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How green is the astroturf over there?
A recent article in Fierce Telecom titled "Special access, end of PSTN no secret to wireline marketplace" , written by Bruce Mehlman was a response to an article written by Bruce Kushnick, who is no friend of the incumbent telephone companies, for sure.
But who is Bruce Mehlman and the organization he co-founded, the "Internet Innovation Alliance"? ( Read more... ) -
How AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are working together to cheat you by "Discontinuing Landline Ser
(TL;DR summary: AT&T is buying entire legislatures to rewrite the laws to allow them to become a fully unregulated company with no wholesale obligations, creating a de-facto monopoly. They can (and likely will) use it to squash or hurt wireless competitors as well, as they're permitted to favor their own subsidiaries with the network built and ( Read more... ) -
A helpful guide to my elementary school
So I wanted to write a piece for Autistics Speaking Day. I wrote this blog post that was well over 2100 words, and spoke to the idea of making sure that if a child is different, don't be their first bully. It went far deeper into things than I really feel comfortable talking about in public (not so much about my parents, who despite their ( Read more... ) -
The difference 2 words make
For the past nearly 10 years, I've been patiently waiting for a single event to happen. In November 2003, a ton of my personal belongings walked out the door of my apartment. I was told to forget about them forever. That the government would find a way to keep them, destroy them, or auction them.
I made it my personal goal to get that ( Read more... ) -
Craft Herpes
So today Becky was trying to make some sensory bottles (as featured on MamaOT's blog here). I attempted to provide assistance in my usual ways, contributing useful advice like 'the easiest way to remove the label is WD-40, don't waste your time with scrubbers and soap, that won't work, you need a solvent'. And then material assistance in spraying ( Read more... ) -
"F* you, man"
This weekend, I was at Eastern Market, I was approached while enjoying an orange with my son and uncle by a guy. This happens all the time in eastern market, there's always someone circulating a petition for one reason or another.
So anyway, this guy interrupts our orange related bliss to talk about linking liquor licenses to not having expired ( Read more... ) -
Uh wow. The second CD from the FBI arrived today…
Ok, the second CD from the FBI arrived today. I just popped it into the drive and haven't read it yet.
When I guessed there were things beyond the original case in my file, I didn't quite expect the stuff I found.
There's an entire CD they've refused to provide based on a second grand jury investigation I didn't even realize happened.
I'm starting ( Read more... ) -
Recaptcha
So I was commenting on a special needs parent blog, and this new ugly recaptcha variant came up, where it's a crummy picture and a distorted word, and you need to read text from a slanty image of a sign on a building, or whatever. It's pretty awful. So I tried that a few times and gave up, and tried the audio version.
Recaptcha sound
I don't know ( Read more... ) -
"We have located approximately 2,170 pages and 3 videos or other media which are potentially respons
So I did a big dump of Privacy Act requests to the various parts of government that seem interesting. The DHS, ICE, TSA, and Customs and Border Patrol, the US Postal Service, the FBI, and US Marshals service.
Of the agencies that responded, only the USMS and FBI had anything on me (which I kind of expected). The USMS sent me a packet of information ( Read more... )
