Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•IYKYKEnglish13·7 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Science Memes@mander.xyz•The cell wall is the wall of the cell.English4·10 days agoWikipedia says:
The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]
But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:
Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.
(If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?English3·10 days agoYou better find a way to make it easy, soldier, or I’m gonna start pushing buttons!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visasEnglish24·10 days agoin other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:
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in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.
in all seriousness, renaming someone else’s account and presenting it to CBP as one’s own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Astrophotography@lemmy.world•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish6·11 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Photography@lemmy.ml•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish2·11 days ago
Thanks, that is exactly the one I was looking for here when I found this article!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Photography@lemmy.ml•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish3·11 days agowhere is this?
edit: via this comment I see it is Stonehenge von Tiefenpölz, aka Fränkischen Stonehenge built by artist Alexander Lämmlein between 2018 and 2023 in Tiefenpölz, Upper Franconia.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in IdahoEnglish50·11 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?English8·11 days agoThe acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•PigletEnglish6·16 days ago
The w700ds/w701ds (“Dual Screen”)
… was not Lenovo’s last try at putting two screens on a laptop; see also the X1 Fold and Yoga 9i
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux onEnglish5·17 days agoI’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century
I think it was born in the 21st century? From this it looks like the first Celeron M was in 2004, and the first at that clockspeed was 2005.
Also, 2GB of RAM is plenty for many purposes - that’s more than any Raspberry Pi before the Pi 4 had!




Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Greentext@sh.itjust.works•game has multiple factions fighting each otherEnglish4·21 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•LA be like...English20·21 days agoThe rest of me is all, “It’s still 2025!! If we have the Bell Riots now we’re still on-pace for a Star Trek future!!”
The Bell Riots were in September 2024.
Our universe’s lack of Eugenics Wars in the 90s was already pretty strong evidence that we’re not living in the prime timeline.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Urgent Firefox Alert: Critical Memory Corruption Flaws (CVSS 9.8) Allow Remote Code ExecutionEnglish5·22 days agoI guess an LLM wrote this:
All Firefox users—especially those on versions prior to 139.0.4—should:
- Update immediately to version 139.0.4 via built-in browser update tools or Mozilla’s official download page.
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