🔗 They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

Wasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago? Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power? Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral? Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy.

💬 Chris Hedges

Somewhere on this blog there is a link that connects to this.

If you think your HOA is overly prescriptive, if not downright authoritarian, try this on for size.

🔗 The housing community that will require ‘patriots’ to fly the US flag.

🔗 Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?

… who knows … but it sure doesn’t look good.

🔗 Get it, got it, good. … Gallagher reminding us that brevity is the soul of wit.

🔗 Jack Dorsey Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘Can and Will’ Win Presidential Election., or to put another way ‘one nut job says another nut job can and will win Presidential election’.

“Kennedy is also a strong proponent of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency for which Dorsey has long been an evangelist.”

…aaahhh …

THAT explains it.

🔗 Delaware House OKs Measure Allowing Big Corporations to Vote in Local Elections.

… because you know - corporations are people too.

A couple of useful help links that I am dropping in here to revisit.

🔗 How to Recursively Find All Files in Directories/Subfolders by Wildcards

🔗 How to Remove Amazon Kindle Ebook DRM in 2023 … thankyou @pcora

You know that thing about ‘owning your own server’ and if not at least ‘owning your own domain’? How you should think about managing and controlling your online presence as part of your identity?

Turns out that it isn’t just corporates that can screw you over. Turns out that Harvard has done exactly that. To their Berkman alumni no less and one of the URLs caught out in the move is a listserve and blog that talks about the importance of identity.

Aaaah the irony.

🔗 Shutting Down

🔗 Moving On

🔗 Keep On Going

🔗 Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’.

.. see how it works America?