Wednesday 14th August, 2019 #
- Milky Way’s Black Hole (which is 4.6 million times the mass of the sun) Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours - life forms all over the galaxy have been heard saying roughly the same thing - “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but OMG it’s definitely aliens” - also “Help I’m being oppressed”
- Julián Castro buys anti-Trump ad on Fox News – to ensure the president sees it - the whole racism arc is getting pretty yawn worthy, could really do with some actual aliens to give it a bit of a refresh, the fact that Castro took out an add on Fox so Trump would see it, that’s pretty good, might even be a little amuse bouche of our future, so actually maybe it’s not that good after all
- Best of little Britain - it’s a funny comedy but maybe an actual real life version of this might be a lot less funny
- Brexit - Hammond says PM's demands 'wreck' chance of new deal - Says no deal would create a little England
- Google and Mozilla are changing how their browsers display information from extended validation (EV) certificates
- Spotify’s pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data - Apparently one place where there are not many concerns about user privacy is podcasting, I sure hope Spotify doesn’t go all data creepy
- Security researchers find that DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware attack