July Diversions

How to disable Smart Voice Recorder notifications from appearing on the lock screen: Navigate the settings for notifications and turn off the app specifically:
https://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-disable-easy-voice-recorder-from-displaying-info-on-locked-screen.928463/

More intentionally bad photoshops:
https://twentytwowords.com/guy-who-takes-photoshop-requests-literally-hilariously-strikes-again/

HC Pride, as recommended by Mark:
https://www.howardcountypride.org/

The piano score for Stronger Than You!!!:
https://musescore.com/user/8583531/scores/3376566

The less good piano score for Stronger Than You:
https://musescore.com/user/1539191/scores/1115206

How to play Wizards unite: How to get gold:
https://www.imore.com/fastest-ways-get-game-gold-harry-potter-wizards-unite

Takai's tweet about the Concentration Camps, for someone who couldn't get out of their own echo chamber:
https://mobile.twitter.com/georgetakei/status/1141174822619242496

Little girl prohibited from playing in a fountain for not wearing a girls' bathing suit:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/silver-spring/girl-told-to-leave-silver-spring-fountain-because-of-her-swimwear/

This article's headline promises a much better story than it actually contains, but it was slightly interesting anyhow: https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/f-22-maricked-iranian-fighters

A clickbait slide show about abandoned submarines which is probably still worth clicking through: https://finance180.com/journey-abandoned-submarines-bases?utm_source=outbrain-journey-abandoned-submarines-bases&utm_medium=004777123a68055b005d2ea397c8f3d804&utm_campaign=00b69eef7af0e1c88a3de765c111b5eb89&utm_term=004cb59b4987b4eae8eaa9a48ec3b3a0e9&utm_content=00e7790011a148c4cebad091bc3ba452c8

An interesting enough article that tried to make clickbait of all things about the Apollow Laser Ranging experiment: https://www.space.com/apollo-retroreflector-experiment-still-going-50-years-later.html?fbclid=IwAR05W9nWodFsiC_9x22_1aIcIZ0_q-VR680WVP1osMKfoJfzHCkp7Eczu_Y

The twitter post that somebody posted a screencap of must have been made a while ago, but AOC's feed by itself just today is simply inspiring reading: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc

A fascinating article about brazillian monkeys who have been using stone tools for thousands of years, and how people are doing archeaology on the found tools: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-capuchin-stone-age-has-a-3-000-year-old-archaeological-record?fbclid=IwAR2St3VKUs5K8Gl9FsI2SADgEw9aCnPDn_AuPVwOUj8EAY2mLsBm23-sVw0&tb_cb=1

Interesting but ultimately condescending photos of women riding motorcycles in the 1950's: https://www.vintag.es/2018/03/1940s-bike-girls.html

A poorly written but accurate report about the D.C. Lights For Liberty event: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/12/lights-liberty-dc-immigration-vigil-hundreds-gather-protest/1710297001/?fbclid=IwAR1vimxA1zlCQVNWyV4n7RCltTE2oIUFs233-lO7ISIVkz3jnDtNU9YDVLw

An article about India's moon lander. It doesn't seem to go into real specifics about the instruments on the rover, but the article has lots of details I'd never learned before nonetheless (like there is a rover)https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-science.html?fbclid=IwAR3ML9P1VofokhhZtKdKnmIbBqVQQl08XGCsTVGLLmbpswXlz0kL88e4_hY

Read this later about CoQ10: https://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10219478678574888&id=1151141007&anchor_composer=false

A salacious article about the salacious Blue Lagoon movie. It does sound as much like a porno as everybody said at the time like it was:
https://m.ranker.com/list/blue-lagoon-is-messed-up/donn-saylor?fbclid=IwAR0pG10FwzmrNDLeMruDyYJcBVFn2VppglEPmzJU2UXfscs3-maEvHHiPn4

The Tatra 87, which killed more nazi generals than battle. The comments are the best part:
https://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/car-killed-more-nazi-generals?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

