Somos alumnos de la Facultad de Derecho de la UNNE, en la materia de "Derecho de la Navegacion" a cargo de la Dra. Liliana Moiraghi, innovando en la experiencia del uso de las TICS con miras al futuro.



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BIENVENIDOS!


viernes, 13 de mayo de 2022

You have an outstanding payment. Debt settlement required.

Hello!

Unfortunately, I have some unpleasant news for you.
Roughly several months ago I have managed to get a complete access to all devices that you use to browse internet.
Afterwards, I have proceeded with monitoring all internet activities of yours.

You can check out the sequence of events summarize below:
Previously I have bought from hackers a special access to various email accounts (currently, it is rather a straightforward thing that can be done online).
Clearly, I could effortlessly log in to your email account as well (dchonavegacion2010.timecharter@blogger.com).

One week after that, I proceeded with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems of all your devices, which are used by you to login to your email.
Actually, that was rather a simple thing to do (because you have opened a few links from your inbox emails previously).
Genius is in simplicity. ( ~_^)

Thanks to that software I can get access to all controllers inside your devices (such as your video camera, microphone, keyboard etc.).
I could easily download all your data, photos, web browsing history and other information to my servers.
I can access all your social networks accounts, messengers, emails, including chat history as well as contacts list.
This virus of mine unceasingly keeps refreshing its signatures (since it is controlled by a driver), and as result stays unnoticed by antivirus software.

Hereby, I believe by this time it is already clear for you why I was never detected until I sent this letter...

While compiling all the information related to you, I have also found out that you are a true fan and frequent visitor of adult websites.
You truly enjoy browsing through porn websites, while watching arousing videos and experiencing an unimaginable satisfaction.
To be honest, I could not resist but to record some of your kinky solo sessions and compiled them in several videos, which demonstrate you masturbating and cumming in the end.

If you still don't trust me, all it takes me is several mouse clicks to distribute all those videos with your colleagues, friends and even relatives.
In addition, I can upload them online for entire public to access.
I truly believe, you absolutely don't want such things to occur, bearing in mind the kinky stuff exposed in those videos that you usually watch, (you definitely understand what I am trying to say) it will result in a complete disaster for you.

We can still resolve it in the following manner:
You perform a transfer of $1590 USD to me (a bitcoin equivalent based on the exchange rate during the funds transfer), so after I receive the transfer, I will straight away remove all those lecherous videos without hesitation.
Then we can pretend like it has never happened before. In addition, I assure that all the harmful software will be deactivated and removed from all devices of yours. Don't worry, I am a man of my word.

It is really a good deal with a considerably low the price, bearing in mind that I was monitoring your profile as well as traffic over an extended period.
If you still unaware about the purchase and transfer process of bitcoins - all you can do is find the necessary information online.

My bitcoin wallet is as follows: 1LzA9kzQkGDTYSfbbLE8gK5RAJ5ke32ntC

You are left with 48 hours and the countdown starts right after you open this email (2 days to be specific).

Don't forget to keep in mind and abstain from doing the following:
> Do not attempt to reply my email (this email was generated in your inbox together with the return address).
> Do not attempt to call police as well as other security services. Moreover, don't even think of sharing it with your friends. If I get to know about it (based on my skills, that would be very easy, since that I have all your systems under my control and constant monitoring) - your dirty video will become public without delay.
> Don't attempt searching for me - it is completely useless. Cryptocurrency transactions always remain anonymous.
> Don't attempt reinstalling the OS of your devices or even getting rid of them. It is meaningless too, because all your private videos are already been available on remote servers.

Things you should be concerned about:
> That I will not receive the funds transfer you make.
Relax, I will be able to track it immediately, after you complete the funds transfer, because I unceasingly monitor all activities that you do (trojan virus of mine can control remotely all processes, same as TeamViewer).
> That I will still distribute your videos after you have sent the money to me.
Believe me, it is pointless for me to proceed with troubling you after that. Besides that, if that really was my intention, it would happen long time ago!

It all will be settled on fair conditions and terms!

One last advice from me... Moving forward make sure you don't get involved in such type of incidents again!
My suggestion - make sure you change all your passwords as often as possible.

martes, 5 de abril de 2022

You have an outstanding payment.

Hello there!

Unfortunately, there are some bad news for you.
Around several months ago I have obtained access to your devices that you were using to browse internet.
Subsequently, I have proceeded with tracking down internet activities of yours.

