Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.
SWE with a BA in Anthropology. Four decades on social media. From Bell Labs intern to Meta TL in Scaled Human Review (it doesn’t). Currently consulting. Previously nazgul, mooshjan, and coyotetoo (a long time ago) on Twitter. they/he See pinned post for more details. Banner Art: ©️ Shadi Fotouhi. Four self-portraits of my daughter depicting various medications and the emotions they are meant to treat.
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Last Notes npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Probably a furry though. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/244/974/920/620/285/original/dfe70f4ec22ee3dd.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley “The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.” That's because at the time, food accounted for 1/3rd of a household budget. Now it's 5-7% of a household budget. So the poverty line shouldn't be 3x food. It should be 16x food. "Which means if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000. .:. What does that tell you about the $31,200 line we still use? It tells you we are measuring starvation." https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Measuring the car for storage bins. Dogs do not want to be left behind. #DogsOfMastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/410/322/087/677/493/original/45bf952f2d82062d.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Fight the power! https://social.tinyview.com/9AEECFwjtXb https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/375/270/112/229/723/original/ef9398326c2411aa.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ generative AI, like chatbots and large language models (LLMs), advertised as research and writing supports—come with a particular risk that matters deeply for the U.S. national security workforce whose decisions can carry life-and-death consequences. Regular use of generative AI programs may erode many of the very cognitive skills U.S. security depends on. Unless policymakers act, the same tools marketed as efficiency boosters could undermine national security professionals’ ability to think critically, respond rapidly, and outmaneuver adversaries. Considering how risk averse the national security space tends to be, this is a consequence worth acknowledging and addressing. ❞ https://www.justsecurity.org/121289/ai-hidden-national-security-cost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ai-hidden-national-security-cost npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Everyone's H1-B workers just got really expensive. EDIT They are now saying it only applies to new applicants. Of course, like the tariffs, the fact thay theres no payment mechanism betrays the goal. It's to stop immigration completely. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/ https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/234/100/415/663/784/original/2b3d12e7d48cdc9c.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/234/100/468/238/072/original/b2fe059d85c7343c.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley #GreatBlueHeron https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/217/392/417/223/944/original/fe913e4a4960064a.mp4 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley #otter and #GreatBlueHeron at #sunset #Photography https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/217/376/043/634/778/original/fdbda6566c600364.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/217/378/384/901/394/original/a591053872956e23.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/217/380/148/744/643/original/b7b8c824f1d47bbb.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/217/384/935/356/392/original/7ad94e4280024ce4.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley We've moved into a new phase of fascism. Where the government is threatening to shutdown nonprofits like the Ford Foundation for funding news organizations who pointed out that Charlie Kirk was racist. Miller, who calls the shots for anything in this regime that has to do with promoting white men, has called those nonprofits terrorist organizations. And remember that Congress is talking about revoking passports for anyone who supports terrorists organizations. This is moving very fast. And any such actions will be greatly enhanced by Palantir technology, which can easily map who supported what organization, and who said what on social media, to their address, SSN, and tax records. Hitler had IBM to organize tracking his enemies. Palantir is millions of times more powerful. #USPol https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/vance-miller-announce-crackdowns npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley #DogsOfMastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/144/359/719/549/715/original/7031817f8a653e78.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley USAA (insurance, banking, etc) has recently increased their login security in a way that really screws older users. Attached is the error message you get if you try to login to USAA and do not have a cell phone on file. First of all, this message is horrific. Clearly whoever made the security changes didn't bother communicating with the rest of the teams. You know, how about "No cell phone on file. Please call xxx to add one"? But let's put that aside. NOT ALL PEOPLE HAVE CELL PHONES! Especially older people. But it gets worse. So I help my mother call USAA, and before they can change anything, they ask her authentication questions. You know the ones, "Where have you lived, what cars have you owned....". And she forgets the color of her previous car (I mean, *I* don't remember it either, and I'm not 91). So she fails that. But no problem they say, just go to the web site, go to the verify page, and upload a photo of your drivers license. Uh huh. And how are you going to do that if you don't have a cell phone? Fortunately, she *does* have cell phone. In fact, it may already be on file, but as a landline. I can't tell. They can't tell me. So I walk her through taking a picture of her license. I get those photos onto her Mac. We go to the verification page. We upload them. They're rejected. Too crooked (I'm guessing). So I have her message the damn photos to me. I straighten them out and crop them, and then I send them back. We upload them again. They are accepted. And now, as customer support said, they will call her back. IN ONE TO THREE DAYS. Oh, and what's their solution if you don't own a cell phone? Use the cell phone of a friend or relative. And every time they send a code, have them call/message it to you. Terrific. Did *nobody* think this through? Because there *is* a solution to this that companies use. They make an automated call to the landline and it reads the number to you. WTH USAA? https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/096/239/577/613/379/original/ae4a5da2d7ce2366.