Fare thee well, Liz!

So a third Torrie PM in a year. And BoJo The Clown is throwing his hat in the ring, even though he's still under investigation for lying to Parliament? If they weren't desperate to cling to power and had any dollop of honour left, they'd call for a general election, but they won't.

Liz has two distinct records: tanking the UK economy in record time with her proposed tax hike, which dropped the Pound below parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time in ages, and shortest tenure as Prime Minister. The previous record holder lasted five months: at least he had the dignity of dying in office after catching pneumonia.

Kanye buying Parler? Parler doxxes 300+ Gold Star-level members!

'Cause computer security is hard!

Or maybe because people using email casually, without paying attention to what they're doing, are stupid?

The incident was revealed by newsletter writer Adam Ryan who shared screenshots of the original message from Parler about the “monumental new chapter,” explaining that they expected the acquisition to be complete by the end of the year and describing their VIP members as “an invaluable part of the Parler family and experience.”

The problem was, they sent it to all the VIP members using CC on the email rather than BCC.

OOPS!

One person replied, “Hi everyone! It’s a pleasure being doxxed with such a fine crew.”

https://fortune.com/2022/10/20/parler-doxxed-vip-members-announcing-kanye-west-takeover/

In Lord of the Rings Online tomorrow, I'm performing music at a memorial service

The person who passed away was also a minstrel, and I was able to get a copy of his song collection and I retrofitted it to fit my band, which was useful, so I'll be playing his music, which I hope pleases his friends to hear his music one last time. I didn't know the deceased, but he had pretty good taste in music and was a good arranger.

This will be the second memorial that I've performed. Interestingly, the first one I did I gained a best friend, and she's organizing the memorial for the second group! She recommended me to them, and I'm happy to help. Fortunately my band is large enough to play this guy's songs without alteration, aside from rearranging the instrument order to fit where the instruments are in my band.

I also solicited requests for other music to play, and one song was Paralyzer. There was a lot of music where all I had was a song title, and I had to search and make inferences as to who the band was. And I usually got it right.

And I found this video. Which is pure awesomesauce! The music is good, too.

Watch on YouTube