April 3, 2022
10:29
Pepsi meets Nixon
A Marxist threat to cola sales? Pepsi demands a US coup. The October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende, using CIA 'sub-machine guns and ammo', was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon ... Mr. Kendall cultivated a close personal and professional relationship with Richard M. Nixon, who early on represented Pepsi as a lawyer and in 1965 played the piano at Mr. Kendall’s second wedding, at the Pierre hotel in Manhattan, and at Mr. Kendall’s request, Nixon steered Khrushchev to the Pepsi display during the infamous "Kitchen Debate."
“The ultimate twenty-first-century dictator”
Viktor Orbán wins fourth consecutive term as Hungary’s prime minister - Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian leader, calls Zelensky an 'opponent' after winning reelection - Viktor Orban Is Set for a Fourth Term as Hungary's Prime Minister. That Could Be a Boost for Putin - Hungary's isolation, economic woes will make Orban's fourth term his toughest yet - In Hungary, Viktor Orban Remakes an Election to His Liking
-The Hungarian Journalist Trying To Break Viktor Orban's Grip On Media, And Voters - Why Conservatives Around the World Have Embraced Hungary’s Viktor Orbán [more inside]
Rockets, photos, the sun, a space station, and a very distant star
Late March 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. The past couple of weeks saw a lot of activity in the solar system, especially with launches and images. [more inside]
Chumbawamba - Live at 924 Gilman, Berkeley, CA,1990
The Chumbawamba between-years. Anarcho-pop-punk-cabaret’s finest at their peak, recorded live at the infamous DIY venue, 924 Gilman Street, in Berkeley, California. Filmed and generously shared by 3.Cameras.and.a.Microphone
Your doomsday is our Tuesday
A split in the prepper community as women examine what prepping means for them. As the overhanging threat of nuclear annihilation returns to the zeitgeist, interest in survival preparation, or "prepping" is surging with it. But a "schism" has opened in Reddit's r/preppers forum as women note that the predominant traditional view of prepping is strongly gendered and specifically male. [more inside]
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
Photographer Roman Robroek takes gorgeous photographs of Italy's abandoned churches in the process of being reclaimed by nature, tracing both the decline of Christianity and of rural villages. (via Colossal)
Brouillard by Brouillard on Brouillard
When a man lies he murders some part of the world
Timothy Snyder posted a poem this morning about the horrors being revealed in Ukraine, in the wake of Russia's retreat from the outskirts of Kyiv. It recalls 'To Live is to Die's, spoken words, Metallica's tribute to Cliff Burton, their bassist who passed away September 27, 1986, in a bus crash in Sweden, touring to support 'Master Of Puppets'. Those words are mis-attributed to Burton, the first line most likely came from hymn writer and poet Paul Gerhardt (1703-1791), and was spoken by Merlin in the film Excalibur.
Together you can create something more.
For April Fool's Day 2017, Reddit launched an intriguing experiment: Place. Given a blank digital canvas, any user could add a single colored pixel at 5-minute intervals. Thanks to cooperation between myriad subreddit communities, Place quickly blossomed into a complex sprawl of jokes, memes, and digital art -- a Million Dollar Homepage for the modern era [final image; timelapse]. Five years later, Place has returned -- with the added twist of a canvas that sometimes doubles in size, with another expansion expected soon. Watch the timelapse so far, or if you have a Reddit account, leave a pixel yourself. [more inside]
Hallway medicine and back-logged surgeries
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