Not sure what's going on with my area NPR station, but they used the opening of Stereolab's "Metronomic Underground" as intersticial music today. Odd choice.
WesDym
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Latest outrage throwing MAGA into a screaming, childish, incoherent tantrum: Obama's presidential library opening on Juneteeth.
Obama sends MAGA into a rage with Juneteenth presidential library opening
MAGA fans fumed after former President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that the unveiling of his new presidential library in Chicago will take place on Juneteenth this year."Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center!" Obama posted on X. "Starting on June 19, the Ce...
I asked a geologist years ago what Nolo's fate will be. He said that no matter what, the city will go under water by the end of the century, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Few people accepted this when I passed it to them. Well, here's the science.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
Easily the best fan treatment I've ever seen of 'Star Wars', and I'm saying that as a big fan of Ernie Fosselius.
I Recreated Star Wars out of Cardboard
A lot of the movie 'Argo' (2012) is fun, with some great talent, but more than a little is also crassly manufactured and even absurd drama -- a sad but very common trait of too much modern cinema.
The tragically hilarious thing about memetics such as technology is that they actually accelrate natural selection, much more than they mitigate it.
This is what should be happening in ALL countries. I've concluded that ONLY govt should run nuclear, because if Japanese firms can't be trusted not to put profits ahead of safety, then none can. Nuclear will remain a critical backbone resource during a likely decades-long transition away from fossil fuels, and there's not much good reason to junk usable facilities you already have.
For example: If you smoked while drinking, stop drinking (or greatly cut down) while quitting smoking. Later, go back to drinking, so that your brain stops associating it with smoking. You don't need to keep drinking forever. Just long enough that you no longer instinctively associate it with smoking. Then, it stops being a trigger.