Good Things Friday (285) and Link Love
August 9, 2024
1. We did NOT get COVID from the friend who did get it and spent time with us before she knew. Go masks and booster vax!
‘It affected a great number of people’: inside the world of shocking military drug experiments
What is wrong with people?? Man started California wildfire by pushing burning car into gully, prosecutor says
Beware the People Who Claim “America Isn’t Ready for a Black Woman President” (My worry was that America is currently too racist and sexist, given what we saw when they elected Trump and everything since.)
AOC’s Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate
I saw a bit of this! The U.S. men’s gymnastics team ended a lengthy Olympic medal drought. They hope the NCAA notices
Woodpeckers Don’t Have Shock-Absorbing Skulls
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part VIII: The Mind of Saruman. This bit got my attention because so often I think the term strategy is misused:
Strategy is an often misunderstood term: most ‘strategy’ games (especially real-time strategy) are actually focused almost entirely on tactics and operations; as a rule, if ‘don’t have a war’ isn’t an option, you are not actually doing strategy. Likewise, a lot of basic planning in business is termed ‘strategy’ when it really is tactics; not a question of goals, but of means to achieve those goals. Because strategy is the level of analysis that concerns why we fight – and thus also why we might not fight.
This is breathtakingly awful: ‘I’d rather die than go back’: Jamaica’s school for troubled US boys
This is great, on the face of it, but even more so with a bit more context. Shiv Ramdas, @nameshiv.bsky.social: “its actually even cooler, the Italian guy had a career threatening injury a few years before that and thought he was done and barshim helped him, trained with him, convinced him to comeback and then was his final opponent for the gold and refused jump off so they could share. magic story. GOAT”
