Magistral

Somewhere over 4 hours of sleep.


I should pay better attention to when my body wants to sleep and aim to be ready to be in bed and NOT have one more round of youtube videos before being home and brushing my teeth.


Why do I need to be reminded of this?


I made the grownup decision to watch a video about who killed Boris Nemtsov, a Russian reformer murdered in 2014 partly because of his views about the annexation of Crimea.


It turns out, according to the Guardian with info from Belling Cat, the Russian national database related to booking ANY kind of transportation (idk about uber and lyft and taxis) Magistral or major highway is both a data feast for assassination squads AND a hot commodity on the international dark web data market for stolen data. The not commodity part and the fact that assassination squads book their surveillance trips in the same system makes a GOLD mine.


This is all fascinating in a morbid and dystopian way. It is also NOT the most soothing bedtime content. 


Happy Wednesday and the Times says COVID rates are ticking up in King County.

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