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Yet another reason to reconsider those crazy bike lanes we’ve seen sprouting up around town.

The 17th Street and Broadway improvement projects in Santa Monica are good examples of bad street design.

In addition, Measure HLA would require the installation of hundreds of miles of new bike lanes and “other transportation improvements on designated boulevards that undergo major repairs,” the L.A. Times reported.
Los Angeles firefighters oppose street modification measure | KTLA

The same can be said about Venice Boulevard though Mar Vista.

Let’s just dial it all back a bit for now, shall we?

We have enough repair work ahead of us already after all this recent rain anyway.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/los-angeles-firefighters-oppose-street-modification-measure

Re-watching Repo Man (again) and I spotted the author of “Dioretix” – Googled that and wound up here.

Another rabbit hole to go down?

x rum-bubba
x rum-bubba – Cinematic Literature

https://cinematicliteraturecom.wordpress.com/tag/x-rum-bubba/

“X. Rum-Bubba! X. Rum-Bubba!”

“Know what I mean?” Lite asked rhetorically.

“X. Rum-Bubba!”

New npm Packages Stealing SSH Keys

The Sonatype Security Research team is currently tracking an ongoing campaign on the npm registry that uses npm packages to retrieve and exfiltrate your Kubernetes configuration and SSH keys to an external server.
npm packages caught exfiltrating Kubernetes config, SSH keys

Great. I wonder what else is going on.

Via https://blog.sonatype.com/npm-packages-caught-exfiltrating-kubernetes-config-ssh-keys

Whoah! WTF?!?

This is absolutely nuts.

I’m sure it’s going to have serious ramifications on the west coast, especially in Southern California.

Thousands of information technology workers contracting with US companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said.
Thousands of North Korean Workers Got Remote US Jobs: FBI

I’m going to have to do some more research on this, but I’m astonished and had to share this quickly.

https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-workers-remote-work-jobs-us-ballistic-missle-fbi-2023-10

A 9/11 “What If?”

Saw this on ABC News today. It’s a few months old, but I thought it was poignant.

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129563&page=1

“If San Diego FBI agent Steven Butler had known what the CIA knew about possible terror attacks, he may have had the best chance to stop the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, investigators told ABCNEWS.”