Tyrannosaurus Rex: Predecessor of the Mosquito

Your love is like  green fuzzy soda

Next: My 800lb Life - because 600lb people aren't even trying

It's not like things haven't been going my way, but....

Wife hurt her back.

My hand fell asleep while I was using it.  

 ssshhhhhh.....I strongly suspect my hand is fooling around on me. Sometimes I find it... places...

Linux, my operating system of choice, has reached 3% of desktops across the world. After 30 years. Just imagine what it can accomplish in another 100 years! But seriously folks, that's a pretty large number, given the pervasive nature of Windows. 3% of computer owners made the decision to install the operating system, as opposed to what came with the computer. Considering the sick nature of Microsoft, that number should be much larger, especially now that they are in the advertising business.

Introducing: wireless charging for your electric car! Just park next to this humongous metal plate for an hour or six.  WARNING: do not try to use or park near the plate with your hybrid or gas-powered engine - it will explode (like a Tesla).

Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” sees pedestrian, chooses not to slow down

Now explain to me whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. I hear it will not run anyone over if they have a paid Twitter account.

Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

1. How can he understand the universe if he can't understand Twitter?
2. 42

The Toronto Zoo wants you to stop showing the gorillas your cellphone. Here’s why

They get TikTok accounts and turn into Sloths

The Spying Files

TikTok executive admits Australian users’ data accessed by employees in China

If any country thinks their TikTok data is not being accessed in China, they're fools of the highest order.

 

FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors”

Hey, if the Molotov Cocktail fits.....  but NO, under most circumstances.

Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website

An anonymous complainant has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming it unlawfully collects health data, including abortion searches, on third-party websites that use Google technology.

This should be interesting. This is also why you search with Duckduckgo.com - they don't keep a record of your search. And you use a private/incognito tab on your browser, so it forgets everything you did when you close it. And you use Protonmail for encrypted texts, chat, email, and video.

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

Surveillance State's gonna surveil

The Don't Care Generation is going to continue to use Meta/FB/Insta/Tik/Threads etc. Because only NOW are they concerned about their privacy.

Ex-Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years

She had been denied parole forever, but they decided 53 years was enough. She had removed the  swastika carved into her forehead, like good old Charlie had. The parole board figured that, at 73, the worst thing she could do was bite somebody, and even then, her false teeth would fall out.

ThermionicEmissions would like to wish Dad a happy birthday. Since we can't do it directly, we hope he reads the blog. I like to think they have really high-speed internet there.