Of course Texas is still trying to steal from the rest of the nation using horrible legislation to do additional horrible things.
Category Archives: Science & Nature & Technology
From Duct Tape to Penicillin, GPS to Superglue: Thank the DOD
We Cannot Ignore the War on Free & Fair Internet
I was waiting for this.
Ugh.
Fucking Ajit Pai is back and trying to kill our net freedoms, such as they are after his last pass.
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders
It ain’t just politics going to shit. Here’s some technology trends that just plain suck.
The enduring glow of London’s historic gas lamps
A look at the past enduring in Londontown.
A Brief History of Computer Science in Minnesota
I knew some of this, but not as much as I should have I think.
This week in Google
Remember this slogan?
Yeah, once upon a time Google used to operate by this singular standard.
These days? Not so much. As of today, this is what they are calling the Gulf of Mexico.
Yeah, they are sucking up to Trump.
Over at Google Calendar, they are removing Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month, among others. Their “reasoning”? It is all too hard to keep track of. You know, the site that catalogs the whole ass internet can’t sort a few hundred days properly.
We have a LOT of rich tech folks getting on their knees for an old racist.
Thankful for the natural world and all it provides
The world persists, despite all that humans are doing to end it.
Remember that, get out and see the beauty in it.
How to: Use Signal
Because the world is increasingly getting both weirder and more compromised, it makes sense to take care of how you present yourself online. Tightening up your communications is something to pay attention to. I used to use Signal but they gave up some features a few years ago to increase security. It might make sense to go back to them though, and ignore the missing bells and whistles.
Speed matters: How Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond
Incremental advances aren’t splashy but they do add on to each other and suddenly you have the high speeds we still whine about but couldn’t do the modern internet without.