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Millions of shoppers agree: It’s OK to eat supermarket sushi. At U.S. retailers, sales are up over 70% in the past year. (archive,today link)
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It seems like nearly every week I am having arguments about how bike infrastructure is ableist. It’s not.
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The University of Michigan, a community of over 120,000 people, has gone offline in response to a security incident.
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BBC: Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash
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With Oppenheimer quickly becoming one of the biggest [heh] movies of all time, there has been a lot of discussion about film format floating around lately. Here with a complete explainer about film formats is Analogue Resurgence with 70mm: From Oklahoma to Oppenheimer (Or, How Very Big Film Was Used to Make Very Big Movies) [46m]. It's a romp across cinema through the lens of, well, the lenses. And the film stock.
comment posted at 10:41 AM on Aug-23-23

The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader. [Ars Technica] The destruction of the lunar probe--which would have been Russia's first lunar mission since a Soviet uncrewed probe in 1976--is the latest in a long line of failures and downgradings of the program that once accomplished the first successful satellite launch, the first man and woman in space, and the first spacewalk.
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'My Generation' Anthem for a Forgotten Cohort
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You know the scene in Ghostbusters where the power's been shut down, the ghosts have broken containment, and they start to run amok in New York? The distinctive, eerie song- "Magic" by Mick Smiley- that accompanies it exists only in the film and on the soundtrack; it was never released as a single and Smiley never released it himself. But who even is Mick Smiley? In 2016, Josie Riesman tracked him down and got his story.
comment posted at 12:39 PM on Aug-18-23

The history of television is a vast wasteland of terrible decisions. For every groundbreaking show like Breaking Bad, Star Trek, and All in the Family that got on the air, there are 50 duds like Capitol Critters, Homeboys in Outer Space, and Joanie Loves Chachi. For every brilliant network idea, like NBC allowing Jerry Seinfeld to make a “show about nothing,” there are 100 insane ones, like ABC allowing Jim Belushi to create 182 episodes of According to Jim across eight seasons. (archive,today link)
comment posted at 10:54 AM on Aug-19-23

YouTube link to a Guns N' Roses song called "Perhaps."
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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
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98 Pages, 19 Defendants, 41 Charges. Now with RICO.
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Yet the case still might have fizzled if not for the presence, in Tulsa’s Riverside Street Crimes Unit, of an officer with the improbable name Kansas Core ... the cat racket was hardly a choice assignment. “There’s this ‘We don’t care about catalytic converters, because it’s a property crime’ ” camp at the department, Staggs says. “It’s not a sexy crime. It’s not the robberies and the homicides.” When the previous commander gave Core the case, it wasn’t exactly hazing, but it wasn’t far off. “I’m pretty sure that lieutenant basically was like, ‘Core, you’re the up-and-coming guy,’ ” Staggs says. “ ‘Your last name is Core, and all the criminals call these cores. Here you go.’ ” from How Tulsa cops brought down a $500 million catalytic converter crime ring [Bloomberg; ungated]
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misinformation susceptibility In this study, you will be asked to rate 20 news headlines as real or fake and answer a few optional questions about your background. Results given in four categories, including:
- Veracity Discernment: 100% (ability to accurately distinguish real from fake news)
- Distrust/Naïvité: 0 (ranges from -10 to +10, overly skeptical to overly gullible)
comment posted at 2:44 PM on Aug-13-23

U.S. judge sends FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
comment posted at 3:09 PM on Aug-12-23

There's only one internet, but strains can show when it connects countries that are at odds, for example when the Chinese government blocks Google and Facebook or US companies sever their connections to Russia's internet. These techno-political tensions have spread to the world of subsea cables. from The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
comment posted at 3:30 PM on Aug-12-23

The math around creating a fair and fun set of bingo cards is a lot more complicated than I thought. Anyway, here's your free thread for the week!
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For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic (Wired)
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Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, dies at 70 after private bout of cancer.
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Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience. (archive.is)
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Low-cost ketamine could help people with severe, hard-to-treat depression, study finds. A cheap version of ketamine commonly used as a sedative might help some people with hard-to-treat depression, research finds, raising hopes that the off-label treatment could become less expensive.
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A South Korean team has published pre-print results on Arxiv. If true, this could be world-changing. Or is it just the next "cold fusion" scam?
Quantum Insider
IFL Science
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Autoenshittification - Cory Doctorow on the auto industries efforts maximize the exploitativeness of your car by turning it into an ink-jet printer with wheels.
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Steely Dan's Schlitz Beer Jingle
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In the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian counteroffensive is still going on, but with slower progress than many in the West had come to expect. Professor Phillips O'Brien tries to put it into perspective, and War on the Rocks has some musings on the future of offensive warfare. Respected analysts Micheal Kofman and Rob Lee have visited with the Ukrainian military, and the preliminary conclusion is that they have a number of challenges, including scaling up offensive operations. Their report is not ready, but you can hear some initial thoughts. Russian fortifications including minefields are holding up well to direct attack, and the focus is on reducing Russian combat power with artillery, now using the somewhat controversial cluster munitions provided by the USA. There have been a couple of deep strikes into Crimea, and the hit on a fuel depot caused the full closure of the already-damaged Kerch bridge.
comment posted at 10:49 AM on Aug-23-23

Twitter is being rebranded as X - The Verge
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Her name is 841. She is a sea otter. Her attacks on surfboards are escalating. She has so far managed to evade capture. Her popularity is growing.
comment posted at 9:46 PM on Jul-20-23

It's been in the Washington Post, the New York Post, and Eater NY. It's the Perpetual Stew Club, a gathering in Brooklyn featuring a stew that has been cooking for five weeks and counting. Want to get in on it? Just bring an ingredient (keep it vegan, please), and let them know ahead of time if your name is Stu (or Sue).
comment posted at 9:09 AM on Jul-18-23

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—118th Cong., 1st Sess. [S. 2226]
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT intended to be proposed by Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. RUBIO, and Mrs. GILLIBRAND)
Viz: At the appropriate place, insert the following:

TITLE I—UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA DISCLOSURE
This title may be cited as the "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023"
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