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Curmudgeon’s Corner: The Samulstan Times

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

Our Kids / This Week’s NSA Stuff
Bezos buys the Post / 2016 Republicans
Terror Alert / Moto X

Recorded on 6 Aug 2013

Length this week – 1:14:00


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@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-08 (UTC)

RT @BYUfan: @abulsme did you get a response? I could post your tweet on the Ron Paul SnoCo FB page. 00:09:20
.@BYUfan Not yet. For the moment I would prefer if someone I already know wants to help. If we hit 2014 & I still need help, then maybe. :-) in reply to BYUfan 00:13:23
My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/07/2013: 4,501 steps and 3.3 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:40
RT @StevenLevy: Bezos purchase is pundit Rorschach test. Geeks: excited. Valley haters: it's a toy. Beltway types: powerplay. Journos: we'lвЂ¦ 06:57:12
Reading – No, immigration reform has not destroyed Marco Rubio’s presidential hopes (Jonathan Bernstein) http://t.co/mSyAX0FECk 06:59:30
RT @BYUfan: @abulsme just listened to podcast. I'm so glad your mom liked the show. 13:54:23
RT @imbou: Beware Asylum in Russia. @abulsme http://t.co/0klP2yWSfK via @WSJ 13:54:32
Reading – Angry and ashamed at the US government (John Donaghy) http://t.co/ikLghMyGUH 14:59:33
Reading – Ashamed of the US government – part two (John Donaghy) http://t.co/zp60RNF07d 15:03:05
Reading – Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down (Xeni Jardin) http://t.co/LjrZGyadZ3 20:04:17
Feds should be careful doing things that shut down services Snowden uses. Who knows how his dead man switch is rigged. They could trigger. 20:25:29
Reading – On the Latest Bogus NYT Plane-in-Peril Story (James Fallows) http://t.co/Vn1NCSjB1J 20:33:06

@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-07 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/06/2013: 12,211 steps and 9 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:16
Hey, any of my followers with actual web programming chops want to partner with me to set up some stuff for my 2016 Pres analysis? Email me. 01:06:26
I have a clear idea of what I want to do in my head, but know it would stretch my own ability to its limits if I could even manage it. 01:07:19
And that assumes I even manage to find the time to try. :-) Anyway, if you want to help, let me know. Otherwise, I'll do my best solo. :-) 01:08:01
Reading – Former NSA Chief on Latest Leaked Dragnet Spy Program: It’s Real, and It’s Spectacular (Ryan Gallagher) http://t.co/ofnyvd1XRv 15:11:57
Reading – Obama Cancels Meeting With Putin (AP) http://t.co/biGk6puJCD 15:19:36
Reading – 2016 GE: Hillary vs. the GOP field, Part II (Bonncaruso) http://t.co/I1VavVMzNE 16:51:59
Reading – Ominous In Egypt (The Dish) http://t.co/dqaLCIzVqm 18:58:35
Reading – Did the CIA Just Run an Intel Operation on the Daily Beast? (J. K. Trotter) http://t.co/CLGOmUj5PE 19:02:01
Reading – Top Ten Ways Bradley Manning Changed the World (Juan Cole) http://t.co/jAUDnv5b1w 21:15:44
Brandy getting stitched up after slicing her hand. Fun! 22:52:07

@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-06 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/05/2013: 9,745 steps and 7.2 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 02:01:10
RT @Fenhl: I made a fullscreen version of @abulsme's true binary clock ( http://t.co/8T5KTVnOzr ). It's at http://t.co/vFD9YzTSbk 03:07:23
.@Fenhl Thanks! Awesome! :=) in reply to Fenhl 03:07:44
Another Curmudgeon’s Corner wrapped up. As usual, we’ll release it вЂњa bit laterвЂќ when I have time. :-) 03:35:49
Reading – While We’re Trying To Follow His Game Of Checkers, Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess (MG Siegler) http://t.co/Qm1SN66x02 03:39:34
Reading – Goodnight, Dusty (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/8EUuggFZJm 03:44:15
Reading – Over (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/hjUpAbru4n 03:45:57
Reading – The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos (David A. Graham) http://t.co/Xs1WB32cop 04:13:16
RT @Fenhl: You can set the timezone and add more digits with the query string. Example: http://t.co/rz3QIgJEM2 04:14:05
Reading – Sources at Washington Post during Bezos announcement: вЂIt was like a funeral’ (Greg Sandoval) http://t.co/EVU4N7nL5k 04:20:34
RT @davepeck: People Angrily Tweet At United Airlines Parody Account Thinking It’s Real, Parody Account Hilariously Responds http://t.co/EkвЂ¦ 12:59:20
Reading – Can NSA Director Keith Alexander Explain His Contradictory Claims? (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/qjl4Gz67V2 13:01:00
Reading – U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans (Shiffman/Cooke) http://t.co/pIRgot9hsU 13:56:54
Reading – My Reaction: Three Cheers for Jeff Bezos (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/OcQfQLYbo6 15:18:44
Reading – Fact Checking Is a Doomed Enterprise: Federal Deficit Edition (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/FLOie0HS6U 16:33:39
So sad. :-( -> Reading – 2-year-old dies just days after being parents' best man (Rebecca Fishbein) http://t.co/4kHk8FZ3fe 16:41:54
Reading – Final 'Ender's Game' trailer puts space battle front and center (Bryan Bishop) http://t.co/9UrBFccRGj 17:35:53
Reading/Watching – Is this the profanity-filled future of Doctor Who? (Rob Bricken) http://t.co/K3hnrZfTcg 17:53:04
Reading – It's (not) alive! Franken-meat lurches from the lab to the frying pan [Alan Boyle] http://t.co/wXqobz385o 18:13:02
Filling in primary ballot. Top 2 go to general. County Council only has 2 cand. Waste of ballot space without at least 3. Writing in me. :-) 19:26:46
Reading – McClatchy Editor Defends Publishing Al Qaeda Detail CNN, NY Times Held Back (Michael Calderone) http://t.co/k1up8GKV5D 21:27:59
Reading – Twitter Slowly Becoming More Cool Than Facebook (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/tD6lJ8hd0g 21:31:44
Oh well! -> Reading – You won’t be eating a lab-grown hamburger anytime soon (Brad Plumer) http://t.co/cgeE0W792s 21:48:35
Reading – NYT Bows to U.S. Request to Keep a Secret, Loses Scoop to McClatchy (Dan Froomkin) http://t.co/LfEdWQrJaE 23:05:00
Reading – Clinton vs. GOP field, 2016 GE, Part I (Bonncaruso) http://t.co/cLgEWtRYjc 23:30:06

