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If scores of deep-fakes of the judge flooded it the Internet.

Did you just send me back to the Hot Grits Slashdot or did I miscount my gummies?

As an ancient greybeard hearing that a development methodology design to "fail faster" works as advertised.

Now somebody tell me how to get these cold, sticky grits outta my pants.

And get off my lawn!

Only $2K to offer up the last 6 hours of my day to our corporate overlords?

Where do I sign?

Nobody stops you from rolling your own with init.

And a distribution choosing different software eight years ago isn't the same as a private company intruding on your personal computer to change software without consent. And no, EULAs are not consent.

Our democracy is being undermined by the people we've elected.

Maybe we should teach kids about taking responsibility for keeping a humane, functional society.

I'm not giving Mark Zuckerberg money so he can violate my privacy in order to manipulate me into buying more junk at my expense to further stuff his wallet.

Most podcasts take the form of a bunch of people at a table, each by a mic, who talk about ... stuff. It's unscripted. Unplanned. Shoot from the hip. And, unsurprisingly, it's also very boring. Contrast that to Rogan, who runs a podcast I despise, but who at least has a producer plan set ups to surprise his guest with something about them or their past they'd rather not talk about. To create tension or conflict. Better, think of This American Life, which follows documentary radio format. A subject is chosen for each episode. It's broken into two or three segments with a matching theme. Producers go out and interview people in the field who have something to say and the quotes curated so you get the interesting bits and not a bunch of wandering commentary. Then there's scripted VO to tie everything together.

Podcasters have conflated disorganized talk with produced and informed commentary. And people got better things to do than listen to boring nonsense even if they're stuck in traffic. I mean, there's always music!

I did not buy this on Ebay. I'm the same person who registered the account all those years ago.

Wait. Are you calling me old?!?!

Yeah. Guilty as charged. lol

Notice how the focus of 'Birds Aren't Real' is that robot birds are engaged in mass surveillance. Which is ridiculous, but with a tinge of plausibility since actual prototype robot birds have been created. But that's not the point. Forget birds. The point here is to dismiss robot birds as replacing all real live birds and in the process diminish or demean the concept of mass surveillance. Which IS REAL. I mean, we're all carrying phones with GPS tracking our every move, audio recording (which has been subpoenaed in the past) , and leaving video records these companies analyze for whatever reasons they choose.

The birds, not so real. The mass surveillance part, very very real. And I get the sense this movement benefits surveillance capitalists more than it debunks fake conspiracy theories.

GraphineOS. Requires a Pixel phone. Is pretty secure.

I have an old Google Pixel 2 which I regularly mount to my Yamaha motorcycle handlebars and I've never had a problem. Camera works fine! Use it with a PacTalk to bluetooth stream music or Google Assistant from the helmet. Would definitely choose an old or cheap phone with enough oomph to do maps and spotify over a mere GPS. Would not buy a $1000 iPhone anyway. $300 will get you a perfectly good last gen phone that will last several years. And if you break it, buy another and don't shed a tear.