News & Links: Thursday, August 31, 2023

CRANKY OLD FART'S
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• All eyes are rightfully on newspaper raid in Kansas, but these press freedom violations also deserve attention 

• When San Francisco said no to a freeway through Golden Gate Park 

• How Yippies "stuck it to the man" at the 1968 Democratic convention 

 • Why subway surfers find it so hard to quit 

• How ancient peoples learned to count 

🌎 THE NEWS YOU NEED 🌎 

• Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop "very dangerous" Trump
    Always, the left is supposed to support whatever bland middle-of-the-road candidate the Democrats put forward, candidates who seem idea-free and utterly without passion, because the Republicans have another terrifying candidate, always scarier than the last terrifying candidate. Gotta take boring over terrifying.
    And Bernie's right. I ain't arguing.
    Sure is a bucket of swill we're always forced to drink from, though.

• Austrian company researches parcel delivery service involving public transport users
    Seems clever and feasible to me. I suppose you’d need background checks on the passenger-couriers, but after that small hurdle, unless it’s an urgent package like a pizza, transit riders could get anything across any city in an hour or so.
    Where do I sign up? Austria, I guess.

• Billionaire says that in order to feel happy, we need to expect less, and that the world is going to get tougher 

• 15 people got 172 books pulled from a library serving a quarter million residents 

• Brazilian High Court rules that homophobic hate speech is on the same level as racist hate speech – and punishable with a prison sentence 

• Police watchtower installed at San Francisco subway station
    Free people in a free country don't have police watchtowers looking down on them.

• "Hit list": Trump grand jurors face violent threats after names and addresses shared on QAnon forums 

• Fox's Newt Gingrich tells his gullible MAGA dupes that Democrats want to legalize "killing your baby up to 30 days after it's born" 

• Chess cheating saga ends: Hans Niemann will be allowed back on Chess.com 

• All cops continue being bastards
    This is my other project, an ongoing collection of police brutality, beatings, and general corruption, almost always unpunished.

• "Negligent manslaughter": Study finds climate change could kill 1 billion mostly poor people
    A billion deaths? That's a ridiculous under-estimate, because there's no end date for climate change. You can't conjure up an accurate body count, because the climate catastrophes, food and water shortages, and other repercussions Will Never Stop.

• The "crazy" extreme weather rampaging the globe in 2023 will become the norm within a decade 

• A climate activist slathered pink paint over a painting at the National Gallery of Canada, then glued himself to the floor
    Excellent, but we need this everywhere — not just museums, but banks and yachts and courts and police stations, in front of millionaires' mansions and the Supreme Court and the halls of Congress.
    Vandalize the world, please. We've tried everything through all the 'acceptable' channels to get anyone anywhere to slow the rush toward climate catastrophe, and every try to work within the system has been ignored or earned only platitudes and lies.
    It is time to stop talking.

📸  IMAGES  📸

• Mandolin pictures from days bygone 

• Play-by-play by player 

• Impersonating an officer 

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫

• All Who Pass By — The Shaolin Afronauts 

• Casablanca — Max Steiner 

• Fuedin' Banjos — Don Reno & Arthur Smith 

• In the City — The Eagles 

• When the Levee Breaks — Playing for Change 

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👁  VIDEO  👁

• Becoming: The embryonic development of the alpine newt 

• Despotism (an Erpi classroom film from Encyclopedia Britannica) 

• April Maze (1930) — a Felix the Cat cartoon 

• Fish chase

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ 

• Nancy Buirski 

• Garth Craven 

• Johaar Mosaval 

• Rosemary S. Pooler 

• Joe who was never a plumber 

• Carol Robles-Román 

• Inga Swenson

 

8/31/2023  

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, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, MetaFilter, Miss Miriam's Mirror, RanPrieur.com, @soberscientistlife, 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.

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