April 15, 2023
OK Go Deny Post the Okay to Go Ahead and Use its Name to Sell Cereal
OK Go, a band known for its elaborate videos (on treadmills, Rube Goldberg, drones, zero gravity), is being sued by Post Foods for use of the name OK GO! to sell breakfast cereal products. [more inside]
maybe there’s room for a Black weirdo like me
The books of my life: Colson Whitehead Pulitzer prize-winner Colson Whitehead on Ralph Ellison, Ursula Le Guin, and why he loves World War Z. [more inside]
Jimi Hendrix Experience started a new song before finishing the old one.
In this post, I will walk through the decision & explain just how bad
District judge Kacsmaryk's legally indefensible ruling on mifepristone. (Single link Substack). "Essentially the district court’s reasoning is this: the FDA seems slow and bad, so as a kind of revenge against the FDA, let’s allow plaintiffs to bring suits that are plainly time-barred! This isn’t really “law” in any conventional sense of the word." [more inside]
No nuclear power any more: Germany
Shut them down: In about 3 hours Germany will shut down their last 3 nuclear power plants. There's still open questions on how or where to dismantle them, esp. the highly radioactive fuels [more inside]
the only components he bought were the power supply and RAM
This PC Gamer Built Their Rig After Dumpster Diving For Months [Kotaku] “Dumpster divers find all kinds of things in the trash. From a full pallet of cold brew coffee to hundreds of metal tins for Yu-Gi-Oh cards, there’s no shortage of cool stuff buried in the heaps of garbage you’ll likely find in the bin. But while some of it may be useless, redditor Rydirp7 took the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” to heart and built a whole PC out of discarded computer parts.” [more inside]
Drug Wars
A little-known drug brought billions to Syria's coffers. Now it's a bargaining chip - "After more than a decade of boycotting him, Syria's Arab neighbors are now in talks to bring President Bashar al-Assad in from the cold. The Syrian leader has been received in some Arab capitals, but he is yet to be awarded the ultimate normalization with Saudi Arabia, one of Syria's staunchest foes – and the biggest market for its drugs." [more inside]
Shoulda done an AskMe
First woman appointed director Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's first female Goddard Space Flight Center director swears oath on Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. NASA's newly appointed director of the Goddard Space Flight Center has claimed two firsts before even starting her official duties. On Thursday, Makenzie Lystrup became the first woman in NASA's history to be appointed the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. She also became the first person to take their oath of office on a copy of Carl Sagan's 1994 book Pale Blue Dot. [more inside]
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