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Besides being the social media construct for the latest young generation and a way to get their potential 5 minutes of world fame, its a device for China to suck all your personal data and get access to everything you do on your phone. Supposedly.

I was feeling slightly depressive, so I pulled out the whimsy to battle it. Which resulted in ordering a batch of fairy light leds, some cotton rope, and clamps. Now I plan to build an adult blanket fort to hide in and read for the weekend....

Doesn't quite fit in either film or literature.. That sort of crossover of both. PasteMagazine - Conant the Barbarian took what worked and abandoned what didn't (the racism)

One that could be interesting...

NBC News - GOP tuck 8 billion military weapons package into the Coronovirus relief bill

BBC - One of the mysteries around Stonehenge's origin has been solved

To be absolutely fair, one of the key reasons for Jordan's increasing time between books , was that he was suffering a slow terminal disease for the last 4 or 5 he actually wrote himself.

I remember John Ringo doing a blog about how the past few years he has been engaging with his fans, enjoying the interaction, having a steady income..and as such, he hasn't been retreating to his basement to write. He made the point of "I'm in a happier place now then I've ever been, so I'm not escaping from the world..and my writing is suffering." He half joked that he'd have to stop talking to fans, and figure out what makes him unhappy so he could go back to actually working.

BBC - Portland protests: Federal forces ready for phased pull-out

It's when you pick up a $12 128 GB memory stick... and then remember the day when you picked up that aaaabsolutely massive 20 MB hard drive to put in the IBM/PC Compatible desktop back in the early 90's that you were never going to manage to fill.....

As gets pointed out :

Digital History - Explorations; Zheng He Although there's still much discussed on whether the big ship actually did go on the long trips or just stayed close to home...