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley If you're wondering what you can do about ICE as a white person in a blue state... #uspol https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/068/564/126/730/555/original/da2cf2661a73d8a9.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ The crazy thing is not that garlic isn’t grown from seeds; it’s that, for the most part, it can’t be. Ever since people began cultivating garlic — six millennia ago by some estimates, 10 by others — it’s primarily been done through asexual reproduction. In all those thousands of years, scarcely a single plant was coaxed to produce one solitary seed. And so it forgot how. About 15 years ago, a Missouri farmer and former union painter named [Mark Brown](https://www.gatewaygarlic.com/?ref=ambrook ) began trying to coax true seeds from his garlic — an attempt, essentially, to undo thousands of years of domestication. ❞ https://ambrook.com/offrange/crops/so-you-think-you-know-garlic?utm_source=clivethompson&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linkfest-38-tk-tk-and-tk npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley My mother-in-law knows I like dragons. So she got me these dragon socks. Today Mollie was looking at them on my feet and realized that the dragons are stoned. It's not clear my MiL realized this. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/047/724/886/272/351/original/cf31327af2cea0d3.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I mean. That's one way to sleep. #DogsOfMastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/996/738/225/028/760/original/17df3f05074f0504.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley They told people they could apply for retirement benefits. But then they refused them all. The cruelty is deliberate. https://apnews.com/article/air-force-transgender-no-early-retirement-e6a4da806f2cc2bdc05f49438cbd26fd npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit One I think about reading but can't really bring myself to. But I think about it. George R Stewart – Earth Abides And ones that just give me warm fuzzies thinking about. Bertrand R. Brinley - The Mad Scientists Club Multiple authors - The Campfire Girls L Frank Baum - The Oz books Anything by Andre Norton npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Someone spent two weeks "generating a book" in ChatGPT. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/nhLwG2Idrt https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/865/612/466/743/718/original/696d01fe0d2c138a.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/865/612/537/021/831/original/29c1e6292287ec27.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley This is brilliant. Precisely the opposite of what you see in dystopian cyberpunk. AR glasses that block ads. https://x.com/stspanho/status/1935728608514838540?utm_source=clivethompson&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linkfest-36-moon-rice-mountaineering-in-high npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley A good friend is job hunting. San Francisco bay area, remote, or with relocation paid. Please pass this on. 20+ years of unix and linux system administration and automation. Last 7 years were infrastructure engineering: deployment pipelines to lay out and configure cloud infrastructure; developing a vm system with native containers to replace a kubernetes-based deployment model; and implementing an automated status page management system in python with a fully-configurable workflow engine to translate metrics from prometheus and loki into status updates on a third party status page service. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnson-earls-4aa15a1 #FediJobs #FediHire npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” Calling it an allergy to red meat under-describes the impact. The proteins that trigger the allergy appear in everything from meat to toilet paper and even being near things that are cooking can trigger it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I was having sushi in #Split, #Croatia / #Hrvatska (excellent fish, but Croatia's idea of "spicy" needs work) when I was faced with the following doors during a bathroom break. I guess if you have a Prince Albert you need to find a door with a champagne bottle on it. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/630/317/152/742/500/original/4eb297075fcb79c9.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/630/317/297/521/782/original/d867aa102141aa12.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Won't be the last. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/609/708/165/014/385/original/f3edb4004732fda5.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Seems about right. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/451/360/521/279/608/original/a58485b6d4c32f0f.png npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ For example, researchers from four universities analyzed short snippets of audio transcribed by Whisper, and found completely fabricated sentences, with some transcripts inventing the races of the people being spoken about, and others even attributing murder to them. In one case a recording that said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella” was transcribed with additions including: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece.... I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.” In another example, “two other girls and one lady” was transcribed as “two other girls and one lady, um, which were Black.” ❞ https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114338469117858107 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley They told him he had a citizenship meeting. They lied. https://newrepublic.com/post/193975/ice-arrest-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-appointment npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley No amount of anti-anxiety and ADHD meds can get me moving anymore. Can I hire someone to just do my life for me, so I can stay in bed? npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis No one move a muscle as the dead come home Saw them in concert many years ago. Great band. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Now there's a protest sign you don't see often. