Shit.
Charter employees are fuming as the Internet and phone provider prohibits working from home, despite coronavirus.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
One engineer sent an angry mailblast to a SVP and hundreds of engineers. He doesn’t work at Charter anymore. techcrunch.com/2020/03/1…
Cory Doctorow: Be sure to fill out your census. Do it online or by phone.
Filling out your census is important to your community getting its share of federal representation and services.
Cory Doctorow’s Twitter account was suspended for a day, because of a list of trolls he created called “colossal assholes.”
Says Cory: “‘Colossal assholes’ got me suspended, but not its companion list, ‘Toe-faced shitweasels’”
But he’s back now.
Family Room Decor, 1970s retropopcult.tumblr.com/post/6128…
Andrew Cuomo Is the Control Freak We Need Right Now
The qualities that make him a problematic governor in normal times are right for a crisis like the one we’re in.
We are legit running low on TP. May have to use cats instead.
Andrew Sullivan: Reality Arrives to the Trump Era
Monday, March 16, 2020
Andrew Sullivan finds similarities between the initial public reactions to the coronavirus, the gay community’s initial reaction initial to the AIDS epidemic – which, as a gay man, Sullivan lived through – and the 1918 Spanish flu. In all three cases, the initial reaction was denial and complacency. Even people who accepted the reality of the situation failed to gauge its seriousness and react appropriately. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-sullivan-reality-arrives-to-the-trump-era.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1 Ira Glass, at this American Life, compared the current period to waiting for biopsy results from the doctor.
A white Republican mayor seeks the truth about Tulsa’s race massacre a century ago
Two more seasons of Bosch, then no more. Alas!
Even with coronavirus, the US toilet paper supply remains strong. Interesting article for supply chain nerds.
Monday, March 16, 2020
“Barring a new craze for mummy costumes, the actual use of toilet paper is unlikely to increase.” https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-14/coronavirus-will-we-run-out-of-toilet-paper?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=truer
He comes to talk to his dad every day since the nursing home is on lockdown https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fjlguv/he_comes_to_talk_to_his_dad_every_day_since_the/
Anbara Salam on Twitter:
“As a public service in these stressful times I’d like to offer, as a palate cleanser, the most embarrassing moment of my life.”
The lobster pool float completes the tale.
The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them
Monday, March 16, 2020
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1… Cut the guy some slack. He’s in a perfectly legitimate business, he saw an opportunity and he overreacted. If you hate the guys who hoarded all that hand sanitizer, wait until you find out that a few hundred people have hoarded half the wealth in the country. And they’re not keeping it in their garage, either. P.S. If you sent this guy death threats, he’s not the asshole. You’re the asshole.
Cory Doctorow: TikTok’s secret guidelines require moderators to suppress videos from old, ugly, fat, disabled and poor people.
How to prepare for coming layoffs: Good advice from Cory Doctorow, who’s been self-employed for nearly 20 years. :)
Cory Doctorow: An Italian hospital fixed its ventilator with 3D printed parts.
Stupid TiVo didn’t record the debate.
What’d I miss?
Went to the store. Did not buy extra TP. Did buy extra coffee.
It’s called “priorities.” Look it up.