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ghostoftheyear · 3 months

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The BFF and I are reminiscing about the early days of computers and the internet, and I have to share a few observations.

My first "computer" was a TI-99/4a, made by Texas Instruments (the calculator people). This was in 1983. It was similar to an Atari or Commodore-64 in that it could play games, but it could also be added on to with various hardware. My parents got hardcore into this. Aside from learning about programming, we also had a 300 baud acoustic modem - the kind you literally put the phone receiver on - and I was able to access local bulletin boards and talk to strangers from far away! V e r y s l o w l y. We later got more peripherals like a graphics card and a big old dot-matrix printer. I remember writing school papers on it.

The first computer that belonged to me was an Apple Mac LC that I got for college. It was super expensive and I still have the base somewhere, but the monitor is long gone. I went online with that thing with an external modem... I think the first one I got was a 14.4k. Yes, I did the whole AOL thing.

Internet services were preceded by these sort of walled-garden services like AOL (America Online), Compuserve, and Prodigy. I remember getting into RP forums on Prodigy (specifically for Pern and the Dragon Prince series), running up a huge bill, and getting it canceled. You could chat on these and participate in other activities like games (I remember winning a copy of one of Terry Brooks' novels on Prodigy, but there were no websites or anything like that.

For some time, when the first Internet service providers (ISPs) came into being, I worked at one, answering phones and doing some very basic tech support (literally "have you tried turning it off and on again"). I did billing as well, which was when I first learned that people just... didn't think they had to pay their bills. Three months of non-payment and their service would get cut off and they'd call in, livid. It was an experience. We also played lots of interoffice matches of DOOM and Quake, so it balanced out. I used to use my office computer to download sound clips from movies and parts of songs.

I only used Usenet a little, but it was a thriving community full of various posters and groups. My favorite group was probably alt.barney.die.die.die.

While working at the above ISP, I had to make a website so that I knew some HTML, since they actually wanted people to help customers with that. (I should add there were only like five employees there; the guy who started it up basically was using investment money from his dad. I also remember he tried to make me learn how to mess with circuit boards. I still don't know why he wanted to teach me, but no, I did not retain one single thing from that.) Anyway, I learned basic HTML, and I still have a website today that still uses exceedingly basic HTML.

Can you imagine calling Comcast today and going "yes, I'm struggling with this bit of javascript here, I expect you to help me."

No, because even if you pay them four times what you paid my ISP back then (I think it was around $30 a month for a dedicated DNS), they would tell you to look up a tutorial on youtube.

I don't remember when we switched to 24/7 connections and cable internet and broadband and everything, but I can tell you that I remember getting online, checking my email, going on IRC for a little bit, looking at websites, maybe doing some RP on a MUSH, and then logging off and shutting it down at the end of the night. We didn't expect everyone to be THERE all the time.

Although while I was still with the ISP, I used to get on PernMUSH NC first thing in the morning and sit there all day so my name would be at the bottom of the user list. Because that was a powerful status to have.

My ex and I would trade off computer time. We didn't even play games that needed to be connected to the Internet. We did other things. Can you imagine?

I downloaded So Much Shit from Napster. So. Much. (A lot of it was mislabeled garbage, too. You wouldn't believe how many crappy "parody" songs got attributed to Weird Al.) Didn't use Limewire nearly as much because it was so riddled with viruses. Damn you, Lars Ulrich.

Those days were wild. You could find the worst shit online, but also some of the best. People used Tripod and Geocities and mailing lists and Usenet, just every kind of thing to connect to each other. I had a site just for my fanfic, and I hosted friends on it and even designed their sites. Before AO3, before Livejournal, we were making it work any way we could. I still remember the Outside the Lines mailing list for comic fandom and how people would post full fics on there. And others would complain that not enough Dark Horse comics were getting fics. Some things never do change.

We also regularly got secondary phone lines so that we could use the modem and not be interrupted by phone calls, or have people scream that they'd been trying to call us for hours. Everything had to be connected by wires. If you wanted to game with your friends, you took your PC (and monitor and anything else you needed) over to their house, plugged in and had a LAN party.

Or if you just wanted to browse the Internet without your own PC, you'd go to an Internet cafe and rent one for a couple hours. Sit there, have your coffee and go online.

Everything is different these days. Everyone is connected, online, all the time, and you're practically not allowed to be disconnected. You must be available at all times. As nice as it is to get all our information quickly, I do kind of miss when the Internet wasn't so omnipresent. I could do without what social media has done to us, too. And I really miss MUDs and MUSHes. Text based games where you could RP or just wander around killing mobs.

Anyway, it's been an interesting experience growing up through all of this. I never would have imagined having a phone with all my music and the Internet on it, but they're just ubiquitous now. Strange to think of not having it everywhere I go, and WiFi for everything.

#computers #the internet #the old times #i'm sure there's a lot i haven't included

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violetsystems · 7 months

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Then why were you the first person to friend me on LinkedIn out of nowhere when I got fired with a profile stating you worked for the us army cybersecurity division in Hawaii? Considering I was your manager at your first student job at an art school? Not to be petty or anything but I’m pretty sure the federal government hacked into my barely active Comcast email yesterday to create a draft reply to a spam LinkedIn request to make 35k a month coaching for a message dated November 8th, 2022 which was the day of the Chicago elections. Either way I don’t know why you had to reply other than to cover your ass. So since everyone is watching me? I’ll just leave this here.

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ear-worthy · 9 months

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"Based On A True Story" Peacock Show: Is True-Crime Podcasting That Bad?

Recently, Peacock, Comcast's streaming service, released a show called "Based On A True Story." The half-hour show -- with eight episodes -- dabbles in several well-established genres, from comedy to drama, and slasher flick to true-crime mystery.

It's the tossed salad of the genres, with the sharp writing, and exceptional acting making the show so entertaining.

Here's the plotline: "Between endless bills, midlife marriage squabbles, a new pregnancy, and mounting work pressures, Ava and her husband Nathan feel like they're watching their lives fall apart. Ava's passion is true crime, so when she realizes that plumber-turned-family friend Matt is the serial killer behind a string of unsolved murders in LA, she spots an opportunity. Ava and Nathan blackmail Matt into co-creating a podcast about his "work," but they quickly realize that collaborating with a killer won't be a cakewalk."