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/288/566/250/093/278/original/58ab7326d615f5d1.png npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/284/105/210/176/692/original/d0556fad0b3974ea.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Laura Loomer, who once chained herself to Twitter's door when they blocked her account, and then got upset when nobody cared that she was there, has apparently fired the head of the NSA. Can we rename this age from "Anthropocene" to "Surrealocene"? https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114277557858332727 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley If you're wondering where the regime got these crazy high tariff rates from...it wasn't in fact tariffs. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/270/952/693/074/947/original/1a3fd1356d06e442.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley And when they do this to a citizen, they will say the same thing. "But in Monday’s court filing, attorneys for the government admitted that the Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported accidentally. “Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government told the court. Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back now that Abrego Garcia is in Salvadoran custody." "Trump administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/?utm_source=apple_news npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Here's the text, roughly converted. I t wi ll be necessary for both of you to go to Korea to adopt your children. HOLT ADOPTION PROGRAM P. O. Box No. 95 Creswell, Oregon Dear Friends: We have received so many applications for adoption that it is impossible for us to write personal letters to everyone. We feel that this is the Lord's work and He has sent these applications to us for a purpose and we look to Him for wisdom. We are sending "Application for Adoption" forms out to those who write in about adoption. However, before you fill out this form, we would like to state our requirements as plainly as possible. First and Foremost, we wish to place the children in born-again Christian homes. The name "Christian" is used so carelessly now-a-days that we wish to express our definition of the word. Christian means "Christ one". The Word of God says, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new crea- ture." II Cor. 5:17. Many people now-a-days claim the name of Christian who are not in Christ. Everyone hopes to go to Heaven when he dies. Many call themselves the sons of God by natural birth. However, the Word of God does not teach this. The Word of God says, "Ye must be born again," John 3:7, and "But as many as received Him _(that is Christ) to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on ikis Name." John 1:12. -44 There is only one way to Heaven; only one way to God. The Lord Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." John 14:6. We believe the Word of God from cover to cover; we believe that the Lord Jesus meant what He said: That He is the Way. The Scriptures go on to say, "No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." John 14:6. The Word of God teaches that man is born in sin—a lost creature. This is repeated many times in the Scripture. "For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Romans 3:23. Therefore, man being a lost creature, needs to be saved; and there is only one Saviour. So, in spite of all the teachings of man and of devils, the way to Heaven narrows to just one door, the Lord Jesus Christ. "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on Him." John 3:36. We know there are many people who have given mental assent to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many people believe that he died for the sins of the world; many believe that He died for their sins. Therefore, many people know about Him but do not know Him. Do you know Him? Have you received the Son of God as your Lord and Saviour! Can you say, like Paul, "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able."? II Tim. 1:12. We believe that anyone who is washed in the Blood of Christ and born of the Spirit of God will know it. Now, if you do not Kaye this: assurance and are interested in the eternal welfare of your soul, we would be glad to have you write to us and question us further on this subject. However, WE WOULD RATHER THAT YOU DID NOT FILL OUT THIS FORM UNTIL YOU ARE ASSURED THAT YOU ARE A SAVED PERSON. You see, the Word of God tells us that God is the father of the father- less. Therefore, we feel that these little children are the Lord's children and it is our responsibility before God to see that they go into homes where they will be reared in the nurture and admoni- tion of the Lord. I f you are Christians and know it, we would ask that you fill in the enclosed form so that we will know how to classify your status, etc. We cannot get one of these children for you and we cannot guarantee that you will receive one of them, for this is the Lord's work and only He can put a child in your home. As we walk by faith, we often cannot see very far ahead and do not always know what the future holds. However, because of the fact that there are many helpless children in the world who need homes and there are so many homes in America that have been opened to these children, we have confidence that the Lord will show the way to get them together. We would rather not put a child in a home where there has been a divorce. However, we will consider the circumstances, if you wish to give us the information. Single persons (widows, widow- ers, unmarried people) and those who are not legal citizens of the United States cannot get a visa for their child. This is a government regulation. Several people have desired to adopt the offspring of their own sons or relatives in the service, but after much consideration and prayer we have decided against this in most cases. Everyone knows that these children are born out of wedlock, but when a complete stranger, who knows noth- ing of their father, adopts them, this is forgotten in the years ahead. But, it will never be forgotten if he grows up where the father is knelirn. Being of mixed parentage is a big problem for the child to face, but being the illegitimate ched of someone close by adds to the discrimination. One family can file petitions with the Immigration Service for only two children, unless it would mean the separation of brothers and sisters. As you know, our work has been primarily with the mixed-race children in Korea; that is, the children of American fathers and Korean