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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Sep 11

End of an era. I got my start on Java ~30 years ago writing applets.
Final nail in the coffin for Java in the Browser.
JEP 504: Remove the Applet API
openjdk.org/jeps/504
#java #applet

openjdk.org

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Aug 8

The White House with a door labelled Messenger Entrance and a chute leading into a dumpster labelled Messenger Exit

Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · May 25

Hilarious that The Big Story in their interview with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow they bleep the word sh*to but not enshitification

Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Apr 10

You're damn right there's going to be subpoenas. You're damn right there's going to be investigations.
Because when you steal from the people expect the people to rise up, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision .
-Maxwell Frost, April 5, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Apr 4

I’m not here to say “I told you so”... I swore I wasn’t going to say that, but #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision .
- Kamala Harris April 3, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 29

Signal [is] ... NOT approved to process or store nonpublic unclassified information, unless #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
- NSA F9T53 OPSEC Special Bulletin Feb 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 28

You have got to be kidding me, #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision - Hillary Clinton Mar 24, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 27

We are currently clean on OPSEC, unless #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
- Pete Hegseth
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 21

Prime Minister, I think it’s clear we should just skip a generation because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision - Mark Carney, Mar 12, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 20

Mundus sine Caesaribus propter #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision - Jay Gruber SXSW March 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 17

The Oval Office atmosphere during this conversation reminded us of interrogations by the Security Services and Communist court debates. They demanded we stop our activities, arguing that innocent people suffered because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
Lech Wałęsa - 2025/3/3
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 14

Greenland is one country that everyone wants to stand behind, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
-- All Parties in Greenland, March 14, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine #StandWithGreenland

Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 7

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression, and #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
-- Greta Thunberg, Sept 19, 2019
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 6

Skiing at Whistler Blackcomb with my sister

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 5

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
-- LBJ, UN General Assembly, December 17, 1963
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 5

To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
- Khan Noonien Singh, quoting Captain Ahab
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 3

The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
- Dmitry Peskov, February 28, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 2

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
-- MLK, Jr., Lincoln Memorial, Aug. 28, 1963
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 1

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender, because
#ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
-- Winston Churchill, House of Commons, June 4, 1940
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Mar 1

We shall send to the moon...a giant rocket...and then return it safely to Earth... and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out...
because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision -- John F Kennedy, Rice University, September 12, 1962
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Feb 27

And you thought Three Body Problem was unfilmable...
comicbook.com/tv-shows/new...

#iainmbanks #theculture #considerphlebas

New Amazon Sci-Fi Series Is the Anti-Star Trek (and Marvel Director Is Involved)

Amazon is developing a TV adaptation of the Culture series by author Iain M. Banks. This acclaimed 10-book series is credited with reviving the space opera genre and presenting a radically different v...

comicbook.com

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Feb 12

Agreed. After the first two years having spent way too much on signatures I stopped doing that and just went to listen to the panels. But for Frank Miller..

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Feb 11

Guess who's coming to town!
Gonna get me some books signed.
#FrankMiller #comics #calgaryexpo

Portrait of Frank Miller with a grey fedora. Daredevil and Elektra posters in the background.

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Feb 11

I completely agree. I'll come out of my silo in 4 years.
www.gocomics.com/lio/2025/02/10 #election2028 #liocomic

Lio by Mark Tatulli for February 10, 2025 | GoComics.com

www.gocomics.com

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Tom Malaher @tom.malaher.org · Feb 9

News Flash: Alan Turing was a smart guy.

While working on Enigma, invented a communication system that digitized voice, encrypted that stream and transmitted it to be decrypted at the other end. So Skype, but in the 1940s.
#alanturing #bayleypapers #delilah #enigma
spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turings...

Alan Turing's Top Secret DIY Project

In November 2023, a large cache of Turing's wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many shee...

spectrum.ieee.org

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