ZantaWB's comments

I did, thank you. Correcting the original post now.

The underground marketplace for desirable social media handles (OG Handles) was explored in this excellent episode of Reply All: The Snapchat Thief [1].

In that story the basic technique was a SIM-swapping attack [2]. Fraudster calls the cell provider, claims to be the victim and that they lost their phone. Cell provider then ports the phone identity over to a new SIM. After that the fraudster just resets the account's password and gets the 2FA SMS (or even easier, one-time passwords) to their newly connected phone. Don't know if that same basic technique still applies nowadays, but in any case the most surprising part of the episode to me was how large and mature a black market there was for these account handles.

[1] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

e: Corrected, original post incorrectly said new number, not new SIM.

Read this as a fan of her work and a friend of several female geologists with stories from remote work camps. I was struck by the even-handedness of it. Really interesting exploration of labour, gender, and home. The artwork is also phenomenal at conveying the personality of the characters and the sheer scale of the jobsites.

He touches on this idea a lot, but most deeply in Infinite Jest where the parallels between between addiction to media and addiction to drugs is a major theme. In that story people have developed 'Entertainments,' basically video segments. Someone makes an Entertainment so unbelievably good that anyone who watches it is immediately stupefied and has no will to do anything but watch the Entertainment over and over. This Entertainment becomes a potent terrorist weapon since it can essentially take out anyone to whom it's broadcast.

This was mentioned in the article as the main reason for the legacy 55mph limit imposed after the Saudi oil embargo.

I put yes for this because I've heard the funny sounding slang phrase 'on fleek' (similar to on point) before, but I'm not sure if it actually is an OED word.