Hamartia

We used to have a neighborhood Jay that would mimic cats by meowing at them. Freaked me out the first time I heard it. They later lost all of their head feathers. Such a crazy bird.

Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.

Wonder if the BBC will describe the much higher number of daily murders in Gaza as waves of executions?

"Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies," she added.

And that's different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.

Lite?

I'll never forget DRE now

I had my first DRE a few months ago. It felt like the Dr thought my butthole was a dog's mouth with a piece of chocolate in it.

Capitalist realism is a hell of a cult.

It's probably some derivative of the maratime slang pipe-down.

Pipe down: A boatswain or ‘bosun’ was a ship’s officer who was, amongst other duties, in charge of the crew. He would issue different orders to crew members by changing the sound patterns blown on his 'call', a sort of high-pitched whistle.

'Pipe down' was the last order of the day for off-duty crew to stop talking, settle down or go to bed. Today, the phrase 'pipe down' is still used to tell someone to be quiet.

If an officer is piping orders the expectation would be for you to pay attention.

The second world war and its huge naval population probably brought the much older term into American slang.

That's uh...what she said?

The Abominable Throw-man.