I admit that I have all alerts deactivated for the simple reason that our local agencies can’t seem to use SAME codes and I get tired of waking in the middle of the night for a thunderstorm three counties over.

Let the Trump/McConnell tax cuts expire, and it’ll disappear even faster.

In other words, they skipped internal stress testing and staged rollout to production systems. Instead, they pushed a template based on results of a single (faulty) validation check to all customers.

Geez

If it gets purchased by Big Pharma, it’ll be a lot more expensive than that. But yeah, I was being far too conservative.

On the other hand, after losing my shit with college kids who want to write papers about “technology addiction,” which doesn’t appear to exist outside a certain cottage abuse (ahem, check notes) “bootcamp” industry, it’s a relief to see the FDA recognize benefits.

Is this going to be like “prescription” pet food? Four times more expensive just for branding?

So Crowdstrike knew they had a problem before it happened?

Sadly because I have many friends from China, I’ve come to the conclusion that anything sourced in any way from China is likely a product of forced labor. To the extent possible, these days I avoid anything touched by Chinese industry in any way.

This is fucking terrifying. How do we find the membership list and shine a light on them? And how do we make sure politicians know that we disapprove of the company they keep?

Eight year old article? And paywalled

Haven’t we learned over the last 25 years that the high road doesn’t work?

Far too little and far too late.

It worked well for millennia. And nearly every town already has a safe repository to store and share materials with the community.

The only true archive is local hard copy.

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=facpub

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=facpub

I guess they have to drag it out for diplomatic reasons, but the High Court has set a condition that the US cannot satisfy: The State Department nor the Department of Justice can guarantee that he would be granted First Amendment rights. It’s established precedent in US law that constitutional rights only apply to citizens. Judicial independence prevents them enforcing any agreement to the contrary.

LOL! I couldn’t figure it out either. My guess: an intern with the website password and too much time on their hands.

Love your handle, by the way.

That’s not how I read the headline. Given that this story is so old (months and months), if it’s newsworthy at all today, it should be “USDA Finally Updates Climate Maps for the First Time in a Decade.”

Anyone who needs them has been paying attention to the climate for years. It’s a neat bit of science reporting, but it’s hardly “Here’s What Suddenly Changed.”

Agreed. My issue is with NPR’s breathless headline and pretending that this is “news.”

Wasn’t this reported months ago? And zones didn’t suddenly shift just because the USDA said so. They’ve shifted over time because of climate change. The USDA just finally got around to catching up.

I used to be news director for an NPR member station, and even I think this is sloppy work.