Below, is the sequence of past events:
In the past, I have bought access from hackers to numerous email accounts (today, that is a very straightforward task that can be done online).
Clearly, I have effortlessly logged in to email account of yours (dchonavegacion2010.timecharter@blogger.com).

A week after that, I have managed to install Trojan virus to Operating Systems of all your devices that are used for email access.
Actually, that was quite simple (because you were clicking the links in inbox emails).
All smart things are quite straightforward. (>_<)

The software of mine allows me to access to all controllers in your devices, such as video camera, microphone and keyboard.
I have managed to download all your personal data, as well as web browsing history and photos to my servers.
I can access all messengers of yours, as well as emails, social networks, contacts list and even chat history.
My virus unceasingly refreshes its signatures (since it is driver-based), and hereby stays invisible for your antivirus.

So, by now you should already understand the reason why I remained unnoticed until this very moment...

While collecting your information, I have found out that you are also a huge fan of websites for adults.
You truly enjoy checking out porn websites and watching dirty videos, while having a lot of kinky fun.
I have recorded several kinky scenes of yours and montaged some videos, where you reach orgasms while passionately masturbating.

If you still doubt my serious intentions, it only takes couple mouse clicks to share your videos with your friends, relatives and even colleagues.
It is also not a problem for me to allow those vids for access of public as well.
I truly believe, you would not want this to occur, understanding how special are the videos you love watching, (you are clearly aware of that) all that stuff can result in a real disaster for you.

Let's resolve it like this:
All you need is $1710 USD transfer to my account (bitcoin equivalent based on exchange rate during your transfer), and after the transaction is successful, I will proceed to delete all that kinky stuff without delay.
Afterwards, we can pretend that we have never met before. In addition, I assure you that all the harmful software will be deleted from all your devices. Be sure, I keep my promises.

That is quite a fair deal with a low price, bearing in mind that I have spent a lot of effort to go through your profile and traffic for a long period.
If you are unaware how to buy and send bitcoins - it can be easily fixed by searching all related information online.

Below is bitcoin wallet of mine: 1PQfyHsqnU1mpQHgbgNsbAxDLw5u2mgqgb

You are given not more than 48 hours after you have opened this email (2 days to be precise).

Below is the list of actions that you should not attempt doing:
> Do not attempt to reply my email (the email in your inbox was created by me together with return address).
> Do not attempt to call police or any other security services. Moreover, don't even think to share this with friends of yours. Once I find that out (make no doubt about it, I can do that effortlessly, bearing in mind that I have full control over all your systems) - the video of yours will become available to public immediately.
> Do not attempt to search for me - there is completely no point in that. All cryptocurrency transactions remain anonymous at all times.
> Do not attempt reinstalling the OS on devices of yours or get rid of them. It is meaningless too, because all your videos are already available at remote servers.

Below is the list of things you don't need to be concerned about:
> That I will not receive the money you transferred.
- Don't you worry, I can still track it, after the transaction is successfully completed, because I still monitor all your activities (trojan virus of mine includes a remote-control option, just like TeamViewer).
> That I still will make your videos available to public after your money transfer is complete.
- Believe me, it is meaningless for me to keep on making your life complicated. If I indeed wanted to make it happen, it would happen long time ago!

Everything will be carried out based on fairness!

Before I forget...moving forward try not to get involved in this kind of situations anymore!
An advice from me - regularly change all the passwords to your accounts.

martes, 25 de enero de 2022

Kansas City AFC 2022 Highlights

Even the victorious coach, in this case Andy Reid, has expressed reservations about the NFL's overtime system.


Reid hailed Kansas City's good fortune one day after his Chiefs won the overtime coin toss and marched downfield for Travis Kelce's 8-yard touchdown reception to conclude an exciting divisional round game against Buffalo.

"I spoke with Sean McDermott following the game," Reid said of Bills coach Sean McDermott. "I'm sure that's something they're going to look at again." And I'm not averse to that - it's a difficult issue. It was fantastic for us last night, but is it fantastic for the game, which is the primary objective we should all be pursuing? To achieve parity, it presumably has to be capable of hitting both attacks and defenses."

Grim Reaper Chiefs

It was a near-perfect football game (minus an ending that felt incomplete with Allen not getting a chance to answer). And although nothing about these quarterbacks' performances seemed authentic, they also did not feel fluky. These were two metahumans performing at their peak, and the remaining twenty players on the field were unable to stop them.


