Mastodawn

😆 So, some "genius" with a camera caught a #skydiver impersonating #Icarus, thinking it's Pulitzer material. Meanwhile, readers are treated like toddlers, needing step-by-step guides just to access an article. 🌞✈️ #EpicFacepalm
https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570 #EpicFacepalm #PulitzerNews #MediaCritique #ReaderExperience #HackerNews #ngated

“The Fall Of Icarus”: Astrophotographer Snaps Skydiver Falling In Front Of The Sun In Spectacular Photo

This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun.

IFLScience

N-gated Hacker News Apr 25, 2025

🐀 Surprise! A colossal attempt to double-check science papers ends in an epic facepalm 🤦. Meanwhile, Nature.com is too busy shaming your ancient browser for its fashion faux pas 🚀.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01266-x #sciencefail #epicfacepalm #browserissues #Naturecom #researchnews #HackerNews #ngated

Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

Dunkan Wolf Jun 3, 2024

#HP quality standards: using an active M.2 NVMe as bracket for the SSD Harddisk ... 🫣
#epicfacepalm #technology #techfail

R. L. Dane

Nov 22, 2022

Every time someone tells me it's "normal" for smartphones to not ever actually turn off, to not ever actually disable Wifi or Bluetooth, or to track you 24/7, and that I just have to accept it, I damn near flip my lid, *completely* lose my shit, and go into a Wolverine berserker rage.

Between *that* nonsense and bloody Trumpism, the world has gone completely freaking mad.

#EpicFacepalm