I worked exclusively in an office until lockdown in 2020. Prior to that, I had one WFH job, and I did not like it. It was isolating and the work wasn't fulfilling. I expected lockdown to no different, but after a year, I was converted to permanent WFH. My current employer is fine with WFH and the quality of life I experience is a joy. It does mean that I have to actively seek out social interactions (those were freebies at in-office jobs), but after adjusting, that has proven to be well worth the effort.
On topic, I can believe that Musk is stupid enough to sue Media Matters, but I still find it galling. I wonder if he thinks the controversy is good for Twitter, but I don't think he's that smart. Plus, discovery is going to be so damning. IANAL, but I think that getting this moved to anti-SLAPP state, like CA (where Twitter is headquartered) is a no-brainer. My thoughts are with Media Matters. They are in the right, obviously. Good luck to them.
I think he's like the Ohio State Legislature: You got a tool, you use it. Likelihood of success or long term* consequences don't even enter into consideration.
I was putting up our outdoor Christmas lights a few days ago while listening to Christmas music for the first time this season, and this song started playing and I was so excited I started dancing and singing along. Don’t know if my neighbors caught the show but it’s seriously a fantastic song 😄
I'm thinking Musk's total incoherence on his supposed "free speech" beliefs is feature, not bug, in that it's all just some dumb power play: "Look, I can make words mean anything I want them to mean whenever I want! And if I want them to mean the complete opposite ten minutes later, I can do that too, just watch me!"
I we all got together and sent him a card that said, "Yes, you are Very Powerful", would he stop being so fucking annoying?
This is extremely random but I was thinking this weekend about how long you've been writing TPA and when you left MMFA. Also, this Christmas song needs to enter the canon immediately!
It's so strange because it really feels like it was just recently that I *started* at Media Matters. And in reality, it's been 2.5 years since I left. I'm glad that TPA is doing relatively well, obviously, but I do miss being part of a team.
I think about working from home, even as part of a team, all the time, because that's my whole... thing. And I only go out to California like 2 days a year, so all of my interactions are via zoom or teams or whatever. So thinking about *that* is really interesting to me. Not interesting enough for me to back to grad school for organizational psychology or anything, but still pretty interesting. :)
On one hand, working from home can be a bit isolating, and for me, I find I am more on task at the office. That said, the way people seem to drive these days makes working from home feel that much safer for me.
Amazing what is deemed a slur on X. I suppose Robert Frost's 1946 poem "A Serious Step Lightly Taken," using as it does "cisatlantic," would be most unwelcome there.
That song was worth the price of admission.
For real. The Old 97's are great and anything James Gunn is involved with always has an absolutely killer soundtrack. Absolutely an instant classic.
I worked exclusively in an office until lockdown in 2020. Prior to that, I had one WFH job, and I did not like it. It was isolating and the work wasn't fulfilling. I expected lockdown to no different, but after a year, I was converted to permanent WFH. My current employer is fine with WFH and the quality of life I experience is a joy. It does mean that I have to actively seek out social interactions (those were freebies at in-office jobs), but after adjusting, that has proven to be well worth the effort.
On topic, I can believe that Musk is stupid enough to sue Media Matters, but I still find it galling. I wonder if he thinks the controversy is good for Twitter, but I don't think he's that smart. Plus, discovery is going to be so damning. IANAL, but I think that getting this moved to anti-SLAPP state, like CA (where Twitter is headquartered) is a no-brainer. My thoughts are with Media Matters. They are in the right, obviously. Good luck to them.
I think he's like the Ohio State Legislature: You got a tool, you use it. Likelihood of success or long term* consequences don't even enter into consideration.
*here, meaning "more than the next 24 hours"
I was putting up our outdoor Christmas lights a few days ago while listening to Christmas music for the first time this season, and this song started playing and I was so excited I started dancing and singing along. Don’t know if my neighbors caught the show but it’s seriously a fantastic song 😄
I'm thinking Musk's total incoherence on his supposed "free speech" beliefs is feature, not bug, in that it's all just some dumb power play: "Look, I can make words mean anything I want them to mean whenever I want! And if I want them to mean the complete opposite ten minutes later, I can do that too, just watch me!"
I we all got together and sent him a card that said, "Yes, you are Very Powerful", would he stop being so fucking annoying?
This is extremely random but I was thinking this weekend about how long you've been writing TPA and when you left MMFA. Also, this Christmas song needs to enter the canon immediately!
It's so strange because it really feels like it was just recently that I *started* at Media Matters. And in reality, it's been 2.5 years since I left. I'm glad that TPA is doing relatively well, obviously, but I do miss being part of a team.
I think about working from home, even as part of a team, all the time, because that's my whole... thing. And I only go out to California like 2 days a year, so all of my interactions are via zoom or teams or whatever. So thinking about *that* is really interesting to me. Not interesting enough for me to back to grad school for organizational psychology or anything, but still pretty interesting. :)
On one hand, working from home can be a bit isolating, and for me, I find I am more on task at the office. That said, the way people seem to drive these days makes working from home feel that much safer for me.
Amazing what is deemed a slur on X. I suppose Robert Frost's 1946 poem "A Serious Step Lightly Taken," using as it does "cisatlantic," would be most unwelcome there.