Last night, Perry’s Mom sent me a screenshot from Facebook and asked if I sent her a new friend request. Nope. I sure did not.
It’s a common FB impersonation scam.
I did a quick post for any of my friends that might get a second friend request to ignore it — and immediately thereafter, a comment was left. The comment was to let me know (translate to let EVERY SINGLE ONE of my friends know) that my “hacked account” could be easily cleaned up by a service they could provide.
That too is part of the scam.
My account wasn’t hacked — it was simply cloned. I deleted and blocked that “person” and comment.
My security settings were that ‘friends of friends’ can comment on and see my posts. I’ve since changed that because I obviously have at least one friend that doesn’t know how FB works. SOMEONE (Perry’s Mom) is friends with the “recovery service” account. Good grief!
Perry’s Mom LOVES the AI photos she creates constantly with META, and I noticed her bragging that for the past 11 weeks she’s made the “top sharer list” for House video clips. We’ve talked to her about the dangers many times, but the little woman just keeps plugging along. And it’s not like I can unfriend Perry’s Momma.
We can’t stop the bad actors, and we can’t change how others use social media. It is what it is… and it’s another reason I’m not a fan of social media — especially Facebook.
It’s better to spend less time on that, and more time enjoying things like this:
Moving forward, I can only suggest that you lock down your account via your privacy settings… and don’t befriend Perry’s Mom. 🙂
Now you know: Some of the only survivors of the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978 were the People’s Temple Basketball Team, who were playing an away game in Georgetown, Guyana during the mass suicide event. Jim Jones radioed the team demanding they commit “revolutionary suicide,” but they refused.
I live in a barndo that looks like a garage. The floors downstairs are acid stained concrete. It is what it is… and I love it here. While I’m 110% sure this place will never make the cover of Better Homes & Gardens, I’m also 110% a-ok with that.
That doesn’t mean I don’t think about ways I can improve the way it looks, or make it more comfortable. We all do that, right?
So let’s talk about the dining room…
First, let me say that I’m not a fan of dining rooms to begin with. It’s a seldom used room when there’s not a growing family living in the home. Having said that, it’s not like I need 2 living/family rooms either… so there’s that.
Curious insofar as what I might do to change the look a bit, I turned to Grok — my AI pal — for some inspiration.
Grok suggested I go with a design popular in upscale suburban homes.
Grok: “The dining chairs feature tufted blue velvet upholstery, gilded gold trim, cabriole-style legs, and carved details — very characteristic of Louis XV / French Provincial or Chippendale-inspired pieces. The large crystal chandelier and opulent accessories provide a sense of elegance and formality.”
What the actual Hell?
Again, I live in a pole barn that looks like a garage. 🙄
To be honest, I’d be thrilled if whomever installed the mini-splits would’ve recognized the CENTER of the wall.
YOU TRY IT… upload a photo of one of your rooms and let Grok redesign it for you.
Here’s hoping you have better results. For me? I’m done.
Now you know: Famous boxing promoter, Don King, killed two people. The first was ruled to be a justifiable homicide after he had robbed King, and he served no prison time. 12 years later in 1966, King stomped his employee death for owing him $600. He served less than 4 years for the murder.
Y’all know I’m not a fan of social media, but I saw something yesterday — on Memorial Day — that was pretty darned awesome.
A Gold Star Mom made a simple request on X.
She asked if anybody visiting Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day would stop by her son’s grave and leave a photo for her family on X. What happened next?
Dozens of Americans made the walk to Section 60 to visit SSG Alan W. Shaw. Veterans. Families. Complete strangers. People who had never met Alan, but chose to honor him anyway. She said her notifications filled with photos, kind messages, prayers, and stories from people honoring not just Alan, but so many of our fallen heroes.
For one day on social media, people put aside the constant noise and negativity and came together for something bigger than themselves.
A pause to honor and remember…
We are grateful for the courage of those who gave their all for our country — the ultimate sacrifice. It’s why we can enjoy beautiful, peaceful days like this together. 🩷
We even fed those pesky neighbors (and kept one rack of ribs for ourselves)!
And afterward, we took a drive and a selfie (Hipstamatic with a 1969 Cherry filter)…
Here’s hoping you, too, had a safe, meaningful Memorial Day weekend!
