Not a single color, but in Chinese tradition there were five politically significant colors corresponding to the Wuxing cycle of changes—black, red, cyan, white, and yellow. Each dynasty was associated with a color (with other associated traits), and was expected to be followed by one of two other colors (depending on whether the succession would be peaceful or revolutionary).

The 1922 Nosferatu.

A human being.

“Peace Prosperity for our time!”

My main issue with the Reddit deal (and similar data grabs) is that AI companies are hording user-generated content to give themselves a competitive advantage. I have less of an issue with them using non-exclusive public content like Wikipedia, fediverse comments, and public-domain historical works.

Boycotts have one advantage over “consistently directing your money to companies in which you are confident”—they can work even if there aren’t any better alternatives. A coordinated campaign to target one company at a time can eventually force a whole industry to change, even if the industry offered no meaningful choices to start with.

Deep-pan artichoke pesto feta.

A typical use case is to forward a single port to the proxy, then set the proxy to map different subdomains to different machines/ports on your internal network. Anything not explicitly mapped by the reverse proxy isn’t visible externally.

I would distinguish between authorities who engage in ”bad“ behavior that’s inherent to the institutional role they’ve assumed (in which case my negative feelings are directed more toward the institution than the individual), and authorities who exploit their institutional roles to serve themselves.

Abuse of authority.

Any other form of misbehavior might make me feel sad, or sickened, or determined to make things better; but the only time I actually feel angry at the people involved is if they sought out a position of public trust and then betrayed that trust.

The Song That Never Ends—we’ll instantly save an infinite amount of time.

Unreliable narrative imagery, where the description reveals more about the narrator’s interpretation of reality than it reveals about the actual setting. (A classic example would be Poe’s The Telltale Heart.)

The “prime meridian” is the line through the black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda, and the “equator” is the galactic plane.

TLDR: Assembly Theory tries to objectively measure the minimum number of steps needed to assemble complex objects from simpler ones. By assigning a minimum time to each assembly step, a minimum time “depth” can be assigned to complex objects.

Reality, for one.

Also Doctorow’s novella “Unauthorized Bread”.

The original binary format is broken into six-bit chunks (e.g., 100101), which in decimal format correspond to the integers from 0 to 63. These are just mapped to letters in order:
000000 (0) = A,
000001 (1) = B,
000010 (2) = C,
etc.—it goes through the capital letters first, then lower-case letters, then digits, then “+” and “/”.

It’s so simple you could do it by hand from the above description, if you were looking at the data in binary format.

Most binary-to-text encodings don’t attempt to make the text human-readable—they’re just intended to transmit the data over a text-only medium to a recipient who will decode it back to the original binary format.

Yes, see Binary-to-text encoding.

With all that fame, zoo director Narongwit Chodchoi said they have begun patenting and trademarking “Moo Deng the hippo” to prevent the animal from being commercialized by anyone else.

Trademark, sure. But what exactly are they trying to patent?