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Cake day: February 16th, 2025

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  • Politics fans were miffed because at the time Bono was bitching about how the Irish Government wasn’t spending enough on foreign aid, while the band had just bought a skyscraper in Dublin and had offshored their business affairs so they no longer paid tax in Ireland. They’re the PETA of gobby musicians.

    They’re also aggressively mediocre, so most music fans would find no value in the album. There was a reason the band took the payoff.

    Tech fans were outraged because the album turned up on every iTunes-connected device without consent, and there was no way to remove it until the avalanche of complaints led Apple to make an update specifically to allow this.



  • A reminder that when Robert Maxwell died, the directors of every Israeli intelligence agency attended his funeral. He had been suspected of being a triple agent by the British foreign office, with funding from the USSR and a longstanding link with the Mossad, for which he is suspected of selling backdoored software to Los Alamos and involvement in the kidnapping of a nuclear whistleblower in London who then spent 18 years in captivity in Israel.

    So Epstein certainly had connections with dabblers in targeting US government institutions and human traffickers.






  • Enigma was widely used, not just by Germany during the war, and was still current in the 50s. Additionally, the methods used to defeat Enigma had value against other encryption. It is also the policy of British intelligence not to publicise their work or capabilities.

    British intelligence workers also took the Official Secrets Act at its word, while their American counterparts eventually assumed that as it was in the past they could talk about it.