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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:15:04 JST jwz

   In 1944, the OSS (precursor to CIA) published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. For years, I've had four pages from this hanging on our office wall. It's funny in a "This meeting could have been an email" way as it demonstrates that the way most...
   https://jwz.org/b/ykce

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     Tim Allison (tallison@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:23:44 JST Tim Allison

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     @jwz The average timespan between when I find this worth sharing with colleagues and when I find a new project is roughly two months over the course of my career. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 06:01:09 JST jwz

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     • The Janx Devil

     @janxdevil One of my proudest moments was that in 1998, they called me out *by name* on the product page for this poster. Sadly that version of the page is unarchived. https://despair.com/products/burnout

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     The Janx Devil (janxdevil@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 06:01:10 JST The Janx Devil

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     @jwz Reminds me that despair.com has long been my secret inspiration. The problem, of course, is that satire has the highest signal quality at low S/N ratios, but its receivers also draw the most power per bit.

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     madopal (madopal@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 06:01:45 JST madopal

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     @jwz This seriously needs a 21st century update for modern tech. The server instructions would be WILD.