CRANKY OLD FART’S
NEWS & LINKS
#351 [archive]
• Texas county bans underage access to LGBTQ literature, will instead add more books with politically conservative themes • “Free Speech Absolutist” Musk files obvious SLAPP suit against non-profit critic • Center for Countering Digital Hate vows to keep monitoring hate speech on Twitter despite Musk lawsuit • 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.
• Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting • 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!
• Despite state’s $5-billion surplus, Georgia’s Republican Governor orders crippling cutbacks • 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• Paul Reubens was punk • 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 • Popcorn — Jean Michel Jarre • Soul Sacrifice — Carlos Santana • Swanee River Hop — Fats Domino • Wade in the Water — Ramsey Lewis
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click
👁 VIDEO 👁• One-minute cartoon sums up Electronic Frontier Foundation’s work • A chirping grasshopper • Spinwalk
I don’t understand it, but it’s 39 seconds I don’t regret
🕸 WISDOM OF THE WEB 🕸• Imagine • It’s all about race.
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
• Randy Fullmer • Simpson Kalisher • David Le Batard • Paul Reubens • Richard Simpson • Mangus White • Charles Wurster
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.
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