What is up,
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Matt Gaetz of Florida,
Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Louie Gohmert of Texas,
Andy Biggs of Arizona,
Andy Harris of Maryland,
Lance Gooden of Texas,
Michael Cloud of Texas,
Andrew Clyde of Georgia,
Greg Steube of Florida,
Bob Good of Virginia,
John Rose of Tennessee

That's what's up:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/18/republicans-vote-against-honoring-capitol-police

Pandemic silver lining, part 1/?:

"Walmart set a goal of investing $350 billion in U.S. manufacturing in a move the company expects to support more than 750,000 jobs. ...pledge could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 100 million metric tons through domesticating its sourcing, as well as boost spending among diverse U.S. suppliers."

https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2021/03/03/investing-in-the-future-of-u-s-manufacturing-our-commitment-to-american-jobs

I am working up some all-purpose Safety Guidelines. Got some writer's block; maybe you can help.

Avoid awkward hand positions where a sudden slip could cause contact with (1)_____

Properly secure your (2)_____ before (3)____

Do not attempt to hold your (4)____ in place with your hand while (5)_____

Do not allow familiarity gained from frequent (6)_____ to replace (7)_____

The (8)_____ is (9)______. Handle with care.

@diabolic "VBA is a s*** language."

fixed it.

Not sure the logo matches the carpet, but very cool to have another academic article repo, one not run by private corporations or a single individual.

https://scholar.archive.org/

wait WAIT ugh, this an old byline being regurgitated on news feeds. I'm going to leave my mistake here as a warning (to me).

Merkel _is_ slated to step down this year, as planned 3 years ago.

So did "Germany bid farewell to Angela Merkel with six minutes of continuous applause. " make it into the US MSM or nah.

"When I joined Amazon in 1998, the company had a single U.S.-based website selling only books and running a monolithic C application on five servers, a handful of Berkeley DBs for key/value data, and a relational database. That database was called "ACB" which stood for "Amazon.Com Books," a name that failed to reflect the range of our ambition"

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250706-a-second-conversation-with-werner-vogels/fulltext

What these eggs need is a little more pepper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwaH-qT4Rm0

inhaled fiberglass, coughing up a storm. Fantastic.

..and they all moved away from me on the Group W bench

#noCoughingAllowedEverAgain

murmurations are cool.

when they look like a gigantic bird?

shivers.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/03/james-crombie-bird-photo/

(been asked to re-grind grits in my burr grinder, which has decades of coffee bean foo in it)

Caffeinated grits.[TM]
How much money am I gonna make. A lot of money.

Interesting approach to covid-safing a work area. I think it's better than ye olde plexiglass sheet: separation plus fan. Not going to work in all contexts, natch.

Extractive capitalism tries to squeeze blood from stones. May it fail miserably so we can get on with solutions.

ERCOT triggered the squeeze when it pushed up spot-market rates to $9,000 per megawatt hour (mwh) over more than four days and levied huge fees for services. The service fees were 500 times the usual rate --reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN2AT1FE

"Engineers wanted an unusual pattern in the nylon fabric to know how the parachute was oriented during descent. Turning it into a secret message was “super fun,”
"

https://apnews.com/article/mars-rover-parachute-secret-message-75577c274ebddf8eaa4a637d57ef564d

I think Alphabet top managers are breathtakingly incompetent. And/or they just dgaf about corporate image. The way the Ethical AI group is being 'handled' could have been easy positive PR, instead it's several case studies in mismanagement and communication breakdowns.

Not taking sides w/anyone involved, just geezopete-ing the bad management choices. Put me in coach*

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/22/in_brief_ai/

*no don't

Texas doesn't appear to be seceding as much as receding. So close, just one letter difference.

Zing Zap go Australia
"Without fact-based news to anchor it, Facebook will become little more than cute cats and conspiracy theories.”

https://apnews.com/article/facebook-blocks-australians-news-access-8557e9b4890b002921aa4f0738b13ea7

"On that day in December 2015, the security professionals of the US Secret Service recognized that Trump was dangerously inciting a mob, and stepped in to protect the target he had singled out."

https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/02/12/flashbacks-to-the-2015-campaign/