I did my usual picture and a couple hundred words of drivel last night and was NOT expecting this morning’s reaction to it.
First, to explain – when I publish one of these daily bits of 100% human-created content (no AI here, and there never will be, well, unless I’m sharing so that I can point and laugh and mock) it goes out to about 770 email subscribers, onto my website, and then to Facebook, Mastodon, Spoutible, Bluesky, Threads, Tumblr (no one was more surprised that I even HAD a Tumblr account than I was!), and Linkedin.
This morning I got an automated email that said that I had a comment posted on my post on Linkedin. (Insert my surprised face here.)
Reacting without taking time to ponder (about two seconds) I was amazed that something I said had violated a LinkedIn policy. COOL! But what was it about brain freeze that had triggered them? I mean, they’ve been fine with all of the times I’ve suggested that our “President” and his evil minions engage in sexual acts that are physiologically unlikely and would require far more contortionist capabilities than I’ve ever given any of them credit for. But they’re upset about brain freeze?
Maybe it was the comment about how we might be living in a simulation that has bugs in the programming and brain freeze is one of them? Did I accidentally stumple on one of the great secrets of the universe and now Big Ice Cream (or its overlord, Big Universal Bug Tracking Customer Support) was going to have to disappear me?
However, after that two seconds of amazement and amusement had passed, I began to suspect that it might simply be fake, a phishing attempt of some sort. Wouldn’t “LinkedIn security” have at least one follower? Is that link even to a valid address?
Huh! Imagine that! I didn’t even know scammers were trolling in Linkedin. I’m happy that Linkedin is aware of it and on top of its game.
On the other hand, isn’t that exactly what Big Ice Cream would want us to think? This might not be over…
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