2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He spoke the truth (though I doubt this ammosexual was aware of how much truth he spoke).
Why I Put Quotes around “Social” in “Social” Media 0
Because far too often, it’s anti-social.
Susan Cousins describes a recent experience on Twitter:
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
Geeking Out 0
My new laptop from ThinkPenguin. I selected Debian for the distro, and it arrived in a timely fashion with a clean Debian install from the vendor. It’s pictured running the Plasma desktop environment; that’s swisswatch and GKrellM running on the right side of the screen. The wallpaper is from my collection.
It has an i5 CPU. a 500 GB SSD, and 16 GB RAM and works quite nicely, thank you very much.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
“Societal Malpractice” 0
Sam and his crew report on the little girl who’s selling lemonade to pay for an operation and what it and the news coverage of it tell us about the American health care industrial complex.
The Disinformation Superhighway, Facebook Frolics Dept. 0
A new study indicates that Facebook is the high speed lane on the Disinformation Turmpike, particularly for right-wing rot. Here’s a bit from the news the NPR report.
But it wasn’t just one day of high engagement. A new study from Cybersecurity For Democracy found that far-right accounts known for spreading misinformation are not only thriving on Facebook, they’re actually more successful than other kinds of accounts at getting likes, shares and other forms of user engagement.
It wasn’t a small edge, either.
Follow the link for more about the study and its findings.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The New Jersey Attorney-General wants to look behind the lead curtain.
Vaccine Nation 0
At The Roanoke Times, Dan Casey chronicles one woman’s month’s long journey to score a COVID vaccination appointment.
(Here on the farm, we’re still on the waiting list.)
