What's On My Desktop?...Audioblog For February 24, 2023

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HoppingVille

Had all the windows open, above, on my desktop.

But.

Rather than writing about each, as an old guy, I decided to just talk about them for a little while...

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Blather No 1:  BC Rail

Conifex Mill closing in Mackenzie BC

BC Rail primer on the Wikiplex

Bob Fedderly's heads up

Blather No 2:  Fed Gov Outsourcing

David Moscrop on the great neoliberal Oz behind the consultancy curtain

Bill Curry and Mahima Singh on the $14.6 Billion the Feds spent on consultants last year

Blather No 3:  Bivalent Covid Booster Efficacy

Christopher Labos on the booster's ability to reduce infection

Eric Topol on the booster's ability to dramatically reduce death

Blather #4:  Bust This

Tesla's union busting

Overstory Media Group's union adjacent busting

Blather #5: Countering for countering's sake

Jack Queen reports that Fox News has filed suit against Dominion voting machines (you read that right)

The Cornfield Resistance explains how and why we've known about the grift in the Fox News machine for 25 years on their fantastic 'Professional Left' podcast.

Blather #5: Despite What Craig Finn Says, In This Case The Future Was Not Unwritten

Richard Belzer predicts the future of the interwebz and all that entails in 1994

Mark Maron valorizes Belzer on his WTF podcast (the bit's at the beginning)

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Talkin' like old guys musical snippet at the beginning?...From my attempt to cover M. Ward's impeccably timed ode to memory and surprise...O'Brien's Nocturne.

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