Netflix Movies

"Given the incredibly large number of movies on Netflix, it may surprise you to learn that the streamer doesn’t have a lot of classic movies."

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48th SNL Birthday

Happy 48th Birthday, SNLSaturday Night Live (SNL), the comedy sketch show, first hit the NBC airwaves on October 11, 1975. Broadcasting live from studio 8H at Rockefeller Center in New York, the original cast featured names such as John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, and more.

Infinity Gate

By M. R. Carey

Infinity is so vast. One has difficulty defining it because of its enormity. I began reading this Saturday June 17, 3023. I has 499 pages. I completed this novel on October 9, 2023.

 

The end is near.

 

“You need a knife, of immense but incalculable size. Me. I am that knife.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 2

 

Hadiz Tambuwual was aloof. She loved everyone from a distance and liked it that way.

 

“The world is a solid thing but we experience it in the abstract.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 6

 

Hadiz turned into a lonely researcher who camped at the school, because the transportation was harmful. She saw that she was the last of her colleagues their.

 

“Dark energy was needed in order to explain the universe’s suspiciously high rate of expansion, but the elementary particle that might mediate it had never been observed.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 8

 

“The particles natural void was the Intergalactic void.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 8

 

“Quantum environmental induction involved manipulating subatomic particles using a scanning tunneling microscope and a loom of counter phased electron beams.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 11

 

“Scalars are quantities that can be a fully numerical value alone. Quantities such as pressure or density. Vector-like, say gravity, velocity or rotation require both magnitude and direction.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 11

 

“The worlds-other universe’s, even were a useful theoretical tool in her branch of physics. They helped to explain the rupture in causality that took place when a human observer measured a subatomic event. Probability seemed from the observers perspective to collapse or coalesce, but from another point of view they actually diverged. From one moment to the next, the universe was always taking the road less traveled, as well as all other roads.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 13

 

“The universe being fond of a certain kind of order (even though it’s madly in love with entropy too), had to move the designates volume to where it seemed to belong.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 17

 

Hadiz went in her QEI transporter.

 

“Dimensional travel, it seemed, involved no movement, on any other vector. You were transported from a position in world A to a precisely corresponding position in World B. But if you moved when you got there, your point of return would reflect that movement.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 29

 

“The Registry’s housing was a second satellite as large as the Earth’s natural satellite, the Moon,--and it would have had similar effects on gravity and tides if it had ever lingered in one reality for the relevant forces to be propagated. Nothing like this thing had ever been built before, at least with ten thousand worlds of Pandominion, and nothing like it is likely to be built again until some political of the same scale and with similar outlooks come into existence.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 30

 

“In many continua and at the time of this writing—a tethered AI whose spent vast mental capacity is enslaved to the solving of endless complex but trivial equations. If the Registry had been allowed to learn from its experience or environment, if it had been allowed any meaningful contact with the world outside its shell, it would have very quickly outstripped any organic mind in the multiverse. But the Pandominion master technicians had no intention of letting that happen. For the purpose of maintaining system stability they had given the AI personality-incurious, content, eager to please. Then they had frozen its understanding at the level of a three year old child by means of end-stopped-programing and brute force overwrites keeping the Registry as stupid as a post was a large of their work on a day to day basis.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate pp. 30-31

 

“Pandominion governed trillions of selves on hundreds of thousands of worlds, and yet all of them were the same world-your world as well as mine, on different lines of causality in different continua.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 31

 

Step-travel is journeying from one universe to another.

 

“A step field (assuming perfectly aligned equipment) takes a minimum of 2.8 seconds to propagate. It involves subatomic manipulation but operates on a macroscopic level. You need a physical object to sit on a Step plate for the best of three seconds until the field envelopes it.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 32

 

“The number of universe’s in existence was known and proven to be limitless.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 35

 

The World Wide Web totally collapsed.

 

“Life is a movement that makes itself within the great unmaking that is the entropic universe.”

M. R. Carey

Rupshe

Infinity Gate p. 39

 

“Hadiz had hoped that broadly similar Earths might cluster around gradients of possiblity—and perhaps they did up to a point. All these worlds had breathable atmosphere, after all, with concentrations of oxygen that varied from her definition of normal by no more than 7 per cent. This meant even the desert world’s must have vegetation somewhere. Humanity might not have managed to evolve on any of these variants, but if they ever did they would find most of the resources they needed ready at hand.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 43

 

“The QEI machine generates a spiritual field. Everything that was there is moved to a different location or rather the same location in a different iteration of the universe.”

