And like most wealthy people

If I were a famous Hollywood celebrity with a high enough net worth and income to have a $1m Bentley parked next to the $5m worth of cars sitting in the driveway of my $10m home, locking my car doors would be a very low priority and concern to me. As a poor, I don’t have a weekly ritual of rooting through my couch…

Probably has less of the performative angst that’s been trending on PS lately, but that was my first thought, too. Very similar in tone to the old PS app.

I read it. I know that privacy issues are one of the last things they cover. It’s almost a footnote, isn’t it? Almost like “privacy concerns” are so irrelevant any more, they barely even bother to mention it.

Very tentative NP. Gonna definitely need to see the maintenance history.

Privacy and anonymity are two different things. That is why there are two different words for them. Anonymity is still possible, though it is becoming more and more difficult and cumbersome to do so. Privacy is no longer possible.

I love to try to envision all the nefarious ways data and surveillance can be used against us, but this one has me scratching my head.

Neutral: It doesn’t matter how I feel about it because I cannot do anything about it. Our only options now are how much effort do we wish to expend, and how much inconvenience are we prepared to deal with, to limit the most obvious damage and the more egregious further encroachments.

Sure would be nice if he had this kind of energy and righteous indignation and insistence on “straight facts” when interviewing anyone from the current regime.

Any guesses which free stock font they used for the script? Cheap cheap cheap.

She sounds like an excellent companion for someone who very much understands cats and who wants one with an extremely low maintenance profile.

I love Billy Porter stories. I never have any idea what’s going on in them, but his “absolutely does not give a fuck” attitude, along with his fashion choices, make every single one amazing.

The linked BBC article put “from thin air” in scare quotes multiple times, so it’s at least accurate over there. I guess that’s what having editorial standards looks like?

Parody works on extremes and opposites. What’s the opposite of the current president? Honesty, intelligence, maturity, restraint, and dignity.

Back in the day, crappy wheels and black paint (or, even more menacing, primer) meant you were probably looking at a bruiser of a street racer because they weren’t wasting money on a single damned thing that didn’t make the car go faster.

They assume that because his bank accounts were nearly empty and had no recent activity that the checks therefor must be suspicious.

It’s pretty common policy across banks, particularly after the PATRIOT Act went into effect, to double-check documentation when the deposit is out of character for your customer’s previous activity patterns. Scanning the checks is about as “racist” as a convenience-store cashier dragging a highlighter across the $100…

Ten years ago this might have been piercingly satiric and cuttingly clever. Today? CNN presents more intense satirical content than this.

Freedom to all the people, brave, true, and strong / Freedom for all the people, unless I think you’re wrong.

I liked her well enough in Ocean’s 8 and The Hustle. The only problem I have with her, and it’s mine not hers, is that she’s so generic I can never remember who she is until someone reminds me of the other things I might’ve seen her in.