The times you can write a sentence like this, as a reporter...
"Waltz, who invited Goldberg into the Signal chat, said yesterday that he was investigating 'how the heck he got into this room.'”
I've been turning over this question with friends recently: if you travel back in time, and can bring only your own body and memories--no raw materials, no machines, no books, etc., what ideas do you bring?
For instance, I could probably draw and explain how to fabricate every part of a fixed gear bicycle, or at least a velocipede. But that only works in a time which has (at a minimum!) access to reasonably efficient axle bearings, and ideally rubberized tires, gears, etc. The window is small!
I am so, SO curious about the "Fediverse Chick" spam campaign. We've suspended, like, a dozen of her accounts so far and she just keeps going. I assume the end goal is getting money out of people, but like, why target Fedi and self-hosting OSS nerds? It's like Joanne the Scammer trying to grift her way through the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone 🤣
Reminds me of Darwin's Hawkmoths, growing incredibly specialized proboscises to suck nectar from equally specialized flowers:
