Cory DoctorowImpatience wrought in stainless steel
Nick Martin@pluralistic My favorite factoid is that those buttons are generally not even wired to anything, or if they are, they don't function unless the fire dept key is turned.
Marcin Wichary@dwhisper @pluralistic This has been debunked! https://computer.rip/2023-03-13-the-door-close-button.html
GLC@mwichary @dwhisper @pluralistic
I once saw a detailed write-up of how a single local news story was rewritten, with more and more details added, to become a first-person urban legend (with imaginative quotations from eye-witnesses) about a movie theater demolished while showing "Twister". (Something the print media were fully capable of doing without the assistance of social media.)
Some of this (but none of the detail) is
at https://www.slashfilm.com/1619366/twister-drive-in-urban-legend-explained/
and possibly in the linked video.
