Data Centers Are War Targets Now (Matthew Gault / 404 Media) — American towns with planned data centers are taking notice of attacks like Ukraine’s bombing Russian facilities and finding additional reason to oppose construction.
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Looks like there’s a new Stargate series in the works. Maybe. Woo-hoo!
I don’t suggest clicking the link to the article, btw. It’s a lot of twaddle and speculation
Trump's Democracy-for-Diesel Deal Shames Us All
Thomas L. Friedman at The New York Times:
Donald Trump, meet Neville Chamberlain. When future students search online for “sellout,” “appeaser” or “traitor to his country’s core values,” their two pictures will come up first, side by side. And deservedly so. At least Chamber...
The White House put out a statement saying that it will protect people and companies that gave Trump $330 million in bribes and “relentlessly pursue those responsible” for “cowardly” leaking the bribers identities.
Which is, of course, a lie. Trump shows no loyalty, even to his subordinates, and the White House is too incompetent to identify the leakers.
She lasted 0.45 scaramucci.
What was life really like in Renaissance Florence? A podcast interview with the always fascinating historian Ada Palmer and journalist Adam Davidson. YouTube link. I listen to the audio podcast like a civilized person. Search “Beforecast” in your podcast app.
JWZ writes a an introductory playlist of classic Hammer horror movies:
You’ve seen the t-shirts even if you haven’t seen the movies. At the time these were considered low budget trash, just a hair shy of pornography, BUT / AND they are fantastic! They have a look that is so consistent and when someone in this modern world references it, you are immediately “guy pointing at TV meme”, it’s such a thing. There’s something so distinctive about their lighting and color. When you see that particular too-bright red blood on the lips of a bouffonted showgirl in a negligee, you know what you’re in for.
I’m not a horror fan and was not a fan of Hammer movies but I’m a jwz fan so here you go.
🦍 Mitchellaneous #186: Memes and other found media
Hollywood Squares, 1970s
from the 1961 Sears catalog www.tumblr.com/bretzkysb…
Biblically accurate soap dispenser
Is the world getting uglier? My childhood friend Debbie Millman talks with Ezra Klein.
🦍 Mitchellaneous #185: Memes and other found media
Chicago, 1967
photograph by James L Stanfield
The Chicago ‘L’ Elevated Rapid Transit System
from: “National Geographic: The United States of America”
published by Taschen
image credit: James L. Stanfield / National Geographic / Taschen
via: The Guardian
www.tumblr.com/mudwerks/…
BONK
Minnie seems to be doing very well today. Yesterday her eye got puffy and runny a couple of times but my AI research said that could be a normal “flareup.” Her eye looked clear and normal this morning. Also, today and yesterday she seemed to have extra energy, curiosity, app...
ICE is planning a $100 million domestic spy program. The US is pumping up our unaccountable masked secret police force loyal to Donald Trump personally. This is fine.
About these photos.
Why Things Become Popular, With Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman’s most recent book, “Rock*,” imagines an alternate history of 20th Century music where the Beatles fade into obscurity and Velvet Underground became the biggest mainstream rock band in history.
The Velvet Underground are “kind of ground zero” for the idea th...
HPE’s self-driving network now fixes 70–80% of potential issues without human help, says networking boss Rami Rahim. Humans still need to handle active attacks and anything touching regulatory requirements, Rahim told me. My latest on Fierce Network.
🦍 Mitchellaneous #184: Memes and other found media
Detective World Jan 1952 www.tumblr.com/creepingi…
Louise Brooks
I received this in email this morning. I’m looking forward to skedaddling up to Los Angeles to improve my wardrobe of baggy cargo pants and food-stained T-shirts.
What to Do If Someone Puts a Suitcase in Your Overhead Bin — It has never occurred to me to think that an overhead bin is assigned to the seat below it. I look for a bin above my seat or a couple of rows ahead so I can get on and off the plane faster (and out of the way more quickly of everybody else getting on and off the plane).
🦍 Mitchellaneous #183: Memes and other found media
Angela Lansbury
Random thoughts about science fiction book series
Elsewhere on the Internet, a friend was was talking about various particular science fiction series and sf series in general. My reply (lightly edited for readability here):
I loved the “World of Tiers” books, by Philip Jose Farmer, but I read them loooooooooong ago. There w...
🦍 Mitchellaneous #182: Memes and other found media
Japanese novelty pocket calculator from the 1990s designed to look like an open pack of Mild Seven Lights cigarettes, with cylindrical number and operation keys styled to resemble cigarette filters.
From the comments: “Extra points for carrying it rolled it into the sleeve of your T-shirt.”
reddit.com/r/OldScho…
What are your favorite web novels and isekai?
🦍 Mitchellaneous #181: Memes and other found media
It’s 2:23 pm and I have not done anything stupid today.
“Edward H. Lehner, a New York lawyer, legislator and judge who, as a state assemblyman in the 1970s, helped pass a groundbreaking ‘pooper-scooper’ law … died on Sept. 9 in Brooklyn. He was 93.” (NYTimes/Sarah Lyall)
It is wild to me that the principle that dog owners should ...
🦍 Mitchellaneous #180: Memes and other found media
Please enjoy this trailer for the movie “Convoy” featuring a cover of the CW McCall novelty song with the same title and some unbelievable talent for what seems to be cinematic schlock — directed by Sam Peckinpah! Starring Kris Kristofferson! Ali McGraw! Ernest Borgnine! and Burt Young!
www.youtube.com/watch
We are still struggling to heal Minnie’s ulcerated eye. She won’t eat with the Elizabethan collar (aka “cone of shame”) on. She has done so in the past, but she has forgotten and has now decided it’s impossible and she stands next to her food looking confused.
Until today, w...
My motto for the week: “In retrospect, it should have been obvious that was a terrible idea.”