Notices by Nick Selby :donor: (fuzztech@infosec.exchange)

horrible news https://eu.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2025/01/16/bob-uecker-milwaukee-brewers-radio-voice-and-mr-baseball-has-died-at-age-90/75592190007/

I suppose this isn't real, but I wish it were. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/linasbeliunas_this-is-brilliant-o2-has-introduced-daisy-ugcPost-7271828515421900801-Gcs9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Oldie but goodie.

@ryanc @thedarktangent This sounds like the worst of both worlds.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-14/arizonas-1864-abortion-ban-is-officially-off-the-books?utm_source=press.coop

@killyourfm this was one of the first things I noticed when I moved to Europe in my 20s: at social events and parties, “what do you do?l just isn’t a question that comes up. Or rather it will but much later in the conversation.

Wow this is fascinating and counterintuitive: people don't just prefer sloppily wrapped presents, but they prefer what's inside the package "significantly" more when it is sloppily wrapped. What a COOL experiment https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-gift-wrapping-explains-why-sloppy-is-better-128506

You hear that everyone? We're usin' code names.

From: @realhackhistory
https://chaos.social/@realhackhistory/111562481853572861

TL;DR: You might want to read that Niemöller poem again.

And then read this article in the WaPo ($) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/

I am among a small number of Americans who actually lived in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - I was there during the Yeltsin-on-a-tank coup in August, 1991, and I moved there to live in December, 1991 - I was there when they took down the Hammer and Sickle flag and raised the Russian Tri-color. I would drive in the USSR and then, later, in Russia. All over. As a foreigner I was somewhat exempt from the rules governing travel by Soviet citizens. The roads were horrific and the gas was 76 octane (but cheap!) but if one had the means and a running car, one could, say, drive from St Petersburg to Moscow or Tula, or Petrozavodsk or - and this is important - to Finland. Which I did a lot. Hell - if you drove far north enough, like to Murmansk, you could take a ferry to Kirkenes, Norway. Again, you'd need paperwork - much harder for Russians/Soviets than for me as a foreigner - but it could be done.

I raise this because the Great State of Texas seems to be looking at the USSR and saying, "Oh, yeah? Hol' my beer an' check this out," by moving to pass (in some cases, already PASSED) laws restricting on American roads freedom of movement and association.

You know that viral toot in which people say, "...And I took action right away because I know the poem"? Well, first, they came for the people of color and the immigrants, then they came for the LGBTQIA+, then they came after women's right to control their bodies, and now they're trying to literally limit where you can drive, with whom, and for what purpose.

[Add: BTW, FWIW, I didn't move there because I was or am a communist, quite the opposite. I was there on November 10, 1989 helping with a sledgehammer to knock down the Berlin wall, and I moved to Russia because it looked like we could start businesses there. Not sayin', just sayin'.)

@kaia what I like is:
your DHL package will arrive between “13:07 and 14:07 today,” which isn’t just never, ever correct, but it is always highly - and unnecessarily - specifically wrong.