BrianKrebsI've joked about this before, but maybe it's time to think about bringing back the (really) old Democratic idea of "sortition," or choosing elected officials by some kind of lottery. The idea being that maybe the best candidate is someone who doesn't actually want the job. Considering how many people now in Congress who don't seem to have two brain cells to rub together, maybe it's not such a bad idea? <ducks>
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@sundogplanets Ubiquiti says their airFiber 60 Long-Range will connect "12+ km". (https://www.newegg.com/ubiquiti-af60-lr/p/N82E16833664073)
20 years ago our house connected with long distance (for the time) wi-fi (2km to the top of a hill and then 5+km to a building in Oakland near AT&T. It worked even through bay area fog even though water adsorbs 2.4mhz .
20 years ago our house connected with long distance (for the time) wi-fi (2km to the top of a hill and then 5+km to a building in Oakland near AT&T. It worked even through bay area fog even though water adsorbs 2.4mhz .
@georgetakei In the 60's the Stanford University administration decided to replace "Indian" as the mascot. Their newspaper had a vote for the replacement. The winner was --- "Robber Barons" which is how they chose a color: Cardinal.
@dpiponi @mattblaze My family got this in the 1950s. Luckily, we never needed it.
@Paperposts google reverse image search says Plymouth Suburban '51 or '52
@SomaFMrusty https://mastodon.social/@jwz Questions: How do they sound? Do you have to tune them yourself?
@wendynather Great song! Have you seen his version on David Sanborn's Sunday Night show? Cohen plus his backup singers plus Was/Not Was plus Sonny Rollins' modern shofar (sax) solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2T274bXIxU
Who By Fire
@vijayiyer The Green Book was how traveling jazz musicians and other African-Americans could travel from town to town. When twitter self-destructed, we needed a social media version to tell us where we would be safe (relatively) and welcomed.
Maybe I pushed that metaphor a bit too far.
Maybe I pushed that metaphor a bit too far.