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Weird that I haven't heard of this before.

You can follow the journey of the telescope here.

A pretty dystopian look into a possible future of gaming.

Can we just stop hero worshiping in general?

(Dumb question; of course we can't. Hero worship is hardwired into our DNA.)

But the military cannot wait for elected officials to act. The Pentagon should immediately order a civics review for all members — uniformed and civilian — on the Constitution and electoral integrity. There must also be a review of the laws of war and how to identify and deal with illegal orders. And it must reinforce “unity of command” to make perfectly clear to every member of the Defense Department whom they answer to. No service member should say they didn’t understand whom to take orders from during a worst-case scenario.

Well that's not going to make any difference, is it? Thanks to Fox News and Facebook, they're going to believe it's the orders coming from the Biden administration that are the illegal orders.

Has anyone tried this for Readup? I think I'll give it a go on my work computer, when I return from Christmas vacation.

A bit dry, but it does a good job at documenting what we already suspected; that West was a spoiler candidate supported by the Republican Party.

I feel like some of the things decribed here (disguised campaign contributions, running spoiler candidates, taking advantages of mentally ill people) should be illegal, but I'll be surprised if anyone see any real legal consequences of this.

I don't see the Linux and macOS versions of Edge in the Browser Extension Native Messaging diagram. There probably aren't a lot of Readup users using Edge on Linux or macOS, but ... does it work?

Anyone here seen it yet? Did you like it? Was cancelling it the right thing to do?

Huh. I wonder if any other countries will follow. Or if maybe a future government will reverse the decision.

Another aquisition by Twitter. Guess they're planning to somehow roll this functionality too into Twitter Blue?

This may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to improve working conditions in the USA. #unionize

These are exciting times in the Norwegian comic book industry. I'll probably check out this release, but mostly I'm looking forward to the next Krüger & Krogh.

Well, that's the most brutal restaurant review I think I've ever read. I can only assume the restaurant was short-staffed that night, and they had to do a lot of improvising behind the scene. Though it's more the BoJack Horseman version than the Ratatouille version. But also; the restaurant's web page has more pictures of tattoos than of food, which can't be a good sign.

Funniest quote:

Amassing two-dozen of them together amounted to a meal the same way amassing two-dozen toddlers together amounts to one middle-aged adult.

Most shocking quote:

Another course – a citrus foam – was served in a plaster cast of the chef’s mouth. Absent utensils, we were told to lick it out of the chef’s mouth in a scene that I’m pretty sure was stolen from an eastern European horror film.

Yikes!

A 3D-printed capsule, destined for use in assisted suicide, may legally be operated in Switzerland, according to advice obtained by Exit International, the organisation that developed the ‘Sarco’ machine.

Why 3D-printed though? Are there any advantages to 3D-printing this object over producing it the old-fashioned way?

Death takes place through hypoxia and hypocapnia, oxygen and carbon dioxide deprivation, respectively.

I didn't know carbon dioxide deprivation was even a thing, but apparently it can be quite serious.

The first Sarco is being displayed at the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, Germany from September 2021 to February 2022. The second turned out not to be aesthetically pleasing. For that and various other reasons it’s not the best one to use.

I wouldn't be caught dead in an ugly suicide capsule.

Our aim is to develop an artificial intelligence screening system to establish the person’s mental capacity. Naturally there is a lot of scepticism, especially on the part of psychiatrists. But our original conceptual idea is that the person would do an online test and receive a code to access the Sarco.

I'm not a psychiatrist, but I am a software developer, and I think this sounds like a terrible idea.

You are based in the Netherlands. How will you potentially enter the Swiss market?

So weird to see assisted suicide described as a market, but I guess it is. 1,300-ish people chose assisted suicide in Switzerland in 2020, and they probably didn't see much reason to be cheap about it. It's not like they need their money in the afterlife.