I don’t think whoever made the trailer gets Edgar Wright. It’s all over the shop tonally. Folks who see this are gonna be so confused.

Unfortunately apart from a solitary roo nothing about it really looks like an Australian setting in the trailer. Maybe it’s not entirely set in Oz.

OP is @[email protected] .

… As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloads we are sending. Consider the Nyx capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company, which launched on June 23rd from the Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon-9 rocket as part of a rideshare mission (Transporter-14). The payload for this flight (dubbed “Mission Possible”) included the ashes and DNA of more than 166 deceased people provided by Celestis, a Texas-based memorial spaceflight company.

While the mission achieved orbit and a controlled reentry, the capsule’s landing parachutes failed to deploy before landing. This caused the Nyx capsule to crash in the Pacific Ocean on June 24th, causing all of its cargo to be lost at sea. …

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This is also the second time Celestis has lost a payload, the previous having taken place in 2023 when a rocket containing the cremated remains of the late NASA astronaut Philip K. Chapman exploded over New Mexico. …

Elon Musk has promised to donate to Rep. Thomas Massie’s re-election campaign as the Kentucky Republican faces down the wrath of Donald Trump.

It is very strange. I don’t know anything about these games. Has the geology of the world radically changed? Would that explain the landscapes I see in the trailer?

I like the look of Big Walk. If I ever get a chance to check it out I can tell I’ll feel very much at home.

Omg another slice. Endless cake machine.

Woah cake.

So it’s bad eh?

This SMH piece (archive.org) has a bit more of a breakdown. I haven’t gone looking for alternative sources of info atm, a bit busy.

I found a reference in Wikipedia (edit 3) so afaic my work here is done.

Edit 1: Oh fuck, it’s a circular reference. Dammit.

Trying to verify this. So far I found this but have not confirmed it’s legit in any way:

Edit 1: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | archive.org

Edit 2: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | Vuink - Repost of article found in Edit 1.

Edit 3: USS Langley (CV-1) | World War II

On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines.[5][19] On 8 December, following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.[20]

Edit 4: This detailed history of the ship does not mention anything about firing at Venus:

Langley I (CV-1) | Naval History and Heritage Command

I went to check out the status of the Torres Strait Islander flag and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole in regards to the Australian Aboriginal flag:

The flag’s current legal status was debated in an Australian Senate estimates committee in mid‑February 2022, when it was also revealed that the Morrison government had paid $13.75m to Thomas to assume copyright, and also paid $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses which held licences to use the flag. These companies are WAM Clothing, which received $5.2m, and Wooster Holdings, which was paid $1.1m. Interests in both companies are held by Gold Coast businessman Ben Wooster, former director of Birubi Art (which was fined $2.3m in 2018 for selling fake Aboriginal art).

Double, triple, quadruple the spiciness.

Greece too.

Is that a eucalypt in the background?

Death, death to the IDF!

I don’t know. An earlier article linked in this article includes this:

An LJ Hooker branch this week admitted to using ChatGPT to write a listing for a rental in regional New South Wales, which erroneously advertised the house as being near two schools that didn’t exist.

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said businesses that used AI models to generate advertising material should ensure it is checked for any false, misleading or inaccurate information.

“Under the Australian consumer law businesses should not engage in false or misleading conduct in the supply of goods or services, this includes in advertising properties for sale or rent,” a spokesperson for the watchdog said.

So it may already be illegal but technically not fraud.

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is an entertaining documentary.

Terrifying.