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December 21, 2021
Jimmy Pesto Sr.s voice actor loses job...
... because of his actions in the Jan 6 insurrection.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/actor-jay-johnston-banned-from-bobs-burgers-over-capitol-riot
Karma dude
December 13, 2021
White House Christmas 2021 on HGTV
It's so well done, lots of beautiful decorations. Best of all, there is no forest of Christmas Tampons.
December 7, 2021
Just how good is Crypto-currency?
Here's an interesting op-ed in a rather respected tech mag about "just how useful is blockchain"? The author draws some interesting conclusions.
The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchains had its day
The underlying technology of Bitcoin, the distributed ledger of the blockchain, is undeniably cool and dangerously seductive to intellectual types. A tamper-proof public database that needs no central control and is both transparent and anonymous, it entranced mathematicians and computer scientists. It seemed then and still seems now that something that clever must be useful for something.
Now we know what that is. Cybercurrency, by dint of eschewing central control, is terribly useful for transferring value outside the banking system. Early boosters said that this would reduce costs and increase flexibility so that you could and would be using it to buy things in corner shops, foreshadowing a future where it, like the laser, was a ubiquitous component of the retail experience.
That hasn't happened. Instead, it is at the heart of a $20bn a year world-wide extortion racket. Ransomware, that insanely profitable mega-heist, uses many techniques and is constantly developing, but it is utterly reliant on cryptocurrency to be worthwhile.
Cybercurrency does have a role in specialist retail too, the sort where drugs, weaponry, fake ID, hacking data stashes and dubious services are traded by the internet's demimonde: There is certainly an argument for an open trade in recreational drugs, but not like this.
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