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"We all learned in 2022, with the weaponization of SWIFT, that technical systems are a source of power. By controlling the infrastructure, Musk controls the nation. The two most obviously significant agencies on that list are the Treasury, which controls the money, and the Department of Energy, which controls the nuclear secrets. Less obviously significant but equally troubling is the General Services Administration, which is effectively the infrastructure of the government itself."

"a small statically-linked linux system"

"...uniting top [comic book] creators to support victims of the devastating Los Angeles fires. Spearheaded by AWA Studios, this initiative features original artwork donations from renowned artists like Bill Sienkiewicz, Denys Cowan, Alison Sampson, Mike Deodato Jr., and many more. "

Article on the Tiki-themed location that opened in 1992 and closed in 2020. Because 2020.
And apparently the Fry's grocery chain was founded by the same family - they got into electronics after the grocery chain was bought by Kroger!

Early brain-machine interface: "BrainGate...nearly 100 hair-thin electrodes implanted a millimetre deep into part of the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement." Converted to mouse cursor movements, enabling a paralyzed patient to do things like control his TV or a prosthetic hand.

"Across 840 miles, California’s coast is home to over 1700 species. Twenty-five million people live along that same coastline. Do you know how your ocean neighbors are doing?"

OS opened, hackathon, launching a foundation

Time lapse video of the November 2012 solar eclipse, showing the moon's shadow sweeping across the sky.

"This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing
In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936"

2014: "We can’t choose a world where the US gets to spy and the Chinese don’t. We get to choose a world where everyone can spy, or a world where no one can spy."
And here we are 11 years later with people in governments *still* insisting on trying it. Even after Salt Typhoon. (Also, the “towers” referred to in the title are apparently not physical towers so much as interception devices that mimic a cell tower on the network. It’s imprecise language that has propagated through just about every article on the topic.)