Kind: Notes

Our place is clean, we'll be squaring lunch away in about an hour, and then I am going to coast through the rest of this day.

(Sigh) I hate this timeline.

Chuck Schumer and other politicians in the US should not be attempting to interfere in Israeli politics by making public pronouncements about how Netanyahu is unfit and should resign.

At the same time, Tom Cotton is a performative virtue signaling little shit who doesn't give a damn about antisemitism and has no business throwing the label around so he can score political points. He can yell "Antisemite!" when he starts dealing with Maga's very own antisemitism problem, which Republican party leadership is still refusing to deal with even after October 7.

And before anyone tries coming into my mentions with "But leftwing antisemitism is worse!" I do not care whose antisemitism problem is worse at this point either fix your own team's problem or shut the hell up because I'm done tolerating it no matter where it comes from.

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we've made it to Friday.

John and I are just waiting for the cleaning people t o come this morning to do the bi-weekly cleaning, and other than that, I think today will be a slow one.

#today

I remembered to get the windows closed before the rain rolls in.

This was so not on my bingo card.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/x-removes-graphic-video-elon-musk-shared-over-rules-violation

This is absolutely messed up.

Targeted advertising is bad enough, this is far beyond the pale. I want to know how we opt out.

"How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts."

https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance

2PM feeling in full effect. I will get through this day I swear.

Jaws finally updated. Settings did not port, so I had to redo those. It was looking like I might have to repair the install but fortunately that didn't happen. Lunch has been consumed. And the windows are open.

This picture smart stuff had better be absolutely amazing. Given the length of time this update is taking. Screw this, I am going to go get some lunch.

Jaws is still trying to update. This is going to be a long day.

Finally getting around to installing Jaws updates.

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we're doing Thursday.

Personally, I'm hoping we can just zoom through today and most of tomorrow until we get to the end of it, because this has been a long week and I'm tired.

It's supposed to be another nice day today with temperatures around 21C (70F), so maybe I'll take some advantage of that later with some time outside.

#today

The ‘Criminal Immigrant’ Canard:

Republicans selectively highlight cases like Laken Riley’s to promote malicious lies.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-criminal-immigrant-canard

Headache is gone and breakfast with coffee has been consumed, but I'm still feeling pretty snarky and lacking the patience to suffer fools today. Maybe this will change, maybe it will not.

Oh yeah one other thing.

We're supposed to be in the upper 60's (around 14C) here today and tomorrow, and then the temperatures are supposed to plunge again. So I plan to take advantage of this weirdness while I can.

Get in Babkans, those of you on Micro.blog, and other fedizens, we're doing Wednesday.

Both John and I got up at a somewhat normal time today, and the laundry is out already. Right now, I'm doing my best to get coffee to my brain because I have a headache. More later maybe.

#today

We're back from getting our hair cuts, beer has been procured, and we have the windows open because it's 14C (58F) outside with a metric fuckton of sun. I need to get some good sunglasses for this year.

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we're doing Tuesday.

There's some real breakfast of champions energy going on over here, because John and I are going to dig into some steak egg and cheese breakfast burritos. Also, we're getting our haircuts today.

Other than that, just work for me, which I hope to end at a decent hour but I'm not sure that will happen.

#today

Wow. So sleepy, and it's just now 5PM.

Next time you're tempted to attribute some sort of vast conspiracy to Google, remind yourself that somehow an office, where people needed to use wifi, was designed in such a way that the whole thing would obstruct radio propagation, and then it got built, and then Google put workers inside it, and finally they figured out why wifi wasn't working. These are not the masterminds of any vast conspiracy, I promise.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009247