The Shrink Next Door: Marty Moskowitz, a successful New York businessman and attorney, was having personal problems, so he went to see a prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Isaac Steven “Ike” Herschkopf. That began a bizarre relationship that lasted nearly 39 years.
Good podcast series by ex-New York Times columnist Joe Nocera. Too many commercials and promos though.
Life goal. Via
Gab moved to Mastodon servers recently, leading Mastodon admins and developers struggling with the question whether to ban Gab.
There shouldn’t be any struggle. Free speech includes the right – even obligation – of the owners of platforms to block speech they find hateful. That’s a particularly easy decision for Mastodon, which is not Facebook- or Twitter-scale.
Adit Robertson on The Verge: How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem
Here’s the preview on YouTube.
Looks good! I never got into “Battlestar Galactica.” I became a Sackhoff fan watching “Longmire,” although I didn’t like the way her character was written. 📺
“The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”
A new technique uses space-based satellite surveillance to prevent bridge collapses, by detecting defects smaller than the thickness of a dime.
The new technique uses computer modeling and high-resolution satellite images to detect subtle shifts in a bridge’s structure that could indicate that it’s starting to fail. Some of the changes are so tiny that they could be undetectable during traditional visual inspections, the scientists say. The new technique uses computer modeling and high-resolution satellite images to detect subtle shifts in a bridge’s structure that could indicate that it’s starting to fail. Some of the changes are so tiny that they could be undetectable during traditional visual inspections, the scientists say.
