…early in the morning [DOT 29/4/20]

29/4/20 SplinterRIP 15

…but somehow I’ve managed to convince myself that this is late so I don’t know as there’ll be quite the deluge of links I seemed to wind up with yesterday

…speaking of which…this one I feel deserves another shot

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/26/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-briefings-analyzed.html

…I don’t suggest anyone actually try to emulate their efforts & subjects themselves to the full onslaught of insanity that all that chump-speak represents but as an analysis of his habits & patterns of speech it provides a degree of clarity that is frankly absent from any individual bout of self-adulatory gibberish

…but it’s always good to know that most people aren’t buying into all of the crazy going around

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americans-support-state-restrictions-on-businesses-and-halt-to-immigration-during-virus-outbreak-post-u-md-poll-finds/2020/04/27/7story.html

…so when shit like this crops up

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/trump-meat-plants-dpa/

…it feels like it’s not an exaggeration to say that most people can probably see why that’s possibly the dumbest way to react to the problems some meatpacking places have had…which underscores a solemn article of the Dolt45 faith…frame all things as though the only audience is one composed solely of sycophantic morons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/29/fox-news-trump-democratic-talking-points

…seriously, now…how incomprehensibly insensible of reality do you need to be to swallow that FOX FUCKING NEWS is in the pocket of the DNC giving aid & comfort to the enemy?

…or that OANN would have the words “news network” associated with it had they not bolted them on as part of a registered trademark

…meanwhile here’s a bunch of bullshit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/23/org-sale-nonprofits-censorship-fears

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/whatsapp-israeli-firm-deeply-involved-in-hacking-our-users

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/26/devos-family-michigan-protest-rightwing-donors

…still, good to know some places are still kicking it old school

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-baltimore-sun-awards-20200427story.html

…if you’re not a morning person, maybe save that one for later?
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15 Comments

  1. There are too many WaPo links. My opinion is, this is bad for two reasons. 1. There is a pay wall, most of us can’t read the articles, 2. Too much information from one source.

    • …both fair points…but as I pointed out in the comments yesterday I read all that WaPo stuff…let’s say “athwart” the paywall…& it doesn’t take any particularly cunning behavior on my part?

      …as for the single source thing – I’m not entirely sure what it is we think we’re doing here but the Open Thread thing I guess I started out thinking of as mostly just a thing that let you know people were still likely to read your comments if you felt like leaving them here, whatever they might be about…& the smattering of links ATL tend to be whatever seems vaguely to group together among the ones I’ve wound up reading in the last few hours

      …when I have time, I try for a bit of variation but I was in a rush this morning & the post should have been up before I started typing so while I don’t disagree with you I stand by my call that me getting that cup of coffee was the more important hurdle to overcome at the time

      …feel free to throw in any links from other sources you feel might round the thing out but I sometimes think people appreciate the list being shorter than yesterday’s…so I’m certainly up for at least trying to go about things differently if folks feel like it might make a difference?

      • I truly appreciate what this site brings to the table and I am sorry if I criticized without making that point clear. Thank you for all you do.

        I didn’t quite understand how to beat the pay wall, I did see you post about it. I had the wapo thought before, your post actually gave me the umph to post it.

        • …no harm, no foul & all that sort of thing…don’t worry about it…always nice to hear from you folks

          …I guess I never really made myself any particular rules about what links to include but I figure for all their flaws the NYT, WaPo & The Guardian are at least known quantities that used to be examples of the “paper of record” thing & NBC stuff is pretty much all free-to-read but I’m happy to try pulling from different places if it would help?

  2. I work with NPOs/charities and the sale of the .org extension is a major concern in the do-gooder world. In the USA, NPOs often work on shoe string budgets, cutting staff and services to show artificially low overhead costs. (Many donors and funders avoid giving to operating costs, insisting that dollars go directly to programs.) If you are interested in this subject, NTEN has an excellent cache of articles, starting with the Gizmodo mention on 11/14/19 and ending with the Guardian article on 04/24/20.

    The digital home of nonprofits is under attack

    • …thanks for that…I recall a long time ago being told by someone who had worked in the charitable sector for several decades that the sad truth of fundraising for charities was that there were fashions & trends involved & the only one that was ever really constant was that it was hardest to get people to pay for the stuff that wasn’t conspicuous…that you could find any number of people or firms willing to fork over cash to get their name on a plaque but when you needed paperclips & paper for the office the list was always coming up short

      …will definitely be checking that link out

      • This sounds like a thread I read over on Twitter, about college endowments, where the person explaining how they worked talked about how, “No one *really* wants to put their name on a plaque attached to the HVAC system,but sometimes *that’s* the thing we need to get funds for most in that moment…”

  3. Of interest (perhaps)is that the median funding varies greatly by mission focus. Animal-related, $20K; Arts, Culture, humanities, $40K; Human Services, $100K; Educational Institutions, $650K. The difference is often that the Federal government = big dollars, and they do not fund animal rescues or the arts, mostly.

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