And what am I doing in this handbasket?
It's been almost exactly a month since my last State of the Bear post, but this feels like more of a "state of the nation" post. It does not look good.
Even though Biden won the election, the Repugs will do as much damage to ( Read more... )

It isn't often that I see the name of someone I've met, and respect, in the lede of a New York Times article, but here you go:
Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, said the firings were “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”
A prominent engineer and ( Read more... )

Well, it's the first of March. Where the fsck did February go? I was going to do FAWM, but I didn't. Foo. I had a little less work to do this morning; usually I have to split the week's log entries between the old month (in a file called, for example 2020/02.done) and the new one. I can put off starting 2020/03.done to next ( Read more... )

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac just hit the bookstores this ( Read more... )

Note: I appear to have written this a couple of weeks ago, but hadn't posted it. I probably thought I had something else to say, but...
It's not every week that I see an article with a title like "The Doomsday Glacier". It was one of the links Firefox puts on my "new tab" page, and was originally published on May 9, 2017 in ( Read more... )