mothers. However, we have come upon a situation that we would like to explain. In the Orient little girls are not considered very important. Economic conditions being the way they are in Korea, people can hardly feed themselves and the children that they have; therefore, sometimes baby girls are abandoned by married families. Of course, there are always a large number of illegitimate babies born and Koreans tell me that the children of misfortune are always girls. In any event, there are certainly a great number of baby girls abandoned. Most of these are brought to some charity hospital or baby home, and I doubt that one in ten survives the first two months. This may seem strange to you who know the living condi- tions here in America, but many of the babies have been chilled before they are found. The full Korean children are not discriminated against, but a girl, or even a boy, growing up in Korea, without a family, has very little chance of ever livin: a decent life • i• • • JI q:,,104 4,11 • 6 • , - ."1.10110616404.1-1.1.01",..., , • Now, we are not asking any of you folks to take these babies. We are just telling you about them and if some of you feel led to take one or two of them, we would be most happy to place them in your home. However it must be remembered that naturally they will be and will look like Koreans when grown. The average Korean is a little darker than the average American, not as dark as Mexicans, but, I believe, about the same as the average Italian. Should this in any way make a difference in the family's attitude, we would advise against adoption. I know that you folks all want your children cared for as well as possible. The Lord has given us these little ones and it is up to us to care for them, but it does cost money. Up until recently our financial situation was pretty good and we have been able to donate to the operation of this thing ourselves and supply the deficit. However, this has come to an end. We have our own family to care for, and the Scriptures say, "But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." I Tim. 5:8. We have therefore found it necessary to increase the fees to $500.00 for each child brought to the West Coast. The fees are: Transportation and Handling from Korea to the West Coast $253.00 Processing Fee 100.00 Visa Fee 25.00 Home Study Fee 15.00 Child Care, Hospitalization, etc. 107.00 TOTAL $500.00 We do want you to know from the start that it will be necessary for at least one of the parents to meet the plane when it arrives with your child. I f you return the "Application for Adoption" form it is evaluated and if it meets requirements, i t is put in our "Christian Waiting" file. Eventually a Home Study is ordered for you and, if ap- proved, we send you a set of legal papers to fill out, and ask you for letters of recommendation, certified or notarized copies of birth and marriage certificates with raised seal, and pictures of your home and family. These pictures are in addition to those we ask for when you return your application form. Please, do not send these certificates or the money until we ask for it. Under the present bill it is necessary for the Immigration Service to also make an investigation of each home and approve the petitions to classify aliens as eligible orphans. This investigation costs an additional $10.00, which is paid to the Immigration Service. From the time the petition is filed until it is approved usually takes from six weeks to two months. When a child comes in for adoption, he is carefully and prayerfully chosen for a home by an assignor who has undertaken this very important work for our Lord. You can designate the age and sex of your child and you are never given one with a handicap unless you specifically ask for it. Colored children go only to colored homes. We are in need of more homes for colored chil-- dren. If you wish to adopt a certain child, already chosen, be sure to give us the name and any information you have about him. In handling so many children, we acquire some handicapped ones. These are not placed in homes unless parents specifically ask for them. If anyone knows someone who feels led to adopt a lame, deaf, deformed or blind child, let us know. At the present time we are caring for many children who are unadoptable for various reasons, which adds to our expenses, although we are making every effort to keep costs at a minimum. The child will be an alien for two years, at which time the parents should apply for citizenship. Just contact the closest office of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service for the procedure for obtaining citizenship. If you adopt a child through some other agency, or for some reason you wish to cancel your application, let us know immediately. Please, notify us at once of any change of address. Also, we want you to know that we are not connected with any other organization whatsoever. We have provided a follow-up program and realizing there are adjustments to be made, we desire to be of help in any way. A home visit will be made, when requested, and we will try to help you with any questions you may have or any problems which may arise. We just ask that you be sure and let us know before a problem becomes too great. If you have not read the book, "The Seed from the East", written by my wife, we will appre- ciate your buying one as all the profit from it goes to further the work with orphans. You can also help us by sending names and addresses of your friends or relatives who might be interested. (1/2) npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley If you're curious what those Korean adoptions looked like from the other side, here is an introduction to the process that I found in my aunt's estate. She adopted my cousins in 1964, so the adoptions could well have been forged. The blatant "save the poor brown kids by converting them using Saved Christians" is very horrendous, never mind the rest. Alt text was too long, I'll add a reply with it. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/260/239/273/953/922/original/ca391666e0b7d513.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/260/239/378/668/456/original/b2ce9c017a51e53b.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/260/239/470/706/269/original/7e30bc4153db6d31.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/260/239/554/560/286/original/5ad650f7f96e7f0c.