Please spend 3 minutes reading this note from William Shatner, the actor from Star Trek:
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor
A Jewish family Karnofsky, who immigrated from Lithuania to the United States, took pity on the 7-year-old boy and brought him to their home.
There he stayed and spent the night in this Jewish family home, where for the first time in his life he was treated with kindness and tenderness.
When he went to bed, Mrs Karnovski sang him Russian lullabies, which he sang with her.
Later he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs.
Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family.
Mr. Karnofsky gave him money to buy his first musical instrument, as was the custom in Jewish families.
Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions such as St. James's Hospital and Go Down Moses.
The little boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family, who adopted him in 1907. And proudly spoke Yiddish fluently.
In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore the Star of David and said that in this family he learned "to live a real life and determination."
This little boy's name was Louis Armstrong.This little boy was called Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish and “Satchmo” is Yiddish for “big cheeks, a nickname some say was given to him by Mrs. Karnofsky!
Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.
“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.
Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it
firefox is so amazing. Seriously. If you haven’t, give it a try. At the very least, you can watch youtube videos with 0 (zero) ads.
I’ll say again that I remember many years of Firefox being everyone’s go-to until a sudden migration to chrome, which for me was always slower than Firefox? Chrome spies on you, Firefox has better AdBlock, and Firefox lets you import all your bookmarks and logins so there’s no excuse to put this off
Reminder that you should switch to Firefox. You have nothing to lose but your chrome chains.
This. (Disclosure: I don’t use any other browser without twitching.)
I found a VHS tape at the junk store, labeled just “A Surprise!”. Since I’d recently set up my VCR and old 80s TV, I thought I should check it out.
Just… just watch.
Apparently the Tumblr version of this post got no love! Weird. The Twitter version had like two million likes. In case you missed my “glory days”
Glorious!
An interesting note about DS9 “In the Pale Moonlight.”
Everyone has pieces to the puzzle of what Sisko and Garak did.
- Jadzia knows Sisko was planning to talk to Garak about finding possible evidence.
- Julian gets an unexplained stern order from Sisko for a huge amount of biomemetic gel. (The same stuff he nearly got murdered over just a small amount in season 3).
- Odo is told by Sisko that there can’t be any record of Tolar on the station.
- Quark is bribed by Sisko to not press charges against Tolar. They also use his holosuites for the forgery.
- Worf clears an area of the station and Sisko says only he and Garak are allowed there.
- Kira tells Sisko about the unexplained subspace signal he was expecting, and is told not to reply to it.
- Then at the news of Vreenak’s death, instead of being hopeful that this will get the Romulans on their side like everyone else, Sisko is visibly upset and storms out of the room.
Not to mention the timing of all this.
I don’t know if they would connect all the dots, and maybe not the last bit that Garak did, but between all of them, they can definitely figure out that Sisko and Garak were up to some shady shit together.
I still can't believe that Thomas Andrews the man who designed the Titanic ship sank with it and 111 years later, Stockton Rush the person who designed the Titanic submarine also sank with it at the same spot