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Alan Wake 2 would have been more fun if every encounter didn't drain your bullets and they told you how to use some of the other bullshit in your inventory.
Bullet sponge grandma zombies get tiring after the 20th time.

Mexican man dies in ICE custody in Laredo, at least the 20th fatality this year (Lomi Kriel/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/24/ice-detention-webb-county-laredo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p92#a260625p92

Here it is, next year's International Degrowth Conference!
Pleased to be associated with it.
Cork City to host 12th International Degrowth Conference
https://www.goleordegrowth.com/cork-to-host-12th-international-degrowth-conference/

Cork City to host 12th International Degrowth Conference
From August 16th-20th 2027, Cork City will host “Go Leor!”,  the 12th International Conference and Festival for Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity - a transdisciplinary gathering of practitioners, activists, policymakers, scholars, educators, and artists focused on platforming and debating the degrowth movement.  Over five days, landmark venues across

Recycling Churches and Tin Tabernacles #nonconformists

Back with the Taiwanese colleagues to explore the #semiconductor industry, now in #Dresden. We started with vanished #chip histories, moved to promised silicon futures and will now venture out – a…

Cowboys' top 20 players heading into the 20th training camp in Oxnard https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-top-20-players-heading-into-the-20th-training-camp-in-oxnard

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Miles Davis 100: Byron Wallen
British trumpeter Byron Wallen selects three of his best-loved records by Miles Davis to celebrate the centenary of one of the most influential figures in 20th-century music.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wggy

Wild that the guy who got a Nobel Prize for inventing the lobotomy previously represented Portugal at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and only returned to medicine after a political quarrel led to a duel. The 20th century was quite something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant�%B3n…

Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features "never-before-shared data" going back to when users first joined Spotify (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/928395/spotify-20th-…

Spotify’s latest ‘Wrapped’ covers your entire music history
Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving listeners a “fully personalized look at their entire music history.”

Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features "never-before-shared data" going back to when users first joined Spotify (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/928395/spotify-20th-…

Spotify’s latest ‘Wrapped’ covers your entire music history
Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving listeners a “fully personalized look at their entire music history.”

"20 years on, what has the B Corp movement achieved?"
#BCorp #Environment
https://www.e…

20 years on, what has the B Corp movement achieved?
As the B Corp movement marks its 20th anniversary, edie looks at how it grew from a niche certification into a global business movement, what it has achieved so far and where it is heading next.

Last night I dreamt of a semi-racist version of Afternoon Delight and woke up convinced that it was actually an early 20th century minstrel song. I also woke up with some kind of conjunctivitis in my left eye. I think I might be dealing with some type of demon situation.

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

University of Leiden @… will soon have their #africa maps collection online
"(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search"

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Folk Devils:
🎵 Tight Sleep (John Peel Session, 20th March 1984)
#FolkDevils
https://folkdevils.bandcamp.com/track/tight-sleep-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Q8duNHuCM4If7qzL8rekE

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VI: The Great Silence and the Great Filter - Universe Today
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VI: The Great Silence and the Great Filter - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-b

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/feliciaday/watchtheguild
Looks like Felicia Day is starting on a new movie to continue The Guild; they're doing a kickstarter and are live streaming on Twitch all day for it.

The Guild: Ren Faire'd
Help us celebrate The Guild's upcoming 20th anniversary by making the most epic renfaire movie of all time!

this week, we point the deadcast to 1985’s 20th anniversary shows & the new “summer magic” box, stopping 1st at the greek theatre. the band took to the stage to sgt. pepper’s, inspiring @…'s beautiful tour book entry.

Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
T. Rex:
🎵 20th Century Boy
#TRex
https://djlocimarmar.bandcamp.com/track/t-rex-20th-century-boy-ext-intro-outro-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Soku1wiB6mfcQp2s2W6a6

People, why do you keep talking about superpowers?
Russia is losing the war it started against Ukraine. Moscow is burning.
The US just capitulated to Iran, after starting a war that only empowered its target.
There are no superpowers. That's 20th century talk. Today, there's just decaying corpses of former superpowers, nothing more.

from my link log —
The age of the amplifier.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-age-of-the-amplifier
saved 2026-05-14 https://…

The Age of the Amplifier
As we’ve noted more than a few times before, for most of the 20th century AT&T’s Bell Labs was the premier industrial research lab in the US.

