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Before running Ten Forward, Guinan had a supervisor gig at a chocolate factory. (startrek.website)

[OC] - Randomly editing Trek characters into I Love Lucy #1 of 3....

San Jose officer fired after sending racially biased, ‘disgusting’ messages, police say (www.cnn.com)

A San Jose, California, police officer is “no longer employed” with the police department after sending a series of racially biased, “disgusting” messages, according to a news release from San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata....

CNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrike (newrepublic.com)

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

What's a book, movie, or piece of music that has had a profound impact on your life, and why?

They're Made Out Of Meat (2005) (Comedy + Sci-fi) [Full Short] (onion.tube)

Adaptation of a 1991 short story by Terry Bisson, that can be read here. This short won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum’s film festival....

BlizzCon 2023: WoW Classic panel reveals Cataclysm, Hardcore, and Season of Discovery (massivelyop.com)

Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests (www.vice.com)

Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.

NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid (science.slashdot.org)

Review in progress: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign is a series low point (www.videogameschronicle.com)

NYT Saturday 11/04/2023 Discussion

Link to crossword: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily

do computers conspire? (lemmy.world)

I wanna be in the show, Proton! (lemmy.world)

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond dropped from the Order of Canada (www.cbc.ca)

NJ janitor allegedly contaminated food, committed lewd acts at elementary school: prosecutor (www.cbsnews.com)

A Cumberland County man was arrested for allegedly contaminating food and committing lewd acts at Elizabeth Moore School in Upper Deerfield Township, the county prosecutor’s office announced Friday....

rule (lemmy.world)

Ricky's band seems to have a few new performers this evening. (startrek.website)

[OC] - Randomly editing Trek characters into I Love Lucy #3 of 3. This is the last one, and I’m out of ideas (probably).

Would eating raw human brains make you high?

With all the hormones and whatnot inside. Dopamine, adrenaline, melatonin, whatever. Also, there’s this Hunter S. Thompson bit on the… pineal gland?...

Looking for a thermometer or home weather center with indoor and outdoor temp sensors, and that can record and export the data, does anyone know of such a device?

Title. Having some issues with inadequate heat in an apartment and need to compile some hard data. Can’t seem to find something that checks all the boxes. Needs to be under $100....

TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)

Just play it cool (lemmy.zip)

Lemmy Client with Filter

I’m not sure where to ask this so I started here: here: Is there a Lemmy client that has a filter. I want to hide posts from particular accounts. Like anyone for hexbear, for example. I know I can set up my own instance, but that’s more work than I want right now. I was hoping someone knew a client that could do this.

Swiss authorities, banks allegedly mull new rules to prevent bank runs (www.reuters.com)

The ongoingtalks, which have not been previously reported and are part of a broader review of the country’s banking rules, are intended for the top Swiss banks and could target mainly their wealth clients, two sources said....

anon's roommate is autistic (sh.itjust.works)

Does the advancement of AI make people apathetic about starting new projects?

I was thinking about starting a new creative project recently. But then I thought - with how quickly AI is advancing, in just a few years an AI will probably be able to do this in just minutes. So it made me feel kind of apathetic and think, “Why should I bother starting this big project now if an AI could do it for me in a...