Good Things Friday (246) and Link Love
November 10, 2023
1. JB gestured at my 20+ year old knit sweater, not a hoodie or a fleece, and asked: why are you so fancy today? It almost feels like an achievement of a low maintenance lifestyle that “not a hoodie” is fancy.
Challenges this week: Mutant virus abounds!
That’s unsettling: A Study Says Starfish Are Basically Walking Heads, and Literally Nothing Else. For decades, scientists theorized that starfish didn’t have heads. They might, in fact, only have heads.
I never knew so much about ultraviolet lights before: Ultraviolet Rant – Scorched Ape Eye Club
I’m very much not ok with these automated “autonomous” vehicles in the city and lo, I was not wrong to be highly skeptical about their safety: CRUISE KNEW ITS SELF-DRIVING CARS HAD PROBLEMS RECOGNIZING CHILDREN — AND KEPT THEM ON THE STREETS
Our history continues to be horrifying. I’m glad they’ve finally admitted wrongdoing here even though it’s far too late to make real amends to those wronged: Army corrects records of Black ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ hanged by US in 1917
May this survivor of the Tulsa massacre win this case: Nearing Her 109th Birthday, and Still Waiting for Her Day in Court
Lessie Benningfield Randle survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. Her lawyers are making what they say is a final bid to keep her case alive.
I will admit to thinking that one good thing about being in suburbia is that we are not so popular a location for things like Cruise.
Definitely. I don’t venture into the city proper much and things like this make me even less inclined to!