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Not only scanning honeypots, but scanning honeypots *brokenly*

"So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand)"

“What are the most effective governance and administration models/structures in place on medium-to-large sized Fediverse servers, and what infrastructural gaps (human and digital) persist?”

"Why Cinematic Cyborgs Are So Much Smarter Than What We Have in the Real World"

October 2019: the indigenous people for whom the giant rock is a sacred cutural site closed access to outsiders (after two years' notice). The last hike before closure *almost* got canceled for weather, but a lot of tourists showed up for their last chance to climb it.

In 2019 a freak summer hailstorm buried Guadalajara under five feet of ice

Photos of the 2017 California superbloom after a freak May snowstorm.

Douglas Adams article in which he originally stated:
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

"Google’s latest Pixel cameras pushes the AI envelope just a little further."

"Twenty years after Challenger came Columbia, and our assessment was that NASA was in the same kind of dysfunctional patterns that preceded Challenger. Today, there’s nobody accusing NASA and Boeing of being in a closed shop and not listening. I think the lessons of Challenger got forgotten, but the lessons of Columbia have not been forgotten."