Nothing But Trouble, so they don’t come back

4 year old article

The existing auto industry would squash this as quickly and effectively as possible, we’d absolutely need a command economy to put something like this through.

We made an automaton clerk. It has neither arms nor body, but it works all day translating physician’s documents, so they may be stored with uniformity in a library that has neither shelves nor paper.

goodbye paywall https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fwhy-do-so-many-mental-illnesses-overlap%2F

I skimmed it. I don’t need convincing that NYT are lying hacks. It’s pretty small potatoes imo compared to their usual shenanigans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies

I thought by the headline they were talking about this https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

Usually NYT can be found with their lips on the metphorical ring of the neoliberal western order, so if they’re not full-throated in support of one of its champions, that’s a little interesting but not very.

they can toe the fascist line.

Always have been https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/new-york-times-nazi-correspondent

TLDR they’re not kissing Biden’s ass enough for Salon, no mention of leaks or fabricated stories

Sometimes, somewhat.

You wanna go for start-ups then. Most bigger and medium-sized companies have centrally-managed security where they wanna push updates and such to all computers or there’s some corporate spyware everyone’s gotta run or they’ve got everyone on M$ Office etc etc. Odds are a place that lets you use a linux laptop is going to be reluctant to buy you one and invite you to use your own. Macbooks aren’t so bad, if they let you have sudo, lots of places use those.

I’m a big fan of 120mm for the airflow to noise ratio. They tend to last. You figure they’re doing less revolutions over their life than a high rpm smaller fan.

That’s my point.

I use dawn foaming dish soap dispensers, with non-dawn soap. Suds on demand.

I feel even better replacing a new or old sponge with a brush that will never get that awful sponge smell

I wonder if it has much to do with the USAF being a relatively new service with a proportional cultural impact, coming into being as a service in 1947. Up until then, combat aviation was subordinate to the Army and Navy. This would point to a preponderance of Army/Navy WWII vets among the show’s consultants and audience.

Being privacy-conscious can protect your information from being passively collected by mainly corporate entities that track your buying habits, life events, and health.

If you think you’re being actively targeted for surveillance, then you need security that is proportional to the resources that the people who are spying on you have. In the case of say, the NSA, they could have a backdoor in a various location in your hardware or software stack. If you have privacy tools like tor, they’re liable to target you and collect your data just for that. Most android/IOS phones are thoroughly bugged and tracked, to the point where if the battery is still attached and the phone is switched off you can still be tracked. If the NSA does collect your data, there’s a 99% chance no human will look at your data unless they have a reason to search for you.

If you are being spied on, odds are you won’t catch it. You might be able to isolate abnormal outbound network traffic if you’re really good about tracking that kind of thing on your network. Your phone could connect to a fake Stingray cell station and you wouldn’t know.

If you’re being stalked by a person with less resources than the NSA, it becomes a lot easier and common-sense privacy protections can help you keep a low enough profile.

It’s also worth noting that if private companies get a hold of your data, they’ll sell it to any government or private organization who’ll pay them. There’s scant regulation about what they can’t collect and what they can’t do with it.

I think the simplest rule of thumb is if you have something sensitive, don’t say it near an android or ios phone and don’t put it on a computer that’s plugged into the internet. Criminals have their own OPSEC, as do people in the intelligence industry, and usually the answer is an “air gap”.

I’m typing on a mac keyboard on Debian. USB one with the numpad. It’s fantastic if you’re into that.

The last time I tried to pair the magic mouse 2 though, no joy. I’d be wary of the bluetooth keyboard.

2010, wow

OK so this is posted to “political humor”. In addition to both men, there’s a bouquet of red roses. This is a cultural symbol for a romantic relationship. The men are nuzzling each other in bed and looking content. The implied joke is that these two men are in a romantic relationship. My problem is that being gay is not a punchline, calling someone gay as a joke is homophobic behavior. The meme is using implication of a homosexual relationship in a derogatory manner.

Disparaging Trump is fine, that’s natural. That doesn’t mean that every anti-Trump meme is good. This one is shit.

I don’t know what’s funnier, liberals using homophobia or anticommunism to deride Trump and Putin instead of making any kind of meaningful statement.