“Linda, listen”

Subsequent to the Panama Papers, there were arrests and financial seizures in many of the named countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers?wprov=sfti1#Recovered_money

“Real men don’t put cream in their coffee.”

No, real men don’t give a shit how others drink their coffee, Stanley.

Use hardware-based security tokens.

Basically the premise of I, Robot.

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

Make Pirates Great Again

Space Oddity Wellerman

The first tell was the author using the first person, and the next tell was the piano falling.

I said it loud too while watching it: “that shit’s over 100°C… and they’re going right in?”

Next week is inconvenient for me as my existential dread has flared up again. Can we try tomorrow?

You leave Jack Burton alone! We are in his debt. He showed great courage!

There are some things computers are just not good at, and collating memories is one of them—thus I am a huge proponent of scrapbooking. I’ve been scrapbooking since 2014, and since then I haven’t touched any of the tools, binders, or boxes of keepsakes I’ve been intending to go through.

From the article:

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”

Orwell:

Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. […] The original figures were as arbitrary as the rectified ones, and in any case, the Party had control of all records, and they themselves created reality. The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.

I spent a couple of winters in Fairbanks Alaska, and was quite surprised with just how hot it gets up there in the summer, even as far north as the Arctic Circle.

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This is the plot of The Village by M Night Shyamalan. Good movie.

I had set up this configuration around 2016 and found it a little clunky. I called it a SkyHole. It was great, and now we have the ability to install DNS profiles on most phones, or configure DNS profiles for PCs such that I use a (“free”) commercial provider and get ad blocking which takes care of 99% of the noise, and don’t have to fuss about with maintaining a dedicated device.

Everything old is new again.

I am.

He hasn’t.

You’re the first Internet stranger to notice! Here’s a celebration emoji: 🎉