"You're television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer." -- Max Schumacher, Network.
April 4, 2025

On this day in 1985, Max Headroom debuted in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future."

Governing: Head Start Is Turning 60. Will It Make It to 61?

Lawyers, Guns & Money: The boy who would never do his homework.

Strangely Blogged: Signal Amid All the Noise.

Attention space nerds! Curiosity rover makes ‘arguably the most exciting organic detection to date on Mars’.

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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