IN PRAISE OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS. “Acknowledging the people whose way of life we have appropriated.”
April 23, 2024
CHRIS QUEEN’S SIPPING TOUR CONTINUES: Adventures in Bourbonland, Part 2.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Driving Dystopia: Connected Vehicle Data Now Up For Grabs By Intelligence Agencies.
Also, the Internet Of Things sucks.
READER FAVORITE: P200 Trail Camera WiFi Bluetooth, Game Camera. #CommissionEarned
ALEX, I’LL TAKE “IDIOT RULINGS THAT WON’T STAND ON APPEAL” FOR $400: NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment ‘Doesn’t Exist in This Courtroom.’ “Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT THERE ARE NO MEDICAL REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULDN’T BE COMBAT SOLDIERS: Active military service may heighten women’s risk of having low birthweight babies.
Jerry Seinfeld is finally a movie director with the upcoming premiere of his feature debut “Unfrosted.” Backed by Netflix, the star-studded comedy is a fictional account of the creation of Pop-Tarts toaster pastries. In a new interview with GQ magazine, Seinfeld reflected on his experience jumping into moviemaking for the first time so late in his career.
“It was totally new to me. I thought I had done some cool stuff, but it was nothing like the way these people work,” Seinfeld said. “They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea.”
Asked to elaborate on a more serious note, Seinfeld continued: “Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.”
So what, if anything, has replaced film? “Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business,” he answered. “Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, ‘What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?’”
There’s no secret to good storytelling. Give audiences flawed but admirable heroes they can identify with, and then put them through hell on the way to victory.
It seems impossible that Hollywood can’t — or won’t — remember that simple lesson, but here we are.
V’GER AWAKENS AFTER LENGTHY SLUMBER: Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA to launch solar sail, navigate space using sunlight.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD ONCE AGAIN DOING STRAIGHT UP REPORTAGE:
Ivy League University Installs Jew Detectors At All Entrances https://t.co/DCPFxE0IwQ pic.twitter.com/7cQIiOSdM2
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 23, 2024
And as Jonathan Turley writes: “Deactivated:” Columbia Reportedly Blocks Jewish Professor from Access to Campus.
Meanwhile, it’s back to the (virtual) bunkers for the rest of the students and faculty there, as the demons of 1933 and 2020 converge: Columbia University faces calls for tuition refunds as school moves to hybrid classes for rest of semester in wake of anti-Israel protests.
Exit question:
Also: @MarcACaputo asked a very good question yesterday about Columbia in particular. How did the premiere journalism school and keeper of the Pulitzer flame miss the rise of anti-Semitism on its own campus? https://t.co/nLs0NNngVR
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) April 22, 2024
IT HAD A REALLY GOOD RUN: After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip. “Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on June 14, 2024. The 8-bit Z80 architecture debuted in 1976 and powered a small-business-PC revolution in conjunction with CP/M, also serving as the heart of the Nintendo Game Boy, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Radio Shack TRS-80, the Pac-Man arcade game, and the TI-83 graphing calculator in various forms.”
The faster eZ80 — introduced more than 20 years ago — remains in production.
Incredible.
SKYNET SMILES, KNOWING THAT THE TERMINATOR FINALLY HAS A BEST FRIEND TO ROMP AROUND WITH: Watch: Flamethrowing robot dog goes on sale.
A US company has built a flamethrowing robot dog that is available for purchase online.
Called the Thermonator, the four-legged robot comes equipped with an ARC Flamethrower mounted on its back, which is capable of shooting jets of fire up to 30 feet.
Designed by Ohio-based firm Throwflame, the $9,420 (£7,600) robot is not advertised as a weapon, with the manufacturer suggesting possible uses include wildlife control, snow and ice removal and general entertainment.
Throwflame described its creation as the world’s first-ever flamethrowing quadruped robot dog, capable of delivering “on-demand fire anywhere”.
What could possibly go wrong?!
NEW – Throwflame unveils the "Thermonator" — the first-ever flame-throwing quadruped robot dog. pic.twitter.com/RKjurmSpEX
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 23, 2024
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It Always Starts with the Jews.