The "flat earth eclipse" image/tweet might be amusing yes, but the manner of delivery of the image and its associated tweet would seem to carry connotations of arrogance and sneering at ignorance - which itself would seem to be an ignorant act. One certainly characterises oneself by such a negative act.

We are all ignorant, and some of us more ignorant than others. Being possibly less ignorant than another is not of itself a rational justification for making fun of the others who are more ignorant. We are fortunate if we have had some education, as it can help to lift us a little out of our naturally grossly ignorant state, but it does not necessarily mean that that make us any "better" than those who have not been so fortunate.

As my mother once pointed out, when I asked her what one of my teachers had meant when she made a racist (racially bigoted) remark to me: (I didn't know what racist or bigot meant, at the time)

Mother: "Well, she may be educated with a BA in history, but only ignorant people sneer at others or are bigoted towards them. Congratulations. You've just met your first bigot. You'll meet more in time."

Me: "What's a bigot?"

Mother: "Go and look it up in the dictionary dear."

One suspects that the scientist Richard Feynman's approach might have been along the lines of:

"Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness."
- The English Wesleyan minister William Lonsdale Watkinson is recorded as first having used this oft-quoted expression in The Supreme Conquest, and other sermons preached in America, 1907.

...because, as he put it: (my emphasis)

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
--- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

Anyone Can Hack MacOS High Sierra Just by Typing 'Root'

Apple must have patched that little bug rather frantically! Was this easier than fixing a bug in a HAL 9000?

macOS High Sierra ‘root’ security bug reappears if you recently upgraded from macOS 10.13 to 10.13.1

Do this to prevent a Mac attack.



Virtual Keyboard App Exposed Data From 31 Million Users

WTF fun fact #8202

...prove that the use of true facts...

I guess it's a sad reality of today's "alternative facts" world that someone might feel the need to explicitly label "facts" as true.


WTF fun fact #8210

in medieval years, an hour was divided into 4 puncta (quarter-hours), 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. So if you asked someone to "wait a moment", turns out that you really asked them to wait for about 90 seconds.

Even more interesting to me is that if you asked them to "wait a minute", it turns out that you really asked them to wait for 6 minutes.

   

Rare Photographs From History

Rarely Seen Historic Photos That Left Us Utterly Speechless



Hundreds Of Unopened Sports Card Packs Found In Aunt's Attic Likely To Top $1 Million

   

These surreal images might look fake, but they are actually completely real



The Simpsons predicted Disney would buy Fox in 1998 episode

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Former Celebrities Who Now Work Normal Jobs

Straight outta say what?

From interpersonal.stackexchange.com:

How to tell a close friend and partner in business that I'm seeing his ex-girlfriend?

Biometricks 1-3 Windows Hello Face Authentication Bypass PoC I

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Oyster shucking? A duel? No, Virginia will pull a name from a film canister to settle tied election