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Just wanted to follow up to say that I really really appreciate that share. There were several moments there (suddenly being able to make phone calls and wanting to socialize without it making her anxious, liking her smile for the first time) that were absolutely the same experiences I had had. And while I knew the smile one was related to transitioning (it happened as soon as I acknowledged I wasn't cis), the other had never occured to me. But the timing is exactly right. Thanks again, npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley We know the names of some of them. The soccer fan with a soccer tattoo, a tattoo artist, the gay barber, the guy with a tattoo honoring his grandmother, the one with one honoring his daughter. But none of them deserved to be denied due process. El Salvador did return some due to not matching their agreement. Several woman, and a guy who wasn't even from Argentina. That alone tells you how rushed and completely without logic this was. Speak Spanish, have a tattoo, and on our list of asylum seekers? In you go. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ These men—human beings with names, histories, dreams—were marched through a gauntlet of armed guards, beaten, stripped naked, shaved, and thrown into overcrowded cells. A photojournalist on the scene described watching men age a decade in two hours. He watched as one young man sobbed, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” This man was slapped for his tears, beaten for his vulnerability. No phone calls. No visitors. No books. No talking. Just exile to a place “so cold and far from home they may as well have been sent into space, nameless and forgotten.” And all of this—every slap, every sob, every stolen dignity—stamped with American approval. Coordinated with American officials. Executed with American efficiency. ❞ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/28/what-is-it-exactly-that-being-an-american-means-to-you/ npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ Frustrated that the US Treasury Department is walking back plans to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, Dano Wall created a 3D-printed stamp that can be used to transform Jacksons into Tubmans on the twenties in your pocketbook. ❞ https://kottke.org/25/03/the-harriet-tubman-20-stamp-1 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I see the tough guy approach is going well. ❝ Today, when the phone call [with Trump] was scheduled, Putin was on stage at an event. When his interviewer asked if he needed to go because he would be late for the call, Putin dismissed the question and laughter broke out. Brett Bruen, president of the Global Situation Room public relations firm wrote: “Making leaders wait is an old Putin power play. But, this is pretty brutal. Putin is publicly mocking Trump.” ❞ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2025 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Not little dogs! https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/175/849/739/420/625/original/7c334c1053928283.mp4 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/feds-appear-columbia-second-time-week-while-university-capitualates-government-ultimatum-0 https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/114175431448764893 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Remember that old adage about IQs? 100 is the average and median IQ. Half the population is *under* 100. ChatGPT and its ilk are trained on the text available on the internet. We are the expected to believe that they are experts and will reply to questions accurately. When they are trained on a corpus of content written by average people. I'll stick to experts, thank you very much. “AI”: Brought to you by the people who thought NFTs were a good investment. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley For 240 years the U.S. has fueled its growth with cheap and abused labor forces that weren't allowed to vote; slaves, prisoners, women, children, migrants, indentured labor (H1B visas), "permanent" residents, and offshore workers. Ironically, this extremely unethical model is being disrupted not because we suddenly developed a national conscience, but because the current regime has deliberately erased that part of history and so doesn't realize its importance to their own wealth. But the wheels of progress must keep rolling. We've already seen increased use of child labor, as well as calls to eliminate women's suffrage. I expect prison labor in farms and factories to be a huge growth industry moving forward. And at some point it may occur to the regime that instead of deporting migrants, they should put them in work camps. Don't comply. Don't stand aside. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I really didn't need to feel this seen. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/131/621/893/307/097/original/55d09adcb4a08d3a.png npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” -Elon Musk, March 6, 2025 “In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” -Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley In a sane country, charging $5m for access to the president, or providing way for foreign nationals to anonymously donate millions of dollars to the president, would result in instant impeachment. https://www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-biggest-corruption-is-flying npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Accurate. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/124/985/630/187/653/original/ef1f058e23080005.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Half way through and still enjoying. Though existentially worried about her relationship with her wife. I recently discovered there are at least three other couples in my area where one is transitioning, so I'm going to see about setting up a "Transitioning While Partnered" meetup and see how that goes. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Okay. Last comment. Wow do the self doubts resonate. Thank you so much. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Just read the digital preview. A lot resonates. But I never had that strong a feeling about it. A lot of fantasies. Some experimentation. But never the feeling that I was burying part of myself. Like her though, FaceApp was an emotional shocker. But I think it was growing my hair out again during COVID that really got me questioning. Although the truth is, when I came out as pan a few years earlier, I noted that I reserved the right to revisit my gender later. Anyway. Thanks again. I'll read the rest. