CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #395  [archive] DEC. 16, 2023

Rich countries are desperate to convince us their hollow COP28 deal is a triumph. They’re lying.
    Any news coverage that’s happy with progress made at COP28 is horse-doodoo. UFO whistleblower doubles down on claims: “This is a nightmare for me”
    David Grusch is a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force, two entities I’d never heard of until Grusch popped up. For months he’s been saying loudly that the US has recovered alien spacecraft with nonhuman aliens or alien corpses inside, but that he can’t share any evidence “due to his fears of prosecution for sharing classified data in a public setting.”
    “I want to believe,” is what Mulder said on The X-Files, but believing without evidence is faith, and faith is for nincompoops. Maybe there are alien spaceships and bodies hidden away by the US government — that’s what I expect the government would do — but if Grusch won’t show the evidence, he’s just another ranting doofus. 

The role of Facebook — and the internet more broadly — in the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar
    Long read. Worth it. 
After 46 years and 15-billion miles, Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
    Launched just after the Bicentennial, Voyager was hoped to have a five-year lifespan. It’s still chugging along, but now it’s no longer communicating, kinda like me. 

The biggest study of ‘greedflation’ yet looked at 1,300 corporations that lied to you about inflation Oklahoma governor signs order effectively banning diversity programs at public colleges 

Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million to 2 Georgia election workers he defamed, jury decides
    “Must”? Get the heck outta here. He’ll never pay. Oklahoma wants to prosecute woman who took edibles because her fetus didn’t have medical marijuana card 

Twitter OK with ads for app that creates fake nudes for blackmail  Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school 

• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
    AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by. 

Facebook czar Zuckerberg builds supervillain lair in Hawaii  Archaeologists discover brutal ‘bakery-prison’ at Pompeii 

Almost a conversation with a whale, but we don’t know what either side said Twenty years ago, The Shield captured the brokenness of American policing 

• The Police Problem
    All about about ordinary evil cops.  Well, of course race played a role in sentencing of black child, 10, for urinating in public California deputy gets two years in federal prison for bullshit arrest, and lying about it 

Despite homicide verdict from coroner’s inquest, cops’ union says death of Afghanistan man beaten by guards, pepper-sprayed twice, covered with a spit hood and placed on his stomach on the floor was an accident Former Iowa police officer sentenced to 15 years for raping teen in ride-along program 

No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old black boy who called for help, officials sayA long but interesting interview with defense investigator Andrew Sowards, who’s seen a lot of bad cops, up close
    And here’s part 2. 

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫ The Bible is Bullshit — Corporate Avenger Don’t Let Me Get Me — P!nk The Man Who Sold the World — Nirvana Second Sight — Luther Wright & the Wrongs You’ve Made Me So Very Happy — Blood, Sweat & Tears 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️🖕 Rick Ahearn
logistics planner for prominent assholes Jack Axelrod
actor, Grey’s Anatomy Shirley Barber
author of children’s books Cari Beauchamp
author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Michael Bishop
sci-fi author, The Eyes of Fire Andre Braugher
actor, Homicide: Life on the Street Gene Carr
hockey player, Los Angeles Kings Emmanuelle Debever
actress, A Brutal Game Lola Dee
singer, “Pretty Eyed Baby” David Drake
sci-fi author, Hammer’s Slammers🖕 Neil Drossman
brain parasite Mort Engelberg
film producer, Smokey and the Bandit Shirley Anne Field
actress, My Beautiful Laundrette Jeffrey Foskett
rock’n’roller, the Beach Boys Gao Yaojie
AIDS activist Ian Gibson
artist, Judge Dread Dærick Gröss Sr
cartoonist, “Trumpy” Jack Hogan
actor, Combat Richard Kerr
songwriter, “Looks Like We Made It” Ken Kelsch
cinematographer, Bad Lieutenant Kunchok Lodoe
anti-Chinese activist Ken MacKenzie
baseballer, New York Mets Doug McArthur
liked athletics George McGinnis
basketballer, Indiana Pacers Essra Mohawk
singer-songwriter, Schoolhouse Rock Ted Morgan
author, On Becoming American Mary Ratcliffe
codebreaker Ron Rivett
founder, Super 8 Motels Stan Rogow
film and TV producer, The Clan of the Cave Bear Ken Sherrill
gay rights activist John A. Talbott
psychiatrist with a heart Camden Toy
actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mario Valdemarin
actor, Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis Jim van der Woude
actor, Prospero’s Books

12/16/2023   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.