Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 20, 1997: the syndicated series PENSACOLA: WINGS OF GOLD premiered. A mashup of TOP GUN and BAYWATCH, the series follows an elite naval task force based in Florida (never mind the frequent appearance of mountains). It ran for three seasons and aired in almost forty countries.




Sept 20, 2002: Tor was launched by MIT students for 'anonymous' communications.



The original technology behind Tor was developed by the US Navy and has received about 60% of its funding from the State Department and Department of Defense, although its other backers have included digital rights lobbyist the Electronic Frontier Foundation, journalism and community body Knight Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

When it launched in 2002, the Tor project's emphasis was on protecting internet users' privacy from corporations rather than governments.

Never mind "onion routing". I still see people online asking what is Tor; what is it used for? LOL. Ok, not everyone is a computer geek.

In the 1990s, the lack of security on the internet and its ability to be used for tracking and surveillance was becoming clear, and in 1995, David Goldschlag, Mike Reed, and Paul Syverson at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) asked themselves if there was a way to create internet connections that don't reveal who is talking to whom, even to someone monitoring the network. Their answer was to create and deploy the first research designs and prototypes of onion routing.

The goal of onion routing was to have a way to use the internet with as much privacy as possible, and the idea was to route traffic through multiple servers and encrypt it each step of the way. This is still a simple explanation for how Tor works today.

Tor history

Sept 20, 2006: JERICHO premiered on CBS. This started out as a really good show with high expectations, especially for that time era with Bush crusade on terrorists, it got a lot of people really spooked, but like so many other shows the screenwriting went into the dumpster. The show is currently stream on Paramount Plus (they want your location), among other platforms.




September 20, 2011: The United States military ended its "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy, thereby allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the armed forces for the first time.




Clandestine Command Center and one of the four missile-subs of the Four Horsemen of Tomahawkalypse.




One more shot as the Navy waves goodbye - USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser being decommissioned this morning in Norfolk, Virginia - September 20, 2024. Her motto: Arrayed For Victory.
With all the Decomm'ing lately the Navy will even donate some barely used hulls to USSF.




How Republicans used to deal with neo-Nazi gubernatorial candidates...


NY Times

The more things change, the more politicians stay the same.

"Have you ever studied what happens when the government does something compared to what happens when they don't do anything?"


For 150 years the gov't of the United States did nothing when there was a depression. No depression during all those 150 years was ever as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s in which the gov't did more than it had ever done before in its entire history. The stock market crash occurred in October 1929, two months later unemployment peaked at 9% and then it started declining. And by June 1930 it was down to 6.3%. That was when the first gov't intervention took place and within 6 months it was in double digits. It stayed in double digits for the entire decade of the 1930s."
— Thomas Sowell


From the mainstreams darling to being cancelled for straying out of lane.
The strange case (sarc) of the media reaction to Greta Thunberg once she is old enough to have opinions of her own...




A pro photographer traveled to the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii to capture this: 



Saturn briefly covered by the moon.
The largest print shows the entire moon, with the planet just a distant light. Saturn's Ingress


Bread crumbs left in Austrian library led me to a German city library where previously unknown Mozart music was just discovered.



No, really...

Unknown Mozart string trio discovered in Germany