Mahomes and Allen were also not playing under great conditions. According to Pro Football Focus, the Chiefs offensive line allowed pressure on 39.6 percent of the team's throw plays. However, it was irrelevant—Mahomes ended with a higher passer rating under duress than he did when the pocket was maintained clear.

While most of the commentary surrounding the Chiefs-Bills playoff game focused on the last minutes of play by quarterbacks Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, just as much, if not more, discussion focused on how the game ended, which featured the league's overtime rules.

According to NFL overtime regulations, the side who wins the coin toss and scores a touchdown on their opening drive wins. If they make a field goal, the other team gains possession of the ball and an opportunity to respond or win the game. That is a simplified summary, but it captures the substance of the issue of disagreement.

13 Seconds Chiefs

Occasionally, a miracle is required. And when you do, having a Mahomes is advantageous. With 13 seconds remaining against the tenacious Bills, the Chiefs trailed by three scores deep in their own territory, but Patrick Mahomes' ability to make the unthinkable possible salvaged the day in an incredible 42-36 victory. Mahomes set up Harrison Butker's game-tying field goal with two big completions, then led Kansas City to win in overtime with a touchdown drive. Andy Reid's defense was battered in the fourth quarter by Josh Allen – another quarterback in the high echelons of The Superstar Club – but Mahomes had that unique DNA feature shared by superstars. On certain days, he just will not allow his squad to lose, regardless of the odds. The Chiefs earned the opportunity to host the AFC Championship Game for the fourth straight year as a result of their epic victory. The Bengals are another deserving conference title contender.



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viernes, 21 de enero de 2022

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Hi. How are you?

I know, it's unpleasant to start the conversation with bad news, but I have no choice.
Few months ago, I have gained access to your devices that used by you for internet browsing.
Afterwards, I could track down all your internet activities.

Here is the history of how it could become possible:
At first, I purchased from hackers the access to multiple email accounts (nowadays, it is a really simple thing to do online).
As result, I could easily log in to your email account (dchonavegacion2010.timecharter@blogger.com).

One week later, I installed Trojan virus in Operating Systems of all devices of yours, which you use to open email.
Frankly speaking, it was rather straightforward (since you were opening the links from your inbox emails).
Everything ingenious is quite simple. (0_o)!

My software enables me with access to all controllers inside devices of yours, like microphone, keyboard and video camera.
I could easily download to my servers all your private info, including the history of web browsing and photos.
I can effortlessly gain access to all your messengers, social networks accounts, emails, contact list as well as chat history.
Virus of mine constantly keeps refreshing its signatures (because it is driver-based), and as result remains unnoticed by your antivirus.

Hence, you can already guess why I stayed undetected all this while.

As I was gathering information about you, I couldn't help but notice that you are also a true fan of adult-content websites.
You actually love visiting porn sites and browsing through kinky videos, while pleasuring yourself.
I could make a few dirty records with you in the main focus and montaged several videos showing the way you reach orgasm while masturbating with joy.

If you are still uncertain regarding the seriousness of my intentions,
it only requires several mouse clicks for me to forward your videos to all your relatives, as well as friends and colleagues.
I can also make those vids become accessible by public.
I honestly think that you do not really want that to happen, considering the peculiarity of videos you like to watch,
(you obviously know what I mean) all that kinky content can become a reason of serious troubles for you.

However, we can still resolve this situation in the following manner:
Everything you are required to do is a single transfer of $1340 USD to my account (or amount equivalent to bitcoin depending on exchange rate at the moment of transfer),
and once the transaction is complete, I will straight away remove all the dirty content exposing you.
After that, you can even forget that you have come across me. Moreover, I swear that all the harmful software will be removed from all devices of yours as well.
Make no doubt that I will fulfill my part.

This is really a great deal that comes at a reasonable price, given that I have used quite a lot of energy to check your profile as well as traffic over an extended period of time.
If you have no idea about bitcoin purchase process - it can be straightforwardly done by getting all the necessary information online.

Here is my bitcoin wallet provided below: 1JfnsTBvRQYNvzxYFTQBtEUgojmPy2vd6F

You should complete the abovementioned transfer within 48 hours (2 days) after opening this email.

