11.21.2018

Works out fine

I had a nasty cold for the first 48 hours of the week but it broke at about three this morning so now I'm fine except massively sleepy. Which is fine. Luckily, tomorrow is a holiday.

It's difficult to take a holiday when you don't work to begin with. What are you going to do? Work? I think not. But sleeping is not working and it's not exactly day-to-day not working either and here I am counting watching football as sleeping also (a perfectly reasonable  administrative decision} so that pretty much takes care of that. Go Bears.

There is only one thing left to consider, which is the turkey, but my sister is cooking it, which is a perfect example of why it's a very good idea to have one. A sister, I mean, not a turkey. Which is good too, I'm not saying it's not, so there's that.

11.20.2018

Here's a strangely disturbing story from the Washington Post

[Trigger warning: it's a paywalled site.]

'Nothing on this page is real': How lies become truth in online America - The Washington Post



File under Let's Not Blame the Russians for Everything.

11.19.2018

The best thing about you…

…is you can be sold again and again and again.


Ford's next revenue stream could come from consumer data


"Automakers will lose money on electric cars for years to come. None of them knows exactly how they're going to make money on autonomous cars," said John McElroy, a veteran industry observer and host of Autoline.tv. "But they could make a fortune monetizing data. They won't need engineers, factories or dealers to do it. It's almost pure profit."

11.18.2018

Steganography

Graham Cluley (@gcluley)
"Spies have been known to work code messages into knitting, embroidery..." The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool atlasobscura.com/articles/knitt… pic.twitter.com/DWUfZV1r7D

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