georgebaily @georgebaily@mastodon.social

I like that in my linux startup there's an "entropy harvesting daemon". Seems like those daemons ought to be busy these days.

If you take this to heart you could run out of breath very fast.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Interesting to hear that in the HK protests, Telegram suffered denial of service attacks and people were using AirDrop for ad hoc peer to peer messaging.

An article headline that's far too controversial/true to be able to post on your LinkedIn:
> Being treated like an adult is way better than having a beer fridge - https://medium.com/wildcardmoney/why-your-dream-job-might-not-be-what-you-think-it-is-af2010040a68

An article headline that's far too controversial/true to be able to post on your LinkedIn:
> Being treated like an adult is way better than having a beer fridge - https://medium.com/wildcardmoney/why-your-dream-job-might-not-be-what-you-think-it-is-af2010040a68

"Europeans are among the few friends Britain has left – yet they are wilfully, neurotically spurned." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/14/observer-editorial-rudderless-britain-brexit-china-russia-donald-trump-boris-johnson

This is the sort of thing that humanity will be absorbed in when everything is uninhabitable... https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae (i.e. not necessarily bad, possibly cool, but only absorbed in the imaginary)

Does "critically acclaimed" just mean "shit"?

Good one... https://i.imgur.com/hNdZD4s.gif

"two influential billionaires have chipped in a half a million dollars apiece to start a new DC think tank with the goal of doing the exact opposite of the sort of thing that billionaire-funded DC think tanks normally do" https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/07/01/new-soroskoch-funded-think-tank-claims-to-oppose-us-forever-war/

You'd think after all the competitions people would know how to spell bee

#China
"Is Turmoil In Persian Gulf Aimed At Containing Beijing’s Access To Region’s Energy Resources?" https://www.eurasiareview.com/23062019-is-turmoil-in-persian-gulf-aimed-at-containing-beijings-access-to-regions-energy-resources-oped/

"As a result of the interview, my family name was reduced to No. 13660. I was given several tags bearing the family number" https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

Peak Hacker News top comment

Libra: "The white paper is long on happy talk and short on details" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/dont-trust-libra-facebooks-new-cryptocurrency/592450/

Only 36% of Conservative party members put the party’s preservation above steering Britain out of the EU. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/06/18/most-conservative-members-would-see-party-destroye

Amount spent per month on Patreon subscriptions fast increasing. Number of MSM outlets offering this: 0.

A complete blind spot about the finite number of hours available for work being a factor of the finite number of people x finite number of hours in the day (that you are paying for) x efficiency %.... ffn rocket science to most businesses, even big ones.