Tonight, our Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rewatch (on DVD) is up to “Bar Association”, the episode in which Rom leads all of Quark’s employees on a strike to demand better working conditions.
I swear I didn’t time this intentionally, but it seems appropriate!
Ferengi workers don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.
Rom, before deciding he’d rather stop the exploitation
This sea otter likes long swims along the coast, kelp forests…and stealing surfboards. (LA Times)
“At first, we were like, ‘Look how cute?’ But then it bit down on the board and chewed off a piece, and we were like. ‘What’s going on?’”
I think there’s been a lot of talking past each other on privacy lately because there are so many layers to it.
Google or Dropbox keeping your cloud files from showing up on someone else’s drive or a public share is one layer. Keeping your data from leaking in a data breach is another. Protecting messages in transit from your device to their service. Google and Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and now Threads) are good at those.
But then there’s ensuring that Google or Meta doesn’t misuse it themselves, or sell it to someone who will.
And, well, to put it mildly, they’re not so big on that aspect!
The power company is prepping for maintenance work, and these guys are out with the temporary no parking signs and barriers.
It’s still a better company name than the “Performance Utility Supply” I’ve driven past with a sign that’s mostly its initials.
Took the Macbook in for battery service yesterday. Fortunately it was easy to tell which store to bring it to!
