Happy Days
California sheriff’s department deems 47 deputies ‘not suited’ for duty.
“Roughly 10% of the force had their guns and arrest powers stripped after an internal audit of psychological exams”
University of Idaho says staff can offer condoms for STDs – not birth control
Well - that clears that up then!
🖋️ The joy of paper - an ‘Om’ post.
“The lady doth protest too much”
… way too much.
Job specs that leave a lot to be desired …
56 Seconds for all you ‘Portlandians’ (specifically), but really anyone … I just love his YouTube channel. Has anyone been?
“A Union Jack at half mast to commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth the Second in the style of xxx”
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Replace xxx with the name of an artist and submit on Dall-E 2
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Choose one of 4 images that best conveys the sentiment
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No edits
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Repeat
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Stop at 8 artists
🎶🎵 Apparently.
According to ‘Albums’.
Answers to questions
Adam Curry
Spotify has to … because it can’t make money from music
Dave Winer
Radio Shows aren’t podcasts
Radio Shows don’t have to be on ‘the radio’
In June, The Markup reported that Meta Pixels on the websites of 33 of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America were transmitting the details of patients’ doctor’s appointments to Meta when patients booked on the websites. We also found Meta Pixels inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems collecting data about patients’ prescriptions, sexual orientation, and health conditions.
So of course 3 months later …
Who are the people inside Meta that thinks this a good idea, then makes it happen and fails to tell anyone?
“A 2% surcharge applies to all credit card and contactless payments. Eftpos and cash payment available with no surcharge.”
I am seeing this more and more.
In small print.
Nobody tells you.
If I create a reminder in BusyCal - it doesn’t appear in ‘Reminders’. All good. Things changed.
BUT
If I create a reminder in reminders - it does appear in BusyCal. Which surprised me.
Any ideas what is going on?
Secret life of Gerald: the New Zealand MP who spent a lifetime crafting a vast imaginary world
Not even Gerald O’Brien’s wife of 60 years knew of the countless hours he spent drawing and writing stories of his parallel world.
These are the kinds of secrets I would like more people to have. Such a welcome change to the usual. What an extraordinary man.
“I talked to him for a year … about all sorts of things, but the imaginary world never came up and it pisses me off that I didn’t know,”
💬 Lucien Rizos - his nephew
😂😂😂
“I could have put the lists into a spreadsheet, but that would mean the client would have to open the email and then open the attachment. If you knew the level of computer literacy my clients have, you would understand why I wanted to avoid that and just have the lists in the body of the email.”
💬 Robin Rendle
Thankyou Kwasi.
Thankyou Liz.
It seems to be working ..
I Hadn’t Previously Absorbed This Nuance
At the White House, Ornato, who as deputy chief of staff had oversight over Secret Service decisions, told Pence’s national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, that the vice-president was going to be moved to the Maryland military facility Joint Base Andrews. Had he been evacuated, Pence would no longer have been able to certify Biden’s electoral victory, and Trump’s goal of postponing his defeat would have been fulfilled.
When Ornato said that the Secret Service would move Pence, Kellogg was adamant, Rucker and Leonnig reported. “You can’t do that, Tony,” Kellogg said. “Leave him where he’s at. He’s got a job to do. I know you guys too well. You’ll fly him to Alaska if you have a chance. Don’t do it.”
Should We Still Be Afraid Of Facebook
“cryptocurrency: It is hard to cultivate the proper attitude of fear and loathing to a company so obviously inept.”
“I like to describe the publishing industry as operating a lot like an (American) children’s soccer game. When the ball goes to one part of the field, a clump of players follow en masse.