Things are happening in your linkster’s life! I was sent this funky little song by a gentleman who fancies me.

 

Screen capture of globe referenced below, image centered on Tycho crater.

 

MY NEW FAVORITE PROBE: Get your minds out of the gutter, preverts, I’m talking about CalTech’s Lunar Trailblazer. This perky little robot is going to map the water ice, bound water, and hydroxyl on the moon. Bonus fully rotatable moon globe with layers.

BREAKING – OCEANGATE SUBMARINE TOURISM COMPANY GOES UNDER: OceanGate said it is suspending all exploration and commercial operations after five people were killed, including the company’s CEO, during its expedition to the Titanic wreckage last month.

LOCATION CHANGES FOR COCAINE FOUND IN WHITE HOUSE: In updating the location of where the cocaine was found, officials said that area was also heavily trafficked. The cocaine was found in an entrance area between the foyer and a lower-level lobby, the sources said. The entrance is near where some vehicles, like the vice president’s limo or SUV park. It is one floor below the main West Wing offices and the same floor as the Situation Room and a dining area. LOL. It could have been anyone, anyone, I tells ya. The place is like Metro Center for chrissakes! (h/t to KK, and her little dog, too!)

CRY HARDER, NYT: The Gray Lady platforms (link to archive to avoid shitwall) people who think speech they don’t like doesn’t count as free speech: [The federal court ruling] is limited on paper to the government’s relationship with social media platforms, he said, but carried a message that misinformation qualifies as speech and its removal as the suppression of speech. Quelle horreur.

TALK IS CHEAP: Ostensibly pro-voucher PA Democrat Governor Josh Hawley Shapiro promises line-item veto of school voucher program to get budget passed by House. Senate Republicans not happy, feel played. [Name corrected. Thanks, Mojeaux.]

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: In a surprisingly good article, Psychology Today discovers decline in critical thinking skills, finds young people “stuck in practical or survival thinking as a result of the pandemic.” Notice they left off the L-word. But, astonishingly, they didn’t blame “misinformation.” [The link was missing when this article first went up, it’s now there.]

THE END-RUN AROUND THE SCOTUS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RULING: “I’d call it class-based affirmative action,” Henderson said. “Class struggles have a huge overlap with race – that’s how we skirted the issue.” […] Henderson said that around 20 other schools have contacted UC Davis to request details about the SED ranking system. This comes after President Joe Biden claimed that his administration would create a “new standard for colleges taking into account the adversity a student has overcome.”

COLORADO MAN PURLOINS PANTIES, BOOSTS BRAS: Detectives said that the man has committed at least 26 thefts from various laundry rooms on each floor of the Lakeview Towers at Belmar Apartments between August 2021 and May of this year.