out damn spot: the attempted erasure of a Banksy mural shows one cannot scrub away complicity in genocide
free return trajectory: acting NASA administrator faces the space press on getting intriguing rock samples from Mars to Earth for further study
canonically accurate: Spirit Halloween corrects the spelling on their Betelgeuse prop sign—see previously here and here
jawsome: the promotional hyping of some thing as “awe dropping” connotes rather the opposite for me
maternity ward: track new website launches by category in real-time—a lot of click-bait landing sites being cloned badly by AI but some genuine births as well—via Web Curios
goodbye computer: a sad little send off from April Clucks about a machine she adored until they became unlovable
me＇te.o.ra: ambient music generated by local weather conditions—via Clive Thompson’s Linkfest, which also features a defence of the em-dash
midway: the aesthetics of arcade game marquees
cornutam: Moses’ depiction in art as having horns is a mistranslation from the Vulgate perpetuated by centuries of tradition
an asymmetrical curiosity: physicists construct a tangible demonstration of time-crystals
what sophistry is this: at the advice of legal counsel, Jezebel pulls an article from early in the week about hiring some Etsy witches to curse a right wing influencers and conservative activist—see previously, see also
