2020
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Coronavirus really is that bad and you should work from home
We watched “Sharpe’s Gold.” I bet the men in the 95th Rifles found Hagman annoying after a couple days. “Enough with the singing,” they said.
How to Tell If You Have the Flu, Coronavirus, or Something Else
I think I had norovirus almost exactly a year ago, after returning from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And I passed the norovirus to Julie. Because you should always bring your spouse a little something when you return from a business trip.
Minnie found a steak-bone on our walk the other day, and I let her carry it home and work on it in the backyard for a while. “What could go wrong?” I thought. It made her so happy.
She sleeps in my office at night, separated from the rest of the house so she doesn’t terrorize the cats. Putting her to bed is the last thing I do before I go to bed myself, and letting her out is the first thing I do when I wake up.
The next morning, when I went into my office to let Minnie out, I found the answer to the question, “What could go wrong?”
Fortunately, she got it all on the mat in front of my desk – bless her! Easy clean-up. And she was SO happy and friendly and affectionate and excited to be let out of my office. I suspect she was partly trying to distract me to keep me from getting angry – not that I would have – and partly she was just relieved, happy, and excited to be out of my office and away from that awful mess.
I left my office windows open the rest of the morning, to air it out. It was some of Minnie’s best work, there.
Bernie has done fine this far appealing to a radical, burn-it-down revolutionary base. But now he needs to appeal to ALL Democrats or he’ll lose the nomination.
And he’ll have to switch gears again if he gets the nomination, to appeal to that additional fraction of Americans who see him as being just as bad as Trump.
The right to repair is the right to resilience
It’s no coincidence that farms and farmers have been leaders in Right to Repair: when you’re isolated and you’re not allowed to fix your stuff, it means that you can neither nip down to the shops for a replacement, nor easily have an authorized repair tech come to your place.
Covid can put everyone – even entire nations – into the position of that isolated farmer.
And if Covid turns out to be a fizzle – and let’s pray that it is on a global scale, although it’s already awful for the people effected – it’ll be something else. Natural and man-made disasters are inevitable, and they will require us to make repairs locally, not wait for authorization from a big corporation.
Cory Doctorow on "Right to Repair" and more
Cory Doctorow talks about how big business and government have taken away your right to repair property you own, how Facebook and other monopolies can be broken up by requiring them by law to interoperate with other services, and other issues related to monopoly control and trustbusting.
INTERVIEW WITH THE FIREWALLS DON’T STOP DRAGONS PODCAST
Cory and other digital rights advocates can often get branded as socialists. And yet your right to do what you want with your own property is the most fundamental right there is in a capitalist/market economy. The Revolutionary War was literally fought to protect property rights.
But we’ve reached a state where Apple, Amazon and Microsoft can sell you music, then arbitrarily decide to delete it from your computer or phone at some point maybe years in the future. This is a thing that has actually happened, more than once.
And more seriously, farmers are literally denied the legal right to modify or repair their own equipment, jeopardizing our food supply.
Ezra Klein: Sanders can’t lead the Democrats if his campaign treats them like the enemy www.vox.com/2020/3/4/…
Coronavirus Porn Is Going Viral on Pornhub
8-year-old boy wins $200 worth of cannabis products at hockey tournament
Trump blasts Sessions on Twitter, inadvertently confirming key Mueller finding
Trump publicly admits to obstruction of justice. Again.
AT&T is looking to cut billions of dollars in spending, starting with “headcount rationalization” (apparently the new bureaucratese for “sorry you don’t have a job anymore”) and “benefit restructuring” (hope you don’t have to go to a doctor!)
Sisters Margaux and Mariel Hemingway struggled with the family history of depression, substance abuse and suicide
Their grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, killed himself, as did Margaux and six other members of the family. Mariel Hemingway survived and became a mental health advocate.