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The Straight White American Jesus podcast did a deep-dive on Thiel's thinking recently. It wasn't what I was expecting but then I hadn't previously been paying attention to him. Ap…

If the U.S. ever goes to war with a major adversary, one of the first waves of cyberattacks will likely target infrastructure that rarely comes up in discussions about digital thre…

> I wrote TSR's that snatched cycles off the timer interrupt We've all been there. How else could you get anything interesting done back in the day?

Having grown up in New England in the era, I remember "acid rain" being a big concern too. The polluters fought to keep anything from being done about the problem, but decades late…

And more tape drives. But Space:1999's moon base still had a huge number of Blinkenlights and related gear that I have to believe was under an expensive IBM support contract. I won…

Here you go. This is the second time in the past few years that cat was used to process bikers in the NW WA wilderness. The first time was fatal. I used to live about 15min from wh…

Not to suggest that the phenomena are necessarily related (though it wouldn't surprise me), there's also this: >Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a fatal complication …

>We’ve heard our users loud and clear - interoperable end to end encryption (E2EE) across email providers is critical for privacy and security online. We have taken this feedback t…

PBS Space Time just did an episode on this topic: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vyEWLhOfLgQ

Use it again! Thunderbird has a built-in Usenet client and you can configure it to connect to any number of NNTP servers.

comp.lang.python is one of the busier (programming) groups as well.

*Hanford.

"Stop Time" - a 1967 memoir by Frank Conroy. [1] Next up, "Inequality In An Age of Decline" by Paul Blumberg (1980) [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-Time [2] https://www.…

Spamgourmet ( https://www.spamgourmet.com , https://github.com/spamgourmet/spamgourmet ), free, has always worked well for me though these days I tend to just use the disposable ad…

Re: hiking, your comment reminded me of this recent write-up in the Seattle Times. It's hard to imagine serious hikers hitting the trail in the PNW without at least one person in t…

> Masons. Where these do exist, they've been gender integrated. Not true of the Regular Freemasons at any rate - "The attitude of most regular Anglo-American grand lodges remains t…

Similar: I was a kid in S. VT in the 60s/70s and everyone using the phone system used five-digit dialing. You were assigned a 254-xxxx or 257-xxxx number, but when dialing you only…

Eternal September, mentioned in the article, is good. Another that I know of is https://solani.org/ .

Have you had a look at Coconut? I don't know if it'll push all your buttons but whenever I hear someone who's reasonably content with Python but wants more FP goodies I always thin…

Thanks. I'm fortunate not to live in Medical Lake or nearby, where the most destructive fires (in terms of $damage$ anyway) are still ongoing. I know little about these air quality…

Sock it to us, BC. "OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. — The Crater Creek fire, that has burned an estimated 54,000 acres in British Columbia, has entered into Okanogan County." https://inx.lv…

I'm in Spokane, and on the PurpleAir website there are readings >500 all around, even in the city, which is not (yet) burning. The air outside is subjectively awful, the worst I ca…

Same for me, and I'm not using a VPN.