Obituary of Renay Mandel Corren

Obituary:

Hers was a bawdy, rowdy life lived large, broke and loud. We thought Renay could not be killed. God knows, people tried. A lot. Renay has been toying with death for a decades, but always beating it and running off in her silver Chevy Nova. Covid couldn’t kill Renay. Neither could pneumonia twice, infections, blood clots, bad feet, breast cancer twice, two mastectomies, two recessions, multiple bankruptcies, marriage to a philandering Sergeant Major, divorce in the 70’s, six kids, one cesarean, a few abortions from the Quietly Famous Abortionist of Spring Lake, NC or an affair with Larry King in the 60’s.

See the whole thing at https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451. Some story behind it from The Guardian:

The obituary describes abortions and an affair with Larry King, but he (Andy Corren, Renay’s son) said that he actually toned down some of Renay’s life – for the protection of those living and dead, and because not all statutes of limitations have expired.

How to reduce Facebook tracking

Let’s face it. You’re not paying for Facebook, right? Therefore you are not the customer. You are the product.

Facebook even tracks you when you are on non-Facebook sites so they can sell your information to advertisers.

Here are seven steps to stop Facebook tracking, starting with the nuclear option. ((Each step has details in the article.))
1. Quit Facebook and Instagram
2. Change these Facebook privacy settings
3. Limit app tracking on your phone
4. Bolster your Web browser
5. Block more app trackers
6. Obscure your email
7. Tell companies to stop selling your data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/29/stop-facebook-tracking/. About 1,400 words.

Deepfakes

Artificial intelligence programs can modify video to show actors speaking a fluent foreign language…

This AI makes Robert De Niro perform lines in flawless German

…The technology has been used to create fake celebrity porn and damaging revenge-porn clips targeting women. Experts worry that deepfakes showing a famous person in a compromising situation might spread misinformation and sway an election.

Article: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/robert-de-niro-speaks-fluent-german-in-taxi-driver-thanks-to-ai/.

Tweets about cats and dogs

Some of these are pretty funny. Click a “pic.twitter.com” link to see the Twitter entry, and clicking a picture shows you a somewhat larger and more complete image. Here’s HuffPost’s 2021 list:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/funniest-tweets-cats-dogs-2021_n_61ccf5f9e4b0bb04a6362061

For example, from https://twitter.com/the_shb/status/1443740333041328128: “Today seems as good a day as any to share these pics of the cat done as a Zen garden with the world.”