Are cops allowed to say this sort of thing?

'There's a donkey in the middle of I-90': Sheriff's officer corrals donkey named Dusty on interstate near Arlington Heights Road - Chicago Tribune

The officer then ordered the donkey to "come here, sweetie."

http://bit.ly/2L4Ab2P

Shorter Mueller report

Everyone who thought he was guilty of something is now sure of it.

Everyone who thought he was not guilty of anything is now sure of it.

Is it too late to get a refund?

Everybody makes a boo-boo now and then

Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts without permission - Business Insider

While 1.5 million people's contact books were directly harvested by Facebook, the total number of people whose contact information was improperly obtained by Facebook may well be in the dozens or even hundreds of millions, as people sometimes have hundreds of contacts stored on their email accounts. The spokesperson could not provide a figure for the total number of contacts obtained this way.

http://bit.ly/2VaFK3b

Or maybe they should get some kind of extra credit in Political Science

High school election hacked by candidate who exploited weak passwords

More than 500 phoney votes were submitted in favour of the candidate. The names of the candidate and their cohort have not been released, and it has not been made public whether they will suffer any disciplinary action. However, it is likely they will be compelled to apologise for his actions.

http://bit.ly/2VfCQKU

Link rot

I know, I know, some of the links in the Work Avoidance Hall of Fame no longer work. (I just removed one of them: Alas and farewell, Fox Movietone News.) Since some of them, as I recall, use Flash, whether they work or not may depend on what device you're using to view them (or try to).

If you run across such a link and want to be bitchy about it, let me know and I will remove it. Otherwise, don't bug me.

Remember, even it doesn't work, clicking on it is still a waste of time.

You're welcome.

You might want to note the dates on these citations

From Shoshana Zuboff's book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"

Another day of avoiding work

News

I woke up this morning, popped open my Apple news, and the first story I saw was about how we should all be getting more sleep.

So I went back to bed.