Jeff Atwood"So I don’t know exactly where the media industry went, and I don’t know how to fix it. But if you want a glimpse of how the business works now, you can’t do much better than this Road & Track story about Formula One racing by McMansion Hell architecture critic and cycling journalist Kate Wagner, which was published on Friday and then almost instantly unpublished for reasons that will soon become obvious." https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/
Ironwort
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40ish, ae/aer. / Τίποτα τόσο ενδιαφέρον εδώ.
Claire LammanFor this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!
Julia Seranoin the last few days, I've seen several posts about some lesbians' negative attitudes toward #bisexual women. so I'll re-up this essay – "Penises, Privilege, and Feminist & #LGBTQ+ Purity Politics" – which gets to the root of this antagonism (no paywall): https://juliaserano.medium.com/penises-privilege-and-feminist-lgbtq-purity-politics-bafd1f25fe3e
Paul CantrellZeynep Tufekci makes the point that we should regard oversaturation with garbage information — “flooding the zone” — as censorship in another form. Making it impossible to •speak• is not the same as making it impossible to •hear•, but many of the effects are equivalent. Noise silences.
I first heard her make this point regarding Russian disinformation in the 2016 election, but it’s an insight with much broader import.
From @bhawthorne:
https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056
Brian Hawthorne (@[email protected])
How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites? Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures. So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there. I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.
Flint DibbleThe Top 6 Penis Bones in Archaeology
A story about humans, animals, and their wang bones
The Top 6 Bacula (Penis Bones) in Archaeology. And what they reveal about ancient humans & animals.
Dan Hon@jamiemccarthy gamma ray bursters just want to be the day's main character
Jamie McCarthy@danhon Gravity lenses are retweets
Type Ia supernovas are reply guys
I will not be taking any questions
can't believe that thanks to light, the universe is laid out in reverse-chronological order
Roguelike CelebrationIn Nethack, playing on a Friday the 13th gives you a luck penalty. Playing when it's a new moon leads to a few interesting mechanical changes.
Friday after next is both October 13 *and* a new moon!
Are you gonna show off your Nethack skills on this spooooky rare day?
Uwe Edelheid @dietweeterei