I like Arthur C. #Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic."
To this, I'd like to add:
1. This also applies to #bureaucracy, as is: any sufficiently complex organisation is indistinguishable from magic. Which is why people keep saying "they should..." without actually knowing who "they" are (and often where there couldn't even exist anyone with such a role).
2. It doesn't say what kind of magic.
#JeremiahClarke: 1674 - 1707
'Come, Come Along' Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell
#KatherineWatson #Soprano
#NicholasTamagna #Alto
#JeffreyThompson, #Tenor
#GeoffroBuffière #Bass
#LesCrisDeParis,
#LePoèmeHarmonique
#VincentDumestre
#musik #music #musique #musica #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #clarke
Here's your #Georgia Election Data update for 10/25:
The lede of the day is that Independent and Infrequent voters are making their voices heard in Georgia. 
IVWPB* share yesterday was 26%, the lowest since Early Vote started. 
share has been decreasing since 10/21, now at 35%. The non-partisan + voters without partisan preferences is now 37%, the highest total share of voters.
We're likely at 50% of the total vote count. My back-of-the-envelope estimate shows with a ~50k vote deficit. Has the early vote surge started to abate? If that's the case, that deficit could diminish.
I'm also laser-focused on turnout from the #Democratic core counties in #Georgia (in order of priority): #Dekalb, #Fulton, #Cobb, #Gwinnett, #Rockdale, #Clarke (home county of #UGA), and #Richmond. Dekalb and Fulton need to start breaking through 10% daily shares of EV to reduce the vote deficit.
Our daily charts will now be reporting TOTAL returns, including mail-in ballots. Looking at the daily chart, when we factor in totals, we're starting to see a reversion to the mean (averages) of typical early voting returns.
Finally, this weekend is the final #EarlyVoting weekend in GA, with weekend voting historically weighted towards turnout.
No new polls to report!
*Infrequent voters without partisan [primary] ballots
#introduction because everyone else is doing it:
Complete nerd, grew up on #SciFi lit like #Wells #Verne #Clarke #Asimov and #Aldiss while watching #Hammer and #Amicus Horror late night in the 80s (Cushing/Lee are the pinnacle)
Spent my life watching #StarTrek #StarWars and #DoctorWho. Spent my teens watching #XFiles #Babylon5 and #80sHorror
Food obsessive (#Scranodon) and #AFOL (#AdultFanOfLego). I run a website with all my #MOC's at:
https://scifibrickyards.weebly.com/
(He/Him/Bald/British/Beautiful)
Arthur C. #Clarke once said that every #revolutionary idea passes through three phases, which can be characterized by the statements of its #critics:
1) “It’ll never work – it’s pure fantasy.”
2) “It might work, but it’s not worth doing.”
3) “I said it was a great idea all along"
#Clarke's three laws
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 
states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.
Isaac #Asimov 
1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg
