John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Also this reminds me of people checking photo ID when signing GPG keys. If you have no training/practice in identifying an official ID (as I'm 99% sure most of the volunteers at the polls do not either), the requirement is not worth much, which means all of the cons of the requirement easily outweigh the supposed benefits.

Had to show photo ID to vote today, for the first time in my life. Lame.

I'm short on time -- can I just put the Emergen-C *in* the whiskey?

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Starting "Hello, the Roses" by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge #poetry

"Four year old girl" was very influential on me during my MFA program, but inexplicably haven't read anything by her since, until now.

Apparently marijuana is in fact not a gateway drug: https://npr.org/2024/02/26/1233856049/police-dogs-across-ohio-discovered-their-skills-are-obsolete

also sounds like these dogs need a union to guarantee cross-training opportunities when their jobs are made obsolete

When we don't study Seinfeld, we are doomed to repeat it: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/25/1233819686/the-mlbs-new-uniforms-arent-a-hit

Finished "Midwood" by Jana Prikryl, for the second time. Good #poems, especially the namesake series within, but I think "The After Party" by her was even gooder.

I wasn't sure I was going to be up for baking bread with my work schedule this week, but I feel suddenly motivated https://www.dailydot.com/debug/king-arthur-baking-dei-competition/ -- King me.

The funniest thing to me about this case is the suggestion that Cox customers had any meaningful choice as to who their ISP was at all: https://www.engadget.com/appeals-court-overturns-1-billion-copyright-lawsuit-against-cox-130810427.html

Cox's defense should absolutely be "our customers didn't choose us because we were soft on copyright infringement -- our customers didn't choose us at all!"

(but also remember that Google has always refused to support efforts to actually abolish all software patents / make ideas implemented in software nonpatentable)

I guess I wasn't the only one to not know about this Google project to publish prior art, TDCommons: https://www.wired.com/story/google-tdcommons-dpub-patents-prior-art

Signal still requires phone number to get started, but supporting usernames as identifiers after that -- a significant improvement.

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-launches-usersnames-phone-number-privacy/

What a sport! https://www.npr.org/2024/02/10/1230605025/soccer-fans-can-now-bring-bagpipes-to-the-stands-of-the-euro-2024-cup