After over three decades of service, AOL is discontinuing its dial-up access!

My first thought was 'AOL is still around?' Turns out that yes, it was. They had a terrible merger with Time-Warner, then were bought out by Verizon then are now owned by Yahoo? But they still exist. And until the end of September, will still have modem banks that people can access.

Modems? Modems are still made? I can't remember the last time I saw a modem in a store, much less connected to working hardware.

Apparently dial-up internet is still sort of big in rural areas, which makes sense. Not having DSL, much less fiber, dial-up is the best that can be managed. After AOL shuts down its modem banks, dial-up will still be available from Earthlink, Juno, MSN, and NetZero, and probably other smaller, local ISPs.

https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/0626249/aol-finally-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-access---after-34-years

DON'T EAT THE BLUE PIG MEAT!

You'd hope people would be smart enough to know that, but you never know....

Trappers and hunters in California are killing wild pigs, and upon butchering them, finding the meat inside to be bright blue! That would be a bit of a shocking discovery.

From the Gizmodo article: “I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company in Salinas, California, told The Los Angeles Times. “I’m talking about neon blue, blueberry blue.”

YEESH!

Apparently the pigs are raiding squirrel-control stations that have a rodenticide containing an anticoagulant that is dyed blue to make it obvious to its handlers that 'this is poison'. The dosage isn't high enough to cause problems for the pigs, but secondary exposure to people consuming the tainted pig meat could be problematic.

https://gizmodo.com/wild-pigs-in-california-are-turning-neon-blue-on-the-inside-officials-warn-2000639638

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/033255/strange-wild-pigs-in-california---what-turned-their-flesh-blue