A clickbait headline for a relatively pedestrian issue with the Federation capsule. It's basically Russia's Orion.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/theres-a-slight-problem-with-russias-proposed-federation-spacecraft/

An miserably written article about the Lights For Liberty protest at Homestead, but there are a couple of photos:
https://floridadailypost.com/lights-for-liberty-vigil-homestead-temporary-shelter/

A well written article about LfL at Homestead:
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2019/07/13/naples-residents-protest-detention-facilities-through-lights-liberty/1687083001/

SpaceX's release of the surprising Crew Dragon anomaly investigation results:
https://www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation

I can't figure out if this article comparing North and South Korea is intended to be satirical or if I'm just not sufficiently perceptive to see the supposedly yawning differences between the North and South Korean photos:
https://www.cheezburger.com/a/lifestyle/photographer-shows-difference-between-countries-fb

A blogger's hyper focused analysis of Peggy Sue Got Married. It's been a long time since I saw this movie; I'm not sure if he has the answer to why I found it unimpressive but reading this made me feel like I'd seen it again and understood it better.
https://benjaminsmess.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-weekly-screed-917.html

A thoughtful analysis of Trump's post-tweet public appearance:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/trump-racist-attacks-ilhan-omar/

Another really good analysis framing media coverage of the tweets:
https://www.theroot.com/white-people-want-trump-1835458008

It looks like I need to watch See You Yesterday. This search helped warn me about the shaky pseudoscience and ambiguous ending:
https://www.google.com/search?q=see+you+yesterday+plot

TIL I learned the name for the beeps in Apollo audio files and the technical reasons behind them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindar_tones

Finally some context for the role that the Kyoto Animation studio played to somehow make it a target for a mass murder:
https://kotaku.com/kyoto-animation-became-more-than-just-anime-1836517546/amp

The attacker does sound like a garden variety schizophrenic:
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/472c0398b5c5-update2-kyoto-studio-arsonist-repeatedly-caused-trouble-for-neighbors.html

Trying to figure out why the second Chinese space station was simply deorbited after just one (and a half) mission. No direct answers here, but the repeated mention that it was a "pathfinder" station bolsters my suspicions that it probably had expendibles in place of some closed systems:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-2

The just-released first trailer for the Steven Universe movie. It looks pretty rough for Earth in the movie:
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/tv/2019/7/19/20696763/steven-universe-movie-trailer-release-date-sdcc-2019

The first of hopefully many reports of this year's Steven Universe panels at Comic Con. Oddly a video report by the LA Times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzUnKS_lQg

We are up to 14 states that are going to send their electoral college votes go to the winner of the popular vote. It's not enough to make a difference yet and there is a weird technicality, but it's another step in the right direction:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/politics/new-mexico-popular-vote/index.html

Probably the only useful information that can be learned about the whole Area 51 thing:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/19/naruto-run-linked-area-51-10427664/

Just another sad story about teenagers going Lord Of The Flies on an innocent (in this case disabled) kid. Social media outrage did assist with finding the victim in this case:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-girl-beaten-viral-video-20190725-eynvybtt3vg4nbmtz3gi6sszsq-story.html?outputType=amp https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/juveniles-nabbed-brutal-chicago-mob-beating-mentally-disabled/story

A confirmed idiot on FB spoke up in admiration of Adam Schriff's performance during the latest Mueller hearing. It turns out he's a Representative who supports Mueller:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1155188807962112001

This article probably explains things well. I wish I could read it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-26/heffernan-robert-mueller-testimony-adam-schiff%3F_amp%3Dtrue

Teslarati's report on the first Starhopper flight has the best video clips and also a well written background section:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starhopper-flight-test-raptor-video/

Anne Arundel County SPCA, where we got Nova from. Their shelter is super well organized:
https://aacspca.org/

Like most retrospectives on the makings of 80's movies, this one about Revenge Of The Nerds is both informative and a little vague, and discusses the movie's cringe issues:
https://www.gq.com/story/revenge-of-the-nerds-oral-history

Equifax data breach: I should claim my $150:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

