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10-8-6 at home. It's slushy out, and I'm wearing my only boots — which are klonkers — today.

But five companies – Oracle, Palantir, Pandora Media, Gilead Sciences and Splunk – objected to the requests, claiming that the diversity data is a trade secret. In each case, the U.S. Department of Labor initially agreed with the companies and denied Reveal’s FOIA requests.

I'm really grateful that news organizations still have funding for legal action.

Tessa has this on-site clinic where they basically try to brush aside employee injuries and make people go back to work, according to reports from Reveal. They were questioned about it by the state of California.

Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, responded to the board’s questions by phone, disputing our reporting and praising CEO Elon Musk for inviting her to talk about safety on an earnings call.

Back in the second war on Iraq, people found the Iraqi Minister of Information funny because of his blatant denial of anything that made Iraq look like it was losing. It's a very common tact, however, and it often works.

The United States, keeping it very real.

Another one of those songs you assumed is happy because you've only heard it in commercials: Ain't We Got Fun

This Ulthar album sounds promising, but whoa, look at that eyeball-tastic artwork.

Preschool demo went well!

Just like that, after reading about the "mystery" of Fredrik Thorendal, lead guitarist and one of the founders, taking a leave from Meshuggah, I felt compelled to
listen to them again and am into them again! It's probably been over a decade.

10, at home. I gotta leave work for a couple hours during the day, so I'm not going to have time to step out to do the pull-ups for real.

I walked in to my local medical center, and they were open later than usual because they were running late with their appointments, and they agreed to give me a flu shot since they were around. Surprisingly casual! Sure flu shot why not

Had a massage at work today. I've had experiences with massages in which I'm not actually sure they helped. I often feel beat up afterward. I think this one may have loosened up my perpetually tight back fascia without kicking my ass.

This isn't mind-blowing, but sometimes, making the lines of an old etching green do a lot to transform it.

Thanks to my meteorologically-informed friend Fred, I now know that this weird object by the pond is a weather station!

The metal arms around the outside seemed like they'd be functional somehow, but as Fred says:

The thing with all the metal things around it is a rain/snow gauge, and the metal things are a windshield that's supposed to block the wind but not block rain. The white cylinder thing presumably catches the rain/snow.

https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm02252325/

The little white thing to the bottom left I'm almost 100% sure is a temperature/humidity sensor inside a weather shield.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1067700

So, there you have it. Lazyweb still works outside of Twitter!

Boston-area readers! Have you had the Lasik?

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If so, can you tell me how it went and who did it? deathmtn@fastmail.com!

In further, hey, "I actually used that again" news, Monthly Damage works for refinancing-type consideration calculations as well as when you're pricing out real estate. (I admit I didn't have total confidence, though. I double-checked it with another loan calculation site.)

I'm writing a letter to the Talking Politics podcast about a weird thing I've noticed:

Hello. I've enjoyed your podcast for about a year now. I enjoy your historically-informed perspective as well as your calm British demeanor, particularly when it comes to US issues, which are often quite heated, here in the US.

One thing I'm curious about: I've noticed Helen Thompson refers to the Democratic Party (US) as "the Democrat Party." This is usually an epiphet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet) ) used by right-wingers in the United States to describe the Democratic Party. Fox News in particular has made a big push to normalize the term.

In using this term, is Helen signaling that she subscribes to a rightist viewpoint? Or is it that she has absorbed the term from news sources, as, perhaps, Republican strategists have intended?

I pasted that into their contact form. I have no idea if that goes anywhere.