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    EVENTS

    Yes, Please

    I did not realize there is an “international emoji day” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 19, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground
    • 9 Comments

    Coal Country: 200,000+

    You see them wherever you drive in Pennsylvania: small oil collection pumps, or wellheads for natural gas. The big fracking sites are away from the roads so they are unseen, but you can’t miss the trucks driving around with fracking liquid.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 17, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Capitalism is a disease, We are Fucked
    • 12 Comments

    A Note on Trans Issues

    I don’t write much about trans issues, because of a combination of being ignorant, and not having any personal stake in the issue.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 15, 2020
    • Administrivia, Burn it to the ground, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 52 Comments

    A New Scam

    I just posted my old drill press on craigslist, because I got a better one.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 13, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Cyberwar, rant
    • 12 Comments

    Forget Body Cameras

    I’ve been a proponent of cop-cams for years. I would now like to officially reverse my position.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 11, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Cops
    • 9 Comments

    An Example of Doing it Right

    CNN describes what sounds like a fanciful situation; it’s obviously the right thing to do, and it worked.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 10, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground
    • 8 Comments

    How to Deal With Confederate-Named Military Bases

    Close them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 7, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, War is a Racket
    • 12 Comments

    The FBI ‘Investigates’

    You probably already know I think the FBI are a bunch of chucklefucks. My perspective was formed by working with them on a few cybersecurity cases, including one back in the early days of the commercial internet, in which I was paired with an FBI supervisory special agent who thought that America Online was the internet.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 6, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Cops, Racism
    • 9 Comments

    This Could Trigger a Universe of Conspiracy Theories

    I suspect that Big Media(tm) aren’t covering this story because they’re afraid of exactly that.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 6, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Cops
    • 7 Comments

    I Blew Right Through My Own Holiday

    I declared June 10 to be “facial recognition” day, and this year I didn’t do a posting about it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 2, 2020
    • Art, Burn it to the ground, Science, Spies Spying on Things
    • 8 Comments
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