The show stars Chris Messina as Nathan, Kaley Cuocco as Ava, and Tom Bateman as the serial killer Matt. Bateman is equal parts Ted Bundy and Brad Pitt, and he crosses over between personalities with such ease and facility it's hard to predict the direction of his malevolence.

During the course of the eight episodes, viewers observe the main characters attend a true-crime podcast convention in Las Vegas.

Here's the raison d'être for this article. Is this Peacock streaming TV show just another example of media spotlighting the crazed nature of true-crime podcasting? During the episodes at the true-crime podcasting convention, attendees are depicted as deranged, spellbound by the hint of violence, dangerously competitive, sadistic voyeurs, and morality-free podcasters.

Is this a trend?

After all, in Hulu's Only Murders In The Building, an exceptional show, podcast fans are also treated to crazed true-crime podcasts fans -- some good and some bad. Then we have Tina Fey, who plays a famous true-crime podcaster who (spoiler alert) turns out to be in favor of crime instead of against it.

So are true-crime podcast fans now a meme? Are they the Gen Z version of Trekkies?

When the true-crime podcast, Serial was released in 2014 (investigating the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old student from Baltimore) it only took six months for the podcast’s first season to be downloaded more than 68 million times. Fast-forward to 2022, and the third quarter Podtrac podcast rankings unveil a strong theme. True-crime podcasts attract a lot of listeners. Loyal listeners. Engaged listeners who also link to the podcast through social media and email newsletters. According to Scott Bonn, professor of criminology at Drew University and author of the book, Why We Love Serial Killers, true crime “triggers the most basic and powerful emotion in all of us—fear.” This is the primary driver of the popularity of true crime novels, television shows, and podcasts.

True-crime podcast fans identify with victims of the crime and often use the podcast as a catharsis to help them deal with their fears. In fact, there is evidence that listening to true-crime stories can actually soothe listeners’ fears of being harmed. A study conducted by social psychologist Amanda Vicary revealed that women prefer true crime topics more than men. In her research, Vicary found that women tend to be attracted to the psychological content of true-crime stories. Vicary also noted that since women are victims of crime more often than men, they are driven to understand the reason for the crime and ways for them to prevent such an act. Clinical psychologist Dr. John Mayer, who studies violence and media, indicated that people, and women, in particular, use true-crime stories as a way to purposefully expose themselves to violence as a way to “build up [their] tolerance to something scary and seemingly inevitable.”

The other factor related to true-crime podcast popularity is that attraction to disaster and misfortune – like rubbernecking at the scene of a serious auto accident. The public’s fascination with them can be seen as a manifestation of its more general fixation on violence and calamity. In other words, the actions of a serial killer may be horrible to behold, but much of the public simply cannot look away due to the spectacle. Finally, one recent trend in true-crime podcast popularity is the sense of fairness and justice that humans inherently seem to possess. Unfairness roils us to the core, and someone getting away with a violent act is as disruptive to our sense of fairness as an innocent person being punished for something they did not do. Podcasts like Serial also seed the concept of inequity in the American justice system. “Baby boomers and to some extent, Gen Xers grew up with the concept that the police and the DA always get the right person,�� psychologist Ken Grayson notes. “Many true-crime podcasts cast doubt on the ability of the police to always arrest the right person. Indeed, a recurring theme in these podcasts is that the police sometimes identify a likely perpetrator and then fit the evidence to match their identification of the guilty party.”

For true-crime podcasters, of course, they can grab that pot of gold over the rainbow by either helping to prove the innocence of a convicted person, identifying the killer after the crime has become a cold case, or helping to prove that a suspect is indeed the perpetrator.

So will true-crime podcasting become so ubiquitous that it is soon called "podcasting?" Will true-crime podcast fans embrace their role as the new "tin foil hat" crowd, replacing wacky political conspiracy theories? Will Joe Rogan switch from misinformation to solving true crimes related to vaccines, 5G, wifi, sexual orientation, and, most heinous of all, people not giving a crab about MMA fighters beating each other into premature dementia?

#podcast #podcasting #true crime

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bananasol · 2 years

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ejsmithers · 2 years

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A Gmail Account Does Not A Business Make

We as a whole need to arrive at that slippery point, where our business begins to take off. Where individuals compete for our services and products. Where we can say our business is fruitful. In any case, similar to all things, we need to begin some place. In business, nonetheless, where how you start is similarly basically as significant as how you end.

Let me know if this sounds natural to you. You're at an expo and the client you've been kicking the bucket to land is here and you can talk straightforwardly to the chief. Subsequent to giving your pitch he's exceptionally intrigued. You give him your recently printed business cards, he checks out at them, then at you and says, "Might I at any point email you at this gmail address?" and you say, "OK". You leave glad that you just had an expected client. Unbeknownst to you, as he's leaving he's reasoning, "In view of what I just seen on this card, I don't figure this person can deal with what my business needs." Why gather such a reaction? It very well may be to various reasons, yet the reason that seals your destiny is because of one of two things: 1. you have no site or 2. your email address isn't intended for your business name.

It very well may be difficult to accept, yet your email address sends similarly areas of strength for as impression as your pitch, your logo, your rates and whatever else your business does. You could have the most costly piece of hardware that makes you serious in the commercial center, however in the event that that is followed with a Gmail, Hotmail, Verizon, Comcast, Yahoo, AOL or some other public email service you're going to the get similar impression like clockwork, "Little Fries."

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thevividgreenmoss · 5 years

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The Center for American Progress is one of the largest and most important think tanks in Washington, certainly the preeminent “progressive” think tank. It describes its agenda as promoting “bold, progressive ideas” and releases a number of extremely useful reports and fact sheets. In 2008, TIMEbranded it “Obama’s idea factory.” CAP has strong ties with both Obama and the Clintons—it was founded by close Clinton confidante John Podesta and its president, Neera Tanden, previously worked for both Bill and Hillary Clinton. The New Republic has described it as “stuffed to the gills with staffers who have either worked in previous Democratic administrations or will go on to work in future ones.”

