Administrative, Business, Technology and Society, Weird

Weird New Spam

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I’m getting messages like this, addressed to no one I’ve ever heard of, from someone I’ve never heard of, subject: “Out of Office”

"Thank you for your email!

Please note that I will be out of the office (without access to phone or email) until August 26, 2024, and will respond to your email as soon as possible following my return.

If you have a question regarding the CAP, CAPS or Clergy Care programs, or if you would like to complete an intake, please call our office at 905-528-0353. 

If you are in crisis and need to talk to someone, please consider reaching out to COAST at 905-972-8338, or calling 911. Thank you.

Take care,

Tom

I (and likely many others) must be on BCC. Any ideas what this is about?

[Update a while later]

I just got a reply to it from some other annoyed person asking to be removed from the distribution list. I haven’t done so, because I’m afraid it’s a phishing expedition to see if my email is real.

Health, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Weird

Is Kamala Drunk?

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It’s not an unreasonable question.

[Update a few minutes later]

How to tell Kamala isn’t polling well.

[Update mid morning]

[Late-morning update]

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Still Walking Away

7 Comments

Brandon Straka, six years later:

Administrative, Technology and Society

Linux Problem

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I changed my hostname. Upon reboot, neither Brave or Chrome will open. There is no obvious change to my /home directory. Any ideas?

[Update a while later]

After browsing on my laptop, I found the problem (that others have had). After deleting the lockfile in my .config directory that was pointing to the old hostname, they fired right up (Brave uses the Chrome codebase).

Business, Economics, History, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

CommieLa’s Economic Plan

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How it will go:

[Sunday-morning update]

Harris’s Kamunist agenda faces a harsh reality.

She’s a red-diaper baby who learned “economics” at her Marxist father’s knee.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

Barbie’s Final Joke

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It may have spurred women to seek out gynecological health.

But I’m not sure I agree with this: “In the film’s final scene, after deciding to leave Barbieland for the real world, Barbie enthusiastically tells a receptionist, “I’m here to see my gynecologist,” a joke that could be based either on her supposed lack of genitals or her evident excitement for care many women find unpleasant.” Sénéchal and colleagues write in their paper.

I finally saw the flick on the plane to Miami last week, and that wasn’t my interpretation (spoiler alert). She had just talked to her creator, who told her that she could live in the real world if she wished to. I took her visit to the gyno to mean that, like Pinocchio, she had finally become a real woman. FWIW, I did find the movie an interesting commentary on gender and new-wave feminism and the modern relationship between American (or western) men and women.

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Don’t Know Much About History

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So much for “experts” on the American presidents.

One of the things that I find infuriating is the worship of bill passing, as though the only job of presidents and Congresses is to pass bills, completely ignoring whether or not the legislation is good, or terrible. Biden’s touted “accomplishments” are the passage of disastrous legislation (when it’s not unconsitutionally ignoring Congress altogether to do terrible things).

Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!