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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Interior Department said a database revealing how President Donald Trump’s administration planned to revise information on key phases of ​American history at national park sites was deliberative and the employees ‌who released it “will be held accountable.”

    An internal government database first reported by the Washington Post and posted on two public websites on Monday revealed the scope of the Trump administration’s ​effort to revise or remove information on African-American history, LGBT rights, ​climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park ⁠sites.

    “The narrative being advanced is false and these draft, deliberative internal ​documents are not a representation of final action taken by the department,” ​an Interior Department spokesperson said. The National Park Service is part of the Interior Department.

    Trump has targeted cultural and historical institutions - from museums to monuments to national ​parks - to remove what he calls “anti-American” ideology.




  • I just had the cast from a broken wrist taken off the day before. Couldn’t use the arm yet, per doc. Got up the next morning, 6” of snow fell overnight. My car was parked on the street, and a plow had already been by and piled it up to near the door handle. Got in on the passenger side, started the car to warm up and grabbed my big scraper to start clearing off the car. Dude finished pushing a car free across the street and walks over, sees my sling and says, “I got you! Go get warm in the car”. Took him close to 15 minutes, completely dug me out and scraped my windows. His name was Brian. He saved me that day.















  • The world’s wealthiest woman has a blunt diagnosis of the sickness she has set out to cure. “Health care is going to break and bankrupt American companies, and America itself, if we don’t change it,” Alice Walton says in a forceful Southern drawl.

    Ah yes, of course. This has nothing to do with helping people get care or promoting things to keep them healthy so they don’t fall ill, etc. How twisted.

    This reads like a PR press release written to present itself as philanthropy when it’s nothing more than corporate strategy designed to keep the have-nots from bankrupting billionaires. Fuck her.



  • Really sad, but as someone said, they had their chance at digital and blew it.

    Along those lines, they were also interested in:

    Neutron imaging

    Starting decades ago, Kodak had an interest in neutrons, subatomic particles that can be used to determine the makeup of a given material or to create an image of it without damaging it.

    A steady stream of neutrons is needed for these purposes. Kodak used small research reactors, including one at Cornell University, and possessed a dollop of californium-252, a radioactive isotope that endlessly sheds neutrons.

    But it wanted a more potent in-house system, so in 1974 it acquired a californium neutron flux multiplier, known as a CFX. Small plates of highly enriched uranium multiplied the neutron flow from a tiny californium core.

    Kodak used it to check chemicals and other materials for impurities, Filo said. It also was used for tests related to neutron radiography, an imaging technique.

    The device was not much larger than a refrigerator and, in the one available photo, looked vaguely like Robby the Robot from a 1950s science fiction movie. To house it, Kodak dug a cavity below the basement level of Building 82, part of the company’s research complex along Lake Avenue.

    Did you know? Kodak Park had a nuclear reactor