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this is security?

Found out this afternoon that the email gurus at the local institution where I have an account don’t understand or don’t care about security: asked why, after a maintenance outage, I was unable to read email and an insider sent me a new server name I could use but told me that imap is going [...]

cutting your own throat?

The idea that the South commemorates/venerates the Civil War is not new but the analysis here — that the decision to focus on manual agriculture, rather than do anything that might add value or elevate the status of slaves or freedmen — was right to the point. It’s understood that the North prevailed due to [...]

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