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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzCheck yourself
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, but 230 million years is/would be new info & older than thought.

    Edit: o shit … with wings.
    sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981125002469

    This specimen comes from a communal latrine in the lower Carnian deposits (∼236 Ma) of the Chañares Formation, La Rioja Province, northwestern Argentina. The tiny fossil scales are hollow and ornamented, which is a synapomorphy of Lepidoptera and suggests that they could belong to this group. If this is the case, the Chañares scales would partially fill the temporal mismatch between phylogenomic date and the fossil evidence of butterflies and moths because they preceded the previously oldest lepidopteran record by c. 35 million years. Moreover, the scales have a combination of features present in early diverging glossatan lepidopterans. The inclusion of the temporal data provided by the Chañares scales into an updated temporal calibration of lepidopteran phylogeny shows that the proboscis, a key evolutionary novelty for the group (Glossata), evolved between c. 260–244 Ma. Thus, the proboscis-bearing lepidopterans would be part of the repertory of new plants and animals that diversified during the aftermath of the EPME.





  • Gemini replaced Bitchxby on the latest Samsungs.

    It’s in the firmware.

    With the S25 series they even give you a year of full subscription.
    They made it the centrepiece of the launch event of the product line.

    Galaxy devices now come with Gemini, your powerful AI assistant from Google. Long press the power button to get started.

    The Samsung’s front is called “Galaxy AI” but Gemini runs every new feature really - including “cross-apps actions”.
    (The non-obsolete Bixby features retained the name but are part of Galaxy AI now.)

    But even with everything off One UI 7 (and Samsung apps, like camera) is still littered with AI buttons.

    youtube.com/HinL5jCy_oI&t=1270
    (Gemini is now the default action for long-pressing the power button)







  • So nice of her to include a comprehensive disclaimer list, much appreciated.

    Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and the author of the forthcoming Tor Nightfire novel Sister, Maiden, Monster. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, the poetry collections Exposed Nerves and Chimeric Machines and the story collections Halloween Season, Garden of Eldritch Delights, While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

    (Between all the Bram Stokers, the badger, & ‘Lucy A. Snyder frequently escaped into Clive Barker’s worlds when she was in darkest academia pursuing her MA in journalism’ you prob know how she writes.)

    wiki/Lucy_A._Snyder
    www.lucysnyder.com




  • I’d argue both DMC and Castlevania has more depth than Duke.

    Def! I said that specifically.

    Of the two especially Castlevania offers much more depth & independence to it’s characters.

    Duke 1 & 2 didn’t even leave that much character impression on me as the 3(D) did (ok, nether did Keen tbh).

    Duke Nukem series will def be it’s own thing (like DMCs & Castlevanias), taking characters & the base premise & do its own thing. Same universe but unrelated to the games. Like comic books - the number of different ways Bruce’s parents get deaded is absurd :D (one time even due to Teen Titans actions).



  • Yes, but it’s a very good character & world/lore to build a story + the games themselves have a ton of situationally epic things in them to include or even build around them.
    (If Duke doesn’t shit up the throat of a decapitated alien we riot.)

    And tho there is more lore, it’s not like Castlevania and DMC are directly screen-playable, but they did a fairly good job (there are better showrunners in the genre, but I think Duky Nuky fits the chill & just barely enough complicated/just over the border of simplistic vibe of DMC show, and I’m sure won’t skip on epic cool shit, maybe even a decent joke or two … I dread the inevitably cringe oneliners).