What I saw on the web on 2024.3.8

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1. Strange story of a fake storyboard for Jodorowsky's Dune
   by Natalie Dressed
   https://boingboing.net/2024/03/07/strange-story-of-a-fake-storyboard-for-jodorowskys-dune.html
   Jodorowsky's Dune was already weird, this amps that up
   via rss
   
   
2. Growing tomatoes this summer? Try this to keep snails away!
   by DIY Perks
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAA9nCqNfR4
   it might even work!
   via boing
   
   
3. Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
   by Kate Wagner
   https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/
   in case you're wonderin what a socialist would make of F1 racing
   via discord
   
   
4. I Believed These Four Lies
   by Hank Green
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W92bjv8fNTI
   a wise reminder about epistemological vigilence
   via rss
   
   
5. Physics vs Magic
   by Randall Munroe
   https://xkcd.com/2904/
   not a way i'd seen the distinction phrased before, but TBF the lagrangian is kinda hard to wrap one's head around
   via rss
   
   
6. The Science Fiction of the 1900s
   by Karl Schroeder
   https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/the-science-fiction-of-the-1900s
   reframing how we think about classic SF
   via cory doctorow
   
   
7. Something Mighty Queer: queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other mythopoeic work
   by a bunch of people
   https://dc.swosu.edu/oms/oms3/
   haven't dug into any of these talks yet, but there are several topics here which probably worth reading
   via discord
   
   
8. The Best Of Zimbabwe Mbira Music Video Mix by DJ_GUY
   by Zimbabwe Music Channel
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n4PGEiJzMw
   in case you need some good stuff to listen to
   via FB
   
   
9. Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words
   by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko
   https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pseudotranslation-and-the-art-of-made-up-words/
   when you've got people speaking multiple languages to each other, and none of the languages actually exist, what do you do?
   via discord