CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#359 [archive]
• The secret weapon hackers can use to dox nearly anyone in America for $15 • Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store in rural California • Court orders high-ranking Catholic pedophiles and pedophile-protector’s names released • Town fires librarian who worked there for 11 years because she refused to remove LGBTQ+ books • Jewish space lasers are causing the wildfires, say the same loons who believe everything Trump says • International Chess Federation’s argument for banning trans women gives the game away • Palo Alto embraces a community-owned multi-gigabit broadband network after decades of talk • Georgia teacher fired after reading book on gender to fifth-grade class • Interview with owner of Marion County Record:
So how did that flagrantly illegal raid on a Kansas newspaper happen? • AI-Created art isn’t copyrightable, judge says in ruling that could give Hollywood studios pause • Kellogg’s battles Mexican government over rules restricting unhealthy food like Kellogg’s • MAGA morons trust Trump more than their own friends and family • All cops continue being bastards
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯• How the world will burn • Lo and behold: A coded message in the floor• Fixing the world’s oldest trolleys is like solving a century-old jigsaw puzzle • America’s long history of gun control laws
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♫♬ MUSIC ♫• Anywhere I Lay My Head — Tom Waits • Ireland — Paul McCartney • My Dad — Paul Westerberg • Should I Stay or Should I Go — The Clash • What’s Gnawing at Me? — Biff Rose
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click
👁 VIDEO 👁• The world’s oldest known animation • Joel Grey sings “When I’m 64” on The Ed Sullivan Show
• Your best bits
🕸 WEB WISDOM 🕸• I must study war, so my sons can study business, so their sons can study art, so their son can write gay vampire fiction. • Never underestimate the power… • Vasectomy
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️ • Dorothy Casterline • Isabel Crook • Terry Funk • Bob Giles • Linda Haynes • Ray Hildebrand • David Jacobs • Joan Meyer • Wes “Scoop” Nisker • Kris Nóva • Stefan Tilkov • Stephaun E. Wallace • John Warnock • Nizo Yamamoto
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, Depsidase, 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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