"You see, I'm not one to beat about the large, black boots but the first requirement for any security guard is to be totally-totally-t-to-totally insecure. I mean, who else needs to dress like a riot control cop so that he can write down your name and tell you where to park your car?"
Trudging through the W5YI Report archives in @dlarc looking for #hamRadio license stats and found a more general-interest story on #MaxHeadroom on 1987-12-15.
> WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?
> Another case of overwhelming a transmitted TV signal took place Sunday night, November 22 when a video pirate wearing a "Max Headroom" mask broke into the local feed signals of Chicago TV superstation WGN-TV and non-commercial WTTW-TV.
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"On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers."
After being on Mast, with zero adverts, zero evil algorithm selecting for clickhate, I realise I was a frog in a pan of boiling water before.
That's how FB, Google et al get you: it all starts off cosy, first hits for free and then, once you're hooked, blipverts and bullshit. That water was getting slowly hotter. That's on me.
SO am I gonna leap into the boiling pans of Bluesky or Threads?