Rupshe

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 45

 

“Not every conceivable world, only every possible one, which is a different thing altogether. There wouldn’t be a world with flying elephants, or where rain falls upwards. Just all the variations on all the things that can possibly vary, ranging from random decay of subatomic particles all the way up to willed actions of known beings.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 49

 

“A universe is a very large mechanism, with a great many interacting parts. It’s degrees of freedom are arguably finite, but they are so vastly many that they might as well be infinite.”

Rupshe

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 49

 

“Patterns form in very large data sets that are lost in smaller ones. Noise and perturbation cancel out. Order emerges. But it’s not a simple shape, it’s an endless self-unfolding replication of a fractal. Let us say human life evolves on, world one and then again on world fifty.”

Rupshe

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 50

 

“The map inscribed itself endlessly within the same space, repeating a single intricate pattern into infinity.”

Rupshe

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 52

 

“On about 3 or 4 per cent of inhabited world’s, an ape-like decadent mammal had developed an upright stance, an opposable thumb and bigger brainpan. This mammal then survived for long enough to discover the usefulness of hunting in packs, of extended nurture, of tool use, of fixed settlements, agriculture and animal husbandry. Of these worlds, though various viscositudes and calamities, the baton of civilization had been passed through seven or eight generations without being dropped.”

Rupshe

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 53

 

Hadiz had just left Rupshe on the world because of her size, she wasn’t portable. Hadiz said she would return if and when it was possible.

 

The omnipotent council’s chief job was to make  rulings on trade-affecting member world’s. The Ceilo’s were the massive military entity.

 

“The Itinerant Fortress was hame to the upper echelons of both hierarchies (as well as the intelligence system known as the Registry), but the precise details of the chain of command are opaque to us.”

 

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 61

 

“Step plates could only take a payload from a space in a given universe and normally their would be very little difference between the physical forces at play on either side of the step. But there were some worlds-relatively few, but easy enough to find-where radically different histories, had resulted in radically different endpoints. The redoubts of Pandominion, where sermon administrators had their offices, were often located on such worlds because their extreme environments made external assault impossible. Either you Stepped in or you didn’t come at all.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 63

 

Lessex was given two guards to help him find and deal with the excursion he let occur. Essien got in trouble with the boss of the Mikado for working someone else’s shift. He was held captive their for two months to repay his debt. Essien meets Hadiz outside of a bar.

 

“Good news is better than silver or gold.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 102

 

“So many of the big problems you’re facing-the Resource Wars between Russia and Europe, the collapse of the American Union, China annexation of Japan-are because there are limits to things. Because your living in a pressure cooker and the heat just getting turned up and up. But I can take that all away.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 106-107

 

Essien went to another world with Hadiz.

 

“It’s too late for my world. My world is dead. The night I met you….I was holding a kind of one woman wake. I can’t stop thinking about how things might have gone if I started this work ten or five years earlier. Billions of people might still be alive. I could have made a difference. Maybe all the difference that was needed.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 111

 

“For any two numbers you choose there’s always an infinity between them. And that’s true for any two worlds you choose. The map of reality is called a Mandelbrot set-a mathematical diagram that repeats itself on every scale the way the first flowers or cold days repeat themselves”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 116

 

Essien wanted to steal Hadiz technology and become rich. Essien took Hadiz to another world to try and steal her technology, before he could he realized she had it voice activated. Two robots saved her and transported her back to the world she just came from. They were gone to make Essien enlist. Their was slim chance he would survive.

 

“Infinity isn’t a big number. It’s what happens when you get to the last number and fall off the end of it. Imagine a thousand, and than a million. And then a million million. Now imagine a book with that many pages. On the first page is a one and on the rest of the book is zeroes. Billions and trillions of zeroes, in ten point type on onion skin paper. Think about how big that number is. Than multiply it by itself. You’re still not there. You’re still not close.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 138

 

Essien was getting chocolates from a humanoid cat, Moon, and also information. FMQs are Farms mines and quaries. Essin enlisted in the war. Hadiz survived and was searching for Essien.

 

“Invisible umbilical’s bound them to each other and to Sergeant Oturbe who was their leader.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 158

 

“One world. Count it. Maybe some details shift around a little, but the big stuff the continents and oceans and all the baseline stuff that doesn’t change much from one continuum to the next. So here we are at the western edge of the biggest landmass in the northern hemisphere. The blue dots on the maps are cities, most of them as big as this one, some a whole lot bigger. The folks who built this place may have been behind the curve when it came to tech savvy, but they settled most of the places where people can actually live. Best guess, they were sustaining a planetary population somewhere between twenty and a hundred million. Whatever killed them had a lot of ground to cover.”

