Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
MEdia Dragons saved the planet from the Asteroid: Can You Say…Hero?
“Like the seaweed that clings to each other after each passing boat
separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of
each crisis.” ~Proverb
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. ~ Abbie Hoffman “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"
The winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award has described the accolade as "kind of terrifying".
Indigenous novelist Melissa Lucashenko was announced winner of Australia's most prestigious literary award on Tuesday for her novel Too Much Lip.
A good day for democracyBoris Johnson the showman needs to become a statesman. Can he? A cache of Saul Bellow letters is discovered in the attic of a private residence — more evidence that the man was incapable of writing a boring sentence
Operation Familia coordinated by the US DEA and Europol has seen
a total of 16 arrests, 11 in Europe and 5 in Asia, and the seizure of more than
one tonne of cocaine and €2 million in cash.
New technologies for the brain require ethical approaches to innovationWell, this trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is our
first look at Tom Hanks playing Fred Rogers and, hmm. I dunno. Hanks
looks a little stiff to me, unnatural, but maybe no one could actually
play such a beloved childhood figure in a convincing way. I was so young
when I watched his show every day for years on end that Mr. Rogers’
movements and mannerisms were imprinted on my super-plastic preschool
brain, never to be forgotten. Mr. Rogers tossed his shoe between his
hands a little bit differently every day, but he never tossed it like
Hanks does in that trailer.
But who am I kidding, I will still see this movie. It’s based on Can You Say…Hero?, a piece that Tom Junod wrote about Rogers for Esquire magazine.
Mister Rogers weighed 143 pounds because he has weighed
143 pounds as long as he has been Mister Rogers, because once upon a
time, around thirty-one years ago, Mister Rogers stepped on a scale, and
the scale told him that Mister Rogers weighs 143 pounds. No, not that
he weighed 143 pounds, but that he weighs 143 pounds…. And so, every
day, Mister Rogers refuses to do anything that would make his weight
change-he neither drinks, nor smokes, nor eats flesh of any kind, nor
goes to bed late at night, nor sleeps late in the morning, nor even
watches television-and every morning, when he swims, he steps on a scale
in his bathing suit and his bathing cap and his goggles, and the scale
tells him that he weighs 143 pounds. This has happened so many times
that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny
fulfilled, because, as he says, “the number 143 means ‘I love you.’ It
takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three
letters to say ‘you.’ One hundred and forty-three. ‘I love you.’ Isn’t
that wonderful?”
If you’ve never read it, you should…it’s a lovely piece of writing
about a wonderful human.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: The AFP commissioner
would not have wasted so much time on the staff minority who battled him at
every turn.
The internet is surprisingly fragile, crashes thousands of times a year, and no one is making it stronger
Phys.org: “How could a small internet service provider (ISP) in Pennsylvania cause millions of websites worldwide to go offline? That’s what happened on June 24, 2019 when users across the world were left unable to access a large fraction of the web. The root cause was an outage suffered by Cloudflare, one of the internet’s leading content hosts on which the affected websites relied. Cloudflare traced the problem to a regional ISP in Pennsylvania that accidentally advertised to the rest of the internet that the best available routes to Cloudflare were through their small network. This caused a massive volume of global traffic to the ISP, which overwhelmed their limited capacity and so halted Cloudfare’s access to the rest of the internet. As Cloudflare remarked, it was the internet equivalent of routing an entire freeway through a neighbourhood street. This incident has highlighted the shocking vulnerability of the internet. In 2017 alone there were about 14,000 of these kinds of incidents. Given it is mission-critical for much of the world’s economic and social life, shouldn’t the net be designed to withstand not just minor hiccups but also major catastrophes, and to prevent small problems turning into much bigger ones? Governing bodies such as the EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) have long warned of the risk of such cascading incidents in causing systemic internet failure. Yet the internet remains worryingly fragile…” Library of Congress CRS Reports – Bankruptcy and Student Loans, July 1, 2019. “As overall student loan indebtedness in the United States has increased over the years
Continuing
our investigation into the death tax misinformation during the
campaign. Facebook says it was 'not our role' to remove fake news during
Australian election #auspol www.theguardian.com/tec…
Many of us have given up on the idea of carrying around a dedicated work phone. After all, why bother when you can get everything you need on your personal smartphone? Here’s one reason: Your work account might be spying on oyou in the background.
When you add a work email address to your phone, you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. (What other choice do you have?) MDM is set up by your company’s IT department to reach inside your phone in the background, allowing them to ensure your device is secure, know where it is, and remotely erase your data if the phone is stolen.From your company’s perspective, there are obvious security reasons for installing an MDM on an employee’s phone.
But for employees, it’s difficult to tell what these invisible profiles are collecting behind the scenes, as they provide people at your company with invisible control over your device. That’s why when it comes to your phone, no matter how much you trust your IT department, it’s a good idea to keep work and pleasure separate…”
