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The Pod People of the Future

This bunk bed is $1,200 per month, privacy not included. If she only read Niven, she’d have known to include the centrally located loving bunks. That privacy concept, that was just a fad, we no longer have it.   –Peerssa for the State

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Artisan in Metal

Amazing skill and artistry.

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Climate Strikers

A couple of dozen climate strikers from the local charter school just went by my building. They were chanting something on a megaphone as they passed. I couldn’t quite make out what it was, “look at me, look at me, I’m better than you” I assume. That’s what protesters are usually shouting.

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Game Over

Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy. But — if this proves up, especially their claims on scalability — then everything we now consider to be “private” and “secure” is over. Permanently. Leave aside your privacy and contemplate what else is “over”: “Secure” email. Nope. Trivially able to be cracked in seconds or minutes. Even […]

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What Evil Lurks…

The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, crime does NOT pay. The Shadow knows. Mwahahaha. A podcast on The Shadow by Razorfist (no profanity).

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Sh%t Southern Women Say in a Hurricane

 

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National Museum of the USAF

This seemed very Bill. He could do one of these, although we might need a radical redefinition of “high-speed” once he got to the jets. There’s a virtual tour here if you want to look around at your leisure.

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Former Fed Official Declares War

From Bill Dudley, former President Federal Reserve Bank of NY and Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. Given the arrant stupidity of writing something like this it’s no surprise that he’s currently a “Research Scholar” at Princeton. There’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview. After all, Trump’s […]

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Discussing Dane Geld by Kipling

Worth your time even if poetry isn’t your thing, the discussion is wide ranging.

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Meet the Great Filter

Technological civilization is not going to survive the IT industry.

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Duel with Accompaniment by Jim & Jesse

The guy who did this got a really good match between the movie and the song.

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How Anybody Can Be A White Supremacist

As I understand the “logic”, Ben Shapiro, for example, can easily be considered one because he’s talked to Dave Rubin, Rubin’s talked to Sargon and Sargon’s talked to Millennial Woes. 

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End of an Era

Breitbart, in the UK: A poll has revealed that two-thirds of young people want a strongman as leader, while more than one-quarter would be happy with the military leading the country, revealing that younger generations are turning their backs on decades of liberalism. … Onward also found that in terms of social and cultural issues, […]

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Big Iron

Nobody’s posted anything musical lately.

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Who owns your wireless service?

Criminals, criminals own your wireless service. No, a series of recent court cases and unfortunate developments highlight the sad reality that the wireless industry today has all but ceded control over this vital national resource to cybercriminals, scammers, corrupt employees and plain old corporate greed. … Aaron Mackey, a staff attorney at the EFF, said […]