1) They are for sale. 2) Everybody knows they are for sale. edition.cnn.com/2024/09/27/u...

Former OceanGate employee testifies CEO said he would ‘buy a congressman’ if the Coast Guard blocked Titan expedition | CNN

Former OceanGate employee Matthew McCoy testified Friday that at a lunch meeting in September 2017, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him that if he ran into any issues with the US Coast Guard ahead of...

North Carolina voters: nearly one in ten of you have been purged from the roll of registered voters. You have minimal time remaining to fix it. CHECK HERE: ---> vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/thehill.com/homenews/cam...

North Carolina removes 747,000 from voter rolls, citing ineligibility

North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 people from its list of registered voters within the last 20 months, officials announced Thursday in a press release. The State Board o…

A few timely words about the continued use of the death penalty in the United States. thofk.substack.com/p/one-out-of...#Writing#Nonfiction#DeathPenalty#Exoneration#Rant#WritingCommunity#WritersCommunity#FreeOnSubstack

One out of Eight

A machine designed to kill people who theoretically "need killin'" kills one bystander for every seven who -possibly- deserved it. How is this justifiable?

Not what tech folks usually mean by "memory leak." But wow, even after years of desperation to make these things useful, which is somehow still a lower priority than "ubiquitous," the teams involved have completely failed to make them safe or secure. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.

Great news for stalkers! Soon-to-be-victims: get ready to warm up your lawsuits. Your stalkers/enemies in the opposing political party have no money, but you-know-who's pockets are fairly deep! And obviously he's fired all of his GOOD lawyers. www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24...

X will let people you’ve blocked see your posts

Elon Musk has said blocking “makes no sense.”

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The devolution of social media and the rise of bizarre behavior to defeat the algorithm -- here's how it works. open.substack.com/pub/thofk/p/...#Writing#Nonfiction#Rant#OnlineBehavior#LiteralChaos#FreeOnSubstack

DONEC EX CORRUPTO VITA HORRIDA SCATURIT* Just because you're done with your body doesn't mean that it itself is done. And beheading and a stake through the heart just isn't good enough. www.iflscience.com/the-third-st... __________ * "...till out of corruption horrid life springs.."

The “Third State” That Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Life And Death

This challenges our understanding of life, death, and the nature of organisms.

Pages 151-3 of "This One Time"—"This one time I was rereading a book I know I had read maybe thirty times...", from the PDF version. $5 at l.xal.li/KOFI-TOT#WeirdLit#Fiction#MosaicNovel#EBook#PDF#EPUB#MOBI#AZW3#SF#ButMoreVonnegutThanAsimov

You ever try to drink out of a glass with a clump of ice in it that suddenly shifts and spills half of it down your shirt in a 650-foot wave that echoes from one edge of the channel to the other for nine whole days? Gonna be a lot more of that soon. www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...

650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 days, scientists find

The tsunami, one of the largest ever recorded, was the result of a series of rare, cascading events set in motion by melting ice.