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“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.” - James Gleick

There are indeed a lot of satellites.

Two interesting articles: IT’S TIME TO BUILD, and Why Nations Succeed. I am reminded of this quote from Steve Jobs: I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Sunspring. The first film ever written entirely by an artificial intelligence. The screenplay TBH doesn’t make much sense… https://www.thereforefilms.com/sunspring.html https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-strangely-moving/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/map-and-travel-notices.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/

If you’re not taking care of yourself, you’re not in a position to help anyone else. You can’t give what you don’t have, and if you’re struggling to pay your bills while volunteering four nights a week, you’re probably hurting more people than you’re helping.

Middle class is waiting to be rescued from financial mediocrity… World class knows no one is coming to the rescue The middle class lives in a perpetual waiting game for outside forces to come to their aid and grant their every wish. Whether it’s losing weight and getting fit; enhancing their relationships or getting rich, they are operating at a level of consciousness that encourages them to passively wait for life to improve. The hero they’re waiting for may be God, government, their boss or their spouse. It’s the average person’s level of thinking that breeds this approach to life and living while the clock keeps ticking away. ...

https://youtu.be/aztTkCWWMno https://youtu.be/49F0co_VrTY Ref https://github.com/yarrick/iodine https://github.com/iagox86/dnscat2 https://github.com/Arno0x/DNSExfiltrator

What is a site? What is an origin? Are they the same interchangably? What’s cross site? What’s cross origin? In short, site is eTLD + 1, origin is scheme, host, and port. What is eTLD? eTLD is effective top-level domain. What is effective top-level domain? It is one of the domains listed in the Public suffix list: https://publicsuffix.org/list/. (e.g. com, ny.us, github.io, etc). The list gets a little wild. So site being eTLD + 1, an example is mySite.com, or food.ny.us, or hello.github.io. ...

https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/the-state-of-open-source-data-integration-and-etl/ Good read, so much have changed in just a few years.