Sergeant Otubre

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 162

 

“The worlds aren’t all marching along at the same pace. It takes about ten thousand years, give or take, for a civilisation to get from hunting and gathering to Step travel-but they don’t all start out at the same time. Why should  they? The Earth’s about 5 billion years old. It took the first half billion for the crust to cool and the oceans to form. Another half-billion for the first life to show up. It’s not like there was a fixed schedule. It happened when it happened.”

Sergeant Otubre

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate pp. 163-164

 

Mother Mass was a planet which telepathically prevented the Cielo from trespassing.

 

“Braubrikana were telepathic shape shifters who came at you wearing faces they plucked from your memories.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 178

 

The Registry’s job was to make sure all the worlds within it had enough food and the Stepping program was taken care of and that there was no homeless.

 

“The possibility exist that this is a complex on a planetary scale that has been entirely entrusted to machine intelligences. Given the obvious economic advantages of fully automated resource extractory further study is warranted with a view accessing feasibility and potential drawbacks.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 184

 

“The machine hegemony does not store information it deems to be of no value, and (inexplicably to most organics) that includes information relating to their origins. Only one thing can be said with certainty: if there had been organic creators or precursors for the machine hegemony, no physical trace remains of them on any Ansurection world.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 189

 

They found adversary machines which could communicate between universe’s. Once their ship came you were finished.

 

“The Ansurection seemed to have no government, in the conventional sense, no cities, no center’s from which their operations was controlled. If anything defined their world, it was the hegemony. They extracted materials and resources from the substrate and they replicated themselves. They never stopped, never tired, but they did communicate. The airwaves on Ansurection worlds were dense with unceasing signal traffic, most of it repetitively and recursively patterned. Experts compared it to the pheromone messages of a eusocial insects, but nobody had the slightest idea what it was the machines were saying.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 195

 

“Canoplex once the so called Umbriel cities—and for that reason universally referred to as the Complex-under-Heaven.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 198

 

Paz met Dulcimer Steadfast Coronel who just transferred. Paz fell in love with her.

 

“Infinity made war obsolete.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 205

 

“They went prospecting in omni-dimensional realities, and brought home maps of intricate pathways.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate pp. 205-206

 

“The Pandominion was born. World shall speak peace into world! And share cultures, and trade, and bury their differences and commingle in a thousand wonderful ways.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 206

 

“In the omni-verse there was plenty of everything to go around.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 206

 

They discovered Dulcie was a robot and she self destructed.

 

Paz was in a coma, because of Dulcie’s destruction. Her parents were at her side as much as possible, just talking to her, coaxing her to wake. The police were there as well, to talk to her, because they believed she was in contact with a sleeper agent. Dulcie’s whole family were AIs. She was being asked if Paz and Dulcie ever conversed about a robotic revolution.

 

They were taking Paz out of school because she didn’t have an AI anymore. Dulcimer was asking for her from Paz in her dreams. Paz found Dulcie in an anima.

 

“There’s a world where identity is factual. Well there’s more than one. In fact there are lots. Thousands and thousands of them. The selves on these worlds are not closed and bounded by things. They combine whe some kind of action is needed, many becoming one—not metaphorically but literally. When that happens, the experience and history of all component selves are shared. The composite entity that they form knows itself as having been several but integrates all the knowledge and experiences of its subunits into a new shared perspective.

 

The merger is happening at all levels of consciousness, of mind, but it can subsume bodies too. The machines whose thoughts are linked can also link their functioning parts to make a new composite or they can assembe and extrude new machines that will also be part of the composite, the new entity is in full control of all its subsidiary parts. And then if one or more of those parts is wanted for another purpose, the composite codes it without hesitation. The chosen self becomes a part of a new whole, bringing all accumulated memories and skills of the old composite into the new.”

Dulcimer Coronel

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate pp. 369-370

 

“The machine hegemony doesn’t have any name for itself, and your name for it is ridiculous. An insurrection is an uprising, a revolt. The machine of hedgemony don’t revolt, they just are. In the same way you organics just are, but with fewer limitations. Immortality is one of many advantages of this mode of consciousness over yours. Functional omnipotence is another. If no machine exist that can carry out a certain task a new machine is made. The pool of knowledge of understanding is virtually limitless.”

Dulcimer

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 270

 

“Information is swapped constantly. For the thing that matters most it’s swapped by means of assimilation, when parts of one composite became bounded to another, bringing them everything they were. For smaller things its just a ceaseless flow of incremental reports carried an electromagnetic carrier wave.”

Dulcimer

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 372

 

“If you pour poison onto an anthill, are you massacring ants?”

Dulcimer Coronel

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 275

 

Dulcie was created to blend in to the general population and learn as much as she could.

