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Mike McGee - What timing

Today is Dad’s birthday. He’d have been 75. It was only just-shy-of 4 years ago, but it could just as easily be yesterday. Or 20 years. Time is goofy like that, and the chain of happenings that lead to us losing Dad is certainly an inflection point. There was the life I lived before all that, and then all that went down, and now I’m the person I am now—in the after.

As a computer hobbyist, I often worry how good my passwords are. I've never seen anything to describe how important it is. This chart and the research is super. My hat off to HIVE!
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It’s so embarrassing when you realize you’re accidentally dressed like the employees in an establishment, such as wearing a red shirt at Target or orange booty shorts and a white tank top at Hooters.

Every time one of these articles come out, I remember the time in 2013 that the editor of a major academic journal desk-rejected an article of mine about data leakage from gay dating apps via ad networks, because “gay-focused apps are too niche and non-representative a topic for research to warrant mainstream publication.”

Also, this story is absolutely wild: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests

The group used the data to find clerics who used Grindr and other dating and hookup apps and shared their work with bishops, a Post investigation has found.

The Washington Post
When the jaws open wide
And there's more jaws inside
That's a moray
The emotional roller coaster of working in tech these days.