Category Archives: Technology

A nuclear strike in the event of….WHAT?

Weary of the psychotic crew posing as “government” in our country? Take a break with the psychotic crew “governing” North Korea, as reported in today’s Harper’s Weekly Review: The parliament of North Korea amended the country’s constitution to empower the … Continue reading →

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Orwell was a satirist. Wasn’t he?

So what’s missing from this piece of WTF info delivered to me by Harper’s Weekly Review? Meta self-mockery? Wit? Animals? Something… It was reported that Meta began installing software on employees’ computers to track their mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes … Continue reading →

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A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!

Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading →

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