@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-05 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/04/2013: 11,795 steps and 8.7 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:11
Reading – What Happens At DefCon Stays With Us All (Jon Evans) http://t.co/DyI97Utl7R 03:03:12
Reading – Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA (Glenn Greenwald) http://t.co/IGUuNQffVB 15:14:57
Reading – Deal or No Deal: $99 for a Lifetime Subscription to Feedly Pro (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/E2q9O44xmk 15:17:40
RT @YourAnonNews: BREAKING: HALF OF TOR SITES COMPROMISED, INCLUDING TORMAIL http://t.co/2TloG9CSnk #Tor 17:20:51
Reading – вЂњThe Emperor Palpatine Of African PoliticsвЂќ (The Dish) http://t.co/z01KsdTarW 17:23:44
Reading – Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos (Ernst/Reuters) http://t.co/cjPKLin64n 21:12:39

@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-04 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/03/2013: 10,019 steps and 7.4 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:25
RT @doctorow: If recording your calls without a playing them back isn't surveillance, then downloading music without listening to it isn't вЂ¦ 01:52:00
Reading – Doctor Who LIVE; Guest Details (Marcus, DWN) http://t.co/ODLsK9d13Y 02:01:09
RT @billclinton: Hey @HillaryClinton вЂ“ sending you a photo of these funny-looking horses outside my hotel room. Miss you. #Africa2013 http:вЂ¦ 02:53:54
Reading – lexigeek: doctorwho: challenger23: Who will be the 12th…
(Achtung) http://t.co/GS5rOVoVxO 02:57:30
One of Alex’s favs! RT @ericspiegelman: Guys, this video has 66 million views. We are all doing everything wrong. http://t.co/Y6P2U6eAtM 03:01:53
Reading – Power plant demolition in Bakersfield goes wrong (AP) http://t.co/XaIi9MoGmF 03:11:56
Reading – Frosted Glass Effects вЂ” Why I switched to Android after all these years (Andreas GГ¶ldi) http://t.co/vsY3iDBfIr 04:15:47
Reading – Why Al Jazeera is ending its U.S. stream, and how you can keep watching (Matthew Keys) http://t.co/UszsZOmnv2 15:22:35
Reading – FBI pays for malware so it can spy on us with our phones and computers (Cory Doctorow) http://t.co/VYry4zLcfq 15:24:17
Reading – Return of the Jesus Wars (Ross Douthat) http://t.co/PBMxygWxLy 15:37:49
RT @BreakingNewsUK: Peter Capaldi has been announced as the new actor to play Doctor Who, taking over from Matt Smith – @SkyNewsBreak 18:33:24

@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-03 (UTC)

