Monthly Archives: June 2024

Adobe Just Wants Unlimited Use Of Everything You Create

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Lawrence Person

Adobe has just changed the terms for subscription applications like Photoshop. Nothing big, just a demand of unlimited use of everything you ever create, forever. Oh, and you’re locked out of your existing work until you agree. A change to … Continue reading →

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NYTimes Hacked, Source Code Stolen

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Lawrence Person

This seems like a story that should be getting a lot more coverage: The New York Times was evidently hacked and hundred of gigabytes of their source code released. An anonymous hacker has claimed to have leaked 270 GB of … Continue reading →

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Surviving D-Day Ships

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Lawrence Person

Since I didn’t do a separate post on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, here’s a Mark Felton video that covers ships from Operatune Neptune, the naval portion of D-Day, that have survived. Operation Neptune was “under British control, commanded by … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for June 7, 2024

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Lawrence Person

All those “new jobs” created in the Biden Recession have gone to illegal aliens, two Trump court cases appear to be in the process of derailment, more Hunter Biden shenanigans come to light, a whole lot of anniversaries this week, … Continue reading →

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Paxton Takes On Big Data

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Lawrence Person

Texas Attorney general Ken Paxton is launching a new initiative to protect data privacy. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today the launch of a new major initiative to protect citizens’ sensitive data from unauthorized exploitation by tech companies and artificial … Continue reading →

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How Did So Many Sex Offenders Get Jobs In Texas Schools?

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Lawrence Person

Both Texas Scorecard and The Texan have done good work highlighting a disturbing reality: Numerous public school teachers of all grade levels have been arrested for sex offenses, many involving children. I’ve been running several of these in LinkSwarms, but … Continue reading →

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Russia’s S-300/S-400 Systems: The Great Failure

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Lawrence Person

As big an advertisement as the Russo-Ukrainian has been for western technology such as HIMARS and ATACMS, it’s been an even bigger anti-advertisement for Russia’s S-300/S-400 air defense systems. It must be pretty embarrassing to see your SAM systems getting … Continue reading →

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The Price Of Ramen In China

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Lawrence Person

There’s an idiomatic express that seems to have fallen out of common usage: “What does that have to do with the price of Tea in China?” The phrase indicates that they speaker has no interest or use in the information … Continue reading →

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Granola-Cruncher Train To Close Granola Store

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Lawrence Person

Enjoy some light irony on Saturday, namely the fact that the environmentalist-backed light rail project is forcing the closure of a health food coop. Austin’s cooperatively-owned grocery store and market Wheatsville Food Co-op is going to be closing its original … Continue reading →

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