RE: https://mas.to/@PicardTips/117044798588657312 Corollary: everything is a tradeoff. (Rule 3)
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Scott Francis
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Asking “what if?” for a living, trying to think and act long-term (emerging tech security) • opinions mine, not guaranteed correct • rarely an expert, often an […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Sir Mix-a-Lot unavailable for comment https://bird.makeup/users/rainmaker1973/statuses/2084954171808043324
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The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 is a helium airship with auxiliary wing and tail surfaces, it flies using both aerostatic and aerodynamic lift and is powered by four diesel engine-driven ducted propellers.
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RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/117038826379369323 This entire Foone thread is the hardest I have nodded at something in a long time
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I have several of these in my collection still today! /cc @dailyHotWheels https://bird.makeup/users/rainmaker1973/statuses/2084429107819884939
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Hot Wheels’ 1980s crash series was built to smash and bend.
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If hackers are so smart, what are we doing in Las Vegas in August?
I hope you all know your state amphibians
🔌 Slate Auto's electric truck ships with no modem at all, and that's the privacy story. The startup's $24,950 EV pickup has no built-in cellular connection, so the company physically can't track your location, remote-access the car, or pull data from it. A phone app handles settings and […]
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This Volkswagen Beach Bomb is one of the 1969 Hot Wheels cars. Notes: This model has an orange and a yellow plastic surfboard loaded into the side of the van.. #HotWheels #Redlines #Spectraflame #year1969
Talking to a friend who was remembering his time living in the East Bay like 25 years ago, and he said “Walnut Creek” and even now I mentally append “… ftp.cdrom.com”
Second best thing about vacation: not hearing anything about AI or basically any news Best thing about vacation: setting aside all responsibility that isn’t “what shall we eat today?” and “which trail should we walk this morning?” Worst thing about vacation: having people ask me “what are we […]
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Tycho on Amazon (as a sidebar in a recent post) is very telling; customer obsession (the legendary first LP) has been almost entirely replaced with customer extraction. “When I was trying to set the family up with the newest David Tennant version of Macbeth, which you should absolutely watch, I […]
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When your kid (23) is reading the same webcomic (Penny Arcade) you were reading when you were her age 🥰😂
What's the difference between 1990 and today? AT&T in 1990 was no longer a monopoly; there was competition in long distance, so some calls got through, just as calls went through today on T-Mobile's competetors. The main difference was expectation. 1990 was still the era of "5 9's" of […]
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This Hairy Hauler is one of the 1971 Hot Wheels cars. Notes: Canopy opens, unfinished metal engine block in rear. #HotWheels #Redlines #Spectraflame #year1971
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116973617281661471 Threads of encouragement need boosting more than any other kind
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This Radar Ranger-#4 of 4 is one of the Techno Bits Series cars. Notes: Purple plastic dish. #HotWheels #year1998
RE: https://mastodon.art/@mobydick/116970778557609430 Melville has never felt more relevant
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Reflecting this morning on the fact that the vast majority of reality operates on a scale that is either too quick or too slow, or too small or too large, for us to perceive. If we could see things as they truly are, it would be more than we could take in.
wow. Even Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is saying what I opined on here a couple of weeks ago: that the rise of AI is going to swing the pendulum away from the increased specialization we have seen the past couple of decades in tech, and back towards valuing generalists and systems thinkers again […]
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One of my favorite things about Fedi is running across people who have been doing Internet stuff far longer than even I have, including some names I have respected for decades
Rusty Nail: not as good as a Godfather. And neither of them are as good as a paper plane (but they're easier to make).