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News broadcast soundbites: how the sausage is made

By the time they’re talking to you to record the soundbite, they already know what they want you to say, they just need to get you on camera saying it. There are some amusing aspects to how this played out in this case.

Category: Journalism Ramblings

I appeared briefly tonight on the NBC Nightly News

I appeared tonight on the NBC Nightly News in a segment by Peter Alexander about bad stuff the Trump administration has done recently and how people are reacting to it (I imagine this may be a daily segment?).

Category: Government activism Politics Tags: DOGE, Donald Trump, NBC, NBC Nightly News, VA

New IG reel from Feds Against DOGE: why VA data privacy matters

Watch this video and then get involved! The only way we stop this if if people get off the sidelines.

Category: Government activism Politics Tags: DOGE, Federal Workers Against DOGE, USDS

Boston Herald article about my termination by DOGE

The article about my firing from USDS and VA is fair, accurate, and even-handed.

Category: Boston Government activism Politics Tags: Boston Herald, DOGE, Donald Trump, USDS, VA

Tampermonkey script: no, Newegg, I don’t freakin’ want to subscribe

Script to prevent Newegg from subscribing me to their spam against my will.

Category: Computers email Spam User Experience Web Tags: dark patterns, Newegg, Tampermonkey

I *DO* Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

“Go ahead and make me.” OK, we will.

Category: Politics Social Activism

The fundamental challenge for civil society: most people are stupid and/or assholes

This explains everything.

Category: Politics Social Activism

Tampermonkey script to un-Gmail Google Contacts

When you click on a contact’s email address in the Google Contacts web app, instead of opening a new draft in your default email app with the “To” field populated with that email address, which is what it should do, Google Contacts opens a Gmail compose window. I hate this behavior. While I do have… Read More »

Category: Computers email Free software User Experience Web Tags: Gmail, Google, Google Contacts, Tampermonkey

Lessons learned from setting up a Linux desktop VM on a Windows 11 Home host

VirtualBox is more functional than Hyper-V Manager but much slower. There are a lot of tricks for getting this right. If you turn off Secure Boot you might permanently lock yourself out of Windows.

Category: Computers Free software User Experience Tags: Debian, Hyper-V, Linux, VirtualBox, Windows

New Thunderbird extension: Addy.io / AnonAddy for Thunderbird

Now you can route your outbound emails through Addy.io and even generate new Addy.io aliases for that purpose without ever leaving Thunderbird.

Category: Computers email Free software Tags: Addy.io, AnonAddy, privacy, Thunderbird
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