Now you know: Mount Everest’s first measurement came out to a perfect 29,000 feet, so surveyors reported it as 29,002 feet to make sure that the public knew it was a real calculation and not just an estimate.
Recent events taking place within the Trump administration revived a memory from when I worked in a bank about 100 years ago. There’s no real correlation, but that memory still poked up into my thoughts. It sounds crazy, but most every time a person in management was terminated/fired, it was after they took a vacation.
Get out and don’t come back!
I have no idea if the same practices are implemented today as they were when I was employed in a bank, but back then, vacations were a curse. Why? Because that’s when all your stuff was audited. Employees — even tellers — weren’t allowed to step foot in their own branch during their time off.
You barely got out of the door before your customer files were being pulled and your digital transactions (accessing customer accounts even to assist them) were being scrutinized. If you made a single innocent mistake, that audit would reveal it.
I seriously kept a notebook where I recorded every single thing I did every single day.
I wrote down the time, who I spoke with, and the exact steps I took right down to the last 4 digits of their accounts. There was no way anyone was going to try to blame me for something I didn’t remember doing because I had a record of it — down to the minute. No vacation prep for me… and I didn’t want to go inside my branch while on vacation anyway.
Neither Perry nor I have that type of job, so all those rules don’t apply…
The Internet is ablaze with speculation.
Of course, that’s nothing new, but with Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation as Director of National Intelligence, there’s a whole lot of talk from people who basically know nothing. She put out a statement that she’s leaving because her husband has recently been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. Many are saying it’s because she disagrees with Trump over Iran.
I wonder if she’s recently been on vacation. 😉
That’s still not as interesting as the accusations made against Fox’s guest, Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward. Some say it was someone else in a realistic CIA type mask doing the interview because his neck shows a blatant flaw. Others, including Fox, claim it was a lighting issue or filter glitch.
Before you decide what you think, look at the image on the left from the recorded segment, and choose your answer from the list on the right:
Now you know: In 2017 Perth Zoo was put on lockdown when two orangutans briefly escaped their enclosure. A 5-year-old male orangutan fell over a barrier & into a garden bed outside the enclosure. His mom then simply went to retreive him before using the visitor boardwalk to go back to her exhibit voluntarily.
To begin… I am not gay. I don’t care if you are. Having said that, I don’t want gay pride iPhone wallpaper! I hate that it’s packaged in with the latest apple update and you can’t opt out of it. For the record, Google/Android doesn’t do that.
I’m filling out feedback forms like it’s my job… and Dharma is voicing her opinion in other ways.
Feedback is a waste of time. Apple responded to mine entitled, “Please consider viewpoint neutrality” with the following: “We reviewed your report and determined the behavior you experienced is currently functioning as intended.”
If a device requires something to work safely and properly, it should be viewpoint neutral.
I don’t have a problem with gay pride wallpaper… and I wouldn’t have a problem with straight pride wallpaper either (like THAT would ever be a thing!). My problem is having one choice forced upon me.
I’m also fine with every single app and device on the planet incorporating AI into their product/service. What I’m NOT fine with is programming that keeps it in my freaking face constantly.
I’m not just leaving feedback, I’m unsubscribing when I can.
I’m married to my iPhone for another year and 1/2 before an upgrade. I have a spare Android phone (with phone number I hate) that I’m tempted to use just so I’m not freaking pissed off all the time.
And Evernote that I’ve paid for yearly for over a decade? Done! It’s a productivity app for note-taking, task management, and organizing all sorts of digital information (even recipes). It’s now ate up with AI. The big pop-up “let AI name your recipe” plastered over where I want to READ the recipe — you know, the big pop-up that you can NOT make go away — pushed me right over the top. I’m done.
Stop messing with my stuff! 🤬
Photoshop’s update defaulted to the workspace THEY want me to use. Even the latest WordPress update requires me to change my admin shit back to what I had and prefer… get your bright blue contrast crap outta my face. And while you’re at it, gimme my old, bigger font back too. The new block layout is simply too small for my ancient eyeballs.
Is it just me? Or are you frustrated with the same things I am?
Now you know: Congress refused to support the preservation of George Washington’s Virginia estate or buy it as a historical site in 1853 when it fell into disrepair. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association bought and restored the now iconic home, becoming the first nationwide women’s organization
