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Well no shit! We repurposed a backdoor communications channel to send text messages, and now we're surprised that it also allowed carriers to send commands to modems inside your phone?

WOOWWEEEEE color me shocked

Two years ago today i was pottering about in LA for work, against expectations, I really liked the place. Maybe I'll be back there some day. sullybiker.wordpress.com/2017/

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I trained a neural net to generate crochet hat patterns, and they showed a disturbing tendency to explode into ruffled hyperbolic yarn-eating shapes.
aiweirdness.com/post/187489831

image credit: Chunky Hat, crocheted by Joannastar

Some more steroids injected into my eye today. It's as fun as it sounds.

An old personal friend of mine has reinvented himself as a sort of woke preacher. It's telling to me that people with no previous consideration or empathy for others suddenly decide to adopt an ideological appearance in order to lecture others. I suspect a number of them on birdsite are like this.

Just over 1yr ago today. WV with my friend, about a 250 mile day trip.

The Microsoft Teams popup in Win10 really takes the piss.

well that's shit news about Antoine Hubert at Spa. Motorsport isdangerous.

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Where was this band when i was 18? Oh..they were every band on the Sunset Strip.

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God Help me I have discovered Steel Panther

"25 Of the Most Inspiring Books Everyone Should Read" Thanks, Pocket.

"Take it from these CEOs, founders, and other high-achieving leaders."

I feel like I take it from them most days, TBH.

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