How do you reason with an 85 lb Boxer who lives in fear of a 6 lb cat eating his face? The cat seems to be aware of this power to strike terror and will stop mid-stroll to chest puff at him...I think there's a political analogy in there somewhere.

On Saturday night my husband suddenly and unexpectedly passed away while talking to me and our 3 sons. My feelings and emotions are all over the place and everything there is to do is overwhelming. But it's left me more determined to help fight for a world that my sons and future grandchildren can thrive in. As my oldest once said, and Elmo never learned, you can be a father without ever being a dad. My sons lost their dad.

Question: In the latest info dump on the bird site Taibbi is talking about bulk data analysis and he asks, "do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out?" Can someone with more knowledge than me correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like something Peter Thiel's company Palantir would be used for. Don't they have a government contract to analyze data?

Sat down with a cup of coffee this morning, picked up my phone and clicked Mastodon automatically, without even thinking about it. Not Twitter. Progress.

Realized I've reached a point of paranoia about tech dystopia when reading an article about the future of transportation and my first thought was: But they can use it to take us where we don't want to go and stop us from going where we do want to go or shut it off completely and leave us stranded. At least the one positive thing about living in Texas - still plenty of horses around. Unless they chip the horses...

Calling tech "The Fifth Estate" and referring to Elon Musk as a "King"
https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-fifth-estate