Spring was never waiting for us, dear

Going to Arthur Park was really just a lark

The leaf covered path flowing down

Someone left this roller out in the rain

I don't think I can skate it

The ice is thin, I'd break it

And I'll have to wait for winter again.

Thank you for your service, T510

For a nearly a decade this has lurked on the side table to my workspace.

In June of 2014 I bought a steeply discounted Lenovo ThinkPad T510 from my then-employer IBM.  Initially, the ThinkPad replaced a very old desktop computer as the main home computer, but the kids gaming needs soon outstripped it and we purchased an HP in 2016 (which we still have).  The ThinkPad then became "my" computer for personal use, until I joined Dataiku in 2017 and company policy allowed me to use the work MacBook for personal use.

At this point I considered rehoming the ThinkPad, but then realized that I could instead install Linux w/no GUI on it and use it as a personal Dataiku server.

And so it began its lurking, and I started and maintained a number of projects on it, through my switch to Olive and acquisition by Availity.  But as my day-to-day work no longer involved Dataiku, I felt more keenly the inability to share those projects the way I can with, say, GitHub.  So I started moving Dataiku projects to notebooks in GitHub repos, and today finished moving the last one.

So now it's time to finally wipe and rehome the ThinkPad.

Edit: quick shout out to all the ports on the laptop and its dock.  The laptop alone has more ports than the dock of my current work laptop.

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind; Annalee Newitz; 2024

An important book for our times, and I would recommend. My primary quibble is that the preface ends with the statement, 

"This book is a story about how one nation, the United States, turned people's minds into blood-soaked battleground -- and how we, the people, can put down our weapons and build something better." 

I think the book delivers in spades on the first part, chronicling a history of psychological warfare from before the start of our nation.  With respect to the second part, while there is some discussion of how we can defend ourselves and our communities from psyops, I don't think it presents practical guidance to solving the problem of achieving *mutual* disarmament.