Joshua Kinal

This is one of those stories that sends To many thoughts through my brain at once:
- Going to sleep is scary enough;
- There was that time I accidentally drank scores of ants in the dark;
- An insect hatchery eye mask would fit perfectly in a Cronenberg film;
- etc.

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Pentagon to terminate $5.1 billion in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte, others U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the termination of IT services contracts, totally valued at $5.1 billion, with companies such as Accenture and Deloitte, a memo showed on Thursday.

I know the US has been going through a Marie Kondo-inspired bridge-burning campaign, but this one might be the most dangerous yet.

I shudder to think about the devastation caused by a pre-emptive strike from McKinsey.

www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

U.S. Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched “Can Hacking Be Treason” A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question "ca...

I still think “cybercriminals” sounds pox, but “information super-highwaymen” would have inspired a whole new bunch of folk songs (were it not for the unfortunate gendering in the term).

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/u-s-...

In _the Equalizer_ S03E01 there is a bomb that can only be triggered by remote control radio signal. The "heroes" start searching for the baddie with the remote, saying it's the only was to stop it. But why wouldn't they just put the bomb in a Faraday cage?

Another uplifting tale?

Of course, I'm still not going to start using it. Someone will tell me what happens

Nothing has made me want to start using TikTok more than this US ban. What will the algorithm show the rest of the world and will they miss American content?

Kabaddi Melbourne Raid The Pro Kabaddi League with its action and agility, is coming to Melbourne this December.

Very excited to go to this on Saturday night. Kabaddi had me mesmerised when I first saw it on TV in a bar in Chennai. Can't wait to see it live.

www.visitmelbourne.com/kabaddi

A ★★★★★ review of The Fabelmans (2022) Now I don't know which is the best story about a boy who wants to be Steven Spielberg that features Michelle Williams. But this one has a less catchy theme song. (Sorry, John Williams.)

I get a lot of joy from writing reviews on *Letterboxd* boxd.it/83BHJN

Superchunk onstage at Corner Hotel: A group of us compared our earplugs after the show.

At last night's #Superchunk gig I experienced a new kind of connection with my fellow punters.

A small toy jersey cow against some leaves

Seen in the wild

Congratulations. You found a back door that led right on stage. They can't stop you now.

I love this idea from Dave Winer, and it should be pretty simple to implement: a user-created RSS feed of podcast episodes to subscribe to instead of entire podcasts. I wonder if it would also be possible to use timestamps and only curate specific parts of episodes.

scripting.com/2024/11/29.h...

How many of our peers are truly thriving? When we talk shout Cyberspace, I don't think this is the future we were promised.

sealfur.com/blog/on-cybe...

After a 2,000-Mile Trip, a Penguin Finds Itself on an Australian Beach “This is the furthest north I’ve heard of an emperor penguin,” an expert said.

*Article summary:* Look at this fucking penguin in Western Australia. Did you feel good watching it waddle on that beautiful beach?
Sucked in!
It's a sign that we are doomed.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/w...

Badly Drawn Boy on stage at the Palais

I'm very pleased with this. I call it "Well Photographed Badly Drawn Boy"

It's an alternative "Apple Music" (by definition)

I have difficult news to share: I am not, in fact, the founder and CEO of a leading firm. That doesn't mean I'm not still pretty great.

sealfur.com/blog/why-not...

Every film or TV show that features Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" should pay me $1000.

As a society we should at least demand warnings at the start of all such content.

I mean, it's just a theory.

And now Paramount+ are already in production on the reality TV series of "Island of Misfit Porn Bots"

Spent brewer’s yeast as a selective biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste streams While the amount of electronic waste is increasing worldwide, the heterogeneity of electronic scrap makes the recycling very complicated. Hydrometallurgical methods are currently applied in e-waste re...

Vegemite will save the world.

So nobody really knows the start time but there's a greater chance that England may win?

the days are long,
the nights are still longer.
even summer's.

To the 11 of my closest followers, I share this new feature that makes it easier to find someone on bsky by typing.

Thanks @emilyliu.me for boosting @jacob.gold’s post into my eyes.

And every time I try to clean mine, they're worse than before

What a good lookin' chook!

… and they didn't even bother adjusting the kerning/spacing issue caused by the 'y A' in the second headline.

One of my best friends started following me after I texted him a link to my previous post. I also had not been following him.
Now I wonder if we'll still message each other thoughts like we were doing, or if we'll revert to just hoping the other one saw that thing we threw into the wind.