War via TikTok: Russia’s new tool for propaganda machine

3 years ago

“This is the way they go to war; it’s a central part of Russian doctrine,” said Jim Ludes, a former…

Inheritance (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 10) Data’s mom talks a lot, young Soong says she’s a bot, that’s a life-lie

3 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG Within minutes of hearing about a problem with a planet’s molten core, LaForge comes up with a solution…

The Protagonist’s Best Friend Would Like to Stop Having to Shoehorn So Much Exposition into Their Dialogue

3 years ago

Look, it’s just—now that you’re the protagonist of this movie, I’ve been feeling a lot of pressure to dispense clunky…

Force of Nature (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 9) A Space Thing leads to an environmental mystery that implicates warp drive technology

3 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG In which a comic teaser features LaForge's misadventures with Data's cat; we join the search for a missing…

Jerry Lewis’s Costars Speak Out: “He Grabbed Me. He Began to Fondle Me. I Was Dumbstruck”

3 years ago

As a kid I watched Jerry Lewis movies when they turned up on the local independent TV channels, and typically…

Brain activity of a dying man suggests we do recall memories at death

3 years ago

The 87-year-old man developed epilepsy and was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada, before dying of a…

An overnight traffic spike on an older online handout prompted me to touch it up. #techwriting #process

3 years ago

Those are the stats for my entire site. The spike is driven almost completely by visits to this one handout.

The overlooked masterpieces of 1922

3 years ago

In literature the response to the challenges and opportunities of the early 20th Century was Modernism – the rejection of…

Good Twitter thread on how confirmation bias leads to conspiracy theories

3 years ago

So why are so many people convinced that the NYT has ruined Wordle? Because of confirmation bias. They were already…