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I sometimes wonder if it'd be at all productive or helpful to create networks shaped like the kind of networks that attract the wrong kind of attention from the worst kind of people but that contain nothing. Just having encrypted traffic wouldn't be enough. There would need to be more signs that something was "going on."
Inflatable tanks again, I guess.
For internet traffic, maybe. But, if "everything" is encrypted functionally your workspace isn't.
The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
@burnitdown Them boys from SI
Someone lost their bishop in the bronx.
The clay is textured and the glaze is semi transparent, this creates the pattern and sense of depth.
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Hubertus Bigend always wears this annoying blue suit jacket and his "media" "company" is called Blue Ant. (It's a creepy advertising agency.)
So he has a famous blue ant coat.
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Is this a Gibson reference?
Leonard Coant
This place is really the reverse twitter for real.
Nice song! (and video!)
Yeah. Those are Paratrechina longicornis (the common name "longhorn ants" might be OK.)
It looks great! Are they sped up?
The first group of ants were probably trying to get it far enough away that these ants wouldn't take over. Sometimes they will bury a large item like that. I would have loved to watch "the change over"
Paratrechina longicornis likes to run around in the sun and stay warm. Might come back when the sun is out again.
About this size? I'm becoming more confident these could be Paratrechina longicornis (aka "crazy ants" but please don't call them that, there are ants from like five different genuses that go by that common name. It's no good. )
I'm putting my money on Paratrechina longicornis you can see the "long cornis" on this one right here:
I'm glad the anole got away. Poor little guy. I would like to identify these ants, but going just on size and gaster shape alone is risky. They look very small. Were they especially small (for ants)? It could be Monomorium sp. but they could also be Paratrechina longicornis which is invasive, but largely naturalized.
The social carrying makes me think it's Paratrechina longicornis (aka "crazy ants" though that common name is no good it's used for too many sp.)
It helps that every hole is *technically* an "ant-shaped" hole. (given sufficient ants)
I'm just sayin'
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