The phrase “progressive” is often associated with the left wing of the Democratic Party, by contrast with its “moderate” wing, and progressives are typically skeptical of corporate influence in politics. The Center for American Progress, however, is cozy with some of America’s largest and most controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP received support from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the American Beverage Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United Arab Emirates (which regularly carries out forced disappearances and torture) has given over $500,000. Investigative journalist Ken Silverstein, in an important 2013 investigation of CAP’s funding, was told by multiple former staffers that when CAP was seeking support from Saudis it muted its criticism of the Saudi kingdom. (CAP continues to conceal the identities of many of its largest donors.)

CAP president Neera Tanden has described herself as “a loyal soldier” for Hillary Clinton and despite heading a “nonpartisan” think tank, worked behind the scenes during the 2016 primary to try to erode Bernie Sanders’ support. Leaked internal emails reveal Tanden’s own political instincts to depart from what is typically considered “progressive.” She advised the Clinton campaign against a $15 minimum wage, and in one disturbing instance, as Glenn Greenwald has reported, argued “that Libyans should be forced to turn over large portions of their oil revenues to repay the U.S. for the costs incurred in bombing Libya, on the grounds that Americans will support future wars only if they see that the countries attacked by the U.S. pay for the invasions.”

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/why-is-the-center-for-american-progress-betraying-the-left

#god I'd deleted her libya shit from my brain these craven monsters #essays #*

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berniesrevolution · 5 years

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The Center for American Progress is one of the largest and most important think tanks in Washington, certainly the preeminent “progressive” think tank. It describes its agenda as promoting “bold, progressive ideas” and releases a number of extremely useful reports and fact sheets. In 2008, TIME branded it “Obama’s idea factory.” CAP has strong ties with both Obama and the Clintons—it was founded by close Clinton confidante John Podesta and its president, Neera Tanden, previously worked for both Bill and Hillary Clinton. The New Republic has described it as “stuffed to the gills with staffers who have either worked in previous Democratic administrations or will go on to work in future ones.”

The Center for American Progress does not just accept shady donations. It also gives them. Journalist Andrew Perez reported that according to financial disclosure forms, CAP donated $200,000 last year to the American Enterprise Institute. The AEI is a right-wing free-market think tank perhaps best known as the longtime home of racistsocial scientist Charles Murray. When Current Affairs challenged Tanden on Twitter about the donation, she replied:

We have a joint program on defending democracy from the rise of authoritarianism. Here’s the press release from the CAP website. Welcome [Current Affairs] to cover the many papers we have jointly authored. This is a critical topic more media should focus on.

Naturally, Current Affairs gladly accepts the invitation to focus on CAP’s collaboration with the AEI. I looked at two of the “reports” that they have produced together so far. First, it is still unclear why CAP is giving AEI $200,000. The reports Tanden links to are a few pages each, more like extended op-eds than scholarly works, and involve no original research. They both focus not on “authoritarianism” as Tanden says, but on what they call “authoritarian populism.” This is important, because while Tanden suggests that nobody could object to “defending democracy from the rise of authoritarianism,” we know that to the American Enterprise Institute, “democracy” and “authoritarianism” do not necessarily mean what they mean to you and me. When the AEI speaks of democracy, it means “laissez-faire capitalism” and when it speaks of “authoritarianism” it means “minimum wage laws” or any mildly redistributive social policies that could threaten American Enterprise. Tanden wants to wave away concerns about the collaboration, because after all everyone agrees democracy is good. But the question is—what are we actually “defending” here?

The CAP/AEI report “Drivers of Authoritarian Populism in the United States” defines what it means by “populism”: “political parties and leaders that are anti-establishment and that divide society into two groups: self-serving elites and good, ordinary people.” By that definition, Bernie Sanders clearly falls under the “populist” umbrella—he is anti-establishment and believes that ordinary people are being fleeced by self-serving elites. The report says that populism is not inherently bad, and emphasizes that it is targeted against the bigoted form of populism. But in the CAP/AEI discussion of European “authoritarian populism,” it’s clear that economic leftists are included in the category:

A 2017 study, which looked at elections across Europe between 1980 and 2016, found that there is an asymmetry in drivers of support for right- and left-wing authoritarian populists. While the right wing seems unresponsive to changes in objective economic characteristics, the support for left-wing extreme populists, such as Syriza in Greece or Podemos in Spain, is sensitive both to rates of economic growth and to unemployment. The rise of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, can be viewed in a similar fashion.

Podemos, Syriza, and Corbyn—“authoritarians”? Why? What could possibly put them in a category alongside Viktor Orbán? The CAP/AEI reports are actually extremely vague, saying they believe in “a market economy with shared prosperity” and “economic openness” but not making it particularly clear what that means. After all, who is against “openness” and “prosperity”? Who wants to be closed and poor? But it’s clear that what they’re actually talking about is free market capitalism. Corbyn, Syriza, and Podemos are only “authoritarian” if you subscribe to the radical libertarian theory that wealth redistribution is totalitarian. CAP/AEI are cagey about saying that they’re teaming up to defend capitalism from leftists, but that’s precisely the implication of the reports’ statement that left parties are “authoritarian populism” that needs defeating in order to preserve “democracy.”

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#politics #the left #current affairs #CAP #economic populism

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kennedyao-blog · 5 years

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My technological imperative

It’s 2006, I’m sitting in a computer lab watching a caterpillar jump from one letter to another, the teacher comes over and places a piece of white poster board over my hands. I’ve been cheating, I was looking at my fingers while also trying to match the letters to the caterpillar. It’s computer class and our grade are based off whether or not we can keep our fingers on the “home keys.” I’m home now, it’s time to feed my Neopet, my dad’s on the phone though, I hope my Neopet hasn’t died yet. I finally got online, my AIM pops up, my friends are online—we discuss how terrible computer class is; my Neopet is fed, time to fix my Myspace page. Its 2006 and my generation is great at coding HTMLs because Myspace is what’s important to us all. Its 2009, Facebook is all the rage, thank god I don’t have to spend hours coding and we no longer have dial up, I have a flip phone and have just gotten unlimited texting, we no longer type words out, now it’s only “brb, g2g, ttyl.” It’s all about PowerPoint, until about 2011 when I discovered Prezi, now we can make things zoom out and zoom in and whoosh through without having to click a bunch of buttons in PowerPoint. Its 2012 and I get my first laptop, it’s a refurbished Dell laptop, it runs out of storage so now I need a portable hard drive to keep room. Its 2013 and my laptop dies, I get a brand new one that has the capability of a split screen. It’s 2017 and I finally get a MacBook Pro, I have no idea what to do on this thing, I didn’t even know what to do on my Dell, I’ve spent a year just clicking around on my Mac trying to figure out what the buttons feel do. My email addresses have gone from aim emails, to a comcast, to a google and now an Akron one; from [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] now kennedyano7and kao34. I still am trying to learn what the excess buttons are at the bottom of the emails—I barely know how to send an attachment let alone full-blown pictures in the email.

