Thursday, August 8, 2024

Beware the Internet

It's amusing to watch free-speech advocates get burned by the fake-news they permit, as happened to Musk yesterday - and to HBDChick, and to other twits on X.

Mind, if "Two Tier" Starmer hasn't considered reviving the Transportation before, he's assuredly pondering it now. So don't lose track of those windproof earmuffs just yet.

All this came yesterday. This morn a rogue website hijacked my (Brave) browser mimicking a Windows Defender alert, complete with computerised female voice. It expanded over the whole screen, and was not closable like a Brave window. It probably could have been dropped by Task Manager but I just rebooted to be sure. What website was I on, you ask? Yahoo.com, that's what. Luckily despite my worry about what was happening to this machine I did not call the phone number proffered. I'm getting fairly wise to red flags.

So when I hear of a Tim Walz horse story from 1995 West Point just before the man moved out... again, I'd not waste time on that. There are plenty of serious stories like, oh, the pro-MAP legislation and that whole lying-about-the-service-record thing.

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