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"“Weird Al” Yankovic has always been as much video as radio star, as familiar a face during the heyday of MTV as the many stars he was parodying. So naturally, it seems like it would be an easy transition to movie stardom—yet history simply hasn’t borne that out."

"spanning an angle over five times the diameter of the full moon and over 200 light years...mostly red-glowing hydrogen gas"
Composite of photos by Dheera Venkatraman

Image gallery of photo-realistic social media silos as dying storefronts or malls.
via https://www.kevinmarks.com/partialsilos.html

Smallest number of metatags that are consistently parsed for link previews.
twitter:card og:title (only needed by Twitter, otherwise fallback to title element) og:description (can be combined with the regular description tag) og:image

"On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the antibody drug omalizumab (brand name Xolair) as an injection to lessen allergic reactions to foods in people ages 1 and up. In a trial of 168 children and adults with multiple food allergies, participants who received shots of omalizumab for 16 to 20 weeks were much more likely to tolerate a test dose of allergy-inducing foods at the end than those who received a placebo."

"Webb measured isotopes at the edge of the Solar System, hinting at chemistry."

8 propaganda and misinformation tactics, and countermeasures for each.