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    EVENTS

    What Does “Too Old” Look Like?

    [I posted some of this over at Mano’s]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 22, 2023
    • Burn it to the ground, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 18 Comments

    Questions Unasked

    It’s hard for me to even think about Donald Trump, and his various craptastic election fraud maneuvers. But, when I do, my world rapidly turns into a throbbing sea of anger. Sure, I am most angry at Trump and his inane clown posse, but there’s enough to go around.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 19, 2023
    • Burn it to the ground, Technology, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 30 Comments

    A Capitalism Thought Experiment

    In the computer security world, the vulnerability of open above-ground transformer parks is a well-known problem. It’s been a hypothetical on many a threat model for decades.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 17, 2023
    • Burn it to the ground, Capitalism is a disease, Technology, Terrorism
    • 18 Comments

    In Which I Vote

    [This is a repost from Daily Kos]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 8, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground, Politics
    • 8 Comments

    It Is Patriotic To Hate Your Country, Not Love It

    First and foremost, don’t forget the obvious: it’s not your country. Maybe it’s Warren Buffet’s or Ron Desantis’ country, but it sure as hell isn’t yours.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 8, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground, Racism
    • 16 Comments

    A Quickie

    This is just pure funny.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 27, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground
    • 7 Comments

    What Malcolm Understood

    I was 3 when Malcolm X was assassinated. Naturally, I don’t remember anything about it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 15, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground, Racism, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 22 Comments

    Jolene

    This is really great. The algorithm fed it to me with 260 views on it. How can something so good lie unnoticed?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 3, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground
    • 6 Comments

    We Are In WTF World

    I’ve read a lot of histories of the ancient world, and it sounds like, actually, there’s always some new plague, or Mongols, or a bad harvest leading to starvation, fire, displacement, war.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 30, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground
    • 27 Comments

    Faceplant

    “Kamala Harris calls for assault weapons ban.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 29, 2022
    • Burn it to the ground
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