582 posts tagged ‘Post’
Cursive handwriting coming back to schools by law
Boing Boing,
California passed a law last month requiring the teaching of cursive or "joined italics" handwriting in grades one through six, emphasizing its value in reading historical documents, improving writing speed. The push for cursive education has faced criticism, with opponents arguing that time in the classroom could be better spent on skills like coding and keyboarding. — Read the rest
Billionare GOP donor Koch dumps DeSantis for Haley
Billionaire and key Republican donor Charles Koch today endorsed Nikki Haley as the best bet to beat Donald Trump in the GOP primaries, conspiciously dumping previous beneficiary Ron DeSantis in favor of the former U.N. ambassador. The announcement was made in a memo to grassroots activists via the network's advocacy arm Tuesday and is being backed by a multimillion-dollar ad campaign beginning this week in states that hold early primary contests and several that vote on Super Tuesday. — Read the rest
Big balloon mocks George Santos in DC, then amusingly falls and tumbles (video)
What better way to troll a Congressliar full of hot air than to fly a gigantic George Santos balloon wearing a "Full of Lies" necktie outside the U.S. Capitol building? Which is what progressive group MoveOn tried to do today (see first video below, posted by Michael Patrick Key). — Read the rest
Syringes filled with vaginal tightening gel intercepted by US border patrol
The US Customs and Border Patrol intercepted more than 2,500 syringes of vaginal tightening gel that arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport from a Hong Kong. The injections were on their way to a residence in Woodbury, Minnesota. Resale value is around $19,000. — Read the rest
MAGA senator's attempt to discredit expert backfires at gun crime hearing (video)
Sen. John Kennedy (M-LA), an ardent Trump supporter, tried his best to smear Dr. Megan Ranney of the Yale School of Public Health at a Senate hearing on gun crime in Chicago, but he ended up looking like a petulant dotard instead. — Read the rest
Marjorie grovels to "libtard" Jimmy Kimmel, asks to be on his show (video)
The desperate Marjorie Taylor Greene is having such a hard time with her dead-on-arrival memoir — aka her new book that ranks 9,846 on Amazon — that she decided Jimmy Kimmel was not such a "threat of violence" after all. In fact, she publicly groveled to Kimmel on Xitter — after calling the police on him for a joke she did not find funny — and tried to invite herself on his show so that someone might notice her and hit the "buy now" button. — Read the rest
Get the free online edition of the classic 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades
I remember how excited I was to get Mirrorshades when it came out in 1986. It's an anthology of short science fiction stories, edited by Bruce Sterling. Authors include For lack of a better word, the stories can be considered "cyberpunk." — Read the rest
Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP
Linda Salzman Sagan who co-created two iconic messages to extraterrestrials—the Voyager Golden Record and the Pioneer Plaque—has died. She was 83-years-old. The Pioneer Plaque was a collaboration between Linda, her husband astronomer and educator Carl Sagan, and astronomer Frank Drake, the "father of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence." — Read the rest