Black Democrats push back on Wasserman Schultz's bid in Florida's 20th District (Sudiksha Kochi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5931183-black-democrats-wasserman-schultz-florida/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260620/p48#a260620p48

From @… on bluesky:
@hadro.bsky.social€
Calling library and general GLAM data people 📜📚: If you were looking for training data related to historical city directories, where would you look?
I'm considering fine-tuning a small GLAM model to parse 19th and early 20th century city directories, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel!
This is in th…

GitHub - hadro/directory-pipeline: A pipeline for turning digital collections into structured data -- an LLM assisted, IIIF-native tool to jump into working with sources like digitized print directories.
A pipeline for turning digital collections into structured data -- an LLM assisted, IIIF-native tool to jump into working with sources like digitized print directories. - hadro/directory-pipeline

On the Anticipation of #Lunar Travel in the Early 20th Century - A Pedagogical Exercise: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12582 -> "This article examines, from historical and pedagogical perspectives, Alphonse Berget's anticipation of Earth-Moon travel in Le Ciel (Larousse, 1923), decades before the beginning of the space age. [...] Unlike earlier fictional treatments such as Jules Verne's De la Terre a la Lune, Berget approached space travel using physical reasoning grounded in Newtonian gravitation. [...] His estimated Earth-Moon travel time of approximately 49 hours is of the same order of magnitude as Apollo mission transit times (approx. 72 h)."

David Hockney, has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 88.
A treasured British artist whose paintings of shimmering pools and colorful iPad drawings became icons of contemporary art,
over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography and digital drawing.
Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched…

Art icon David Hockney dies at age 88
Artist David Hockney has died. He was 88. His paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine became icons of 20th-century art. He was one of the most popular and critically lauded British artists of the last century. He was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched suburban views a major motif. Later in life he returned to Europe, finding renewed inspiration in the wooded hills of his native county of Yorkshire and the fie…

The June issue of the Canadian Historical Review is out (and not a day too soon!). It features articles on the HBC and the Northwest Passage in the 18th century, Chinese Canadian Imaginaries of China in the 19th and 20th centuries, gossip in the mid-20th-century Canadian state, and government-backed medical experimentation on Inuit in the 1960s and 70s. It also includes a roundtable on one of the most important books in Canadian history of the past 50 years, Joy Parr's The Gender of Brea…

MoCoLUG will be having our first meeting on June 20th, at the Silver Spring Library.
#Linux

#JMusicFriday

BORIS- Announce Pink 20th anniversary UK and Europe tour this Autumn! by Boris
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

"there are limits to the comparison [between South Africa and Israel]. For one thing, it’s unfair to South Africa... Pretoria at least pretended that the Bantustans were independent, while the Palestinian Authority is accused of 'diplomatic terrorism' whenever it engages with international bodies."

What I Learned From Reading Apartheid Propaganda
The narratives people used to defend South Africa and Rhodesia in the 20th century sound a lot like the ones that are deployed to defend Israel today.

Der Notizblock auf der Abreißrolle. Ich mag elegantes, mitgedachtes, schlankes Produktdesign: #design

Another South Korean Roll Note Pad - Core77
In "Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders," we looked at examples of the obsolete 20th-century object. And we were surprised to find that one company still makes them today, South Korean manufacturer JoplinWorks: I have no idea why tech-heavy South Korea would have an appetite for

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Reading Arvind Narayanan made me think: one of the great (and most undersung) achievements of the 20th century was rural electrification. If "AI is the new electricity", what is "rural AIification"? "Rural" here is obviously a metaphor, though it has some literal elements too.

Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in "select regions", blaming "ongoing market conditions" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/932430/sony-playstation-plus-s…

Sony is raising short-subscription prices for PlayStation Plus
Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions” on May 20th, blaming “ongoing market conditions.”

"UK’s climate of the 20th century ‘has now gone’, says Met Office"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

UK’s climate of the 20th century ‘has now gone’, says Met Office
The UK experienced its warmest year on record in 2025, according to the latest State of the UK Climate report, which says the country's climate has warmed by about 0.25C per decade since the 1980s.

Emergence of New World Imagination in the 20th Century Asia:Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries through the Lens of Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents
https://ift.tt/jANgl1B
updated: Monday, June 15, 2026 - 1:41amfull name / name of organization: Dr. Barnali Chanda, Dept.…

"Labor SHIFT is the next keystroke in Hong's broader plan to bring back worker control of Wisconsin’s economy: supplementing 20th-century labor protections with 21st-century solutions."
https://francescahong.com/policy/labor-shift/

It's Klei's 20th anniversary! We have a trailer showing our games over the years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndt61Ozsu0g
I'm very proud of my work on Hot Lava and Rotwood. It's been amazing seeing people have so much fun with something I made. We put out a big update…

Human activity has driven retreat of Antarctica's fastest melting glacier #Antarctica

Human activity has driven retreat of Antarctica's fastest melting glacier
Human-driven climate change significantly intensified the retreat of one of the most important glaciers in Antarctica during the 20th century. The Pine Island Glacier, which drains a large part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Amundsen Sea, is one of the biggest contributors to global sea level rise.

I’m not even American, and I knew that Galveston and Corpus Christi had major flooding disasters in the early 20th century. By all means, sound the alarms on climate change, but for fuck's sake, crack a book once in a while. Posting easily refuted rhetoric does nothing to help the cause. https://mastodon.cc/@dtm/1165016885218…

Two weeks after Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) announced she will be seeking reelection in Florida’s new 20th Congressional District,
four Black Democratic candidates competing in the race are hoping to stop her from winning the nomination in a district that has historically been represented by a Black lawmaker.
Democrats were surprised by the senior Democrat’s move,
which followed Gov. Ron DeSantis signing legislation that redrew the state’s congressional maps in an…

Black Democrats Are Scrambling to Find Someone to Run Against Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Several Black candidates are coordinating to defeat the senior House Democrat who decided to run for reelection in a historically Black district.

