Had a dream last night that

To compensate, I was going to post this news, but you beat me to it!

Had someone tell me literally a couple weeks ago that China was installing backdoors into surveillance cameras, so they could sneakily surveil us in the West. This person has a PhD

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I torrented it, so I know you can find it on sites like that, but it looks like it’s streaming on PlutoTV. I’ve never used that service, but I clicked the “watch now” link from google just now and it started playing right away. That’s good to know about Tales from the Crypt, I’ll add that to my watchlist!

I mentioned this somewhere else recently, but I’ve recently gone back and rewatched the first season of the original Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s version, and I’m continually blown away by how good it is. Some episodes are better than others, but they all are solid in their own right. If you haven’t watched any of it, I’d definitely recommend it. The camera work is incredible, the pacing always has you just slightly on edge, Rod Serling’s narration is magical. The twists still hit hard, even today, over 60 years later.

Markdown + Latex will change the world

I wish I could eyeball measurements this bad. Science would be so easy

I just KNOW he throws down at Giordano’s

“solving” an obviously wrong captcha as the mark of the beast. Step aside Jack Chick, I’m trying to cook here

I just started watching this again, the first season, and goddamn it’s such a wild show. The twists still hit hard after 65 years. Serling crafted such a wonderful surreal little world

jesus fucking christ, this ender’s game ass bullshit

75% of americans, wow

I remember when that article came out, my turbo-lib friend who read The Economist religiously nearly forced me to read it. They got pretty smug about China for a while, but I bet they’re melting down now after this tariff fiasco

Patrick Lancaster has been embedded with Russian and LPR/DPR forces since like 2022 2014! He’s gotten some really wild and insightful interviews with troops and like the deputy director of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

Everything becomes… dialectics

I physically recoiled

I haven’t really honed this line of thought, but something I’ve thought about recently is how churches could be, for lack of a better word, co-opted here in the US to fight for left-wing causes. There’s a church out in San Francisco called GLIDE that was a part of the Methodist Church (I think they broke off) that essentially operates as a neighborhood resource center. Daily soup kitchen (3 meals every single day, no limits), harm-reduction kit distribution, childcare, DV resource center, and a lot more.
I guess all I’ve been thinking is just that if more churches could be politicized in this way, they could be potential allies in local struggles, because they’re already organized, meet regularly, have physical spaces that can be used, and know how to handle a budget.

Obviously of a different scale, but TBT to when Biden placed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and 50% on Chinese solar panels (especially egregious when China produces something like 80% of all solar panels on the earth).

If you’re in the US, I recently learned that some states allow you to see a physical therapist directly, without a referral. In my state it’s limited to a few sessions, but you can tell the therapist something like “I won’t be coming back, give me the best at-home routine for my issues”, and they should be able to help you out. I know this still is not accessible to everyone, but I wanted to make sure you were aware that it might be an option!