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It's always fun to ask the CEO questions, during their dog and pony shows, that imply their workforce might not be happy with their management. You get the CEO tapdance and soft shoe shuffle where they fumble at words to answer the question in corporate approved boilerplate.

CEO talking about Trading Window, which appears to be a path to insider trading only available to corporate officers and boards.

Forgot I had preordered this, JELLO BIAFRA AND THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE "Tea Party Revenge Porn" LP + Shirt Bundle. What a nice surprise!

I'm involved in a project at work, where two wrongs don't make a right, but we're going to do it anyway. I've seen this so often in companies, that I don't even bother fighting it once direction is set; I also don't put in any unpaid overtime on it, because I told you so. You can't build quality in at the late stages of a project. You can't build maintainability in at the late stages of a project. If you fuck up the front end, you get a steaming pile of shit.

I believe that anyone who uses the term, "cancel culture", is not worth reading/conversation. While I don't believe in broad censorship rights, I do believe in focused censorship rights. i.e., by an individual or community. You can't always choose your neighbors, but you can ignore them.

I continue to be wary, but increasingly my view is "no, I'm just going to put stuff out there and be myself. The world is burning and we don't have time to frack around pretending that there is even such a thing as an unbiased view."

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Given the long history of police retribution and reprisals against people exercising their First Amendment right to record interactions with authorities, a U.S. court has upheld the ability of the public to secretly record police encounters.

eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/firs

Ridiculous political, scaremongering, email about Trump winning Nobel Prize; like I really give a shit about any kind of societal awards.

A little over a week before her first scheduled vaccine shot, my wife gets COVID-19. The rest of the household has tested negative, so she's quarantined to the our bedroom. At least she has her own TV and bathroom. (Funny how I still consider TV in this age of internet.) More fortunately the symptoms are about the same as a head cold for her. I get my first vaccine shot tomorrow.

just had a worrying "covid in context" leaflet through the door. the usual risible anti-science nonsense, but what's striking is that neither the leaflet, nor the associated Web site, has any info about who is behind this. just pathetic cowards, or something more sinister...?

Matrix status page, status.matrix.org/, Has a banner at the top proclaiming, "Some systems are experiencing issues", but all the listed statuses are green (Operational). ???

Finally saw a reason why I ended up with five different covers in my OFF! First Four EPs set. It seems that one of the original covers not released to the general public, let's call it Pedophile Cop, was deemed too controversial. My set (general public release) had two copies of the 7" that had the aforementioned cover and the general release cover, but was missing one of the other 7". (I got four, but only 3 different vinyls.) Writing to the band got me the missing 7" with it's cover.

A year ago we said it was troubling that the so-called predictive policing program created by Banjo used “artificial intelligence” hidden inside a black box. A state audit has now revealed that the company had no AI to speak of. vice.com/en/article/pkd7pk/ban

PEN America's new report, No Excuse for Abuse, suggests some concrete ways that social media companies can help vulnerable populations cope with abuse by empowering users: pen.org/report/no-excuse-for-a

Who is attracted to discourse about individual liberties? Libertarians, unsurprisingly.

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