#Tech

Coming December 1st

Notices have been hitting accounts over th last few weeks

Haven't used your Google account
in years? It's going to be deleted

https://www.9news.com.au/world/google-accounts-inactivity-two-year-period-deletion/61c7ff64-aae5-4dbd-995c-b4be192a20c9

The Abbott river barricades are not just backed with razor wire... there are saw blades inserted between the buoys.

Abbott is a medieval monster.

#Texas

There is an art to writing the little blurb that introduces an article. I think Steve Silberman deserves an award for this one.

#Politics #Rape
"Rape culture" used to mean a pattern of fostering entitled mindsets among cishet men to given them sexual access to women's bodies. Not any longer. Now rapists have gotten on the Supreme Court and one is trying to become President for a second term.

revenge porn has hefty mandatory sentencing in DC:
If the sexual image is shared with 6 or more persons through “publication,” either directly or by uploading to the Internet, then the offense is First-Degree Unlawful Publication of a Sexual Image. This is a felony offense punishable by up to 3 years in prison and/or a fine of $12,500.

A Belarusian minister Aleksey Avramenko close to Putin suddenly passed away this week. Avramenko was found dead of unknown causes and his death marked just the latest Putin crony to die under suspicious circumstances in recent months.
https://radaronline.com/p/vladimir-putin-ally-belarus-minister-dies-mysterious-circumstances-47/

#random

I wish this was real. 😂

The cons on #SCOTUS are corrupt AF! #IllegitimateSCOTUS

Matchmaker Leonard Leo Helps Unite Billionaires With Supreme Court Justices -
High-court corruption is built on a network of plutocratic coziness. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/leo-alito-court-curruption/

Old enough to remember that just *last year* some of London’s finest legal minds were being paid vast sums by Prigozhin to claim in England's High Court that he had *nothing* to do with Wagner.

https://www.ft.com/content/8c8b0568-cdd1-4529-a4fd-82e57983ddc5

Trump's former Defense Secretary Mark Esper is another voice critical of Trump's handling of security files who thought Trump is a "threat to democracy" and now consider him a security threat as well.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-former-pentagon-chief-now-sees-security-threat-rcna90027

Parts of Italian volcano ‘stretched nearly to breaking point’, study finds
Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) near Naples is now in ‘extremely dangerous’ state, say academic experts 🌋https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/09/parts-of-italian-volcano-stretched-nearly-to-breaking-point-study-finds #volcanos