There is going to be a new Star Trek animated series; probably satirical:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-head-writer-of-rick-and-morty-is-creating-a-new-ani-1829997669

Archaeology: iron Roman scribe found in England has a joke written on it in Latin:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london

The absolutely horrible clickbait article about the 47 year-old Christmas present from the ex girlfriend: http://www.brain-sharper.com/social/unopened-gift-fb/

The better version on an actual news outlet: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4936326

In any normal world, saying that you were at Ground Zero when you weren't would be political death: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/29/politics/donald-trump-9-11-first-responders/index.html

Slide to Unlock is gone for any iOS over 9, and I miss it endlessly. This article is one of thousands describing the workaround that seems to have worked in iOS 10 and not in my current iOS. But interestingly it explains the reason for this terrible decision, that Samsung won a patent case for this seemingly applesque feature: https://time.com/4512982/ios-10-unlock-iphone-without-pressing-home-button/

There are ways to get a similar feature on a jailbroken iPhone: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/08/enable-slide-to-unlock-ios-10-lock-screen-jailbreak-tweak.html

We Are The Mighty has been doing a few Civil War pieces which are always about interesting fringe details, like this one about "Sherman's Bow Ties":
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/sherman-neckties-civil-war-history?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4

Surprise, the NRA's narrative that they supported the Black Panthers is probably revisionism. Do more research from here: "https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act

Wait, they really were called Martha and the Muffins? Echo Beach: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k

We found Lisa's twitter! https://mobile.twitter.com/lisadic63797300

This article claims that I should be able to pair our old apple tv remote with our new apple tv, although the idea that our new apple tv is '4G' seems improbable: https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/974838

An amazingly bold protest, met with so many tut-tuts in this article! The article fails to answer my main question, which is did he really put a picture of Autschwitz on his sign? https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_829462a8-b2ef-11e9-b0d9-fbd4bfb5132b.htm

The subway operator who everybody on my feed seems to know. He did much more than just stop the train, and his own account is fascinatingly humble: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-train-operator-hero-g-train-interview-20190730-bxpipse2trf43eqqskqwwq65qe-story.html

A runaway's story. So much to unpack here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-vanishing-daughter-children-identity-20190311-story.html

Ben Carson talks a good game, but his record means that he is worthy of the treatment he received this day: https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/07/31/hud-secretary-ben-carson-baltimore-trump-tweets/

Nina's field trip location: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&q=American+Visionary+Art+Museum

Can hamsters eat watermelon? A surprisingly detailed answer and a resource for any hamster food question: https://petsolino.com/can-hamsters-eat-watermelon/

A super nice comparison of all the different lunar and mars rovers by distances travelled. All of the distances are surprisingly short, and the two apollo vehicles did most of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_2#/media/File%3ADriving_Distances_on_Mars_and_the_Moon.png

This story is an example of police in America:
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/texas-woman-killed-by-police-officer-attempting-to-shoot-her-dog-083943364.html

Apparently the document used to justify the Iraq war was declassified this week, and it's the piece of junk we all thought that it would be. My question is how did this get released before Chaney was in the grave, and why is this news source such a crappy one?:
https://newspunch.com/declassified-cia-document-reveals-iraq-war-had-zero-justification/

Hiberfil.sys is one of the files that is somehow eating up 500GB on T's hard drive. The rest of it are the dark 300GB that at one point I was doing research on how to fix: https://www.google.com/search?q=hiberfil.sys+large

It was just one day ago that the tape of Reagan calling African leaders "monkeys" came out. This article puts certain people's shock about this in the proper context: https://theslot.jezebel.com/presidential-biographers-absolutely-stunned-to-find-tha-1836898704

This 3x3 illustrating literature theory with images from Daffy Duck cartoons is both deep and funny:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/67887955_655212701628994_5731661924123279360_n.jpg

This article asking "Why isn't Cheap Trick one of the biggest bands ever kinda answers the question by trying too hard. The comments make me think that I might enjoy seeing the band live though:
https://www.culturesonar.com/cheap-trick-why-arent-they-one-of-the-biggest-bands-ever/