SMS and other mobile technologies are notoriously insecure (read up on SS7). Anyone who requests my phone number for 2FA deserves to have their accounts pwned.

... is SMS traffic to/from my mobile devices any of Googles concern?

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Why a single location? Do you want one movie theater in town?

Perhaps we need to look back at the antitrust cases, a major one involving Paramount. But now it's Netflix becoming the vertically integrated giant. Let multiple streaming companies, theaters, CATV operators and DVD producers bundle and sell studio content as they see fit. Thus allowing the consumer to select the package that is best for them.

Absent that, either Paramount or Netflix should be required to spin off their streaming business from production as a condition for acquiring Warner Brothers content.

Depends on which warming period. For the last one, a few centuries (and it partly depends on where, since it didn't warm evenly everywhere). For the earlier ones a couple thousand years. For the earliest, the melting of "Snowball Earth", a couple of million years. In any case, massive changes in ice cover initiate massive changes in ecosystems worldwide which our civilization would not survive, and very possibly our species wouldn't.

How long did it take the Arctic to change from frozen to thawed last time? Tens of thousands of years. This time it's happening in a century, and the ecosystems which we depend on can't adapt that quickly.

Things already are getting explodey, melting methane clathrates have cause multiple explosions in Siberia and possibly the Canadian Arctic, leaving big holes excavated (fortunately so far they've all been in uninhabited places). Submarines in the Arctic Ocean are encountering large changes in the subsea terrain as clathrates melt there as well. When it doesn't burn methane is a greenhouse gas twenty times more efficient at heating the terrain below it than carbon dioxide.

Zuckerberg is the face of enshittifcation. He knows what it is and doesn't care.

I looked back at Ray Bradbury the other day, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about Fahrenheit 457. Unfortunately there is no author currently who comes close to that aliveness and energy. For a while I started thinking modern authors are just unskilled.

But now I have a different hypothesis. My new hypothesis is modern authors are skilled, but they have a different aim (which they achieve). Instead of being energetic like Bradbury, they are aiming for a feeling that is more like opium. Give the reader a numb feeling, just like you get from doom scrolling, or many online games these days.

Things are OK. Eh.

Rabbit ear antenna?

So, play the TikTok card. French email clients to be owned by the French. Or crazy punitive laws will be passed.

What's good for the goose ...

Elon should just have blocked X in the EU.

And yet, you would be foolish to hire him.

That's why I'm not a member of either party.