Wishlist Item.

Do you know what you want of social media? I am not so sure myself. I've met some cool people online when I was younger. Now that I'm older with not as much free time, do I expect the same? Not really, but I'm still here.

Costume. Chitons.

This is ridiculous. I get that if I were to reverse the concept, create a new file type called .com or .net it'd still be a problem but I'm not so sure the new domains were necessary to the whole of the internet. It just means I'll probably never click on one of those links. Can we have the first go at removing a TLD? Seems to me more dangerous than valuable.

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

It feels like it's harder to be a kid these days, at least in suburbia. The kids float around in bubbles in which sometimes they interact with those outside their household. But the days in which it was fun to interact with people on a walk down the avenue or visiting a friend's home casually has become a weird concept.

At a community park, there were several daycares with their assigned group of kids in little buses but the kids didn't interact with each other but in their assigned group.

How Did Elon Musk Gain Access to the U.S. Treasury?

Please remind your representatives for all parties to do their jobs. Don't let them sleep because the rest of us can't either.

Soul Train was such a bad ass show. That's the only other show I'd watch after cartoons were over on Saturday.

UnitedHealthcare Speech | Dr. Glaucomflecken @ Chicago Improv

NGL as a straight female, I'm in for the Debbie Harry too. Her look and persona is a total vibe that inspires me.

After years of following your blog (it's great, you're great, I enjoy the whole experience a lot)

I am left wondering (jokingly) one thing:

Does your wife know how much you like Debbie Harry? Lol cuz we do

She most certainly does.

This is beautiful and powerful and what it means to be a person in this world.

How lovely to learn who this person is that we listen to and warned us to be safe on the subway. Voices that I hope we never let AI generation to replace.

HEY HEY LISTEN THE VOICE OF THE MTA TRANSIT SYSTEM, ALL THE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE NYC SUBWAY LINE??

SHE'S A TRANS WOMAN AND TRANSITIONED AT 66!!!!!! THE BACKGROUND HUM OF MY CHILDHOOD, AND SHE'S LIKE ME!!!! WHAT THE FUCK