Delighted to see some pressure being put on these companies who support voter suppression.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/georgia-corporate-giants-tiptoe-into-raging-voting-rights-debate/XUBN3Y3ZONDABNLH4PCIZKJL54/

Yup.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/03/convenient-new-fiction-there-was-no-attack-white-house-last-year/

OMG this new computer is 1000x faster than my laptop.

Praise the Lort!

Hmm--may be just a firefox issue. Chrome shows something much prettier.

Does anybody else see this janky mess when navigating to https://login.live.com/ ?

I'm having no luck trying to set up my new machine to use my microsoft account as a login.

(this is after disabling pihole BTW)

Ah, here it is.

Gab, the far-right website, has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/

Good stuff: https://pressrun.media/p/what-a-mess-maureen-dowd-lectures

It seems to be okay. I have reinstalled windows & will futz more with it later after work.

Good news is my new computer was delivered. Bad news is the shipping box is wet.

Amen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/01/trumps-biggest-cpac-lie-unmasks-vile-truth-democrats-ignore-it-their-peril/

Unfortunately, voting rights can't be passed in the senate under reconciliation, and there's no way it will survive the filibuster.

Watched on ep of Call the Midwife & I don't really know what's going on yet, I just know that I like the cut of Sister Joan's jib.

Have any of y'all had a loved one in an assisted living finish getting their COVID vaccinations? I'm trying to figure out what will change when my MIL is done w/hers.

Can we spring her out of there for a dinner say, w/out her having to isolate for 2 weeks after?

I realize we need to get real info from the facility, but they are not easy to get in touch with...

Yep--here it is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-riot-defendants-regrets/2021/02/26/b3d06e3e-76b1-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html

Read a story in the newspaper this morning about the 1/6 attack that referred to a Capitol police officer having his eyes "poked out".

WTF? When it happens in real life, the verb to use is "gouged".

Josh Hawley is wrong: Fighting injustice is not hating USA | The Kansas City Star
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article249560293.html

The octopus lost 2 tentacles, which is fewer than I'd hoped, but at least it's a little less of a rat's nest...

completely dismantled my desk & all electronics & the octopus of cables below it, gave it a good dusting/vacuuming, and then reassembled.

To me, this is spring cleaning. ;-)

Seems like Google should be better at this.

Thoughts and prayers.

https://news.gab.com/2021/02/26/alleged-data-breach-26-february-2021/

On the other hand--god damn it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/biden-mbs-khashoggi.html