Notices by Haderach C. Kwisatch (rayckeith@techhub.social), page 4

Remember when people watched 6 or so non-cable broadcast tv networks, and Firefly on was the air and then abruptly cancelled?

There was another high quality show on the same network, also unjustly cancelled.... Wonderfalls.

A 20-something underachieving girl who works at a gift shop near Niagara Falls hears a defective wax lion telling her to do things. If she doesn't obey, it keeps talking. Other animal-toys or images take their turns telling her what to do. When she obeys, people's lives get better, usually through unusual coincidences. Her disaffected life gets better too, and a romance develops between her and a bartender with a broken heart.

Fans got the show released on DVD, but it's only streamable on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCP4e1yMwPqBu1lmpE5szUGyDupgymY7e&si=Sv7SBYc66CoJPfQK

Wonderfalls playlist

The people behind this also made Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me.

China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping? | Hackaday

"Since China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) unveiled its KUN-24AP containership at the Marintec China Expo in Shanghai in early December of 2023, the internet has been abuzz about it. Not just because it’s the world’s largest container ship at a massive 24,000 TEU, but primarily because of the power source that will power this behemoth: a molten salt reactor of Chinese design that is said to use a thorium fuel cycle. Not only would this provide the immense amount of electrical power needed to propel the ship, it would eliminate harmful emissions and allow the ship to travel much faster than other containerships" https://hackaday.com/2023/12/26/chinas-nuclear-powered-containership-a-fluke-or-the-future-of-shipping/

Homes for homeless a success in Finland | The Star

"OK, so the Finns are more generous and just shell out a lot more to help the homeless, right? Actually not. The Finns are simply smarter.

Instead of abandoning the homeless, they housed them. And that led to an insight: people tend to function better when they’re not living on the street or under a bridge. Who would have guessed?

It turns out that, given a place to live, Finland’s homeless were better able to deal with addictions and other problems, not to mention handling job applications. So, more than a decade after the launch of the “Housing First” policy, 80 per cent of Finland’s homeless are doing well, still living in the housing they’d been provided with — but now paying the rent on their own.

This not only helps the homeless, it turns out to be cheaper." https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/04/20/how-finland-managed-to-virtually-end-homelessness.html

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