MAGA cultists insist Elon wasn’t making a Nazi salute ❝ Riddle me this, reader: When is a Nazi salute not a Nazi salute? When Elon Musk is giving it, according to his embarrassed fans. 💬 It was a Nazi salute. We all know that. That was the point. He had two purposes: (1) to make normal people uncomfortable, as freaks like Muskrat tend to do, and (2) to smugly toy with identity politics… he looked and acted like a Nazi, but said he’s not, and you’re thus a hypocrite if you refuse to validate his internal reality. (Never underestimate a queerphobic little bald man’s ability to make everything about his fear of his trans kid.)
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens ❝ Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people … 💬 Seeing through curated reality will be an essential skill for future humans. Unfortunately, I see no sign that we will be able to manifest that skill at scale any time soon.
Chicken noodle soup now available as hard candy ❝ I had to check the date when reading this press release from General Mills to ensure that it wasn’t April 1st. It is not April Fools Day, and Progresso Soup… 💬 This may be the nastiest mass-produced food concept I’ve ever heard. And I grew up in the ‘70s.
Wikenigma is a fascinating encyclopedia of the holes in human knowledge ❝ Wikenigma describes itself as “a wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge” that lists “scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer.”
Criterion Honors David Lynch ❝ The passing of David Lynch has opened a floodgate of reactions and gestures to honor the legend. Criterion’s is particularly special.
Kat Dennings Says Casting Director Called Her Fat At 12 ❝ “They’re idiots.” 💬 Yes, but in fairness, it doesn’t sound like any casting director said that to Kat. That was something said to her agent, who of course should not have conveyed that information to their young client. This isn’t a story about the horrors of the casting process… it’s about the failure of a protector and advocate to protect and advocate.
Chart helps you convert between BASIC dialects in 1984 ❝ Is it 1984? Are you trying to port a BASIC ap–sorry, program–from Microsoft BASIC to the newfangled Locomotive BASIC? Well, here’s the chart for you. A note on this scan…
Bob Uecker Was Just The Best | Defector ❝ It is not difficult to find people who loved Bob Uecker unreservedly. There is a good reason for this: He was the last genuinely and instinctively funny person in baseball history. He was the god of Milwaukee even if you include all the Green Bay Packers going back to before Vince Lombardi. He was the […]
