Daring Fireball: Wilbur Ross Says Coronavirus Outbreak Could Bring Back Jobs to the U.S. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/30/ross-ghoul

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Kakistocracy: government by the worst people.

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Daring Fireball: Google Search Results Zip Up Leather Jacket, Strap On Water Skis — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/23/google-search-redesign

Daring Fireball: ‘An Embarrassment From Start to Finish’ — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/24/ars-galaxy-fold

Brutal

The Hippie Aesthetic of the 60s Is “Art Nouveau on Acid” — Read on kottke.org/19/11/the-hippie-aesthetic-of-the-60s-is-art-nouveau-on-acid

The Siege of Mecca — Throughline — Overcast — Read on overcast.fm/+QfXWu6BhQ

This one moment has shaped much of world events over my entire life.

The Last Woolworth Luncheonette in America Hides in Bakersfield - Eater LA:

The menu is simple at Woolworth Diner, mostly just burgers and a chili dog with sides like fries, baked beans, or macaroni and potato salad. There are milkshakes available, root beer floats too, but nothing even comes close to crossing the $10 mark. Signs hang both inside the dining area and beyond showcasing five-cent Coca-Colas or ten-cent sandwiches, an overt homage to the five-and-dime history of the place. The workers still don black and white outfits when flitting around behind the counter, and many in the dining crowd are old enough to remember Woolworth in all its glory. For everyone else, there is this place; one unassuming four-story antique mall in the heart of Bakersfield, where Frank Woolworth and his important luncheonette still live on.

There’s a place very much like this just near my house, and it’s one of my favorite places to get breakfast, if you can get a seat…

each month. A form of vitamin E has been identified as a “very strong culprit” in lung injuries related to vaping THC, health officials reported on Friday, a major advance in a frightening outbreak that has killed 40 people and sickened 2,051. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/health/vaping-illness-cdc.html

Name a significant event in horror history over the past half century, and odds are Tom Savini was there. From his childhood spent watching Saturday afternoon horror matinees, to his pioneering effects work with director George Romero, to his more recent transformation into an actor and director, Savini’s been involved in the genre in every capacity you can think of. Most recently, he’s been preparing a hybrid autobiography-coffee table book featuring his work simply called Savini: The Biography, as well as directing a segment for the season finale of Shudder’s Creepshow TV series. — Read on www.avclub.com/24-hours-of-horror-with-makeup-legend-tom-savini-1839450285

When Salem, NJ’s Fred C. Arena applied for a job at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, he underwent an FBI background check in which he falsely claimed that he was not a member of the Vanguard America, a white nationalist group that was part of the lethal far-right “Unite the Right” 2017 gathering in Charlottesville; whose members… — Read on boingboing.net/2019/10/27/brotherly-love.html

I remember when I read your column, one of the sentences that most surprised me was: "I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." Yes, I strongly believe that. I think there's many meanings behind this. One is, it was his decision, not mine. Two, at least for me, I can only speak for myself, it gives me a level of empathy that I think is probably much higher than average because being gay or trans, you're a minority. And I think when you're a majority, even though intellectually you can understand what it means to be in a minority, it's an intellectual thing. It's not intellectual for me to be in a minority. I'm not saying that I understand the trials and tribulations of every minority group, because I don't. But I do understand for one of the groups. And to the degree that it helps give you a lens on how other people may feel, I think that's a gift in and of itself. — Read on peopleenespanol.com/chica/tim-cook-the-power-of-diversity/

Getting Tough on the Corporate Snoopers | Irreal — Read on irreal.org/blog/

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Imagine if Facebook were prohibited from collecting its users’ information without their permission and that Zuckerberg could go to jail for ignoring the ban.

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Metropolis Meets Afrofuturism: The Genius of Janelle Monáe | Tor.com — Read on www.tor.com/2019/10/18/metropolis-meets-afrofuturism-the-genius-of-janelle-monae/

“I thought science fiction was a great way of talking about the future,” Janelle Monáe told Bust Magazine in a 2013 interview. “It doesn’t make people feel like you’re talking about things that are happening right now, so they don’t feel like you’re talking down to them. It gives the listener a different perspective.”

A PHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DREAD LORD NYARLATHOTEP AND A MINOR SHOGGOTH REGARDING INVESTIGATING RIVAL GREAT OLD ONE, HASTUR — Read on www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-phone-conversation-between-dread-lord-nyarlathotep-and-a-minor-shoggoth-regarding-investigating-rival-great-old-one-hastur

www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/resurrection-men-llc/

Max Headroom wasn’t exactly the roadmap I wanted for the future…

boingboing.net/2019/10/16/watch-how-magazines-were-prod.html

I think I have all the ifttt plumbing working to get cross-posting from here to Facebook, in hopes that the content I share will make it to friends and family who aren’t interested in doing RSS yet… I plan to continue using twitter for now, although their allowance of lord dampnut’s abuses make dropping that tempting too…

Update: It’s nearly unbelievable how hard Facebook makes it to push updates in… Which is, of course, evidence of why it needs to go.