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15 Jan

Back to the Future (1985) Dir. Robert Zemeckis atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/640348338…

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15 Jan

@iFixit

It's #CES2021 and there are plenty of technophiles lining up to tell you what gewgaws to buy.

Tomorrow morning, watch @iFixit, @uspirg, @EFF and @securepairs award WORST IN SHOW prizes for privacy, security, repairability and sustainability.

ifixit.activehosted.com/index.php?acti…

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I'm emceeing the hour and awarding the people's choice award as well as the overall best/worst in show out of all the other judges' picks.

Here's the livestream link:

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Look, I LOVE shiny gadgets, seriously. But a funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century, we learned that a slick package can contain an environmental-privacy-security nightmare that can't be fixed if the smallest thing goes wrong.

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15 Jan

The Cold War is memorialized as a moment in which the world split into two: the east and west, the Warsaw Pact and NATO. But a sizeable number of countries sat out the Cold War, and many of them formed a third bloc called the "nonaligned countries."

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The nonaligned movement's founding member was Yugoslavia, and it became a socialist republic on the USSR's doorstep that had a simmering (and at times openly) hostile relationship with its vast neighbor.

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This betwixt/between posture left Yugoslavia cut off from both Hollywood movies and Soviet cinema: naturally, they turned to the Mexican film industry.

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14 Jan

Yesterday was my 20th blogging anniversary. I admit that it carried more emotional freight than I expected. 20 years is a long time to do anything, let alone something that's so personal and yet so public.

pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two…

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As it happens, the universe gave me a hell of a blogiversary gift: my first-ever FBI investigation! I've spoken to FBI agents before (Agent: Does your Tor exit node keep logs by any chance? Me: Nope. Agent: Dang), but I've never actually been INVESTIGATED.

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My phone rang with an unfamiliar local number. A calm voice on the other end introduced itself as an FBI special agent with the LA office. I pointed out that this was an unlikely claim and asked for a switchboard number I could call back on.

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14 Jan

A monopolist's first preference is not to be regulated.

A monopolist's second preference is to be regulated in a way that only it can comply with - and that none of its competitors can comply with.

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https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1348721745688211460

Oh, hai, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg!

"I think [the insurrection was] largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, and don’t have our standards, and don’t have our transparency."

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1348721745688211460

Translation: make rules that ban all the smaller platforms that compete with us, otherwise Qanon-addled musketfuckers will hogtie Congress with zip-cuffs and execute them under the Capitol Dome.

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14 Jan

There came a point in my life as an RPG player where I largely stopped playing the games in favor of mostly thinking about the games, handling the materials, and reading the rulebooks.

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The physicality of D&D was always the most important part for me: the dice, the tables, the minis, the maps. I love me a D&D object.

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@brintown

So I've backed "Tiny Paper Dungeons," @brintown's Kickstarter campaign for a pocket-steno-pad-sized book of procedurally generated RPGs.

kickstarter.com/projects/brint…

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