Shout out to the book Red Tide by M. P. Woodward. It’s a military thriller where one of the main plot points is a Chinese spy seducing the son of the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, in order to export AI chips to China. The book was published last year. The author worked in naval intelligence, so I guess there may have been rumors about this scenario before…

I have Eufy with their Homebase. All clips are stored locally, with assurances that they are not copied onto their cloud. Even though that may change, now that Anker acquired them…

As someone who is fairly physically active, flexes that risk people’s health are especially irritating to me. Training to the point of injury or even through injury is not impressive; it’s stupid.

Anyone actually uses Reddit search? That thing has been so horribly broken since the very beginning that some of the best subreddits (AskHistorians, for example) openly recommend using a standard search engine with the “site:reddit.com” parameter.

My rule of thumb: if it’s big enough to give it a name, you’ve got to flush twice.

I’m a bisexual the same way that I am bilingual. A bilingual illiterate. I can’t read in two languages.