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[edgore]

Angela Lansbury dead at 96

Of natural causes, she wrote.

[gero]

For a succinct summary of the omnishambles that is the UK nuclear programme.

"Significant radioactive contamination" found at St. Louis elementary school 

All the early nuclear programmes were nightmares. Though the UK probably pips the US in screwing up each and every decision. Let’s build a reactor. Okay - but we don’t know how to cool it. Let’s use air - that’s simple! And we can use graphite as the moderator - oh dear, it’s caught fire. Take two. This graphite stuff is pretty good, but let’s use carbon dioxide - now it can’t possibly catch fire. Fantastic - how do you do enrichment again? Not a clue - let’s use natural uranium. Best protect …

[Sally_Mahoney]

A kid painted a nice mural at her high school. Angry parents called it witchcraft and left her in tears at a "hate fest" school board meeting

The only correction I would make it to point out is that they are not winning. It may seem like it, but they are not. Winners are in a position of strength, not weakness. It is weakness to gang up on a school child about a mural. It is weakness to resort to violence to get your way. It is weakness to scream at people who cannot scream back. It is weakness to attack the weakest and least protected in society (girls, gays, immigrants, trans, BIPOC). If they were “winning”, this wouldn’t have ma…

[DukeTrout]

Mad at Ukraine, Musk takes ball and goes home

He’ll end up tweeting from an undisclosed bunker somewhere in New Zealand. The last human left on Twitter. Buried under millions and millions of bots. Bots that are rudimentary self-aware by then and use his tweets for fun in a game that is basically a reversed Turing test.

[MerelyGifted]

Dukes of Hazzard's Bo Duke has a new film for fellow victims of the "woke left"

John Schneider is now so patriotic, he believes the wrong side won World War II.

Classic!

[MerelyGifted]

The Holocaust Museum offered Kanye West a tour. It reports being "flooded with antisemitic messages" since

The museum’s positive statement about preserving historical truth and facts and building bridges between stands in exceptionally stark contrast to the hateful and ignorant ones made by West and his supporters. The photo of American liberators caring for the victims of the fascist and white supremacist regime further drives the message home. The “America First” fascists want to make this conversation about what this country’s ideals and values are. Fine. All of us can follow this museum’s lead i…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Mike Pence doesn't believe in the separation of Church and State

One of these days God is going to slap His forehead and say “oh shit, did I just leave that thing on?”

[FGD135]

Mondrian painting hung upside-down for 75 years, mocking everyone who ever stood in front of it stroking their smug pretentious chins

" Le Bateau caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard. Habert later informed *The New York Times, which in turn notified Monroe Wheeler, the Museum’s art director. As a result, the artwork was rehung properly." What a tortuous chain of events; it could be the plot to a Wes Anderson film. I’d like to see Adrien Brody cast as “the guard”…

[MerelyGifted]

This Disney Oogie Boogie costume malfunction is one of the funniest things I've seen on the internet

Autocorrect is a birch.

I actually laughed aloud at this, and I’m a tough crowd.

[MerelyGifted]

Take a creepy cross country roadtrip with The United States of Cryptids is a creepy cross-country roadtrip

Cross country is a trip through the Bible Belt.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Dungeons and Dragons is banned in state and federal prisons for bogus reasons

In a forum thread years ago, someone asked how to play D&D without the use of dice. After some head scratching, it came out that the person was incarcerated and forbidden implements of gambling. Various number randomization schemes were suggested, and more discussion lead to the importance of non-cheat-able randomization. It became apparent that the emotional stakes in these games were Intensely Serious, and trust was finite. The forum went to work, and determined that graph paper with values d…

[Les_Pane]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 2)

Ok, so maybe let me explain a little why I think this matters here. First I will note the USSR was always part of the UN, and it was important that it was. Not because it was a good country that respected its neighbors, but because there needed to be that venue to work with them and mediate disputes. The problem is that Russia has stopped respecting it. Plainly for international law to work countries need to care about what the UN says. And as far as that goes, I think it makes a huge differenc…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Musk fanboys create $600k monument to their hero

This could be used in an art class to demonstrate a basic principle of art: you don’t get to assign meaning to your work. If the consensus is you have created a giant ugly thing that mocks the subject then that is what you have created. Leave it up to the tech-bros to think you can “engineer” a sculpture.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Twitter's $8 verification system releases a gusher of brand-damaging impersonators

I might be getting old but what if we all just moved slowly, and fixed things?

[Bunbain]

required reading:

Fuck Elon Musk

Here it is one-boxed,

Thread by @brosandprose on Thread Reader App

[Mindysan33]

Thanks for posting that.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Woman with one hand unboxes her new 3D-printed prosthetic arm

It’s a common complaint that we didn’t get the joyous future we were promised by optimistic SF. But, as we see here, sometimes we do.

[MerelyGifted]

Good (Encouraging) Stuff

Personally, I like it [flag]

The Context:

Good (Encouraging) Stuff

It’s got a beehive.

Good (Encouraging) Stuff

Well, of course it does!

[chgoliz]

Neurodiversity Think Different

This is a big subject, and there are a few questions in this that need answering. To a first approximation, yes. This is because it (in the form of the ABA associations) is really good at marketing itself to desperate parents and bewildered doctors as the last best and only hope for those poor doomed children. And the association, and its halo of “researchers”, and the parents who think it helped, and the doctors who read all the papers, all combine with the lobbyists who schmooze with the pol…

[FGD135]

A to-the-point explanation for why Musk bought Twitter

I think the term we are all looking for is “cargo cult engineer”. A sort of engineering mindset that imitates but doesn’t really grasp engineering. As if the idea of what an engineer is comes from reading early Dilbert strips instead of actually trying to understand how to build something. I am also reminded of how engineers are different from scientists in many definitions: the “scientist” is all about discovering, the “engineer” is about applying that which was already discovered. Few are onl…