Paul is on a real tear of great posts, his latest asks: Is this corporate embraced digital news rot? I have been dreading the coming disaster that is digital archiving […]
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Beware charismatic leaders; they won’t save us
I’m glad Paul Jorgensen is blogging more. Earlier posts (now gone) of the dirty BGP tricks China Telecom was playing alerted me to a huge security problem that no mainstream […]
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Things change
Me in 2017: “I love Daring Fireball and John Gruber is one of the best tech writers out there. But since the election Gruber seems distracted…” Me in 2021: I […]
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The Buddha’s face is only seen thrice
There is a Japanese saying: the Buddha’s face is only seen thrice. It can also be roughly translated as: a person can only behave like a Buddha 3 times. It’s […]
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Remembering 3-11
A recent strong aftershock in a wide area beyond the Fukushima epicenter, that sicking feeling of a very different kind of earthquake, was a rude late night reminder that March […]
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Parasite Mind
I’ve been wanting to see the hit Korean movie Parasite even since it won the Academy Award for best picture but am too distracted by COVID restrictions and the hassles […]