{"id":2967,"date":"2020-05-09T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2020-05-09T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:10:10","slug":"again-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/09\/again-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seems like this is when I’m writing. There’s not a lot to do, really; what can you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news cycle this week has been dizzying. I had Sarah watch one particular commentator’s take on the dismissal of the Flynn case. I don’t agree with the guy on many, nay most, things, but he laid out the disclosures in a pretty straightforward fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’d be amusing watching the respective approach to what government(s) are doing. Lots and lots of emphasis on what the President is or isn’t doing, and barely any attention to government messed up the testing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other stuff I was going to write about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. In a bit of nostalgia, and I’m sure if you look, there’s many links here (which I’m too lazy to expunge), but I decided to see what’s going on over at a place where I used to try to help, AltDaily. Broken Tribune.co redirect. Seeing that does make me a little sad, but that does reinforce the tagline here. If I ventured into the sewer that is Facebook, I’d find more that a few friends who were involved with it.<\/li>
  2. Speaking of social media sites, I’ve been playing a little with Locals<\/a>. I also have an account on Minds<\/a>, but I’m not sure what to do with it. But back to Locals, I’m following four channels at the moment — Dave Rubin<\/a>, Bridget Phetsay<\/a>, Andy Ngo<\/a>, and Michael Malice<\/a>. I pay varying attention to these four, but I was curious after hearing Bridget’s adoring review (probably with Rubin on her own show). Some of the content looks interesting, but you do have to pay for a lot of it. Same goes for one of Ngo’s efforts, Quilette<\/a>, and The Fifth Column<\/a>. My friends over at Mouthy Broadcast<\/a> also do some things with one of the donation sites where you can see exclusive content. I’ve been avoiding that particular site for a while since they started making editorial decisions on folks’ content<\/a>. (Sorry for going full RMS<\/a>-information-needs-to-be-free, but…) On the site, you have to pony up to like\/share\/comment on posts. I definitely understand it, but I was totally broke for so long, and I’m accustomed to getting free-of-charge content free pretty much forever. Would I start paying for podcasts? I doubt it. Do I buy things from companies that advertise on the pods I listen to? As sure as my ass is in a pair of underwear I heard advertised on one of them.<\/li>
  3. COVID-19 has delayed my infusion by a week, and I’m getting kind of crabby with as fatigued as I am.<\/li>
  4. One of the other things I added to my already-full pod queue is Filmphoria<\/a>. I heard him on with Robbie Bernstein on Run Your Mouth<\/a>. I think I bought one of the host’s sweatshirts<\/a>, too. So I had an odd craving for Jiffy Pop popcorn<\/a>. The stuff that’s in the Smartfood bag has placated me. Sorta. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So, stopping again. Too much rambling. Whatever. It’s what I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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