Interesting Links for 13-01-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Truth & Lies (a very satisfying rant on Elon Musk and the child rape enquiry he's been pushing for)

(tags:ElonMusk children rape video politics UK )

2. A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is About to Take Place in The Sky

(tags:space )

3. The history of "Cargo Cult" is quite different to how it's usually used

(tags:history Polynesia religion misinformation language )

4. UK is starting to roll out open-book exams. On-screen exams are coming.

(tags:exams uk )

Comments

[simont]

#2: surely that means the plots of about two dozen terrible fantasy or quasi-SF movies and books are all about to take place at once and collide in a big mess. Take cover!

[andrewducker]

I'm amazed there isn't a sequel to 2012 on the way!

[calimac]

1) Oh, Jonathan Pie. Always amusing and on point. Best line, if a side point: "Elon Musk's face is the face of a man who's wearing a Halloween face mask of Elon Musk's face." It's true: his face does look rather like a poor mask of itself.

3) So, outside of his area of expertise, Feynman didn't know what he was talking about. Richard Dawkins Disease.

[andrewducker]

Musk clearly hasn't been looking after himself very well.