I am making a list of all the places I will spend my $0.42 settlement.

The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present.

—Terminator, 1984

If a company can own a copyright to the Eiffel Tower at night, then individuals ought to be able to own their own image and likeness, and have that encoded as a fundamental right.

Because it, quite unethically, is in the EULA none of us are equipped to read.

“Linda, listen”

Subsequent to the Panama Papers, there were arrests and financial seizures in many of the names countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers?wprov=sfti1#Recovered_money

“Real men don’t put cream in their coffee.”

No, real men don’t give a shit how others drink their coffee, Stanley.

Use hardware-based security tokens.

Basically the premise of I, Robot.

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

Space Oddity Wellerman

This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.

I said too it loud while watching it: “that shit’s over 100°C… and they’re going right in?”

Next week is inconvenient for me as my existential dread has flared up again. Can we try tomorrow?

You leave Jack Burton alone! We are in his debt. He showed great courage!

Because stupidity is immortal.

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They’re letting the terrorism button cool off a bit, considering its basically not been let up since September 2001.

This is the plot of The Village by M Night Shyamalan. Good movie.

I had set up this configuration around 2016 and found it a little clunky. I called it a SkyHole. It was great, and now we have the ability to install DNS profiles on most phones, or configure DNS profiles for PCs such that I use a (“free”) commercial provider and get as blocking which takes care of 99% of the noise, and don’t have to fuss about with maintaining a dedicated device.