Local internet service providers in Trinidad and Tobago have failed me.
It’s not even a rural area.
Thank you @Starlink, from zero options to 350+ Mbps internet in under a week.
@superruserr Used to be a scam back in the day where they’d try to get you to pay a “nominal fee” for the “honor” of being selected. Takes the form of conferences, professional directories etc.
Elon Musk just said the US government had full access to Twitter user activity, including spying on users’ DMs under previous management.
This is almost as bad as the illegal government surveillance Edward Snowden exposed in 2013.
it's not aliens
i wish it were aliens
but it's not aliens
it's just the ol' engineered panic, an attractive nuisance ensuring natsec reporters get assigned to investigate balloon bullshit rather than budgets or bombings (à la nordstream)
until next time
Google has a worrying habit of algorithmically yanking incorrect information out of articles and displaying it as fact. Wikipedia has built-in human fact checking that Google does only very slowly (and chatGPT does not do at all.)