Comics aggregator: GoComics integration was broken, is now fixed
GoComics just rolled out a completely new web site, which broke the integration with my comics aggregator. I’ve fixed it.
“Phoebe and her Unicorn” is, alas, now Sunday-only
As of March 30, 2025, the Phoebe and her Unicorn comic strip has transitioned from daily to Sundays-only. See what the creator of the strip, Dana Simpson has to say about it here. The comics aggregator has been updated to reflect this.
I see that Verizon’s customer website and onboarding experience still sucks as bad as it always has
Verizon’s website and their FIOS customer onboarding processes are full of problems and have been for at least a decade. I ran into nearly 30 of them just trying to complete the simple task of signing up for FIOS service. How do they get away with this?
Watch me testify before a Senate committee, Wednesday, April 2, 3:00pm Eastern
I have been invited to testify (virtually) at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about firings at VA. The hearing will begin at 3:00pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 2. The hearing was organized by the Democratic committee members; although all members of the committee are invited to attend, the Republican members are not expected to show up. The hearing will be live-streamed on Twitter (https://x.com/SVACDems) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SVACDems/). And yes, I absolutely did let the committee know just what I thought of the fact that they were only streaming on corporate social media platforms controlled by people who support fascism.
Brief mention in “Yomiuri Shimbun” article in Japanese
I imagine most of my readers are not going to make much of this, but since I’m trying to capture everything here for posterity, note that I was mentioned briefly in an article in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun last Saturday.
Featured guest on “WatchCats” podcast March 25
Experienced ex-govies Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin, started the WatchCats podcast a couple of months ago to report on DOGE and its doings throughout the federal government. I am the featured guest on the March 25 episode. Listen for the inside story of what went down at USDS between the election and when 44 USDSers… Read More »
WaPo article about Signal use by feds with me as lead-off hitter
This morning over at The Washington Post ([archive link]), Shira Ovide, Danielle Abril, and Hannah Natanson write about Signal use among federal workers. I’m the lede (funsies!). This is a great article capturing the mood among federal workers right now, and it makes relatively clear that while what Pete Hegseth et al are doing is… Read More »
TIME quotes me about DOGE and VA, gets stuff wrong
The TIME article contains two substantive errors, several minor errors, and a curious omission.
Long article about DOGE in Der Spiegel
The article features my concerns about DOGE and VA. Unlike mainstream U.S. media, the piece effectively debunks DOGE’s claims without equivocation. This is the kind of reporting we need to see (but won’t) from U.S. media.
Mar. 13 NPR “Consider This” talks about risks of DOGE data access, with cameo by me
NPR’s Ailsa Chang; Elizabeth Lair of the Equity and Civic Technology Project at the Center For Democracy and Technology; Jonathan Kamens, late of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron, talk about the risks of DOGE having access to federal government data and how the Privacy Act of 1974 is being used to push back on it.