Texas ranks dead last in livability, and Florida is in the bottom 10 of the 50 states, due to poor healthcare, education standards and culture wars. Texas has the highest percentage of people living without health insurance, the state has the 13th highest violent crime rate, and is in the bottom third of US states for licensed childcare facilities per capita.
And Texas is targeting LGBTQ residents for persecution and restricting voting and reproductive rights.
RFK Jr bares his inner Nazi boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
Chick Tracts (99% Invisible). Jack Chick was the Leni Riefenstahl of comics. Chick devoted his life to using comics to witness to non-Christians. His gorgeous, kitschy art, combined with messaging that was often homophobic and Islamophobic, makes the tiny comics simultaneously masterpieces of pop culture and terrible hate speech.
Today’s ephemera: Alright everybody ... let’s find that grape
Pink 1967 Mustang Tussy Hardtop Advertisement.
31 Photos Of New York City In The Summer Of ‘69
AI-simulated Johnny Cash sings “Barbie Girl.”
I love the name of this YouTube channel: There I Ruined It.
Study: Cities with Expensive Housing Have Highest Rates of Homelessness timesofsandiego.com/business/…
I’m trying to swear less, but I’ve got to say “no shit Sherlock.”
Do kids in New York still play stickball, skelly, and hopscotch? Or has that gone the way of rolling a hoop with a stick?
Plausible Sentence Generators. Cory Doctorow finds an AI chatbot is an excellent tool for helping to draft scary threatening lawyer letters.
No Relief: Temps Reach 122 Degrees as Heat Bakes Mexicali, Border Communities (Reuters / Times of San Diego)
Elon is paying far-right influencers, including Andrew Tate, to post on Twitter (Taylor Lorenz / The Washington Post). Paying a guy who was charged with rape and human trafficking seems like not the best way to make your service attractive to advertisers.
More than 100 people were stuck at Agatha Christie’s house for seven hours _(Devon Live) And then there were 99….
Riley Moore, a US House candidate backed by Kevin McCarthy, made six appearances on virulent antisemite Michael Scheuer’s podcast. (Media Matters / Eric Hananoki)
Scheuer isn’t dog-whistling. He flat-out hates Jews and says so publicly and repeatedly, and has called for the assassination of US political leaders, including Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton.
Via Boing Boing
Vulcans really are jerks.
The shuttle was huge. It was big enough to serve as a Starfleet Academy party bus. Just hang a disco ball from the ceiling.
Was Spock human long enough to try California burritos and pizza? Because if he thought bacon was great….
Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? (Ars Technica/Andy Patrizio) “Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver … that sifted through radio telescope signals for signs of alien life.”
Superman: Legacy and What It Takes To Be a Great Onscreen Man of Steel (Den of Geek / Joe George)
I saw these steps while walking Minnie a few days ago. They’re beautiful and my knees hurt just looking at them.
Even the old guys at the park were wearing ankle socks with their shorts, rather than full-length socks as I was. I need to level up my exercise fashion game.