28 January 2026

Something else we need to be constantly anxious about? We are only 2.8 days away from space disaster. 

A "close approach," defined as two satellites coming within less than 1km of each other, happens about once every 22 seconds. Within the Starlink network alone, this occurs roughly every 11 minutes. To avoid collisions, each Starlink satellite must carry out an average of 41 course corrections every year.

Solar storms can interfere with or disable satellite navigation and communication systems altogether. When that happens, satellites may be unable to respond to threats in their path. Combined with higher atmospheric drag and increased uncertainty, this loss of control could quickly lead to a serious accident.

The most widely known outcome of widespread satellite collisions is Kessler syndrome. In this scenario, debris from collisions accumulates around Earth, making it nearly impossible to launch spacecraft without them being destroyed. 

Maybe Earth will have a ring in my lifetime after all.

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IYKYK.  This made me laugh out loud.

Philip Glass. Nobody cares. Philip Glass. 🤣
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Depressing. Browser fingerprinting is just a fact of life. All you can really do is have a different browser that you use for different things. One for banking and financial stuff. One for general browsing, etc. And use a VPN. It's like putting on a different set of gloves. That way surveillance orgs can't link all the fingerprints to the same person.

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Just a little exercise can go a long way. The trick is to be consistent.

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What the hell is going on with modern men??? So pathetic. You see articles like this:
Celibacy taught me I’m too clever to find love.  Too clever? No wonder his girlfriend ditched him.
App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits. Who uses an app for this? And the worse thing is that the user data is still exposed for all the world to see. On top of everything else, how humiliating is that?

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Be wary when you give a parking ticket to software engineer.  You may open yourself up to a can of worms. And something like this will be created.

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How to get power naps right. Don't oversleep. 15 minutes. Set an alarm.

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Everyone's okay with their AI, just not yours. Glad to hear someone saying this. People criticize others for using AI. While they themselves use AI.

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ImageFK. This looks really handy. Will probably come in handy for quick photo editing. My guess is that this is a wrapper for a frontier model. Doesn't say what they use, though. Maybe Grok or Gemini. 

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In fact, Google was sued because it was alleged that the company listened to and recorded people's conversations on the phone without their permission.  Google did not admit guilt or plead innocence. It just settled. 

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Some professor lost two years of his work when he made a setting change in ChatGPT and all his stored work was erased. Who just leaves work on ChatGPT and expects that it will be curated? With no backup. 

And speaking of people who get burned using tech that they don't fully understand, here's a three-parter on those who jumped onto the Clawdbot craze.
DOA. Oregon Dems are going to try to sneak in a retail sales tax.

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U of Oregon students demand abortion drugs be provided to them for free. For free!  Bunch of little children, aren't they?

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Portland Public Schools calls on lawmakers to use reserve funds to fill budget gap.  After giving them hefty raises, of course there's going to be a budget gap. What? There's no money for this? Oh, no....

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Oregon's population hasn't increased since 2020. No surprise there.

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Great news for Palisades fire victims.  Trump signs executive order for feds to take over LA’s ‘nightmare’ wildfire rebuild in huge boost for victims. No longer will they be held hostage to Karen Bass and her rebuilding permit policy.

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