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I have not seen that. Thank you! npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley My therapist thinks that I'm dealing with internalized transphobia (due in no small part to the era I grew up in). And I don't think they're completely wrong. When the answer to "if you could flip a switch and instantly transition" is a clear "yes". But the answer to "Should I do it now, at my age" is very conflicted, then clearly I'm tied up with the whole "passing" thing. That said, society is not helping. And also, I get a lot of joy from being somewhat femme. But it's true that the uncanny valley thing scares me, and that's pretty transphobic. I feel like we hold ourselves to a much higher standard of femininity than cis women do. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I got a new MMR after a test showed I no longer had antibodies. Some of the earlier vaccines, if you're in your 50's or 60's were not as good. I was fine on the mumps, but that's because I *got* mumps as a kid. But no good on the others. Just do it. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley iOS text replacement only works when you type, not when you dictate. Is there a dictation equivalent? Apparently when I speak I always say "gonna", but I don't want that in there when I'm dictating, I want "going to". Is this going to be like how I changed my printing to cross my 7's because of the Newton? npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I'm just going to put this out there. Storing all media and data on the internet is extremely fragile and dangerous. If we were back in the days when things were published on books and on magtape, we wouldn't be losing all this info. And yes, people can and should mirror data. But fundamentally, the internet is ephemeral. If we had a Carrington Event tomorrow, or even just all the undersea cables were cut, we'd have chaos. And it could last for decades. https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/113930618026604809 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I'm still lost on the Canada part. We have a problem with migrants crossing from Canada? npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I was thinking about this over the last day and then I realized that we can't actually trust the government to report on negative economic news anymore. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Apparently ICE is ignoring Navajo tribal membership documents. https://azmirror.com/2025/01/24/reports-of-navajo-people-being-detained-in-immigration-sweeps-sparks-concern-from-tribal-leaders/ npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Happy sun dog. #DogsOfMastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/845/411/613/979/257/original/08b9bba5b586f686.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Nice! npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I have photos of my great great great great grandmother. But this is the first I've found of any of the men that far. This is my great great great grandfather, Joseph Niyes. He was born in 1809 and died in 1890. #genealogy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/840/849/097/401/176/original/7b5a71c150346efa.png npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Amazon removes section on LGBTQ+ rights from its policy page - LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/amazon-removes-section-on-lgbtq-rights-from-its-policy-page/ npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Border Patrol isn't wasting any time. https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/ #USpolitics npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley It all makes sense now. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/797/191/308/917/443/original/0f42b0164aa3024a.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Has anyone told Trump that Greenland isn't as big as it looks on a map? npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Matching signatures has never been a terribly secure mechanism? But with a new generation that doesn't use cursive, it's a disaster. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-12-23/young-voter-signatures-california-ballot-curing-verification npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Evil. ❝ While acknowledging some areas have “very long waitlists” for the therapy, the company said it aims to “prevent new providers from joining the network” and “terminate” existing ones ❞ https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Want! https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/618/572/022/959/660/original/530aaa14de66760a.png npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley "Always remember the secret weapon against fascism – humor. More specifically, insult humor aimed against specific targets, making them laughing stocks. Puns, satire, metaphor, doggerel, and general ridicule are all important tools in writers’ toolkits toward this end." https://mastodon.social/@hrheingold/113557240623275507 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley If I wanted to be generous, it could be that their activity pub implementation doesn't yet have the ability to respond to things like deletion requests from users or something else required in the EU. Or the team that reviews features for GDPR compliance hasn't signed off yet. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley This sounds absolutely lovely. Ordered! npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Random IT "(in)security" musings. When I first started at TiVo they gave me a Mac laptop and for a week or so I tried keeping my personal stuff on one machine and my work stuff on the work one; as one should. And then I said the hell with it and followed the advice of a senior engineer. I wiped the work laptop (after copying the Office licenses and VPN configuration) and used it for both. Over time I upgraded my personal machine and switched to that. I was still running anti-virus, Little Snitch, and stuff, so I was actually staying ahead of their base security level. And I was working remote, so it was easy. This went on for about a decade, and through a couple acquisitions. Finally they started to crack down and I got an ultimatum; use the work laptop or else. By now they had monitoring software on them and various restrictions. So I said fine, send me a new laptop (I'd long since turned in the old one) and I'll use it to access work. So I got the new laptop, installed the work security software, wrote a script to dump the routing table into a convenient format, and installed a WireGuard server on it. Then I took my personal laptop, pasted the routing information into my WireGuard client, and happily "used the work laptop to access work". They never noticed. Of course they also never noticed the back-door OpenVPN server someone was running either. Nominally it was for the TiVo boxes to use, but some devs did as well, since it was a split-VPN rather than a full one, and so much faster. Needless to say, I did *not* try that stunt when I went to work for Meta. Although I did run DAVMail on the work machine so I could continue using MailMate as my mail program instead of Outlook. I'm not sure there's a moral to this story other than that split-VPNs are inherently insecure and will be abused, but full VPNs are inherently slower and will be worked around. