Human folly for 02025-06-05

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• (youtube.com):

  #video on how electrician #Eddie-Adams died from a 2300V arc flash accident in Elkin, North Carolina, running through the plant while his burning flesh dripped off his bones. “(...) was working in an oriented strand board mill in Elkin NC, when a 2300V starter went down. He went to check it with a 1000V digital multimeter despite warnings, causing an arc flash that exploded in his face. He then ran through the mill while on fire. Story told by his coworkers and managers.”

• Establishment (osha.gov):

  #Eddie-Adams fatal accident OSHA inspection report.

• Trumps big beautiful Bill stumbles in Senate as Musk ramps up bid to kill the Bill (time.com):

  #news

• Saigon execution (en.wikipedia.org):

  #news photo and video of the extrajudicial summary execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém in the #Vietnam war. #history #human-rights

• Trumps big beautiful Bill stumbles in Senate as Musk ramps up bid to kill the Bill (time.com):

  #Elmu opposes #Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”, which hasn’t passed the #USA Senate yet. #politics

• A simple serialization system (rxi.github.io):

  rxi has a simple binary alternative to JSON I guess

• 04Iterators (hop.perl.plover.com):

  #PDF of the Higher-Order Perl chapter on iterators, outlining a web crawler

• Friday essay trumps reign fits Curtis yarvins Blueprint of a CEO LED American monarchy what is technological fascism (theconversation.com):

  #Moldbug #Vance #politics

• (link.springer.com):

  copper–lead–tin phase diagrams. #materials #paper

• About (harmonic.fun):

  forging an advanced mathematical reasoning engine with #neural-networks

• Twain dreams Samuel clemens John Jeremiah Sullivan (harpers.org):

  a revival of interest in Mark #Twain

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of Mark #Twain and his #racism against Native Americans

• Kzbr3Gs (old.reddit.com):

  #OLED #displays pixel refresh measures the wear of each pixel and adjusts the drive electronics to compensate so you don’t get visible ghosting, just gradual dimming

• (youtube.com):

  #video with lots of footage of arc-flash safety testing

• Title (isfdb.org):

  Internet Speculative Fiction Database (entry for science fiction story Aspic’s Mystery, about the plutonium monks)

• An (s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com):

  science fiction story Aspic’s Mystery, about the plutonium monks, in a scan of Analog, September 01976 #PDF

• An (luminist.org):

  archived scans of Analog science fiction magazine

• (historicaltechtree.com):

  Étienne Fortier-Dubois has created the "Historical Tech Tree", “an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today” starting with stone tools, then Oldowan tools, etc., with 1816 inventions and 2088 connections between them. #history

• The universal tech tree (asteriskmag.com):

  Étienne Fortier-Dubois wrote an article about his #Historical-Tech-Tree. #toread #history