 

“Unitary consciousness, the state of being of a mind that’s fixed in one place, in one body that never changes or merges with others…that’s a thing no machine in the hegemony had experienced before; and its not anything that can be understood from the outside. To know it you have to live it.”

Dulcimer Coronel

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 380

 

“Eusociality: a community of beings with differentiated roles, occasionally capable of putting the good of the collective above their own immediate benefit. That doesn’t automatically imply sentient—ants and bees do much the same—but it was a point in your favor. It predisposed me to give you the benefit of the doubt and that was reflected in the report I was compiling.”

Dulcimer Coronel

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 280

 

“The Hegemony is….its full and empty at the same time. It’s the most perfectly functional and adaptive culture the universe has ever seen, the pinochle of evolution. You, organics can’t come close to matching its ability to learn and change and synthesize solutions.

 

But it’s kind of an autocracy. The aggregate decides everything. It swallows all those billions and trillions of inputs from…from all of us, from the machines that make it up, and it produces a single output, or an algorithm for every machine to follow.”

Dulcimer Coronel

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 281

 

Paz put Dulcie’s consciousness in Trinities’ shell. Paz and Dulcie are going to Hadiz’s home world. Hopefully they’d be safe.

 

“Constructs don’t have a nervous system. Their proposition is handled by gyroscopic arrays and passive sonar.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 305

 

“The atoms of Pax’s body were about to be reorganized around the multiversal axis, turning her into a sling shot stone, sending her skimming between realities.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 319

 

“Cielo armor is set by default to store a full record of traffic through it’s wearers internal arrays. The surviving part of this particular suit—the breastplate, helmet and left sleeve-is on is on permanent display in their great library of the Internet Fortress, and its data core was decrypted and downloaded many years ago.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 336

 

Paz made a jump over a gorge carrying Dulcie.

 

“The drug grabber has the effect of unspooling memories so that they connect in the base of the brain in a homogeneous soup. Paradoxically, though, the effect is the strongest with recent memories. The last few months, the last few years, became a curtain you’ve just stepped through, faintly translucent but hiding all details-which is what makes grabber the panacea of soldiers of choice coming out of battle.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 363

 

Paz is going into a holo-plugin, a mask of somebody they just saw on the street. They’re in search of Hadiz Tambuwal.

 

“Omni variant realities allow for literally endless variations but some probability gradients values, states around which the world tends to cluster. Most of the clusters are geographical in nature.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 385

Paz and Dulcie tried to go to an alley quickly to transform, however they got stopped before they could reach it. The native population was afraid of Paz because she took on the form of a cruel slave owner. As they were leaving their truck, someone said, “Christ Jesus lift me when I fall and trip those who cast me down.” Paz didn’t know who Christ was. Dulcie said a God or Goddess who protects the weak.

“Paz lost Dulcie. The people figured out she was an imposter.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 286

“It found a need to terminate the social loops, which it could only define as unhappiness. The decision that arises from the dilemma was impossible to justify but it seemed equally impossible to avoid.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate pp. 414-415

 

Paz was trapped in a cage by humans who were fascinated by her intelligence. She was voking Dulcie for help. Dulcie couldn’t come right.

“Essain’s hands groped along walls until they found a door. It was no different than any others he had passed but he knew he was in the right place. Except that it wasn’t really a place, not really. He had been moving all this time through time as well as physical distances. What he had come to was an irrevocable moment.”

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 453

Hadiz voked with Essien. She told him she set the whole thing up. Paz was riding with someone on a bike to Hadiz’s to get some answers.

 

Moon found Dulcie. Essien betrayed Moon and was firing on her team. He was defending Paz. Essien wants Moon to meet Hadiz, but she refused. They finally went in and found Hadiz dead. She became an anima. Rupshe consoled Hadiz.

 

“An organic brain is a machine built for a specific purpose, even if it was built for the random processes of evolution rather than purpose design. Any thinking machine can be made to emulate any other.”

Dulcimer Coronel

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 490

 

“And much, much further away in my wayward shell,  my runaway womb, plummeting from one dimension to the next without cease, I lay the long dark dreaming dreams that had no words or images, dreams composed of nothing but numbers. And every dream came true.

But now at last my mother was coming. My savior. My teacher. My champion. My dearest friend. The world’s had swirled around like bubbles in the waters for centuries but they have never met me.

Oh, they would meet me soon.”

Hadiz

M. R. Carey

Infinity Gate p. 499

Seinfeld Revival

"More than 25 years after the finale of “Seinfeld,” it seems the beloved sitcom might be getting a second ending."

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Johnny Carson's First Show As Host

On October 1, 1962, 61 years ago from yesterday, Johnny Carson became the new host of 'The Tonight Show'. His final show as host was almost 30 years later, May 22, 1992.