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley A cis friend of my wife's moved to South Carolina. She has sometimes been accused of being trans, but in the few weeks she's been there it's already happened twice, and one time the guy filmed her in a store, followed her out, and then tailed her car. She drove around randomly for an hour before she was sure she had lost him. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I wish I didn't need to share this. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/steps-for-transgender-people-preparing npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley .*youtu\.be/([^?]*).*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1.*(m|www)?\.?youtube\.([.a-z]*)/watch\?([a-z0-9&=]*)v=([-a-z0-9]*).*https://www.youtube.$2/watch?v=$4 Case insensitive. (Hopefully markdown or something else doesn't screw up this post) npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley I ended up scripting a regular expresión to normalize YouTube videos into something that reliably showed a preview. Apologies for Apple shortcut format, but the regex's are the same on any platform. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/445/538/866/300/826/original/b4ef9bcd8a02c2a5.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley MRIs sound like the movie "Brazil" looks. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Death and rebirth. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/434/835/450/005/588/original/92f0a11cfb5a6025.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time. Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right. It doesn't appear to be *all* photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it. That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use. It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material. It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about. When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/410/055/141/513/983/original/45a27a39125a3531.mp4 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley For those following along at home, my aunt died peacefully last night. She hadn't had anything to eat or drink since Sunday, so it wasn't unexpected. And I'm happy for her, because for at least a year she'd been saying she was ready to go, but God kept telling her it wasn't time yet. She was a proud UCC church member, and as liberal as they come. Unless you count when I was a baby, I only met my aunt in person twice when I was growing up. She was just a satellite-delayed voice on the telephone on Christmas Day for most of my life. Shortly after she had gotten her library sciences degree, she was trudging through the Boston winter and overheard two men talking about moving someplace warmer. She hated the cold. Her DNR instructions stated that I should not be used on her lips, and she should be kept warm. So she looked around to see where she could go that was warmer, and found the government would pay to send her to teach in Guam, and give her a full-fair trip back home every few years. This had the advantage of also being far from her mother. So off she went. And she seldom came back until she retired to Hawaii. Once she cashed in that ticket home for around the world economy trip. She visited Post war Japan, and traveled on a train full of salary men who took off their business suits so they wouldn't get dirty from the soot. She was the only woman on the train. And she met her husband at some layover in the Pacific where they were both waiting for the next plane. She did not shy from adventure. She was a bit neurotic, but she knew it and laughed at herself. The first time I met her as an adult, my first child had just been born, and we took her out to Legal Seafood for lunch. She expressed concern that we had put the baby in the car seat under a ceiling lamp, and if there were an earthquake, the light might fall on my daughter. And then she laughed at herself, because she knew that was silly, but she couldn't stop her brain from going there. Once my wife and I visited her in Hawaii to take her out to lunch. When we got to her apartment she announced that she was tired and needed to take a nap first. So we sat there in the living room while she attempted to nap for half an hour. She finally gave up, and off to lunch we went. Ordering food with her was always an adventure. She would ask about everything on the menu, and then order a tunafish sandwich. But only after checking to see what brand of tunafish and what brand of mayonnaise they used. But I'm a big admirer of eccentric aunts. For one thing, they tell you stuff that nobody else in your family will tell you. It was my aunt that told me that my grandfather had probably had an affair with a princess. Which does explain the two color drawings I have from that princess, with rather personal notes to my grandfather written on them. And she told me how my grandfather's English dissertation, "Browning and the Bible" actually had charts and graphs in it, as befits someone who had originally majored in chemistry. And about the time he was late for a board meeting because he stopped learn how a stonemason chiseled letters in a gravestone. She was also the one that told me that one time when my grandparents were babysitting me, they snuck me off to a minister and had me baptized. They were upset that there was no way my mother was going to have me given a Christian baptism. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/293/265/398/175/227/original/94271fbcdcc0c9a9.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/293/265/478/559/448/original/f0187b709d60c539.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/293/265/573/864/847/original/7e3ff2a2917e99f9.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/293/265/665/438/392/original/b91420f4498f11e4.