Back of the Book

Sat, May 20, 2023 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

COVID~19 - The CDC Web site seems to no longer be providing weekly information about COVID~19.
COVID~19 - R. Paul got his second bivalent vaccination this past week.
Manhattan - It's sinking!
The Battle of the Atlantic - Ended 80 years ago.
Late Spring - Arrives at 3:52 PM Monday afternoon May 22.
Can a state ban Web sites - Montana seems to think so.
Florida - Pride events are getting cancelled due to laws that promote hate in Florida.

Synopsis:

80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic ending, Late Spring. Manhattan is Sinking!

We talked about R. Paul getting his second bivalent booster shot this past week. We noted that the Battle of the Atlantic ended 80 years ago, May 22, 1943, and we talked about how this relates to Pickles of the North's mother not eating butter. We talked about a new study that says that Manhattan is sinking at a rate of one to two millimeters a year, partly from the weight of the skyscrapers. We talked about what we see as First Amendment issues in two states. Montana is trying to ban TikTok in that state, they don't seem to be saying how, and Florida's anti~LGBT+∞ laws are forcing some Pride events to be cancelled this June. Some states are so hot about Second Amendment rights that they seem to have forgotten that there's a First Amendment.

Guests:

Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

Playlist:

Barracuda - Heart
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Info / Links:

I have a Web site.
R. Paul is on Twitter.
Our program schedule, as far as we're allowed to know it, is here.
WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.
If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.
Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.
Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.
For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.
For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.

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