The prediction

A guy from the fire department came around today to install a new smoke alarm.

When he was finished he said, "Don't worry, it's a 10-year battery. You'll never have to change it."

We'll see about that.

Don't be a phish

 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides this infographic on phishing — something you already know about (right?) but might, nonetheless, require occasional review.

Have a look.

“American manufacturing is back.”

TSMC Raises Arizona Chip Investment to $40 Billion as Biden Visits

Back, except…well…it's owned by Taiwan.

In a letter to the Commerce Department last month, TSMC said it was primarily relying on its own capital supplemented by U.S. incentive funds for building the complex in Arizona. It didn’t specify how much money it might get from the government.

I guess they're going to let us buy the chips they make in Arizona, which is nice of them. 

So it's not that the masks didn't work, it's that they worked too well?

Worst flu outbreak in more than a decade spikes hospitalizations

The worst flu outbreak in more than a decade has left nearly every state with high or very high levels of flu activity, underscoring how pandemic precautions may have left us more vulnerable to seasonal respiratory diseases.

I figured I'd be the last guy on the planet to give in to the "masks didn't work" claim; never considered working could be a bad thing, not a good. Who knew? 

Please tell me the "experts" didn't know.

 

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

 REAL ID deadline is extended again to 2025

The enforcement deadline had been May 3, 2023, but the Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday that it's been pushed back again, until 2025

Nice, round number: 2025 will be an even 20 years after the REAL ID law was passed. But who's counting? 

Well this is embarrassing

Most sinful cities in US

Chicago comes in at only number eight on this list of most sinful U.S. cities, and not even that high—not even close— in the Excesses & Vices category. There it is, by comparison, almost squeaky clean.

It's going to take along time to live that down.

Moderate…

“The First Amendment isn’t absolute” – Twitter files show Democrat staffers wanted more censorship

Szabo wrote of the Democrats: “They linked this to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal: she did nothing wrong but because the press wouldn’t let the story go, it became a scandal far out of proportion. In their mind, social media is doing the same thing: it doesn’t moderate enough harmful content so when it does, like it did yesterday, it becomes a story. If the companies moderated more, conservatives wouldn’t even think to use social media for disinformation, misinformation, or otherwise.

…has never been a synonym for censor. 

[Emphasis mine.]