June 15, 2022
Alex Wagner Interviews Trevor Noah
From The Daily Show Youtube channel, Alex Wagner Interviews Trevor [42m]. Real introspective conversation about the things you want to hear that kind of conversation about. I truly enjoyed this The first 4m37s are an entertaining but not necessary montage from TDS.
"Frogs flailing in air, in space"
Why is this tiny frog so awful at jumping? "The moment the pumpkin toadlet leaps into the air, anything seems possible. The tiny frog, which is about the size of a honeybee and the color of a cloudberry, has no problem launching itself high off the ground. But when the pumpkin toadlet begins to soar, something goes awry."
Now how will we explore the Internet?
BBC: "Microsoft is finally retiring the consumer version of Internet Explorer. It announced the plan last year, making Internet Explorer 11 its final version." The Verge: "The aging web browser is being sunset in favor of Microsoft Edge, with support being officially withdrawn for IE 11 today." XDA: "According to the company, Internet Explorer will 'progressively redirect' users to the new Edge browser. In the coming months, more and more users will start seeing Edge open when they try to open IE, until eventually, the transition will be complete. However, Microsoft isn’t saying when this process will be finished." Previously: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018.
What is it like to enforce an embargo?
In 2014, Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, published the paper "If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious", putting forward the idea that if you accept that matter and physical things are at the root of everything, then if that means you believe rabbits are (or at least, can be) conscious, then the United States is probably conscious, too. [more inside]
“Prove to the World You’ve Lost Your Son”
In an excerpt from her upcoming book Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth, author Elizabeth Williamson interviews leading Sandy Hook truther Kelley "gr8mom" Watt, to explore the mentality that would lead someone to hold the belief that one of the bloodiest school shootings never happened. (SLSlate)
The Oregon Hen Party
"For over 30 years during the mid-20th century, a group of women who lived in eastern Oregon went on an annual 10-day horseback ride through the Wallowa Mountains. The women called themselves the Hen Party [archive.ph], and they were led by Jean Birnie, a local woman known for her horse-riding skills, reverence for nature and rejection of modern conveniences." [more inside]
"I just changed the baggie. I think it's not a crime."
At least seven PC game collectors have publicly or privately identified dozens of suspected forgeries they say [Enrico] Ricciardi traded or sold as far back as 2015 and as recently as last month. Collectors estimate that those trades and sales include games that would be valued at well over $100,000 total on the open market if they were authentic. Ricciardi told Ars he is also a victim who simply unknowingly passed along suspect collectibles without checking them thoroughly enough. Regardless, the overwhelming evidence suggesting that there are many forgeries circulating through the world of rare PC games has shaken the trust of that community to the core. from Inside the $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting [Ars Technica]
Happy the Elephant is not a person in New York
By a 5-to-2 vote, the Court of Appeals rejected [NY Times] an animal-advocacy organization’s habeus corpus argument that Happy was being illegally detained at the zoo and should be transferred to a more natural environment. [more inside]
Too many cows
Boundary violation in Minecraft "Today my 7 year-old came into the room crying. I asked him what happened and he said that his 5 year-old brother put 80 cows in his house in Minecraft while he was offline and that it was "entirely too many cows" and honest to christ I have no idea how to parent any of this." [more inside]
"'Admittance Is Not The Same As Acceptance': Classism, Oxford & Me"
Article by novelist Louisa Reid about her time at Oxford University in the 1990s. In an interview, The Poet author Louisa Reid: Posh boys have "learned how to make privilege hot", Reid talks about class, her novel in poetry, Charlotte Mew, the lack of women's writing on A level syllabuses, poetry in prisons, and, in passing, The Archers.
For experienced DevOps people some of the choices will be painful
It can't be any simpler than this: you have some bash script that you want to be executed from time to time. In my case, I have some background processes I need to kill. Nomad is a well-known workload orchestrator. I have decided to automate my homelab cluster using it. I will through this blog post try to walk you through some discoveries I made on the way during the previous couple of months.
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