Its 2006, we’re goofing off in computer class trying to draw pictures via the computer, the mouse doesn’t move in a circle. Its 2009, and now you just click a square to color its in. Its 2012 there are apps for everything, now you can just download a coloring app. Its 2019 and now coloring books are back, except there created for cuss words and jokes now. I don’t understand how apps work at all— like the “notes” section on your phone, I still don’t understand how that works. What buttons are you supposed to click when you want to create a new note/send a new note/save a new note. Now I’m just trying to figure out how to use MacBook Pro to just do my regular everyday work.

I tried to use Arbonne to make some extra something on the side with a new kid, but that needs so much technology I have no clue what I got into—none of it makes sense. Now I need to create something to house all my projects for this class? How am I supposed to do that? Aren’t millennials supposed to be able to do anything and everything technology related, am I even a millennial? I stopped trying to use Instagram to advocate for Arbonne, how does Instagram even work?

Its 2019, it’s all about Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and I have no idea how anything actually works. What is technology, there’s so many issues with WIFI I’d rather go back to dial up, at least then I knew the reason it wasn’t working was because someone picked up the phone and tried to make a phone call. All that mumbo-jumbo about WIFI not working because their working on lines or the cable needs to be restarted, it’s just too much. I’m about to be 25 years old and I still don’t understand how Microsoft Word even works.

Its 2006 and I just learned how to change the color on my away message for AIM, it’s all set up so that when someone messages me they get my message. Its 2009 and I’m just learning how to setup Facebook. Its 2013 and I just discovered how to add people from my new dorm room onto my Facebook. Its 2019 and apparently you can change the color of your twitter page from light to dark, change your MacBook from light to dark. I even learned how to get my WIFI setup nicely. Its 2019 and I’m still trying to get used to Brightspace, Springboard was a lot easier to use than Brightspace. Why does everything have to be so complicated.

Its 2006 and you’ve never heard of buying things online. Its 2009 and online Amazon shopping is popular. Its 2012 and I just purchased majority of my dorm room things online. I just signed up for Amazon Prime. Everything came within two days, this is amazing—you used to have to wait for weeks for your items and at that point you completely forgot what you bought. Its 2019 and now I can have everything the next day, or even pick the day I want to have things sent to me. Online shopping makes more sense to me than setting up a website—I can even program Amazon to one-click where I don’t have to use any information and can just click a button.

Its 2006 and my mini iPod shuffle has music from LimeWire on it. I don’t know what song is going to appear because it doesn’t have a screen but it’s still pretty cool. Its 2009 and I have a flip phone, my iPod shuffle and my Walkman! Its 2012 and I have a sliding keyboard phone with an iPod that has a screen! LimeWire isn’t a “thing”anymore—good because half the music I downloaded wasn’t even what I really wanted. I continue to ask for iPod gift cards for every occasion possible, iTunes is expensive. Its 2019 and I have Apple Music, for $10.99 a month I get unlimited anything and everything. I don’t even need to download things anymore, that saves me so much time/effort.

Its 2006 and technology is basically nonexistent. Its 2009 and Apple is becoming a thing. Its 2012/2013 and now I just have to worry about the University of Akron’s WIFI actually working [it never really worked in the dorms]. Its 2019 and now I can just go up to people at a desk and ask them to help me with my WIFI because it doesn’t work, it’s as simple as just deleting the old WIFI setting and setting it up all over again. We have autosave and an iCloud.

Its 2006 and I just need a floppy disk to save my work. Its 2009 and we’ve gone from a floppy disk to USB drive, now you just have to make sure your computer is compatible to your USB drive. Its 2013 and I have an external hard drive plugged into my refurbished Dell laptop. Its 2019 and now everything is saved to a “cloud.” Which reminds me of the movie where the people accidentally send the contents of their “cloud” to their whole contact list—is that the danger we face nowadays?

Its 2006 and you cannot text until after 9pm. Its 2009 and my parents are having me use a pay-as-you-go flip phone in order for me to pay for my own minutes, I just want to be able to text people. Its 2010 and my Samsung flip keyboard doesn’t work. Its 2013 and I have my first iPhone, I’m never going back to Samsung. Its 2015 and I crack my screen, I call my mom crying. Its 2019 and I have to set up AutoPay for my new phone bill service. It asks for the twelfth day of the month, but it’ll be taken out on the fifteenth, I don’t understand how that works. I’m so confused, nothing makes sense. My boyfriend’s father does everything electronically, I still send a check in the mail when it’s time to pay my car.

Its 2006 and I spend majority of my money on buying DVDs and a portable DVD player for myself. Its 2009 and I illegally downloaded movies off the internet. Its 2013 and my TV has a DVD player in it. Its 2019 and now there’s Netflix, which I’m still learning how to use. I miss Blockbuster. I miss VHS’s, I still don’t know what feeling is worse—a broken VHS tape or scratched up DVD Player, either way I cry when one of them happens.

Its 2019 and I don’t understand how anything works anymore. Between PowerPoint, iMovie, Microsoft Word, and even Amazon either way when did everything get so difficult? I will be 25 this year, my son is almost four months old, technology makes no sense to me. I can barely figure out the control remote for our TV. Its 2019 and Disney is coming out with a new service with access to movies. Am I still old school for wanting to buy DVDs? Sometimes, when dealing with today’s technology, I ask myself am I 24 or am I 48?

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#1yrago My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing

Rob Beschizza:

I chanced upon an ancient backup of my RSS feed subscriptions, a cold hard stone of data from my time at Wired in the mid-2000s. The last-modified date on the file is December 2007. I wiped my feeds upon coming to Boing Boing thenabouts: a fresh start and a new perspective.

