Several years ago I worked for a company which outsourced management of their 401k to Human Interest. It was… not a positive experience. I don’t remember all the details—I’ve worked pretty hard to forget them since they were so unpleasant—but suffice it to say that it was my impression that they weren’t terribly good at… Read More: “Human Interest” is terrible »
Sometimes Synology Drive Client just stops synchronizing files down from the server without telling you that there’s anything wrong. This is bad.
Wired just released a new article1 by Vittoria Elliott about DOGE’s incursion into VA, in particular the disruption that muskrat Sahil Lavingia is causing within the Office of the CTO’s VA.gov team by blustering around like a bull in a china shop. It’s a good insight into how the muskrats are working at government agencies.… Read More: New Wired article about DOGE at VA »
As I noted previously, I was invited to testify at a “shadow hearing” held by the Democrats on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, about the firings happening at VA.
GoComics just rolled out a completely new web site, which broke the integration with my comics aggregator. I’ve fixed it.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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: Featured guest on “WatchCats” podcast March 25 »