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Logging all the things and (trying) to make sense of all the doings of said things. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of any other being or entity.
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As I write this, I see the jackboots are already suggesting that the victim had a gun. Srsly? He was pinned to the ground. And you know who else had a gun? George Zimmerman. Don't tell me you can shoot a kid with a bag of skittles but you should trust a fat dude with an ICE badge and a face mask.
The fact that Renee Nicole Good's
family closed their GoFundMe after it
reached more than they ever
imagined and requested we instead
send donations to others in need is
exactly the difference between the
Good family and grifter Erika Kirk.
@TindrasGrove Awesome!
@Star12Mt @AlSweigart Trilo-Bites! Very cool - glad to see this happening indeed.

šŸ†• blog! ā€œAngels and Daemonsā€

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing […]

šŸ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/angels-and-daemons/
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Angels and Daemons

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing a rusty looking fluid. The writing on the label looked like my handwriting, but was illegible. I…

Terence Eden’s Blog
@hacks4pancakes @oldgeek Addiction to Max Profits at any cost - I don't even think they are pushing for want/see the serfdom looming, or the end of "customers" - because no one will make enough to be able to afford anything beyond basic needs. Killed me with "You can't run to a taco shop" šŸ’”
@Edent And down the rabbit hole we go! (happily) https://curl.se/rfc/rfc2229.txt

Unreasonably fond of the realization that the ā€œMediterranean dietā€ fad is a random second- or third-order byproduct of pension fraud.

I feel like there’s some sort of higher-level behavioural insight here, about how quickly people will latch on to things that give them any sense of agency over themselves, whatever the basis.

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

ā€˜The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

The Conversation
@chiefgyk3d @defcon
Lucky!! My first DefCon badge was a laminated piece of paper 😭 šŸ˜‚