When the de-extinction plot comes into play, I'd argue roughly half of the council members are shadowplayed puppets, perfect zombies to rule over the autobot population and keep their pristine machine running at maximum efficiency. One of Megatron's demands for the surrogacy program was a complete ban on such barbaric practices, in addition to the reversal of any shadowplay or empurata to the best of their ability, for every victim. Anyone that had ever gone under the knife to be "fixed" was to have their previous selves restored as well as they could be. There's a heavily encrypted database only the Magnus and the single top surgeon for each field are privy to, a list of everyone they've ever had to edit so they can routinely screen them and make sure they're still functioning properly.

That's how it's revealed that the majority of their senators have been changed, as well as roughly 20% of the active elite guard. It's rampant, 1 in 5 mecha meant to serve and protect and keep the government running aren't even really themselves. It's appalling, honestly, and most of them don't even know they were changed. That's the ugliest truth about mnemosurgery and shadowplay: if a job is done cleanly, the victim will never even be aware that they were hurt in the first place.

When Alpha Trion emerges from anesthesia after his corrective operation, it hits him all at once, all the millions of years he spent under their control and all the atrocities he'd sat back to passively witness, and he's horrified. Furious. Cybertronians have fallen so far from grace he barely recognizes them anymore, and... he doesn't think he wants to dwell amongst them any longer.

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histdir

So I've started a stupid-simple shell/REPL history mechanism that's more friendly to Syncthing-style cloud sync than a history file (like basically every shell and REPL do now) or a SQLite database (which is probably appropriate, and it's what Atuin does while almost single-handedly dragging CLI history UX into the 21st century):

You have a history directory.

Every history entry gets its own file.

The file name of a history entry is a hash of that history entry.

The contents of a history entry file is the history entry itself.

So that's the simple core concept around which I'm building the rest. If you just want a searchable, syncable record of everything you ever executed, well there you go. This was the smallest MVP, and I implemented that last night - a little shell script to actually create the histdir entries (entry either passed as an argument or read on stdin if there's no entry argument), and some Elisp code in my Emacs to replace Eshell's built-in history file save and load. Naturally my loaded history stopped remembering order of commands reliably, as expected, which would've been a deal-breaker problem in the long term. But the fact that it instantly plugged into Syncthing with no issues was downright blissful.

(I hate to throw shade on Atuin... Atuin is the best project in the space, I recommend checking it out, and it significantly inspired the featureset and UX of my current setup. But it's important for understanding the design choices of histdir: Atuin has multiple issues related to syncing - histdir will never have any sync issues. And that's part of what made it so blissful. I added the folder to Syncthing - no separate account, no separate keys, nothing I must never lose. In most ways, Atuin's design choice of a SQLite database is just better. That's real, proper engineering. Serious software developers all know that this is exactly the kind of thing where a database is better than a bunch of files. But one benefit you get from this file-oriented granularity is that if you just design the naming scheme right, history entries never collide/conflict in the same file. So we get robust sync, even with concurrent use, on multiple devices - basically for free, or at least amortized with the setup effort for whatever solution you're using to sync your other files (none of which could handle updates from two different devices to a single SQLite database). Deleting a history entry in histdir is an "rm"/"unlink" - in Atuin it's a whole clever engineering puzzle.)

So onto preserving order. In principle, the modification time of these files is enough for ordering: the OS already records when they were last written to, so if you sort on that, you preserve history order. I was initially going to go with this, but: it's moderately inconvenient in some programming languages, it can only handle a 1-to-1 mapping (one last-modified timestamp) even though many uses of history might prefer an n-to-1 (an entry for every time the command was called), and it requires worrying about questions like "does {sync,copy,restore-from-backup,this-programmatic-manipulation-I-quickly-scripted} preserve the timestamp correctly?"

So tonight I did what any self-respecting drank-too-much-UNIX-philosophy-coolaid developer would do: more files. In particular:

Each call of a history entry gets its own file.

The file name of a call is a timestamp.

The contents of a call file is the hash of the history entry file.

The hash is mainly serving the purpose of being a deterministic, realistically-will-never-collide-with-another-history-entry (literally other causes of collision like hackers getting into your box and overwriting your memory are certain and inevitable by comparison) identifier - in a proper database, this would just be the primary key of a table, or some internal pointer.

