I think about how 80% of people have just...erased the pandemic, and the obvious, proven consequences of catching COVID over and over again, from their minds - and it reminds me of how many have absorbed and discarded the facts of Israel's genocide and concentration camps in the same way.

The West has relied on a kind of psychic and ideological opium for so long to keep consuming and ravening the world that it can't cope with reality now that we can't bully or bribe our way out of this mess.

You know those residential proxies that various companies (incl. LLM ones) pay for and then use to scrape the hell out of your website so it effectively becomes a DDoS?

Looks like someone found one of the sources of those proxies:
There is a library used by 200+ browser extension that acts as this kind of proxy, using the IPs of everyone who has those extensions installed:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/

Incoming Job at AVAV Towers

“We’ve found some Digital 8 Tapes, can you do them?” Oh ye of little faith

Got a little excited, as really don’t see many - ok, any - Digital 8

Sadly, the only excitement was the person who got over enthusiastic with the Sticker Sheet in 1987. These aren’t Digital 8, they are normal Video 8.

Doesn’t matter, I can do em all. Video 8, Hi8, Digital 8, Multi Track PCM, PAL, NTSC - you name it, I’ll do it

@obsoletemediauk

LaSalle College in #Montreal has been fined $30M by #Quebec’s #CAQ govt for having too many English-speaking students.

The college will be going to court as the fine ‘threatens it’s survival’.

« During the last academic year, the school enrolled 1,066 more English-speaking students in its programs, while the threshold stood at 973. »

That’s 93 ‘too many’. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/language/article/quebec-fines-lasalle-college-30m-for-having-too-many-english-speaking-students/