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Previously the only time I've heard about people being injured from watching opera was when they got in a fight about it afterwards. The last paragraph kind of lays it out though. Basically, if you're not up to going to a BDSM club featuring live piercing and suspension, this is not the opera for you. https://flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/news-uk-edition-mukbja9gz/-/a-H5jleul_Tea71EoJCIsung%3Aa%3A26228122-%2F0 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley The #sunset got jealous of all the attention the aurora was getting. 1/3 #skagit #pnw #Photography https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/291/992/728/125/096/original/53b34a1dec3cb4dc.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/291/992/851/595/617/original/a0e4d1f0e132e9ae.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/291/992/967/924/539/original/651c3214c44073d2.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/291/993/130/282/047/original/6b3a29b5b0c42dae.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Home insurance in many parts of the country is doomed. Even Nebraska's rates have almost doubled in the past ten years. Worker shortage, supply shortage, building prices...all multiplied by dramatically more unprecedented and increasingly expensive disasters. https://press.coop/@seattletimes/113268129563136719 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ if one wanted to grasp the historic nature of flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene in western parts of North Carolina and the surrounding areas, the logical place to begin is at the National Climatic Data Center. ... Unfortunately, the National Climatic Data Center is based in Asheville, North Carolina ❞ https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113227203849739583 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley ❝ The study found that just having a first-class section on an airplane quadrupled the chance of an air rage incident and that loading economy passengers through first class doubles that again. "We advance an alternative view: the modern airplane reflects a social microcosm of class-based society, making inequality salient to passengers through both the physical design of the plane (the presence of a first class cabin) and, more subtly, the boarding procedure (whether economy passengers must pass through the first class cabin)," the preamble of the study reads. ❞ Class 'Inequity' Fuels Air Rage - AVweb https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/class-inequity-fuels-air-rage/ npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Our greatest defense against fascism is Dunning-Kruger. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/182/682/796/032/421/original/cdf651d7be7f69b6.png npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley What if we all did it, just a few shares each? npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley How did I make it all these years without learning that Beetlejuice is actually a super sweet movie? npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Don't worry, just be very demure and very mindful and you'll be fine. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Tonight's #SomethingPositive photo of the night is of two species trying to decide if they trust each other. Otherwise known as a #parrot and my daughter Shadi. #photography #birds https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/037/976/579/467/286/original/08f2385ad47aeee5.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley In the end, history will record that the war against “AI” was won not by programmers, activists, or lawmakers. Rather, the fatal blow was struck by a secret cabal who had anticipated this moment and for years had diligently seeded the web with the ultimate poison pill intelligence test; the shitpost. https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116 npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Tonight's #SomethingPositive is baby bunnies. We accidentally uncovered this nest of bunnies a few years ago. It was in some tall grass we cut. Mama probably hid them in our yard because we have dogs, which probably wouldn't notice them (in fact our terrier mix, Charlie, walked right on top of them without noticing) and would keep away the bald eagle who hangs out nearby, as well as the coyotes. I put a dog fence around them just to be sure, and made sure it was open every evening so mama could get in and feed them. And of course, I set up a camera. See reply for the rest of the story :) #rabbits https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/026/782/013/329/193/original/508c6391fa53f8d5.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley This evening's #SomethingPositive photo is of a small part of Shwedagon Pagoda in #Yangon #Myanmar ( #Burma). It gives me a glimpse of what a peaceful world should be like. Image enhanced to give it a more dreamy quality. June 16, 2015 #photography https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/020/544/890/172/240/original/ddf7c24f5c530aeb.jpeg npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley Thanks for posting that. I'm embarrassed to have lived in Skagit for 8 years but the closest I've come to Mt Baker is Baker Lake. Definitely need to get up there before the end of the season. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley At the very least it would be nice if the error messages gave some indication of the likely cause. “You instance is not allowed to access …” npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley That was in fact the problem. They apparently blocked infosec.exchange a while back. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley This is a really weird Mastodon bug/interaction. Why would one instance only have year-old stale data about a user on another instance? And I can’t reply to anything newer. Someone sent me a link to someone else’s post on another instance. I can view that post. But when I try to reply to it, I get an error from Mona saying it can’t find the post on the server, try again later. Using the web to reply gets a similar error. When I go to the persons profile via Mona. I see about a dozen posts, but all from over a year ago. When I tell Mona to load the profile from the remote server, I can see much more recent posts, including the one I wanted to reply to. npub16rwg6sq27e8wxrpqr5satf6zn6adpamy5dhx56vnp9n8z7t4cgqs3x58v0 Kee Hinckley There have been studies though showing that CEOs tend to be heavy on the percentage of sociopaths. And I pretty firmly believe that you can’t get to the billionaire class without seriously hardening your empathy, at the very least.