What I found, over 212 mostly-defunct sites, is a time capsule of web culture from a bygone age—albeit one tailored to the professional purpose of cranking out blog posts about consumer electronics a decade ago. It's not a picture of a wonderful time before all the horrors of Facebook and Twitter set in. This place is not a place of honor. No highly-esteemed deed is commemorated here. But perhaps some of you might like a quick tour, all the same.

The "Main" folder, which contains 30 feeds, was the stuff I actually wanted (or needed) to read. This set would morph over time. I reckon it's easy to spot 2007's passing obsessions from the enduring interests.

↬ Arts and Letters Daily: a minimalist blog of links about smartypants subjects, a Drudge for those days when I sensed a third digit dimly glowing in my IQ. But for the death of founder Denis Dutton, it's exactly the same as it was in 2007! New items daily, but the RSS feed's dead.

↬ Boing Boing. Still around, I hear.

↬ Brass Goggles. A dead feed for a defunct steampunk blog (the last post was in 2013) though the forums seem well-stocked with new postings.

↬ The Consumerist. Dead feed, dead site. Founded in 2005 by Joel Johnson at Gawker, it was sold to Consumer Reports a few years later, lost its edge there, and was finally shuttered (or summarily executed) just a few weeks ago.

↬ Bibliodyssey. Quiescent. Updated until 2015 with wonderful public-domain book art scans and commentary. A twitter account and tumblr rolled on until just last year. There is a book to remember it by should the bits rot.

↬ jwz. Jamie Zawinski's startling and often hilariously bleak reflections on culture, the internet and working at Netscape during the dotcom boom. This was probably the first blog that led me to visit twice, to see if there was more. And there still is, almost daily.

↬ Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society. Curios and weirdness emerging from the dust and foul fog of old books, forbidden history and the more speculative reaches of science. So dead the domain is squatted. Creator Josh Foer moved on to Atlas Obscura.

↬ The Tweney Review. Personal blog of my last supervisor at Wired, Dylan Tweney, now a communications executive. It's still going strong!

↬ Strange Maps. Dead feed, dead site, though it's still going as a category at Big Think. Similar projects proliferate now on social media; this was the wonderful original. There was a book.

↬ BLDGBLOG. Architecture blog, posting since 2004 with recent if rarer updates. A fine example of tasteful web brutalism, but I'm no longer a big fan of cement boxes and minimalism with a price tag.

↬ Dethroner. A men's self-care and fashion blog, founded by Joel Johnson, of the tweedy kind that became wildly and effortlessly successful not long after he gave up on it.

↬ MocoLoco. This long-running design blog morphed visually into a magazine in 2015. I have no idea why I liked it then, but indie photoblogs' golden age ended long ago and it's good to see some are thriving.

↬ SciFi Scanner. Long-dead AMC channel blog, very likely the work of one or two editors and likely lost to tidal corporate forces rather than any specific failure or event.

↬ Cult of Mac. Apple news site from another Wired News colleague of mine, Leander Kahney, and surely one of the longest-running at this point. Charlie Sorrel, who I hired at Wired to help me write the Gadget blog, still pens articles there.

↬ Ectoplasmosis. After Wired canned its bizarre, brilliant and unacceptably weird Table of Malcontents blog, its editor John Brownlee (who later joined Joel and I in editing Boing Boing Gadgets) and contributor Eliza Gauger founded Ectoplasmosis: the same thing but with no hysterical calls from Conde Nast wondering what the fuck is going on. It was glorious, too: a high-point of baroque indie blogging in the age before Facebook (and I made the original site design). Both editors later moved onto other projects (Magenta, Problem Glyphs); Gauger maintains the site's archives at tumblr. It was last updated in 2014.

↬ Penny Arcade. Then a webcomic; now a webcomic and a media and events empire.

↬ Paul Boutin. While working at Wired News, I'd heard a rumor that he was my supervisor. But I never spoke to him and only ever received a couple of odd emails, so I just got on with the job until Tweney was hired. His site and its feed are long-dead.

↬ Yanko Design. Classic blockquote chum for gadget bloggers.

↬ City Home News. A offbeat Pittburgh News blog, still online but lying fallow since 2009.

↬ Watchismo. Once a key site for wristwatch fans, Watchismo was folded into watches.com a few years ago. A couple of things were posted to the feed in 2017, but its time has obviously passed.

↬ Gizmodo. Much has changed, but it's still one of the best tech blogs.

↬ Engadget. Much has changed, but it's still one of the best tech blogs.

↬ Boing Boing Gadgets. Site's dead, though the feed is technically live as it redirects to our "gadgets" tag. Thousands of URLs there succumbed to bit-rot at some point, but we have plans to merge its database into Boing Boing's and revive them.

↬ Gear Factor. This was the gadget review column at Wired Magazine, separate from the gadget blog I edited because of the longtime corporate divorce between Wired's print and online divisions. This separation had just been resolved at the time I began working there, and the two "sides" -- literally facing offices in the same building -- were slowly being integrated. The feed's dead, but with an obvious successor, Gear.

↬ The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Required reading at the time, and very much a thing of its time. Now vaguely repulsive.

↬ i09. This brilliant sci-fi and culture blog deserved more than to end up a tag at Gizmodo.

↬ Science Daily: bland but exhaustive torrent of research news, still cranking along.

The "Essentials" Folder was material I wanted to stay on top of, but with work clearly in mind: the background material for systematically belching out content at a particular point in 2007.

↬ Still alive are The Register, Slashdot, Ars Technica, UMPC Portal (the tiny laptop beat!), PC Watch, Techblog, TechCrunch, UberGizmo, Coolest Gadgets, EFF Breaking News, Retro Thing, CNET Reviews, New Scientist, CNET Crave, and MAKE Magazine.

↬ Dead or quiescent: GigaOm (at least for news), Digg/Apple, Akihabara News, Tokyomango, Inside Comcast, Linux Devices (Update: reincarnated at linuxgizmos.com), and Uneasy Silence.

