Some YouTube commentary, books and culture.

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I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos lately, for good or ill. Sometimes I've been pleasantly surprised, sometimes informed and surprised, and just sometimes, horrified.some of the horror comes from commentary on current events, notably the destruction of the Americans' services owing to the illegal dismantling of agencies through the interference of one Elon Musk, whose 'DOGE' agency has no legal power to do what it is currently doing. At this point, I think I should walk into a Tesla dealership and fire the staff, with as much authority as Musk

The Moon

It sounded like a pack of dogs in the night. I arose confused and looked to the blinds. A number of dogs live in our neighbourhood, true, but it's unlikely they would be roaming and snapping in the snow at stupid am in the morning.

The sounds came closer.

Then I heard the human chant.

They were drunk and slurring their words!

An important component of Joseph Masco’s "Nuclear Borderlands" is the paradox that nuclear weapons- which are immensely and incomprehensibly destructive- are produced in the name of keeping us safe. Much of the fear surrounding nuclear weapons revolves around their intentional use by belligerent nuclear powers or rogue actors, but this fear seems misplaced. No nuclear weapon has ever been stolen, and the only time they have only been used as weapons of war once by the United States. Indeed, the