Peter Aidan Byrne

@peteraidanbyrne.bsky.social

He/him. Educator. Wrote some stuff about Star Trek at trekvstrek.com. Posts and reposts are not endorsements because I don’t believe anyone should be posting anything. What the bastards ruin is up to them, what you build is up to you.

July 19 1998, Virtual Chess 64 debuted on the N64 in (some) PAL territories! Though the game has a very competent and potentially difficult to beat chess engine..... It is much more well-known for its long games due to the silly 3D animations for every capture (and featured on the box art)!

I'm seeing a lot of people responding to this by trying to demonstrate that college graduates actually do earn more money, and that's fine, but it also seems beside the point. The point is that in a society as wealthy as ours, interested students should simply be able to learn. It is a social good.

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yes, Argentina, that country that has famously never dabbled in antisemitism, unlike Spain. Just don't ask the people in Javier Milei's government where all of their ancestors came from and why.

Tweet from Arsen Ostrovsky: "For those asking who I’m backing in the World Cup Final: Argentina! Easy choice. And not just because of Messi. One country has stood unequivocally with Israel. The other, Spain, is governed by a sewer of unrestrained antisemitism and appeasement of terror! Vamos, Argentina! 🇦🇷🇮🇱"