Wait until it’s all gone…

Not just whales, not just corals, but whole jungles, whole biomes, whole fields of the crops we depend on to eat, just crumbled and dead, unable to breathe in the heat.

Silent dead forests, sterile anoxic oceans or ones choked with algae and muck, starving people in desperate mobs a million strong, with no one to bury them when they fall. Hurricanes and dust storms over abandoned cities. Whole species, whole categories of life that can’t survive the pace of change and harsh conditions that are coming. It’s not a movie, it’s not a story. There are people already alive today who will see it unless something massive changes. Probably even if it does.

What did you do? I didn’t do anything today to stop it. We should be.

I have a feeling they’re going to be fine moneywise whatever happens. Their personal safety is probably fine. Maybe not, but probably they don’t have to worry too much.

It’s still courage that they’re doing it.

Jesus Christ, I didn’t know that. That’s worse.

I highly recommend watching the Joe Rogan interview with David Miscavige’s dad, it’s just wild and weird.

Also, where’s Shelly? Where did she go?

Matt and Trey really don’t give a fuck. They tried to show Muhammed in multiple cartoons, and when the network vociferously shouted them down about it (because it might get them killed or their offices attacked), they snuck him in anyway in multiple places and just didn’t tell anyone. When one of the foundational members of their cast didn’t want them to trash Scientology, they trashed it ten times harder and told him not to let the door hit him on the ass on the way out. They made out with each other for a long time in “Baseketball.”

However valuable or not you feel like their message / their humor is, they are among the very few voices in mainstream media who are simply unafraid and doing their own thing, completely without reservation.

Cops have a saying, “We don’t catch the smart ones.” It is self selection, a lot of it.

IDK man. If your hardware doesn’t work on the stock kernels + firmware + etc, I don’t feel like it’s the distro makers’ problem to make some extra changes to try to make it work.

If they want to to make a smoother experience for their users (which is a common Ubuntu thing), then great. But they’re not “supposed” to.

Boots into secure bootstrap

npm install

I’m not sure that the Ken Thompson type of backdoor is even on the radar as an urgent enough threat to be worth worrying about at this point. I mean, it’s fine, but the boot-i-est of bootstraps at this point is the network hardware that’s running the network you are trying to secure, and most of it is riddled with holes which are likely to largely undo whatever you’re trying to do sad to say.

It’s a hell of a lot wider than one specific sloppy contractor. They basically compromised everybody (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated Communications, Windstream, the system for CALEA requests, routers made by Cisco, phones belonging to Trump and Vance… basically, everything.) Viasat is on that list, but they’re no more particularly sloppy than any other contractor in that space. Basically it would have been truly remarkable if some Guard agency had managed to hire a cloud contractor that was able to resist it.