My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/02/2013: 11,537 steps and 8.5 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:01:35
[Abulpost] Visit with Cousin Holly & Andrew http://t.co/VEv0aNcIDZ 04:20:12
RT @trevortimm: Glenn Greenwald on MSNBC: More NSA stories coming about surveillance "that even people in Congress don't know about" http:/вЂ¦ 17:46:27
Reading – It’s time to say goodbye to The Ross and Burbank Show (Jamie Skorheim) http://t.co/qQppFIrxzA 19:04:58
Reading – Christie’s Giuliani-Like National Security Demagoguery (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/3TYErkt0US 19:09:02
Reading – Obama administration overrules ITC ban on iPhone 4, iPad 2 (Peter Cohen) http://t.co/kWqlELM44b 19:23:25
Reading – The most insane anti-Obamacare gambit ever (Alex Seitz-Wald) http://t.co/TwlwQrdjPn 19:58:13
Reading – McCain’s Grudge-Driven Politics (Daniel Larison) http://t.co/FEreB9H24O 20:31:00
Reading – Jupiter's moon Europa: Send a submarine to explore it? (Miriam Kramer) http://t.co/2zipRhxeek 20:32:43
Reading – Craziest Flying Machine Ever Built (Dark Roasted Blend) http://t.co/VoWnJm7G4r 21:04:23
RT @BerthaDigsSR99: My path beneath Seattle is divided into 10 zones, each with its own underground landscape. Learn more: http://t.co/ZaNgвЂ¦ 22:55:48
RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: The Monica Lewinsky "sex tape shocker" posted by tabloids and picked up by mainstream press was actually on C-SPAN. httвЂ¦ 23:21:48
Reading – Verizon Reportedly Provides British Spy Agency Access To Its Undersea Cables (Alex Wilhelm) http://t.co/ILVw1EYVBB 23:44:33

Visit with Cousin Holly & Andrew

@abulsme tweets from 2013-08-02 (UTC)

Reading – So Long Privacy? Court OKs Cell Phones for Warrantless Government Tracking (Adam Serwer) http://t.co/EafUbriTYK 00:57:46
My fitbit #Fitstats for 8/01/2013: 22,838 steps and 16.9 km traveled. http://t.co/yvGq0OoOT9 01:02:03
Reading – Oakland’s Creepy New Surveillance Program Just Got Approved (Linda Lye) https://t.co/YVHKgwEMeX 01:03:05
Reading – Marco Rubio’s 2016 Chances Are Alive and Well (Nate Cohn) http://t.co/Iv1F7ffkRx 01:44:16
Reading – A Republican Case for Climate Action (Ruckelhaus/Thomas/Reilly/Whitman) http://t.co/gr1svrvIZ0 02:04:38
Reading – FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects (Jennifer Valentino-Devries) http://t.co/4a6D31FggJ 03:11:48
Reading – Clarification and update (Michele Catalano) http://t.co/C5Z12tsKBb 03:28:20
Reading – Police Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Their Photo Last Night (Dominic Holden) http://t.co/QVFDW8PUaO 03:38:09
Reading – The Meter vs Ads (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/YGOsTd0HqI 04:09:48
Reading – A Prohibition Rubicon (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/6CCiWeJOFE 04:14:14
Reading – Yale Officially Declares 'Nonconsensual Sex' Not That Big of a Deal (Katie J. M. Baker) http://t.co/Ykbd672GSy 04:27:18
Reading – To Russia With Asylum (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/veKkqKaaC8 04:36:26
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: No, Not Really, No http://t.co/gIAjkjpIV3 14:09:59
RT @ggreenwald: How irrational to choose Russia over the luxurious, super-max hellhole of life-long solitary confinement the US generously вЂ¦ 14:17:38
Reading – Hang on to your balloons! The helium cliff is nigh. (Lydia DePillis) http://t.co/19A64BOI6Z 14:20:18
Reading – Another Wild Story About Government Spying Circulates the Internet, Only to Be Debunked Later (Bob Cesca) http://t.co/zGIsHiL9NQ 16:04:18
Reading – Senators spar over definition of В‘journalistВ’ in seeking to protect them (Kate Irby) http://t.co/OwiCEPsAxK 16:54:13
The Government should NEVER be in the business of deciding who is or is not a вЂњreporterвЂќ for purposes of shield laws, etc. 16:55:07
If a shield law does not protect Wikileaks, my personal blog, and random Joe putting something on Facebook, then it is worse than useless. 16:56:22
Not everybody is a вЂњprofessional journalistвЂќ, but EVERYBODY should have the same rights to disseminate info they feel is important. 16:57:54
When and if government can snoop to find sources, compel you to reveal sources, etc should be same for NYTimes and random guy with blog. 16:59:57
Of course I think there should be very high bar to justify that sort of thing. Some would argue a low bar. But should not differ by day job. 17:01:06
There should not be a special class of people with extra rights with the government getting to pick & choose who is in that class. Bad idea! 17:02:22
RT @owillis: dear us congress, you dont get to judge who is/isn't a journalist. http://t.co/XoSXS3OCOD 17:08:34
RT @owillis: "Feinstein suggested that the definition comprise only journalists who make salaries"
THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA. STOP. 17:08:37
RT @owillis: this isnt 1870 or 1970 when we had "journalists" and "everyone else." the line is blurred, forever. so stop making archaic law. 17:08:41
Reading – Google, the freaky line and why Moto X is a game-changer (Robert Scoble) http://t.co/VXKBl030Rc 19:31:59
Important counterpoint to Greenwald -> Reading – Getting XKeyscore Right (Joshua Foust) https://t.co/CxWfi8NQJW 21:47:47

Curmudgeon’s Corner: No, Not Really, No

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

Bradley Manning
NSA Debate
UK Censorship

Recorded on 31 Jul 2013

Length this week – 1:02:44


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