2023
Surgeon warns against the most dangerous sex position, which causes 50% of penile fractures boingboing.net/2023/07/2…
How did we fill our in-between time before smartphones?
I’m constitutionally incapable of ignoring text within my sight, so I remember reading cereal boxes at breakfast, magazine covers in checkout lines, display ads on public transit, out-of-date magazines in doctors’ offices, in-flight Skymall catalogs, and posted signs (however irrelevant) of all types.
When the Town Square Shatters. Cory Doctorow remembers GEnie, where I made a lot of friends (including Cory). He says the end of GEnie nearly 25 years ago foretold the breakup of Twitter’s community. doctorow.medium.com/when-the-…
My career goal is to become a cowboy at a “wild west” roadside attraction. I want to be the guy who stands with a shotgun at the top of the stagecoach and gets shot and falls off.
Today’s ephemera: Looking in the bathroom mirror first thing in the morning
1960 The voices of the Flintstones
Video. Watch here: twitter.com/slendersh…
Five years ago: The hotel I’m in has an enclosed atrium with a mirrored far wall. Some guy dressed like me was taking a picture same time as me.
Today’s ephemera: Wasabi Bobby's coping mechanism
Today’s ephemera: And how do we cope with stress?
In 1909, Alice Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alic…
Google shows off AI “news article” writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting boingboing.net/2023/07/2…
Rob Beschizza: Google is “pitching a tool to _rewrite _news that’s _already _been published” and the target market is the publishers who originally paid for creating that news.
Florida is requiring schools to teach how slavery benefitted the slaves, and require teaching “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans” when studying race massacres. www.cnn.com/2023/07/2…
These include the Ocoee, Fla. massacre where 40-50 Black people were killed by a mob of more than 250 whites, to prevent the victims from voting in an election. And the Tulsa, Okla., massacre, when white mobs killed up to 300 Black people. And in the Rosewood, Fla., race masscacre, in 1923, a white mob killed six Black people and two whites, and burned down homes, businesses and churches.