🔐 A Small Investment to Protect Years of Work - Titan Security Key

This week I ordered a Titan Security Key for my Google account.

The purchase wasn't driven by fear. It was driven by a simple realization:

Over the years, I've accumulated a significant amount of digital assets tied to a single account, including email, cloud storage, business records, websites, social media accounts, and 4 YouTube channels containing thousands of hours of original content.

Many of us spend years building professional networks, creating content, managing businesses, and storing important information online. Yet relatively few people take the time to consider how vulnerable those accounts might be if a password were compromised.

A hardware security key adds an additional layer of protection that cannot be easily duplicated through phishing emails, stolen passwords, or other common account takeover methods.

This isn't an endorsement of any particular product, nor am I suggesting that everyone needs the same security setup.

I'm simply sharing this as a reminder:

Sometimes the most important investments aren't the ones that help us build something new.

They're the ones that help protect what we've already built.

If your email account serves as the gateway to your business, finances, content, or professional identity, it may be worth taking a few minutes to review your security settings and authentication options.

A little prevention today can save a great deal of unexpected grief tomorrow.

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u/AwKmedia — 7 hours ago

American Visual Archive just hit 3,000 Subscribers!

🎉 🏛️ American Visual Archive has reached 3,000 subscribers!

Today I had the privilege of watching the subscriber counter turn from 2,999 to 3,000 live.

When I rebranded this channel as American Visual Archive, my goal was simple: create a growing visual archive of American history, places, landscapes, transportation corridors, public spaces, and documentary records that might otherwise be forgotten over time.

Since then, the channel has grown through hundreds of new videos, historical research, archival photography, Mobile Observations, mapping projects, and the support of viewers from around the world.

Whether you've been here since the beginning or discovered the channel recently, thank you for being part of this project.

Every view, comment, like, subscription, and shared memory helps preserve these places and stories for future generations.

The archive continues to grow.

Thank you for helping me reach this milestone. 🎉

— Keith Elliott, Curator

American Visual Archive

That's a pretty good way to end June and begin July. 🏛️📈🇺🇸

u/AwKmedia — 5 days ago