"There we were, being ambushed by a probably very hungry polar bear, in a boat with no engine and no means of protecting ourselves..." The moral of the story is to check all your equipment before going on an Arctic adventure. (via Damn Interesting)
Juan Romero: How a Teenager's Thirty Seconds With RFK Haunted Him For Fifty Years. You know him from this picture.
Judge Cancels Whole Case After Lawyers Admit They Didn’t Read AI-Generated Filings.
Look what they did to Tinkerbell!
The World Cup Match So Violent It Changed the Rules Forever.
Hollywood’s Original “Bad Girl”: The Tragic Muse of Kurt Cobain. Was Frances farmer mentally ill, or just more rebellious than the studio allowed?
Dads can't handle the time they hear about their daughter's first boyfriend.
A PR Hoax Created the Year’s Hottest Rock Band. Imagine What It Can Do in Politics. (via Damn Interesting)
A Blast from the Past (2008): Messing with Mother Nature: 5 Cautionary Tales.

Feliz viernes, Senorita Cellania!
ReplyDeleteFeliz viernes to you as well!
DeleteThose cakes were not Tinkerbell. Pretty sure that was her cousin Tacobell. Easy to confuse the two I guess.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday Miss C!
Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
DeleteThank you for the article on Juan Romero. Too easily we forget the "nobodies" caught in a tragedy like the RFK assassination.
ReplyDeleteVery few tragedies are limited to a single "target." Their families, their friends, the innocent bystanders are forever changed by a single act.
But the "nobodies" bear their wounds in obscurity.
JFK, RFK, their loss made the world worse.
ReplyDeleteBut when do we get a DJT to make the world better ?
AI only fools ai. Schools are focused on passing, not teaching. Students are focused on grades, not learning.
ReplyDeleteMediocrity is the new excellence.
I taught for 12 years. I saw teachers give multiple choice tests straight from a test bank, knowing full well that the students had access to the answers, and still give the students two chances to pass.
It was rare to have a student who read all the material and did all the work themselves. And it only got worse after COVID.