The great biologist, collaborator, and educator Peter Raven has gone.
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/peter-raven-botanist-and-advocate-for-biodiversity-has-died-aged-89/

I have some vague recollection of an anecdote from the 20th century where some American dude told a French one the « If it weren’t for us you’d be speaking German » cliché, to which the French answered « Well, if it weren’t for us you’d be speaking English ». I can’t remember who was involved. A quick search only brings up the orange moron paraphrasing the former sentence one year ago. He really ruins everything doesn’t he

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I never imagined being chair would involve so much time on the phone. I feel like a salesman or a secretary or a bureaucrat in a late-20th-century TV show.

The effect of 20th century industrialization: Power station, acid rains, over-pumping, on an erstwhile uniform freshwater dune aquifer in Haifa Bay, Israel
Vasily Rogojin, Joel Kronfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.00893
arXiv:2607.00893v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A small phreatic sand dune aquifer lies along the shore of Haifa Bay. It has been exploited for its freshwater resources since the 1930s. During this time the salinity has increased continuously, partly by seawater intrusion due to overpumping. The chemistry of the young aquifer water is laterally variable and is characterized by excess SO$_4^{2-}$, high $Sr^{2 }$ concentrations above that of modern seawater, high alkalinity, and markedly enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values. Acidic winter rains, formed from $SO_x$ and $NO_x$ gaseous emissions from a nearby power station, leach the dry deposition that accumulated across the dune surface during the dry summers. The acidity also partially dissolves the aragonite sea shells in the dune sands, remnants of a previous marine transgression. As a consequence, this adds $Sr^{2 }$, $Ca^{2 }$ excess, and alkalinity, while leading to enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values, particularly during the winter, at which time the radiocarbon activity in the DIC is observed to decrease.
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"Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding"
#Africa #Fish #Animals

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent years, according to a newly published study. This could signal recovery of the marine mammals after being virtually eliminated from the area by commercial whaling in the 20th century, the study authors say. Scientists estimate around 350,000 Antarctic blue […]

Lucky Strike Entertainment,
formerly known as Bowlero Corporation,
the private equity–backed behemoth that in the past 10 years has bought more than 350 of the nation’s bowling alleys
and transformed them into a
(to quote the Bowlero website)
“quirky, edgy, retro-inspired bowling phenomenon”
that has deprioritized league bowling,
escalated the cost of bowling with algorithm-driven dynamic pricing,
and accelerated the demise of one of the 20th …

How private equity destroyed an American pastime
A class-action suit against Lucky Strike Entertainment is a sad coda to the end of bowling.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- HOPE - Helsinki Chamber Choir 20th Anniversary Concert
The Helsinki Chamber Choir, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and conductor Nils Schweckendiek perform music on the theme of Hope including four premieres and music by Bach and Handel.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ww35

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

"Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding"
#Africa #Whales #Animals

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent years, according to a newly published study. This could signal recovery of the marine mammals after being virtually eliminated from the area by commercial whaling in the 20th century, the study authors say. Scientists estimate around 350,000 Antarctic blue […]

Whether you consider them cool or dangerous, radical or inept, socialist mayors are not a new phenomenon.
During the early 20th century, the Socialist Party of America was a viable third party,
especially in the West,
part of a broader workers’ movement that ranged from traditional unions to the more radical “Wobblies,” or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Stridently red western states were once fertile ground for a brand of socialism centered around worker soli…

How socialism built the reddest states in the West
Dozens of cities in the Mountain West region elected socialists in the early 1900s. The economic conditions that led to their ascendance, their legacy of municipal improvement, and their ultimate dissolution as a movement provide lessons of hope and a warning.

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Whither Liberalism? -- What I saw and heard at LibCon 2026. -- Back in the 20th century ... (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/whither-liberalism
http://www.memeorandum.com/260719/p5#a260719p5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Guerrero (20th Century), BBC Symphony Orchestra & Nuno Coelho:
🎵 El Albaicin [Iberia]
#IsaacAlbéniz #FranciscoGuerrero20thCentury #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #NunoCoelho

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Folk Devils:
🎵 Beautiful Monster (John Peel Session, 20th March 1984)
#FolkDevils
https://folkdevils.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-monster

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Chronicle:
🎵 20th Century Man
#Chronicle
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/66RvjpNitsLyVNSpea1ZNs

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Bernard Herrmann & The 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra:
🎵 The Day The Earth Stood Still
#BernardHerrmann #The20thCenturyFoxStudioOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DahkJ7hymcpaC2a1G5KNU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
20th Century‐Fox Orchestra & Alfred Newman:
🎵 The King and I: "Overture"
#20thCenturyFoxOrchestra #AlfredNewman
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZfxXAibBWyKZO29f7BASu