CRANKY OLD FART'S
NEWS & LINKS
#351 [archive]
• "Free Speech Absolutist" Musk files obvious SLAPP suit against non-profit critic
• Legal subReddit bans all ex-Twitter links due to safety risk
There
are still news sites linking to Twitter, something that's been feeling
more and more problematic to me. It would be nice if this started a
groundswell, or at least a conversation, because Twitter is making itself into a forum for nutters.
• UK Prime Minister's family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before gov't opened new North Sea licenses
How utterly ordinary and predictable. The only thing unusual is, such deals usually don't make headlines.
This is why there is no "fight against climate change." Climate change wins by default.
• Phoenix ends record 31-day streak of above 110-degree weather
There, see? Under 110°, so climate change has been beaten!
• Armed Nazi group protests pride event featuring drag show
• Republican-controlled states push for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol
• All cops continue being bastards
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
• Death
by Larry Livermore
• In one of his first interviews from 1981, Reubens tells the origin story of Pee-wee Herman
• Long COVID is debilitating to me and 65 million other people. Where is the urgency to treat it?
• How Blade Runner got its title
♫♬ AUDIO ♫
• One Mint Julep — Ray Charles
• Soul Sacrifice — Carlos Santana
• Swanee River Hop — Fats Domino
• Wade in the Water — Ramsey Lewis
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔
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👁 VIDEO 👁
• One-minute cartoon sums up Electronic Frontier Foundation's work
• Spinwalk
I don't understand it, but it's 39 seconds I don't regret
🕸 WISDOM OF THE WEB 🕸
• Imagine
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
8/3/2023
Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that's made me smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Tip 'o the hat to the AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, CaptCreate's Log, Cogent Coquette, Depsidase, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, One Finger Medical, Two Finger Magical, Miss Miriam's Mirror, Nebulously Burnished, RanPrieur.com, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I've stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce, Joey Jo Jo, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn't always shitty.
Have you reviewed Pee Wee's Big Adventure? I have to assume you've seen it. It's so, so good.
ReplyDeleteI've seen it sever times, loved it, but I ought to see it again. Already loved the guy, but going out with years of cancer without telling anyone — man, that's so punk.
DeleteThat holy prepuce thing is the sickest shit I've seen today and Ive been looking a bondage art.
ReplyDeleteGive me a few days, I'll try to come up with something sicker.
ReplyDeleteI don't laff out loud much, but somehow the vamp and the English teacher got me tittering and it turned into a laugh. My wife came into my office because she thought Trump had died.
ReplyDeleteJohn
I don't want him to die yet. First, we must hear the lamentations of the Republicans..
DeleteDoug, you mention the Electronic Frontier Foundation in today's update. The founder of the EFF, John Perry Barlow who was a sustainable rancher in Colorado, was also a songwriter for the Grateful Dead. So besides ensuring that the emerging Web made it out of the 90s with values of equality intact, John Perry was co-writing (with Bob Weir) some of the Dead's songs.
ReplyDeleteI had the privilege of spending a half hour or so with John Perry at a computing conference in the mid-90s when the Web was being implemented. He was a committed, decent, bright guy who took all three of his jobs seriously and had fun doing them.
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This is news I didn't know, or news I once knew but it was eroded away by the sands of time and my own limited RAM. John Perry Barlow, I salute you and your music and your activism and your sustainable ranching.
DeleteSometimes the comments here hike up my IQ.
I love PeeWee and Ruebens, but never would've said he was punk. Maybe he was though. I like the article and am awfully sorry to see him gone.
ReplyDeleteWe're both old Doug, were there headlines like the top story here twenty years ago? I sure do not remember such a flurry of people wanting to take books out of the library and keep people hungy and poor and miserable. They always tried to prevent help but now they want to take away everything that helps anyone.
This is not the 21st century I wanted.
The times they are a changing, for sure. Always there were headlines about narrow-minded farts wanting a book banned,, but until recently the farts were usually not the member of the school board and library board. So yeah,. I think things have gotten worse and are getting worser and will soon be worsest.
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