The following list contains actions you should avoid attempting:
#Do not try replying my email (email in your inbox was generated by me alongside with return email address).
#Do not try calling police as well as other security forces. In addition, abstain from sharing this story with your friends.
After I find out (be sure, I can easily do that, given that I keep complete control of all your devices) - your kinky video will end up being available to public right away.
#Do not try searching for me - there is absolutely no reason to do that. Moreover, all transactions in cryptocurrency are always anonymous.
#Do not try reinstalling the OS on your devices or throwing them away. It is pointless as well, since all your videos have already been uploaded to remote servers.

The following list contains things you should not be worried about:
#That your money won't reach my account.
- Rest assured, the transactions can be tracked, hence once the transaction is complete,
I will know about it, because I continuously observe all your activities (my trojan virus allows me to control remotely your devices, same as TeamViewer).
#That I still will share your kinky videos to public after you complete money transfer.
- Trust me, it's pointless for me to continue troubling your life. If I really wanted, I would make it happen already!

Let's make this deal in a fair manner!

Owh, one more thing...in future it is best that you don't involve yourself in similar situations any longer!
One last advice from me - recurrently change all your passwords from all accounts.

martes, 4 de enero de 2022

Ben Roethlisberger's Best Moments in Final Game at. Heinz Field

Ben Roethlisberger's Best Moments in Final Game at. Heinz Field

lunes, 27 de diciembre de 2021

Don’t Look Up: Who Are the Characters Based On

We examine the real life parallels for the depressingly believable ensemble of nitwits in Adam McKay's Don't Look Up.

This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That's what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio's Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence's PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. At least they're getting a break from trying to force reality into those people's thick skulls.

That's the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work throughout Don't Look Up, a passionate, strident, and intentionally abrasive dramedy which takes a page out of Stanley Kubrick and laughs at the end of the world. The film is clearly meant to be a parable about humanity's inability to face the hard truths of the existential threat posed by climate change in the last 40 years, but it also arrives deep into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic (and new emergence of the Omicron variant). While McKay wrote and began preparing this project before COVID, it all lands a little more horrifyingly now… not least of all because the film's most caricatured personalities all have the haze of truth around them.

Indeed, the movie is technically a fictional story, just as it's supposedly a comedy, but the fact that there are echoes of the real world in each larger than life cartoon character allows it to play differently. So here are all the winks, allusions, and implications we caught on our first viewing.

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Meryl Streep's President Orlean Influences

When the Don't Look Up trailer first dropped, you would be forgiven for thinking that there are hints of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman who almost was the President of the United States, in Meryl Streep's blonde female POTUS with a penchant for pant suits. And that's because, truthfully, there are multiple nods and references to all of our most recent national leaders in Streep and McKay's unholy creation. But the figure she's clearly most emulating is the orange hued man who was president when cameras first rolled on the movie: Donald Trump.

Like Trump, Orlean is a former reality television star who preposterously rose to national politics and is vocally outspoken in her anti-intellectualism and anti-science ignorance. Just last year, as Don't Look Up was preparing to film during the pandemic, Trump told Wade Crowfoot, California's secretary for natural resources, that he thought the earth was going to "start getting cooler – you just watch." When Crowfoot responded that he wished the science agreed with the president, Trump added, "Well, I don't think the science knows, actually."

The former president made these incredulous assertions as California was ravaged by historic wildfires—and in the same year the former president also told Americans that COVID-19 was "a hoax" exaggerated by the DNC and that it would go away in spring 2020 "like a miracle." Orlean's similar disinterest and inability to engage in reality is a maddening recreation of this, as is her abuse of cronyism and nepotism, including by making her son White House chief of staff.

But she is not only Trump. Take her bizarre crisis at the start of the film where she's nominated an abusive, violent, and racist southwestern sheriff with no judicial experience to be a justice on the Supreme Court. The small character of the sheriff (who we'll come back to) is likely inspired by Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff in Arizona whom Trump pardoned in 2017 after the law officer was found guilty of criminal contempt. While Trump did not nominate Arpaio to the SCOTUS, President George W. Bush—whose administration is a favorite subject matter for McKay—did attempt to put Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court in 2005.

Up to that point, Miers had been a lifelong political animal in the Republican Party who had never served as a judge on any court. But she had worked in the Bush White House as first a staff secretary and then deputy chief of staff for policy. Her close loyalty to Bush caused the president to nominate her over anyone who actually served in the judiciary. The choice received fierce backlash from even the Republican Party. After meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005, then-Sen. Tom Coburn privately said she "flunked" in demonstrating the intellectual rigor needed to be a SCOTUS justice.

