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Even the androids are guilty of mansplaining now.

'Merica.

Well it won't be a banned book. 😉

Yes, Hedy Lamarr is a pretty cool historical figure. Stunning actress, film producer, and co-inventor of a form of frequency-hopping spread spectrum.

Why do women only get a day? Surely they deserve more. 🙂

But that is what happens in a moral panic. The main difference this time is it comes from the left; usually we get these from the right.

iCloud allegedly locked out a user over her last name Actor and author Rachel True reportedly added, "When I get a dog I'm naming it Boolean Bobby Drop Tables True".

I'm wondering if the cancel culture phenomenon can be considered a form of moral panic? The definition comes close:

A Dark Suns game: Wasteland 2 meets Baldur's Gate.

The Dr. Seuss books controversy reminds me of the time I scanned the book Principles of Mining by Herbert Hoover. At the start I was pretty interested because it was by a former President; toward the end of Chapter XVI I was thinking: holy cow, this dude's a total bigot. It was an interesting revelation.

Watch SpaceX Starship SN10 launch and stick landing! So freaking cool.

Mars: Nasa's Perseverance rover sends stunning images More eye candy from Mars. Some of it is a repeat.

Ideal for the Barbarian/Bard.

Not sure what it has to do with politics, but here's my favorite identity:

She was overlooked for the Nobel Prize, even though it was her work that led to the discovery of dark matter. At least this does her justice.

In a sense we still use base 60 for our timekeeping and our angle measurements. It has the convenient advantage of being evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Yes. It is. Base 10 is arbitrarily founded on the number of digits on our hands. It's a completely artificial choice, but still valid mathematically. Computers are now oriented to using base 16, which at least makes some mathematical sense as a power of two.