Or, does shoving it into a ghetto make it go away?

Cut Loose by Tech Giants, Will Far-Right Extremists Be Adrift?

Also, pray tell, how does a banned user jump a ship?

Advanced link rot

 Perhaps modern technology's greatest gift to work avoidance, Adobe's Flash, was, as you may already know, discontinued a couple of weeks ago. As you also may have learned already, a number of the entries in our Work Avoidance Hall of Fame were built on Flash.

Doing a prompt and thorough housecleaning of the Hall is too much like work, so it's not happening, But I will, when I have a few odd minutes to kill, check out the entries at random and delete them if they don't work.

In the meantime, if you should click on one and find it broken, well, at least you wasted a little time when you could be working.

Cranky old Vermonters never die, they just get better mittens

The Bernie Sanders Meme Proves the Internet Is Resetting

It was almost as if it tested some uncharted waters, some Great Beyond (Trump’s Presidency) Sea.

 

French spook gives new meaning to "in from the cold"

Woman ruled dead in 2017 fights to be declared alive

LIFO…

More heads roll at US-funded international broadcasters

The directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks just a month after they had been named to the posts.

…stands for Last In, First Out. It's a perfectly normal warehousing strategy (more or less the opposite of FIFO).

Too bad, so sad

After Trump setbacks, Kim Jong Un starts over with Biden

He helplessly watched his country’s already battered economy decay further amid pandemic border closures while brooding over the collapse of made-for-TV summits with former President Donald Trump that failed to lift crippling sanctions from his country.

Some guys just can't get a break. 

Well, trickle down, etc. blah blah

Trump-tied lobbyists paid massive sums to push pardons

And the winner is…

Schlapp was paid a whopping $750,000 since mid-December to lobby Trump to pardon Parker Petit

Logged into the Twitter machine this morning and…

 …nothing was on fire. Nobody was freaking out. The hyperpanic of the last year or so had come to a  merciful end.

And BTW, if you missed the remarkable Amanda Gorman reading her inaugural poem, or just want to hear it again, here it is.

Emergency homemaking news

 

Eggs hard-boiled in pressure cooker…shells popped right off…instant snack!

In case you're worried about outrage withdrawal…

 …after Biden takes office, just remember we may never run out of Trumps.

Trump team tries to milk the politics of food boxes to its final days

The guy at the grocery store…

 …told me he picked up a new book about anti-gravity and couldn't put it down,

Media bias is almost impossible to avoid

 Here's a sentence from an Associated Press story about the COVID-19 vaccination program this morning:

West Virginia has emerged as an unlikely success in the nation’s otherwise chaotic vaccine rollout…

"Unlikely" signals the writer's assumption that West Virginia is a less than fully successful (backward) state—which may be your assumption too. Or mine. 

But "emerged as a success" would serve just as well in a news story (not as fashionably edgy but clearly just as accurate), avoiding a lazy stereotype.

There's a lot of talk these days about "news literacy" as an attempt to counter disinformation, which is a good thing. But news literacy means skeptical reading not only of things you find questionable, but things you take for granted as well.

Some people just won't stay robbed

Man stole tow truck, then called 911 to complain because victim pulled a gun on him, prosecutors say