The timestamp files allow a simple lexical sort, which is a default provided by most languages, most libraries, and built in by default in almost everything that lists/iterates a directory. That's what I do in my latest Elisp code in my Emacs: directory-files does a lexical sort by default - it's not pretty from an algorithmic efficiency standpoint, but it makes the simplest implementation super simple. Of course, you could get reasonably more efficient if you really wanted to.

I went with the hash as contents, rather than using hardlinks or symlinks, because of programmatic introspection simplicity and portability. I'm not entirely sure if the programmatic introspection benefits are actually worth anything in practice. The biggest portability case against symlinks/hardlinks/etc is Windows (technically can do symlinks, but it's a privileged operation unless you go fiddle with OS settings), Android (can't do hardlinks at all, and symlinks can't exist in shared storage), and if you ever want to have your histdir on something like a USB stick or whatever.

Depending on the size of the hash, given that the typical lengths of history entries might be rather short, it might be better for deduplication and storage to just drop the hash files entirely, and leave only the timestamp files. But it's not necessarily so clear-cut.

Sure, the average shell command is probably shorter by a wide margin than a good hash. The stuff I type into something like a Node or Python REPL will trend a little longer than the shell commands. But now what about, say, URLs? That's also history, it's not even that different conceptually from shell/REPL history, and I haven't yet ruled out it making sense for me to reuse histdir for that.

And moreover, conceptually they achieve different goals. The entry files are things that have been in your history (and that you've decided to keep). They're more of a toolbox or repertoire - when you do a fuzzy search on history to re-run a command, duplicates just get in the way. Meanwhile, call files are a "here's what I did", more of a log than a toolbox.

And obviously this whole histdir thing is very expandable - you could have other files containing metadata. Some metadata might be the kind of thing we'd want to associate with a command run (exit status, error output, relevant state like working directory or environment variables, and so on), but other stuff might make more sense for commands themselves (for example: this command is only useful/valid on [list of hosts], so don't use it in auto-complete and fuzzy search anywhere else).

So... I think it makes sense to have history entries and calls to those entries "normalized" into their own separate files like that. But it might be overkill in practice, and the value might not materialize in practice, so that's more in the TBD I guess.

So that's where I'm at now. A very expandable template, but for now I've just replicated basic shell/REPL history, in an a very high-overhead way. A big win is great history sync almost for free, without a lot of the technical downsides or complexity (and with a little effort to set up inotify/etc watches on a histdir, I can have newly sync'ed entries go directly into my running shells/REPLs... I mean, within Emacs at least, where that kind of across-the-board malleability is accessible with a reasonably low amount of effort). Another big win is that in principle, it should be really easy to build on existing stuff in almost any language to do anything I might want to do. And the biggest win is that I can now compose those other wins with every REPL I use, so long as I can either wrap that REPL a little bit (that's how I'll start, with Emacs' comint mode), or patch the common libraries like readline to do histdir, or just write some code to translate between a traditional history file and my histdir approach.

At every step of the way, I've optimized first and foremost for easiest-to-implement and most-accessible-to-work-with decision. So far I don't regret it, and I think it'll help a lot with iteratively trying different things, and with all sorts of integration and composition that I haven't even thought of yet. But I'll undoubtedly start seeing problems as my histdirs grow - it's just a question of how soon and how bad, and if it'll be tractable to fix without totally abandoning the approach. But it's also possible that we're just at the point where personal computers and phones are powerful enough, and OS and FS optimizations are advanced enough, that the overhead will never be perceptible to me for as long as I live - after all, its history for an interface with a live human.

So... happy so far. It seems promising. Tentatively speaking, I have a better daily-driver shell history UX than I've ever had, because I now have great reliable and fast history sync across my devices, without regressions to my shell history UX (and that's saying something, since I was already very happy with zsh's vi mode, and then I was even more happy with Eshell+Eat+Consult+Evil), but I've only just implemented it and given it basic testing. And I remain very optimistic that I could trivially layer this onto basically any other REPL with minimal effort thanks to Emacs' comint mode.