Of the 23 feeds in the "press releases" folder, 17 are dead. Most of the RSS no-shows are for companies like AMD and Intel, however, who surely still offer feeds at new addresses. Feeds for Palm, Nokia and pre-Dell Alienware are genuine dodos. These were interesting enough companies, 10 years ago.

PR Newswire functions as a veneering service so anyone can pretend to have a big PR department, but it is (was?) also legitimately used by the big players as a platform so I monitored the feeds there. They're still populated, but duplicate one another, and it's all complete garbage now. (It was mostly garbage then.)

My "Gadgets and Tech" folder contained the army of late-2000s blogs capitalizing on the success of Gizmodo, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, et al. Back in the day, these were mostly one (or two) young white men furiously extruding commentary on (or snarky rewrites of) press releases, with lots of duplication and an inchoate but seriously-honored unspoken language of mutual respect and first-mover credit. Those sites that survived oftentimes moved to listicles and such: notionally superior and more original content and certainly more sharable on Facebook, but unreadably boring. However, a few old-timey gadget bloggers are still cranking 'em out' in web 1.5 style. And a few were so specialized they actually had readers who loved them.

Still alive: DailyTech, technabob, CdrInfo.com, EverythingUSB, Extremetech, GearFuse, Gizmag, Gizmodiva, Hacked Gadgets, How to Spot A Psychopath/Dans' Data, MobileBurn, NewLaunches, OhGizmo!, ShinyShiny, Stuff.tv, TechDigest, TechDirt, Boy Genius Report, The Red Ferret Journal, Trusted Reviews, Xataca, DigiTimes, MedGadget, Geekologie, Tom's Hardware, Trendhunter, Japan Today, Digital Trends, All About Symbian (Yes, Symbian!), textually, cellular-news, TreeHugger, dezeen.

Dead: jkkmobile.com, Business Week Online, About PC (why), Afrigadget (unique blog about inventors in Africa, still active on FaceBook), DefenseTech, FosFor (died 2013), Gearlog, Mobile-Review.com (but apparently reborn as a Russian language tech blog!), Robot's Dreams, The Gadgets Weblog, Wireless Watch Japan, Accelerating Future, Techopolis, Mobile Magazine, eHome Upgrade, camcorderinfo.com (Update: it became http://Reviewed.com), Digital Home Thoughts (farewell), WiFi Network News (farewell), Salon: Machinist, Near Future Lab, BotJunkie (twitter), and CNN Gizmos.

I followed 18 categories at Free Patents Online, and the site's still alive, though the RSS feeds haven't had any new items since 2016.

In the "news" folder, my picks were fairly standard stuff: BBC, CNET, digg/technology, PC World, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, and a bunch of Yahoo News feeds. The Digg feed's dead; they died and were reborn.

The "Wired" feed folder comprised all the Wired News blogs of the mid-2000s. All are dead. 27B Stroke 6, Autopia, Danger Room, Epicenter, Gadget Lab, Game|Life, Geekdad, Listening Post, Monkey Bites, Table of Malcontents, Underwire, Wired Science.

These were each basically one writer or two and were generally folded into the established mazagine-side arrangements as the Age of Everyone Emulating Gawker came to an end. The feed for former EIC Chris Anderson's personal blog survives, but hasn't been updated since his era. Still going strong is Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond, albeit rigged as a CMS tag rather than a bona fide site of its own.

Still alive from my 2007 "Science" folder are Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait), Bad Science (Ben Goldacre), Pharyngula (PZ Myers) New Urban Legends, NASA Breaking News, and The Panda's Thumb.

Finally, there's a dedicated "iPhone" folder. This was not just the hottest toy of 2007. It was all that was holy in consumer electronics for half a decade. Gadget blogging never really had a golden age, but the iPhone ended any pretense that there were numerous horses in a race of equal potential. Apple won.

Still alive are 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacSlash, AppleInsider and Daring Fireball. Dead are TUAW, iPhoneCentral, and the iPhone Dev Wiki.

Of all the sites listed here, I couldn't now be paid but to read a few. So long, 2007.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/29/my-rss-feeds-from-a-decade-ago.html

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An email I just got:

Net neutrality is finally about to get its day in court.

Tomorrow, a federal court will begin hearing arguments that the FCC acted unlawfully in repealing net neutrality. Fight for the Future is mobilizing public support to give the case its best chance of success.

This is one of our very best opportunities to overrule Ajit Pai and save net neutrality. Will you make a donation today?

Pai and the FCC are being sued by more than 20 state attorneys general, tech companies like Mozilla, and others for arbitrarily repealing the Open Internet Order, despite widespread opposition from across the political spectrum.1

You see, when a government agency changes a major rule like net neutrality, it is required to show that they have a good reason and consult with the public. They can't just change the rules to help big campaign donors or their former employers.

But in the case of net neutrality, that's exactly what happened. Ajit Pai ignored overwhelming expert testimony, mountains of evidence, small business owners, veterans, and millions of public comments in favor of net neutrality and pushed through the repeal anyway.2

The impending court date isn't the only bad news Pai got this week. When the FCC chair defended his repeal of the Open Internet Order, his most-repeated argument was that net neutrality rules stopped Big Cable from investing in broadband network infrastructure. But in reality, in the first year after the repeal of net neutrality, Comcast, Charter, and Verizon actually invested less than in the year before.3

We need to rally public support to give the lawsuit its best chance at success. We know that public opinion has had an influence on the courts before, like on marriage equality. In this case, public support is directly relevant, since the FCC blatantly ignored the result of the public comment period when it unlawfully rammed through the repeal of net neutrality.

That's why it's so critical that we keep up the public drumbeat for the free and open Internet.

This could be our best chance to save net neutrality. Will you donate today?

DONATE

For the Internet,

Evan at Fight for the Future

Footnotes:

1. CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/no-delay-for-net-neutrality-lawsuit-in-spite-of-government-shutdown/

2. Broadcasting & Cable: https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/net-neutrality-docket-pushes-past-22-million-comments-168317

3. Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/sorry-ajit-comcast-lowered-cable-investment-despite-net-neutrality-repeal/

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ISP’s have begun a dangerous media takeover.

Since the net neutrality repeal kicked in, Comcast has bid to takeover 21st Century Fox. And last night, AT&T bought Time Warner, including HBO and CNN.

