Notices by pzmyers 🦑 (pzmyers@octodon.social), page 117

@generica That's his audience.

I might be a little confused about the reality of web sites, but "University of Hawaii, Morris" does have a certain je n'ais se quoi.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/22/i-could-take-up-surfing/

I wasn't inclined to read Pinker's new book in the first place, but now I have to repudiate it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/22/i-guess-i-just-cant-be-happy-with-bad-data/

@NFG It's a better choice than just about any other Culture novel, but it's still going to require major screwing about with the perspective & plot points.

Consider Phlebas, a movie? The mind boggles.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/21/oughta-be-better-than-sharknado/

A defense against accusations of sexual assault that I'd rather I never heard about.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/21/well-that-got-icky-fast/

@bstacey Oh, you know me…always so charitable to those I criticize.

Sharknado #1 totally exhausted all the possiblilities of the genre. #6 is going to just pound the corpse into the ground.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/21/there-are-six-of-them/

Don't forget that Billy Graham was a terrible person.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/21/billy-graham-is-dead/

"Biohacking" is such a bad idea.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/21/biohackers-irresponsible-showboats-trusting-homeostasis-to-keep-them-alive/

If a democracy relies on an informed citizenry, what happens when you've only got a misinformed citizenry?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/21/contemptible-disinformation/

I'm going to go see Black Panther again. This time I'm dragging my wife along.

Bring back thagomizers!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/where-have-all-the-thagomizers-gone/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI9J7rOTJMg

So that's what a responsible gun owner looks like.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/a-responsible-gun-owner/

@lazr I don't consider that Rails comment to be particularly credible. Much more damning is the revolving door of CEOs and the lack of cutting edge tech talent.

Although I'd rather see the code was based on Object Pascal, which tells you how tech-savvy I am.

Birdsite sucks in so many ways.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/everyone-should-know-by-now-that-twitter-is-a-bad-company/

What will it take to end the American adoration of guns?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/normalizing-the-intolerable-2/

Always nice to see Jon del Arroz in a pratfall.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/how-can-you-screw-up-an-appeal-to-the-alt-right/

Everything is beautiful when you slice it up fine and stain it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/i-knew-what-that-was-as-soon-as-i-saw-it/