Links #829

Approving a project that will consume water and energy at this scale is irresponsible and dangerous. – Franque Bains This week’s video is a recently-discovered shellac master pressing of “Cross Road Blues” by Robert John­son, who died mysteriously in 1938 before his career even got properly started, yet still influenced the young blues-inspired guitarists of the Sixties. The video was provided by Brooke Magnanti, and the links above it by Mike Siegel, Shiv Ramdas, Kevin Wilson, Reason, IncarcerNation, and Nun Ya (x2), in that order. R.I.P. Ann Robinson. So much safer than human drivers. Another of Easter Island’s many mysteries. What part of “never” is so hard to understand? Cops are predators, and behave like predators. Artificial stupidity is enabled by natural stupidity. Remember computer dating? These folks apparently don’t. From the Archives Why pay for surveillance when useful idiots can be talked into providing it? A little bit of good news about mob-rule attempts to castrate…