The ISPs already control the pipes to get online. Now they’re buying TV, film, and news companies to gain more control over how you use the web and increase their profits. For example, without net neutrality AT&T can block, throttle, and charge more for Netflix or MSNBC than their newly-acquired HBO Go service or CNN.

But we can stop this by making Congress restore net neutrality.

This is why they worked so hard to kill net neutrality. Control.

Their dream is to own the content and improve their bottom line by forcing us to buy outdated cable TV-style packages loaded with content they own.

But the good news is we're close to stopping them .

The Senate voted to overturn the FCC’s repeal, and now Internet users, startups, and small businesses across the country are pressuring the House of Representatives to do the same.

But we’ll only pull this off if you call your lawmakers ASAP. Click here to get connected.

We’re counting on you.

(Excerpt from an email sent out from “Josh, on behalf of Fight for the Future.”)

#anime #history #art #net neutrality #FightForTheFuture is amazing #seriously.

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It’s Now Clear None of the Supposed Benefits of Killing Net Neutrality Are Real

In the months leading up to the FCC assault on net neutrality, big telecom and FCC boss Ajit Pai told anybody who’d listen that killing net neutrality would boost broadband industry investment, spark job creation, and drive broadband into underserved areas at an unprecedented rate.

As it turns out, none of those promises were actually true.

Despite the FCC voting to kill the popular consumer protections late last year, Comcast’s latest earnings report indicates that the cable giant’s capital expenditures (CAPEX) for 2018 actually decreased 3 percent. The revelation comes on the heels by similar statements by Verizon and Charter Spectrum that they’d also be seeing lower network investment numbers in 2018.

It’s not expected to get any better in 2019.

According to analysis this week by Wall Street research firm MoffettNathanson, capital spending among the nation’s four biggest cable providers (Altice, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, CableONE) is expected to decline upwards of 5.8 percent this year.

Phone companies (AT&T, Verizon) are similarly expected to see their wireline capex fall from $20.3 billion in 2018 to $19.6 billion this year, notes the firm. And while investment in wireless is expected to jump slightly thanks to fifth generation (5G) investment, there too analysts have noted that overall investment is notably more sluggish than many had predicted.

The FCC did not respond to a request for comment on why its predictions have been so decidedly inaccurate.

Meanwhile, none of this comes as much of a surprise to those well versed in the net neutrality fight.

While the FCC and telecom sector repeatedly tried to claim that net neutrality rules stifled network investment, SEC filings, earnings reports, and even dozens of public statements made by countless CEOs easily disproved those claims. That didn’t stop either Pai or the telecom sector from repeating the claims countless times over a two-year span.

Gigi Sohn, a former FCC lawyer who helped craft the agency’s net neutrality rules, told Motherboard that the repeal of net neutrality (and the Title II classification of ISPs that legally underpinned the protections) was based on little more than fluff and nonsense.

“The cornerstone of Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal order has quickly crumbled,” Sohn told me in an email.

“The broadband industry’s reduction in investment and CAPEX in the wake of Ajit Pai’s repeal of the net neutrality rules proves what advocates for Internet openness have known all along—neither the rules nor Title II authority had any effect on broadband investment.”

Sohn told me telecom investment decisions are based on a wide variety of factors including technological advancement, the economy, and the level of competition an ISP sees in its market. Given huge swaths of America only have the choice of one ISP to choose from, there’s little pressuring them to put soaring profits back into the network or customer service.

And that’s the problem. Net neutrality violations and other bad behaviors by big telecom are just a symptom of a lack of vibrant competition. But the Pai FCC has routinely worked to downplay this problem, even to the point of trying to weaken the very definition of the word “competition” to the exclusive benefit of entrenched ISPs.

Instead, the focus for the Trump administration has been to dole out billions in tax cuts, subsidies, and regulatory favors to giant telecom operators, who in turn routinely promise job growth, network investment, and better service that never actually materializes.

Motherboard has exclusively reported how AT&T is prepping another major round of layoffs despite netting nearly $20 billion from the Trump tax cuts. And Verizon this week said it would be cutting 7 Percent of its media staff—on the heels of a 10,000 employee “voluntary” severance package—despite its own mammoth windfall of government favors.

Other ISPs, like Frontier Communications, have been literally letting their networks fall apart in many states, despite millions in taxpayer subsidies and repeated allegations of fraud. These are problems that were never going to be solved by killing popular consumer protections.

While this kind of pay to play dysfunction is widespread in telecom, the assault on net neutrality was among the most obvious examples of government kowtowing to natural monopolies, say consumer groups.

“Dismantling the basic principle that prevents companies like Comcast and Verizon from controlling what we see and do online helps no one other than telecom lobbyists and executives,” Evan Greer, Deputy Director of Fight For the Future, told Motherboard.

The repeal of net neutrality “will go down in history as one of the most blatant examples of corruption in our nation’s history,” Greer said.

“It’s not helping workers at these companies. It’s not helping people in rural communities. It’s not closing the digital divide,” Greer added. “The repeal of net neutrality is nothing but a massive government handout to some of the most unscrupulous, and least popular, corporations in the United States.”

And while big telecom has been understandably thrilled at its good fortune in the Trump era, there’s every indication that a looming backlash could spoil the sector’s fun as the pendulum inevitably swings back the other direction.

Next month sees the opening arguments in a lawsuit against the FCC over it’s net neutrality repeal, where the agency’s false claims (not to mention its decision to make up a DDOS and turn a blind eye to fraud during the public comment period) will take center stage.

If the FCC loses that case, there’s a good chance that the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules could be restored. And even if the FCC and its telecom sector allies win, they still have to find a way to prevent lawmakers from passing a real net neutrality law, no easy task given the shifting political climate and the persistent, bipartisan public anger over the repeal.

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12 Home-Based Small Business Ideas for Women

Women make up a huge percentage of small business owners. They have the opportunity to take advantage of many home-based businesses. There are so many small business ideas for women that you can start. Maybe you’re looking for a way to make some extra money on the side, or maybe you’re ready to take the plunge and start your own business. There are many great reasons why women should start their small businesses. It’s empowering, it allows you to be your boss, and it can even help with some financial problems that come up from time to time. Either way, there are plenty of options to choose from. Here are just a few small business ideas for women.

