It’ll never not be hilarious to me that the Ukrainians broke the Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea with nearly no navy to speak of. To Ian Welsh, that’s Russian winning.

To everyone else, that’s pretty awesome and impressive.

Thinking about Microsoft Recall now. I realized its true purpose today. There was some incompetence there, of course, but I believe Microsoft expected some pushback and that this seemingly-botched release was a “foaming the runway” event.

Recall’s true raison d’être is to be used for worker surveillance. It was never intended for home use. Not really. The predictable pushback was just to make it visible to MBA pro-surveillance types. Now it is; goal achieved. Recall will be an absolute boon for the type of sociopaths who desire such things. And it will of course harm workers greatly.

Now I understand why what occurred happened. Otherwise, it just made no sense. Expect Recall to be baked into Enterprise versions of Windows, and your boss spying on your in an incredibly intrusive way soon enough.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

My goal is to have humanity do everything that does not break the laws of physics — then destroy the laws of physics themselves and create new ones that serve us better.

It might take 40 billion years to get that far. So we better fucking get started.

It’s funny seeing people addicted to social media and smartphones coping with the reality of their addictions by claiming against all evidence that it’s not social media or phones that the problem, man, it’s, like, society that’s really what’s holdin’ me down….

Sure, sure, that’s gotta be it. Addicts always sounds the same. Been around them my whole early life so I am very familiar with the signs, rationalizations and justifications they toss out. It’s the same old script that’s probably been happening since someone first discovered you could chew on some weird leaves in 100,000 B.C. and forget about your troubles.

Meanwhile, smartphones and social media are a level one cognitohazard for most people — and are especially bad for girls and women. That’s the reality.