Featured Links - September 11, 2023

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.

Eroded tree by the lakeshore

The Energia-Buran Archive. More than 1000 photos of the Soviet Union's heavy-lift rocket and orbiter. 

The End Will Come For The Cult of MAGA. "The next generation isn’t buying it." Let's hope that's true.

Fish doorbells! Historic sandwiches! "50 of the weirdest, most wonderful corners of the web – picked by an expert." 

If Corporations Bore the True Cost of Their Emissions, They’d Owe Trillions. "And that doesn’t even include “downstream” carbon spewing." Corporations are getting a free ride by not having to include the environmental impact of both the production of their products and their eventual disposal.

Coercion versus Care. "It’s irrational and costly, and spreading everywhere, this 4:1 or 5:1 ratio of coercion to care. Witness the recent decision of a US school district to replace libraries with ‘discipline centers’, or the UK Tory politician Robert Jenrick’s purely sadistic instruction for a child refugee centre to paint over the cartoons on the wall. Or indeed, the appetite of the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions, to target £8 billion in ‘fraud’, when £20-30 billion of welfare that people need and deserve goes unpaid each year because its systems are so user-hostile."

'Rich Men North Of Richmond' Singer Rips GOP Candidates After Song Is Played At Debate. "Oliver Anthony, whose song 'Rich Men North of Richmond' became a conservative rallying cry, clarified that he wrote the hit song 'about the people on that stage' for the GOP presidential debate."

Rufus and ExplorerPatcher: Tools to remove Windows 11 TPM pain and more. "Turn off chip detection, bypass need for a Microsoft account, change how Explorer works."