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Marc Abrahams discusses the Ig Nobel Prizes, awards that honor real achievements that make people “laugh and then think.” Also the “Annals of Improbable Research,” a journal that highlights unusual but meaningful work ranging from pasta physics to fingernail growth studies. https://plutopia.io/marc-abrahams-improbable-research-and-ig-nobel-prizes/

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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: “Project Hail Mary” sends a mission from Earth to Tau Ceti to solve a cosmic mystery threatening our sun. The fate of two civilizations may depend on an unlikely interstellar partnership. https://youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?si=uDVMqspWh-Kj_Ygf

Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer

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Jon Lebkowsky Mar 10

Plutopia Mar 10

Dr. Roy Casagranda discusses Iran’s modern history, the rise of the Islamic Republic, and the rapidly escalating conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. https://youtu.be/1t7Z0hgntJQ?si=1dTNkahkQJ-U1O_b

Roy Casagranda on Iran, War and Global Fallout

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Jon Lebkowsky Mar 7

Plutopia Mar 7

Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Paradise" season 2 begins on the post-apocalypse surface of earth, where there are a few survivors, and where Xavier Collins has gone to search for his wife Teri. Mayday! https://youtu.be/wQfqQ-oIXiA?si=VoNmxuWxOwl-2WjU

Paradise Season 2 | Official Trailer | Hulu

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Jon Lebkowsky Feb 28

Plutopia Feb 28

Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Set in the post-Burn 32nd century, "Starfleet Academy" follows the first new class of cadets in over a century, led by 400-year-old chancellor Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter). The show's commitment to decency riles anti-woke conservatives. https://youtu.be/rHDDzcyNWGs?si=wcU8ZROSswcGyjuG

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

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Jon Lebkowsky Feb 25

Manton Reece Feb 25

This week we flipped the switch on better truncation in the Micro.blog timeline, preserving styles and links. It’s working well. See this screenshot of a slightly too-long post that is nicely truncated with italics, em dash, and inline link still there.

Jon Lebkowsky Feb 25

With all the talk of AI, I looked around and found my "Consciousness in a Box" piece from three decades ago, written then as a response to the idea that consciousness can be uploaded into some sort of storage device: https://weblogsky.com/2011/05/20/consciousness-in-a-box/

Consciousness in a Box | Jon Lebkowsky

Stumbled onto this piece I wrote in 1994 for FringeWare Review, triggered by a meeting with Hans Moravec, as I recall. Robotics has two sides -- real-world practical application and development, and scifi mythopoetic phantasy construction -- and like most real/surreal dichotomies of the Information Age, these two sides are blurred and indistinct within human

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Jon Lebkowsky Feb 24

Plutopia Feb 24

Gareth Branwyn discusses “Dreaming for Creatives,” which focuses less on dream interpretation and more on mining the “dream-time mind” for creative material.
https://youtu.be/ydATw6jinr0?si=RRzQSZjnUKVYatIh

Gareth Branwyn: Gareth In Slumberland

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Jon Lebkowsky Feb 20

"And one nice thing about this administration is, you might not like us,
but you're going to get our version of the truth." ~ Dr. Oz, admitting that the Trump administration makes up their own version of "the truth."

Jon Lebkowsky Feb 17

Plutopia Feb 17

On the Plutopia podcast, Shira Chess, author of "The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse," discusses how online culture has always been shaped not just by code and commerce but by myth, ritual, and “enchanted logic.” https://plutopia.io/shira-chess-the-unseen-internet/

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