Still sitting at the computer, working mostly offlline...for most of the day, until the "endless" offline task was finished. Color me chuffed. Extra-silly songs in the mix below to celebrate.
Climate Change
We all heard that the reason why Greta Thunberg didn't have to go to school, during some of her demonstrations, was that she's neurodivergent enough to need one-to-one tutoring. I suppose it's true. People are posting a video (no link from here) showing her laughing at younger students' climate change demonstrations. Well, she's twenty-three, just a giggly growing girl still. It's not unusual for 23-year-olds to blush, giggle, or otherwise show embarrassment when reminded that they were once 16.
Actually, it's not all the unusual for 45-year-olds' parenting style to show embarrassment when they remember having once been 16...typically by the rules they set for their 16-year-olds.
But yes, for Thunberg, climate change was her parents' issue. Now her sophisticated twenty-something friends are into hating Israel. That way real embarrassment lies. This web site hereby promises not to gloat when Thunberg starts wearing black sacks over her head and always siting behind the men. Well, not much, anyway.
Meanwhile, corporate interests have suddenly stopped funding climate change histrionics--because the corporate interests are drooling with greed over the leading cause of real climate change: those disgusting data centers from which they want to be able to steal the words out of your personal letters to weave into their next ad campaign.
Local warming is real. If you don't enjoy being ten degrees or more hotter in town than you'd be in the surrounding country, or don't want your crops to fail as the climate on your farm heats up to or beyond the climate in the inner city, you need to take control of your online activity now. No flatphones. No computers without hard drives AND removable storage drives. No "AI" programs. Make sure any computer you use can be completely disconnected from the Internet without affecting your typing, calculating, looking at pictures or listening to music stored on your hard drive, etc.
If you can't get anything but "cloud-based" devices in the stores, it really is time to pull back out of the Internet. No flatphones. No tablets. Demand real computers--with real, hard-wired, "cloud"-free printers!--or no computers at all. Older people may be able to help you build your own...or you might need to rediscover how office work, entertainment, and communication worked before 1980. If you don't remember, you may get to find out, anyway, why so many older people say those things were better before 1980.
We want to see technology go all the way to zero-impact before it expands across continents. We want a Constitutional amendment enumerating the right to privacy, and a federal law mandating the deportation of anybody who tries to start a "social credit system" like China's in the United States. We want the contents of our computers secured by their being made completely inaccessible to third parties, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Verizon, and even--in the absent of a warrant authorizing a search for evidence related to an actual crime--the FBI; so, any further "updates" can be made entirely at the companies' end of the wires and not allowed to interfere with our use of our computers. Without this kind of basic commonsense protection our favorite tools and toys can become weapons enemies use against us, and we want to keep such enemies out of our homes.
We need local laws, backed by federal authority if necessary, that spell out: This little data center used extra electricity: this little data center shut down. This little data center polluted water: this little data center gets none. This little data center was used to spy on someone's private e-mail: now watch its owners crying "We-we-we...we never meant to...someone else was using our system..." as they're driven out of the US, and further, by crowds throwing stones and waving whips, all the way home.
Health
Why we all need to be our own naturopaths...
Found on the Mirror.
Music
Brooks & Dunn.
Martin Mull.
Vince Giordano.
Randy Kaplan.
Second South Carolina String Band.
K/DA.
Miriam Rocke.
Charlie Drake.
Ray Stevens.
Lonnie Donegan.
Johann Sebastian Bach. Yes, I do like it when music links come in in their proper season.
Dionne Warwick.
Gordon Lightfoot. Other songs besides the one you've already heard on a radio somewhere today.
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