Miers ultimately withdrew her nomination. It was one political humiliation for Bush who suffered many after his reelection, including how poorly his "Mission: Accomplished" photograph atop of an aircraft carrier had aged as the Iraq War escalated. Don't Look Up appears to mimic this with Orlean deciding to take the comet "seriously" for political expediency and having a preemptive victory speech given from atop an aircraft carrier in the Potomac.

Streep's President Orlean similarly merges elements of other political figures across the spectrum, from the fact she's seen in one photograph hugging former President Bill Clinton, and somewhat copying his folksy mannerism, to her oft-discussed smoking habit, which she initially tried to hide on the political campaign trail. This, in turn, mimics former President Barack Obama's worst kept dirty little secret. Also like Obama, she has a habit of being photographed with celebrities. Obama also had a tendency to trust the experts who came from Ivy League schools as most credible, much to many on the left's disdain when it came to appointing conventional Harvard thinkers like Larry Summers as Director of the White House National Economic Council during the Great Recession.

Even her earliest "scandal" as a woman who, according to her son, became famous for being a Playboy centerfold back in the day feels like a play on former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, the Republican politician who shocked the political elite when he captured Ted Kennedy's Senate seat following Kennedy's death in 2009—and in spite of the fact that his nude centerfold spread in Cosmopolitan magazine was dredged up during the campaign.

Jonah Hill's Jason Orlean Inspirations

On balance, Jonah Hill's character in Don't Look Up is nothing short of a Frankenstein's Monster styled stitching of the reputations and rumors around Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr.

Introduced first as President Orlean's entirely disinterested and arrogant White House chief of staff, we eventually learn Jason is her actual son. While President Trump never quite had the audacity to appoint one of his children (or their spouses) as his chief of staff, according to various reports about the Trump White House, he might as well have. Particularly during the first year-plus of the Trump presidency, reports consistently described Trump's son-in-law, Kushner, and his daughter Ivanka as leaders of a competing White House apparatus that worked in opposition to Trump's first failed chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

While their roles in managing the presidency allegedly faded some in later years, the son-in-law remained President Trump's go-to fixer and idea man. During our own real life Don't Look Up experience in 2020, Trump appointed  Kushner to oversee much of the federal response to COVID-19 in the spring, despite his son-in-law's absolute lack of experience in handling viruses, pandemics, or national emergencies.

More damning still, reports came out alleging Kushner's team spent months coddling the president's political desire to downplay the virus by coming to the conclusion that "because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically." One anonymous expert was quoted as saying, "The political folks believed that because it was relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy."

According to Stephanie Grisham, a former Trump White House press secretary, Kushner and Ivanka "thought they were a shadow president and first lady."

Don't Look Up also leans into the salacious rumors and stories about the Trump kids. This ranges from the much remarked upon obsession the former president had with commenting on his daughter's attractiveness (it's reversed in the movie) to the social media speculation about Donald Trump Jr.'s supposed use of recreational drugs (which became so intense after his 2020 RNC speech that he had to publicly deny them).

Jason Orlean certainly mimics Don Jr.'s role as being his presidential parent's social media attack dog, right down to still tweeting about his inherent awesomeness after he's become the last man left on Earth.

Mark Rylance's Peter Isherwell Influences

Another unsubtle blending of various public figures, although now from the world of tech and energy, is Mark Rylance's deluded CEO. Rylance has played tech CEOs with god complexes before, quite memorably so during Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018). But whereas that film leaned into the mythical way some of Silicon Valley's leading capitalists might view themselves (and how their fans did back in the late 2000s, when the source novel was written), McKay asks Rylance to repeat his soft-spoken and gentle obliviousness to a far more menacing effect.

In this film, Rylance is the CEO of a company that looks a lot like Apple given the almost religious awe consumers and even children hold for him and the new smartphones he releases every year. In this way, he obviously looks a lot like Steve Jobs, whose cult of personality never seemed greater than when he introduced the world to the iPhone in 2007.

However, beyond the fact that Jobs is gone and was never a major political mover and shaker, Isherwell also combines elements from other recent tech gurus, including most obviously Elon Musk, the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX. Like Isherwell, Musk is an arguably chilly presence who fancies himself as something akin to mankind's savior with his determination to lead SpaceX to colonize Mars, complete with its own direct democracy government, and who believes our future is "among the stars."

