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  1. Captain Trips

    The truth is out there: Celebrate 30 years of <em>The X-Files</em> with our 30 favorite episodes

    This was a great episode (The Field Where I Died). Very good acting by the actress from Space: Above and Beyond (SAAB) for the multiple personalities, and I thought the resolution of the past lives of Mulder and the character played by the SAAB was very sad.
  2. Captain Trips

    Musk plans Supreme Court appeal after losing bid to terminate SEC settlement

    Found this in the Shadowrun RPG subreddit recently, I think it is appropriate for anything involving Musk. Granted, it may take awhile for this to actually happen. But one can hope.
  3. Captain Trips

    DeSantis ad uses fake AI images of Trump hugging and kissing Fauci, experts say

    How can you tell a DeSantis (or Trump for that matter) ad is lying? You hear voices from the ad and see pictures & video in the ad.
  4. Captain Trips

    15-inch MacBook Air hands-on: Just what some folks were asking for

    Followed not too long after by "Warning: Insufficient Memory" messages when people found they did need / want more than 640k of memory. :^)
  5. Captain Trips

    Musk says Twitter value is down to $20 billion, calls firm an “inverse startup”

    Yes - Elon Musk and the most hardcore of the remaining hardcore employees.
  6. Captain Trips

    “Click-to-cancel” rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone

    Color me surprised that Republican didn't claim this is a "woke rule."
  7. Captain Trips

    Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over

    Twitter is way off to the left, off the chart. Well, unless the chart has negative values to the left on the horizontal axis.
  8. Captain Trips

    Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability

    Previous marketing phrase: "GoAnywhere allows your employees to go anywhere on your company network that they have been given access to." New marketing phrase: "GoAnywhere allows hackers to go everywhere on your company network. No added charge for the new functionality"
  9. Captain Trips

    Amid Bing Chat controversy, Microsoft cut an AI ethics team, report says

    "Microsoft cut a key AI ethics team" So when did Musk get involved with Microsoft employee retention decisions?
  10. Captain Trips

    Are we ethically ready to set up shop in space?

    Elon Musk on Mars: "For all of you who are not hardcore enough, your servitude will end tomorrow along with access to food, water and oxygen."
  11. Captain Trips

    The sketchy plan to build a Russian Android phone

    To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: "Is powered by potato." I do like the coal powered alternative. Maybe the Pro models will be powered by coal?
  12. Captain Trips

    OnePlus takes on the iPad with the OnePlus Pad

    I hear you will get one of Trump's trading card NFTs...
  13. Captain Trips

    Big Tech groups disclose $10 billion in charges from job culls and cost cuts

    And what we are seeing now with all of these large tech / Silicon Valley layoffs is most likely why Apple didn't go on a "drunken sailor" hiring binge.
  14. Captain Trips

    Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers

    Yeah, but Twitter is "hard core" - that is soooo much more important than anything else like number of employees. ;)
  15. Captain Trips

    Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers

    People into crypto seem to be good at inflating numbers. So this mismatch doesn't seem like a surprise. Probably a more mundane explanation - there can be so many Mastodon instances, and there is no centralization, that I suspect it is hard to keep an up to date count.
  16. Captain Trips

    Elon Musk blames Twitter cost cuts on “$3 billion negative cash flow”

    I nominate Clippy. "I see you are trying to find racist and inflammatory content - let me help you find it!"
  17. Captain Trips

    China bots flood Twitter with porn spam to drown protest news

    And don't forget to bring along screen shots of your code. 'Cause if you aren't hard core developer, El Twitto won't want to see you.
  18. Captain Trips

    Twitter missed payroll for some European staff this month

    I think Twitter was surprised so many people actually did get paid... "I didn't realize we have enough money to make payroll in that many countries. OK, we have another pay period until everything blows up in our faces" :rolleyes:
  19. Captain Trips

    Crypto and NFTs aren’t welcome in <em>Grand Theft Auto Online</em>

    “NFTs are like a box of shit. You never know what you’re gonna get, but you know it will stink.”