The pandora box was opened: they want to beat the deep fakes from disney.

Any list like this will have omissions, but yeah, Gattaca is great. Primer should be there, too.

If a ‘Type III’ civilization is meaningful it could be one that uses a quasar the way we use a star.

It is really unfortunate that I use DDG simply because it is the least worst of the bunch, not because its terribly good.

Maybe now it will be called "Operation Clippy", who knows?

However I wonder what the actual value now would be. They would get some inside info on some technology but it would be very far from the tech they got from WvB after WW2

Nothing for Gettysburg? Really? I am certain there are many books set in Gettysburg.

We will desalinate in CA before we’ll come for the Great Lakes but if we came (and the United States must have ended) then that would be a petty resistance. Pipelines can’t be defended but canals are harder to break and then, once the pipeline is over friendly soil, breaking it will still only shed water into the West.

This is like building a motorcycle on a 350cid v8 engine. Lovely absurd insanity.

Don't watch to much youtube...freebsd dev's have the approach: The best tool for the task, hence zfs for saving data ;)