Virtual Assistant

The virtual assistant business is a fantastic idea to start your own small business. You can work from home, and you don’t need any special skills or training. All you need is a computer and an internet connection. As a virtual assistant, you’ll be responsible for providing administrative support to clients. It includes answering emails, scheduling appointments, managing social media accounts, and doing research. The best part is that there’s a lot of demand for virtual assistants, so you’ll be able to find clients easily. And since the work can be done from home, it’s a great option for stay-at-home moms.

Freelance Writer

If you’re good with words, you might want to consider becoming a freelance writer. In this role, you’ll write blog posts and web content for clients on their behalf. And as with the virtual assistant job, there’s plenty of demand for writers online, so it shouldn’t be difficult to find work. As a freelance writer, you can work from anywhere you want, including your home. You’ll also have a flexible schedule to make it easier for you to spend time with your kids.

Virtual Sales Representative

Like selling? If so, consider becoming a virtual sales rep. As the titles say, this is an excellent job opportunity if you enjoy talking on the phone and closing deals. You’ll work from home as a remote call center representative for a company. You’ll be taking calls from home to provide customer service for companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and DirecTV, to name just a few. It is another ideal job opportunity if you want something part-time or on the side of your current work.

Social Media Manager

Do you love staying up-to-date on the latest trends in social media? If so, becoming a social media manager could be a great option for you. In this role, you’ll manage the social media accounts for clients and help to grow their online presence. You’ll also be responsible for generating the content, creating campaigns, and performing research on the industry to help clients make strategic decisions about their social media platforms.

Social Media Specialist

If you enjoy the newest social media trends but don’t want to deal with clients’ accounts yourself, becoming a social media specialist may be a fantastic alternative for you. In this role, you’ll help clients plan and execute their social media campaigns, generate content ideas, track analytics, and more. Also, using coupon and discount codes from CouponGot, it’s easier than ever to start your own social media marketing business. These coupons help you buy essential tools at a lower price.

Transcriptionist

If you’re great at listening and typing, a career as a transcriptionist may be the perfect fit for you. As a transcriber, you’ll be responsible for converting audio files into text documents, so businesses can use them for things like creating digital media, reports, and other materials. It also doesn’t require a college degree. You need to have the skill to be a great listener and type quickly!

Graphics Designer

Are you an expert at creating beautiful graphics? If so, then consider starting your own graphic design business. You can create everything from logos and website designs to social media posts and marketing materials as a graphic designer. And since you can work from home, it’s a great option for women with busy lives. If you don’t know about graphic design, don’t worry! With the coupons from Offers.com, you can take a graphics design course to help you get started. They have coupons and deals for the best academies, so you can learn everything you need to know.

Bookkeeper

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Personal Trainer

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Dad: How was work today?

Me: It was good. Uneventful. Kinda boring if I'm being honest. It's weird. I can like... go in to work... and nothing's on fire.

Dad: I used to get in the shower every morning and think what could possibly go wrong today. There'd always be something. Every day. It was inevitable.

Me:

there's a bat flying around

water dripped from the ceiling and destroyed my computer

the toilet broke and also shattered some of the tiles on the floor

the heating unit is smoking

the server has crashed

the GM customer portal is down globally

the power is out but only on the west side of the building

Boss locked his keys in his office and there are no spares

the catalytic converter was stolen and now the truck's out of commission

the forklift broke

the bathroom door handle broke and no one can get in or out

the geese are rebelling in the parking lot and no one can get in or out

the copy machine leaves lines in all paper regardless of being the copy or the original scanned paper

production is halted because the printer needs servicing

no one knows the ship to location and parts are due yesterday

the meeting had to be postponed because we were waiting on a customer to show up

HR had to go next door and ask if we could borrow their forklift

I was left off an email thread where I was the only person who needed to be copied

Scott had to add 20k locations into the system manually

Boss lost the passwords for the security cameras and blamed us

there's a drop-in customer order for 9000 parts due yesterday with a 12 week lead time

the business switches over to direct deposit and the whole system implodes

I need to flag down the lawn care team because Boss lost their contact info

the UPS label is in French when it was going to Florida

GM invents new ways to fine us

Boss took my computer without telling me so I had to drive 40 miles back to HQ

I had to train my replacement via phone and remote desktop

all the pallets are missing

Comcast works outside and cuts the internet for three hours to the whole neighborhood

the mailbox was installed backwards

the blinds in my office also control a few of the blinds in Scott's office

I have to remove dead rodents from my office

the toilet flushing mechanism doesn't work and I have to stick my hand in the water tank

the toilet flushing mechanism (different toilet) doesn't STOP working so I have to mess with it for 20 minutes

the building creaks and moans so much that I have to check it for damage

I was sent to a new location without any training

I had to setup a new trash pickup account because we got locked out of our old one

a new line gets added to the symptom checker and suddenly everyone is incapable of filling it out

temps call the office and ask me why they were fired

the door didn't shut all the way at the end of the shift so the police were called about a break-in

the building next door had a truck (not semi) crash through it

I had to send out a memo regarding an abnormal amount of office supplies getting stolen

I had to go to the hardware store and duplicate the master key to the building

the air conditioning leaked through the ceiling into the conference room and ruined the table

I had to call another business who put me on hold and after 30 minutes the hold timed out and I had to call them all over again

hourly incoherent customer emails that I don't need to be copied on

having to write "do not poop on the bathroom floor" in the company newsletter

the bagging machine broke at least once a week but never consistently

the vending machine guy died and his wife came to collect the vending machines

the only person who knows how to do anything goes out for medical leave

none of the keys we have work for the thing the city water guy is here to maintain

the keys to the time clock are missing

the time clock has the wrong date so every day is a guessing game

everyone has to stand outside the building for 20 minutes because we got locked out

the insurance cards all say pediatric but only for people without children

(literally my second day of work) my trainer had to call 911 because someone fainted in the warehouse

the floors had to be redone so the entire assembly team was moved to a new building

Dad: Yeah! It was like that every day at GM. Some new shit that fell on me to take care of, even thought it was never part of anything related to my job tasks.

#work tag #cpa tag #in my drafts #november 22nd

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