The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Can't read the full article (God I miss JStor ), but seen people talking about it - but this is fascinating. Basically looking at the Able Archer incident and arguing that it wasn't a near-miss nuclear scare (as depicted by Gordievsky) but part of an internal bureaucratic fight pushing for the need to develop an early warning system/pointing to Soviet vulnerability on this:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2024.2334198?src=recsys

Sci-hub?

[Sheilbh]

Starting with I think covid, Jstor now has up to 100 articles a month that can be read on free accounts.

I did not know that! Pre-covid I did a short course in something at a local university. And it came with full access to their library and JStor which was amazing given I absolutely did not need that.

And yeah I meant access to JStor, not that it had ceased to exist

Sci-hub? [/quote
Sorry I'm a humanities person

[garbon]

Starting with I think covid, Jstor now has up to 100 articles a month that can be read on free accounts.

I did not know that! Pre-covid I did a short course in something at a local university. And it came with full access to their library and JStor which was amazing given I absolutely did not need that.

And yeah I meant access to JStor, not that it had ceased to exist

I learned today that when I graduate I will retain full access.

[Sheilbh]

Going to have to get on a part time Masters

[Legbiter]

Quite a strong eruption today.









Grindavík would be mostly under lava after today if not for the berms surrounding the town.

[Josquius]

Lava dykes.
Hardcore.

[grumbler]

Quite a strong eruption today.


Grindavík would be mostly under lava after today if not for the berms surrounding the town.

I approve of the more modern Vauban-style berms.  Curtain walls would not cut it.

[Josquius]

An article to make you feel old.
You know all those parents who share every little thing their kid does on social media?
They've been a thing long enough some of those kids are adults now.
And to everybody's surprise they're not happy.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec

[Valmy]

An article to make you feel old.
You know all those parents who share every little thing their kid does on social media?
They've been a thing long enough some of those kids are adults now.
And to everybody's surprise they're not happy.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec

Well the ones in the article aren't anyway.

I think it should absolutely be a legal requirement that if you make money by using your kid on social media that that child is entitled to some of that money. Maybe that it get put into a trust for them or something.

But beyond that it gets tricky. Sure theoretically an 18 year old should be entitled to scrub the internet of anything your parents or friends put up there but...really that is almost impossible.

[Syt]

An article to make you feel old.
You know all those parents who share every little thing their kid does on social media?
They've been a thing long enough some of those kids are adults now.
And to everybody's surprise they're not happy.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec

Was thinking the other day - YouTube launched in 2005. There's 18 year olds who have never lived in a world without YouTube.

[Legbiter]

I approve of the more modern Vauban-style berms.  Curtain walls would not cut it.

Indeed.

[Savonarola]

I saw the following headline on El País this morning:

Daniel Ortega confisca la casa de verano de Violeta Chamorro e inaugura un hotel-escuela del sandinismo

(Daniel Ortega confiscates the summer house of Violeta Chamorro and opens a hotel/school of Sandinista ideology)

and thought someone had fired up the WABAC machine to 1989.

[HVC]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7eGVdTSsDg/?igsh=cWlmdngxeTMyajc2

Take that mosquitos! Now I just have to find a way to protect my head...

[Josquius]

An article to make you feel old.
You know all those parents who share every little thing their kid does on social media?
They've been a thing long enough some of those kids are adults now.
And to everybody's surprise they're not happy.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec

Was thinking the other day - YouTube launched in 2005. There's 18 year olds who have never lived in a world without YouTube.

Technically I guess. Though I suppose its a slight consolation that for the first decade or so it was quite different to today, more a place to upload videos to share with your friends than the big deal careers are built on that it is today.

[Syt]

GQ's list of overrated things 1995:



List:

Images, from top left, going clockwise:
- Alan Greenspan
- Bkörk
- Beaujolais Nouveau
- Lisa Mary Presley's looks
- Converting to Islam in jail
- Melissa Etheridge
- Martin Lawrence
- Calculatedly casual film dialogue about the arcana of '70s pop culture (photo is Reality Bites, I think?)
- Violent action movies from Hong Kong
- Shaved heads 
- The white Power Ranger
- Pat Riley
- Lattes
- Homespun American wisdom
- Pitt the Younger
- Rain forests 
- Vine-ripened tomatoes
- Righteousness about TicketMaster [plus ca change ... ]
- Christo


Rest of list:
- Gender ambiguity
- The prefix cyber-
- Poetry slams
- Bill Gates's electrofitted bunker home
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Raconteur cabbies
- Being the host city of the Olympic Games
- Martin Amis
- Alumni of the Harvard Lampoon
- Upscale taquerias
- The "genius" of Brian Wilson
- Fiestaware
- Local color
- Wood-burning pizza ovens
- Field trips to see Peter and the Wolf
- Anything called a "summerfest"
- Agassi vs. Sampras
- CNBC talk shows
- the prefix über-
- "Town-meeting"-style interfaces with elected officials
- Pliny the Elder
- Montana-based writers
- Designer lesbianism
- Designer Buddhism
- The large intestine
- Morphing
- Mangoes
- Appearing at a public function unwashed and on the arm of Juliette Lewis
- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
- Every Broadway musical since Evita
- Digitized family albums
- Cruise control
- Middle-relief pitching
- Heather Locklear's galvanizing effect on Melrose Place
- Duets
- Anyone dubbed "the Sexiest Man Alive"
- Striped bass
- Quick-cutting
- Zines
- Jennifer Jason Leigh's range
- Virtual reality
- Heavily choreographed concerts at which the featured performer wears a headset microphone and is backed by thirty-five dancers
- Sex on the beach
- Sex that lasts four hours
- Rowing crew
- Michael Graves
- Youthful world-weariness
- Reggie Miller
- Telling it like it is
- Dessert wines
- Whit Stillman
- Any British woman described as a beauty
- The Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feisty backbenchers
- Home schooling
- 1968
- The signed editorials in The New York Times
- Demi Moore's body
- Jay Leno's comeback
- Manufacturer rebates
- Hootie & the Blowfish
- Comic books
- The smell of fresh-cut grass
- Instantaneous Wall Street jokes about national tragedies
- Driving 4x4 on gravel
- Amusement parks
- Corinthian leather
- Longevity
- Gay stand-up comedy
- Having a "funny" back page

Unsure what the 1995 beef with Pliny the Elder and Pitt the Younger is.