Adam Gerik

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

Myrna Loy publicity shot (1929)

happy birthday dracula

an ad featuring two jack-o-lantern acorns and the text 'It's fun to run a Halloween party

Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]

Metropolitan (1990) A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobilit...

Me: “You know what I should watch again? For joy? ‘Fawlty Towers.’”

Katie: “Oh, I thought you were going to say ‘Metropolitan.’ But yes.”

letterboxd.com/film/metropo...

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

Protein obsession has even followed me to my fav sub shop, where they’re trying to attract folks to their new wrap via 60 grams of the stuff.

I'm five years into this racket from the Crown (and better for it?)

A real "lesser of two evils" vibe after discovering a missing chunk of siding near the roofline that's only visible from a ladder... should I hope that it's where a bat got in last year? Or should I hope that it's not a really a hole and the bat entry remains a mystery?

This is actually the #1 thing I know about Diane Keaton. RIP queen

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive) Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I know what I like!

AGGGHHH you're late by a day for me.

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs. 

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

Happy 130th birthday, my man.

An add that says "Safety you can see and now hear: Detect sounds of human distress and cover the blind stops that cameras miss with Distress Detection" with an alert that says "screaming" and an address.

Ads reveal that Flock, makers of automated license plate readers and other surveillance technology, are promising to introduce "Distress detection" into their gunshot detection devices which will alert police when it hears human voices in distress, including screaming.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Bought a used iPhone 16 Pro to enjoin the world of USB-C and the screen was decidedly *worse* (green tint when viewed off-angle) than my trusty iPhone 13 Pro. The reason? Apple uses a display lottery between LG and Samsung panels – and has done so for years: forums.macrumors.com/threads/this...

What a tremendously depressing thread of doom for this age we are entering.

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

Four-manual organ console at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Peoria, Illinois.

Livid that I can’t find proper research into caffeine’s effect on musicianship to support my hypothesis that not only am I a total grump this morning while at my gig, but I’m also somewhat incapacitated.

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I’ve never seen the rose! Or I have and am too stupid to notice.

Despite the name, they can get real ruddy on the underside... I'm so particular about describing colors that I'm forever annoyed with attempting birds identification. But birds are best!

Looks like a white-breasted nuthatch to me! Love their honks.