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Top FEMA Official Claims He Teleported to Waffle House.
FEMA's Gregg Phillips says he has experienced multiple "scary" episodes of sudden teleportation: Phillips spoke "on multiple podcasts" about being teleported against his will, which he has...
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William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
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10 years today.
Trump Wins When Oscar Winners Stay Silent
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion/oscar-winners-political-speeches.html
Once again:
- There are security weaknesses in parts of US election systems, particularly those that use paperless touchscreen voting machines, and we should absolutely address them.
- Fortunately, there is no evidence to date that these technical weaknesses have ever been exploited to alter a US election outcome.
- We know how to secure elections! Paper ballots, optical scanners, post-election risk-limiting audits.
- There's been a great deal of progress, but there's still work to do.
This is why I love following RSS feeds. Finding random, unexpected stories about people doing things.
Good luck, @jsnell
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