November, 2020 archive
Ring Wraith 0
“Smart home” is an oxymoron.
(snip)
Through the family’s four Ring cameras, a hacker screamed, “Help me!” as officers checked inside the home to make sure everyone was safe.
Back outside, the officers realized the intermittent screaming was coming from the home’s Ring cameras.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Expose your offspring to politeness at a young age.
Rand Gestures 0
One might perhaps call this a paranoia of delusions.
Pitting (Self-Proclaimed) Middle against Both Sides 0
Methinks Atrios doth offer comestibles for cogitation.
Behind That Curtain* 0
David talks with Talia Lavin about her experiences in infiltrating white supremacist groups.
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*With apologies to Earl Derr Biggers.
Courting Disasters 0
The writers for Night Court would have considered this too outrageous to attempt.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Afterthought:
You know, the harsh truth is that persons who don’t think like that, well, they won’t talk like that.
A Tune for the Times 0
Over at Balloon Juice.
The Art of the Con 0
Brian Greenspun explores the scam. A snippet (emphasis added):
What also isn’t working is this American democracy, which used to pride itself as the one country on earth that exalts the peaceful and orderly transfer of power from one president to the next. It isn’t working because public servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution — those folks would be the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who used to care about such things as our democratic norms — are AWOL.
