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If you're a member of any Yahoo!Group(s), you've got bad news from Verizon:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwe9p/yahoo-groups-is-winding-down-and-all-content-will-be-permanently-removed

Current Mood: busy

Not going to try this, thank you very much!

https://news.avclub.com/artist-destroys-hand-mind-by-drawing-for-24-hours-stra-1837171959

Current Mood: shocked
Current Music: The Next Chapter on CBC Radio

Go have a look at the interview, if you've got twenty minutes.

https://youtu.be/KSDhOrsKtHw

Current Mood: Pissed off, also worried

So I saw this article this morning:

Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News

My super-hero comics-invested brain immediately thought of DC Comics' Robotmen, Bob Crane and Cliff Steele. Shortly thereafter, there was Anton Ivanov, the self-described "Superior" from Marvel+ABC's Agents of SHIELD TV series...

Current Mood: intimidated

And I just got confronted by the "you need to agree to the Oath-issue Terms of Service" screen as I tried to log into Flickr tonight.

Also, just read about the SmugHug/Flickr thing seconds ago...and speaking of SmugMug...who owns them? Some of my friendly acquaintances in SF fandom and pro-dom have heard of before tonight, but I didn't.

Why should I trust them for my online photo-hosting?

Current Mood: worried

So this is growing ever more horrific. I say again: we should not have to endure living in a world where Global Evil Conspiracy Theories are actual facts proven/provable by credible journalists.

And there's a Canadian connection, in Victoria, BC. AggregateIQ by corporate name.

The people who try to organize such conspiracies ought to be serving time. Though, for what and under whose jail system...?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

A further note: I would count the Guardian's people uncovering this info as a good thing. It's now out in the public realm, where we can figure out what useful things can be done about it.

Current Mood: angry

There's been lots of ink, bandwidth and blood spilled over the millennia on this question, but this video makes for an entertaining attempt at an answer, yes?

And as a watcher of several comic-book continuities for the last three decades, this question has perhaps more relevance than even your average watcher of international politics. ;-)

Current Mood: nerdy

There's a video included with that CBC News link below. You may want to watch.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/06/hobacks-mccarthy-like-hunt-to-expose-ndp-witnesses.html

March 5th Update: Some follow-up from the <b>Prince Albert Herald</b>:

http://www.paherald.sk.ca/Local/Politics/2012-06-04/article-2995009/Hoback-compared-to-Senator-Joseph-McCarthy-in-viral-video/