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When It Was Possible to Drive Across the Hudson River On An Ice Bridge (or Skate, Sleigh, & Walk) - Nyack News & Views by Mike Hays Before the first Tappan Zee Bridge and the George Washington Bridge, a winter express route across the Hudson River called the ice bridge. It is hard to conceive of a fully frozen Hudson ...

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It would, and it did. Back in the day people walked across in the winter.

Maybe some of them will have an "are we the baddies?" moment.

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@lookitup.baby you should read this. heated.world

The chain emails I used to get from “Walt Disney Jr” promising me a free vacation were good preparation for modern scams.

You should talk to @lookitup.baby . I think you would have a lot in common.

You should start giving OPSEC lessons to your neighbors.

You all are amazing. Solidarity!

This is amazing.

What’s an iceboat?

@lookitup.baby I think you'd appreciate this.

Unauthorized Bread: Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters Cory Doctorow’s book, Radicalized, is up for a CBC award. To celebrate, here’s an excerpt.

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I saw one at the grocery many years ago - I was shocked at the size!

That's terrifying.

Your DQ closes? Ours started staying open year round about 15 years ago.

In upstate NY the snowmobiles come out when you can’t find the pickup because it’s buried in the lake effect snow.

That’s terrifying. I’m glad I never bought into bitcoin in the early days.

When trying to use AI to solve problems in my domain (mainframes), it does a horrific job unless it’s been specifically trained on a relevant solution set.

This is on the level of “precious bodily fluids” from Dr. Strangelove.

I think you have too much empathy to make the hard decisions that an ambassador would need to do.

I spent two years flipping burgers and slinging French fries, and I ALWAYS try to be nice to service staff.

You’re not a Midwest native? Where out east did you come from?

My German furnace has a completely inscrutable user interface.

At least it’s not joining a botnet and mining bitcoin during the dry cycle.

That’s why Apple wrote Rosetta.

Didn’t we already have this argument back in the 1990’s?

Joey Fatone is my cousin, so I don’t know if I’m a good data point.

That makes our -10 low from the other week look downright balmy!

Looks like it should be a Lego model.

Apparently we’re supposed to get our DTaP and MMR boosters too.