The way that he uses his cellphones to track and datamine folks to the point where he thinks his algorithms can predict the very cause of your death is also the open dirty secret of so many tech companies in the 21st century, but most clearly Facebook, which is now part of the rebranded "Meta" company run by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Like Isherwell, the near worshipful affection tech watchers had for Zuckerberg, Facebook, and social media at large in the late 2000s has given way to cynicism and despair after those tools have proved to be a breeding ground for misinformation, manipulation, and political destabilization. In fact, just this year a former Facebook employee testified before the U.S. Senate that the company allegedly put profits above public safety when it came to vetting (and ignoring) algorithms that ultimately may promote radicalization.

Cate Blanchett's Brie Evantee and the News Media

Cate Blanchett appears nigh unrecognizable beneath her airbrushed cheshire grin as Brie Evantee. The character, alongside Tyler Perry's Jack Bremmer, is part of a pair of stand-ins for almost any cheerful-to-a-fault morning show personality. However, the specific look of Brie, and Blanchett's discreet underplaying of extreme intelligence beneath the mind numbing banter, suggests she is modeled after Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Like Evantee, Brzezinski co-hosts the morning show which is ostensibly a little savvier and certainly more popular with Washington politicos and beltway insiders. Also like the fictional character, Brzezinski is a lot sharper than the usual sing-songy morning blather might indicate, with Brzezinski being a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and a former on-the-ground reporter, including when she was CBS News' principal "Ground Zero" correspondent during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

This specific comparison was raised to McKay during a profile interview in Vanity Fair. He denied the similarities though, suggesting they were purely coincidental. He did, however, more openly discuss comparisons to larger institutions instead of individual persons. McKay thus admitted his film's New York Herald is a satire of the high-minded airs of The New York Times.

"I do think tremendous shame on The New York Times for hiring that climate change denier," McKay is quoted as saying in reference to Bret Stephens. He went on to say the paper of record is too beholden to its own vaunted sobriety and doesn't treat climate change with the urgency it deserves. He added, "[But if you're a top editor at the paper]  are you really going to go into a meeting and go like, 'Hey guys, I think we should put a headline that says, We're fucked.'"

And Michael Chikilis' cameo as a Fox News-like sycophant for the right is clearly modeled after Sean Hannity, as indicated by the logo behind him on his last night on Earth… which he spends by ignoring the hard cold reality of a comet about to crash on his head. With that said, he could just as easily be any Fox News personality who denies climate change or the magnitude of the Jan. 6 insurrection mob which descended on Capitol Hill.

Erik Parillo's Sheriff Conlon Inspirations

Sheriff Conlon, President Orlean's Supreme Court pick and the man she also appears to have a romantic fling with, is likely based on Joe Arpaio, the controversial and disgraced former Sheriff of Maricopa County from 1993 to 2017. During his tenure, the sheriff and his office received numerous accusations of politically motivated investigations and arrests (including of journalists), abuse of power, misuse of government funds, and (in what made him a Fox News hero) the targeting if Latinx communities in search of undocumented immigrants. This included "immigration patrols" which canvassed largely Latinx communities and which would stop Latinx drivers and ask for identification.

A judge specifically ordered the racial profiling in the last abuse to end, which Arpaio ignored, causing the judge to hold Arpaio in criminal contempt of court.

Trump pardoned Arpaio less than a month later.

I also got faint hints of disgraced former congressman and Democrat, Anthony Weiner, with how his salacious texts were leaked online, not unlike Weiner's various sexting scandals repeatedly finding their way into the press, destabilizing the political campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2016, which his then-wife worked for.

Ariana Grande's Riley Bina Inspirations

Oh, come on, do you really need us to explain this? Ariana Grande is a good sport for playing a caricature of herself in Don't Look Up. The Grande pop star in the movie is named Riley, and she lives in a world where her love life is part of her public persona due to invasive media interest–which she plays the game over all too well. Thus scenes of her on a morning show where the press is more interested in talking about her bad break-up from another pop star instead of her music—never mind the planet-killing comet coming from above.

Grande has of course had notable break ups with popular musicians and an SNL star. If you want to read more about that, use Google for that sort of thing.

lunes, 20 de diciembre de 2021

Reminder 12/20/2021

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