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The Pitt and ER are similar enough for lawsuit to proceed, judge rules in c/television@piefed.social
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Ignore the AI slop in the other reply. This is in every way but nominally a reboot of ER. Like, it's the same people making it, and it was intended as a reboot. Literally the only reason they didn't make it explicitly a reboot of the show is because they couldn't get Crichton's widow to sign off on it.

To quote an actual article:

Sherri filed her motion in August 2024 - one month after The Pitt began filming in July 2024 and before the series premiered on HBO Max. In the complaint, she alleged that creators Wells and Wyle initially pursued an ER reboot and, after failing to secure her approval, rebranded the project as The Pitt.

She described the show as an ER revival "just under a different name" and called the maneuver "a shameful betrayal of [Michael] Crichton and his legacy."

At the heart of the case is a "frozen rights" provision in Michael's contract with Warner Bros. Television, which barred the studio from producing ER spinoffs or reboots without his approval. (Michael died in 2008, leaving Sherri to attempt to enforce the provision on behalf of his estate.)

Personally I'm against copyright so morally I think Sherri Crichton is in the wrong, but legally I think she has some solid legs to stand on here

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    What's your favourite technical/scientific joke? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    Not really a joke but there's a youtuber I watch called Angela Collier, and she has a video titled "alkaline water ...with lemon" and I about died just reading the title

    Tl;dw it takes such a small amount of acid to turn alkaline water acidic. Like even if there was a benefit to drinking alkaline water, you're completely undoing it by adding even a drop of lemon juice

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    What's your weird talent that you almost never show anyone? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 32 points 1 day ago (27 children)

    Alpha bravo charlie delta Echo foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet kilo lima Mike November Oscar papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango uniform Victor whiskey x-ray Yankee Zulu

    All in one breath, transcribed via voice to text. I die a little inside whenever I hear someome say "A as in Apple"

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    Recruiting Republicans in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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    For sure, but it's hard to overstate just how much influence the DNC has. Every blue is better than every red, but by resolving to vote blue no matter what their actual positions are, we are trading short term harm reduction for long-term harm multiplication.

    Before long we're going to have the DNC force in a candidate who wants to jail trans people, and they will be slightly preferable to the republican who wants trans people executed. I want to avoid that eventuality, and that means demonstrating that being against human rights loses you the leftist vote.

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    Please stop (sh.itjust.works)
     

    Editor's note: this is a post about American Independence Day celebrations

    existentialmemes

    Alright, I'm going to launch explosives around your house. For several hours. Yes it is dangerous and terrible for wildlife and the environment. And yes your pets will get sick from eating the debris and you will feel terrorized inside your own home.

    No you can't opt out of it. Everyone is doing it and frankly it's weird that you don't want to.

    No you can't be the one launching the explosives you need a license for that. You can however launch these marginally smaller ones though. Yeah just whenever you want. 2am sounds great.

    So anyway, fireworks were a mistake and it's never too early to start reminding you of that.

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    A spreadsheet listing the number of harvests for every crop every season, accounting for every combination of growth speed modifiers (docs.google.com)
     

    Tired of scrambling to till, water, fertilize, and plant several hundred crops on the first day of every season? You don't have to! You can achieve your farm's maximum efficiency while delaying planting certain crops by several days.

    This might be relatively niche. I like to grow some of every available crop every season, devoting at least half a pressurized iridium sprinkler to each one. But I also don't like farming until 2 AM and passing out before I finish planting. So I made this spreadsheet!

    It accounts for every combination of speed growth modifiers, lists the maximum number of harvests for each crop, per plot, per season/year, and lists the last day you can plant to still achieve that maximum harvest. Hopefully someone somewhere can gain some value from this

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    Lyra (sh.itjust.works)
     

    Taken with a Canon EOS 550D with an 80mm lens on an equatorial tracking mount, under Bortle 4 skies. 30 thirty second lights, 50 darks, 50 flats.

    Stacked in Siril following the manual pre-processing tutorial. Stretched also in Siril using Asinh Transformation. I set the stretch factor to 30, and the black point to 0.005, then exported the image as a jpeg.

    I think she looks a bit better than my attempt at Orion. You can sort of make out the Ring nebula.

    Also, I'm pretty sure that's a comet over to the right of Sulafat. Tiny green cloud of consistent size, drifted a few arcminutes over the ~20 minutes I was capturing these images

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    My first real attempt at astrophotography, Orion (sh.itjust.works)
     

    Taken from my Canon EOS T2i, mounted to the top of my telescope. Thirty 10-second exposures. Manually subtracted the same dark frame from every one to account for the many dead pixels, then manually aligned and stacked in GIMP. No idea what I'm doing, but I like it good enough. Stacked with Siril. Should have done that from the start lol

    Next time I'm gonna try to capture it high in the sky instead of when it's at the horizon, and I'm gonna watch a tutorial on stacking instead of dicking around blindly

    EDIT: I followed a tutorial! At least, as best as I could with one dark frame and no bias or flats. Still, a massive improvement over manual stacking. Still just dicked around with the colors and levels in GIMP after stacking, but you can sort of see M42 now!

    Original picture for posterity. This is what the first 10 comments saw.

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    AI generated reddit post—did I imagine it? (sh.itjust.works)
     

    A while back, someone made a post on an AITAH type subreddit, then updated it saying it was generated with AI. Like 3/4 of the comments left after the update were responding to the story as if there wasn't a big bold THIS STORY IS FAKE update at the top. I've been trying to find this post again for weeks, but no variation of "reddit AITAH AI generated post" offers anything useful on any search engines. Am I remembering wrong? Did I dream this up???

    UPDATE: Thank you phlegmy for finding the post!

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