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Sat, 28 Mar 2020

EPA to delay switch to summertime gas as fuel demand drops: “the coronavirus caused a big drop in demand and left storage tanks full of winter-grade fuel.” [Gas should be much cheaper right now if this is true]

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Fri, 27 Mar 2020

Ryuk Ransomware Keeps Targeting Hospitals During the Pandemic #cv2020

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National Commission Recommends Extending Draft Registration to Women: "There’s been no audit of the registration database since 1982, and the Commission didn’t conduct or ask for one."

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Thu, 26 Mar 2020

Imperial College scientist (Neil Ferguson) who predicted 500K coronavirus deaths in UK revises to 20K or fewer: "Ferguson credited the U.K.’s lockdown for stopping the spread ... but the country 'only began its lockdown 2 days ago'"

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“With GDP growth that low, Trump would need a phenomenal surge in approval to win, which seems impossible” [Did he forget 2016? Polling doesn’t work with Trump. Too many Trump voters don’t admit it publicly, so the polling is wrong.]

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Wed, 25 Mar 2020

Private Train to Las Vegas Moves Closer to Bond Approval: “California may allocate a portion of its limited tax-exempt financing allotment to a proposed private train to Las Vegas” #trainsgoodplanesbad

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Noah Kalina (@noahkalina) / Twitter [The world, all of a sudden, is empty.]

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Greta Thunberg Says It’s ‘Extremely Likely’ That She Had Coronavirus: "...in her Instagram post, she urged young people to 'follow the advice from experts and your local authorities and #StayAtHome to slow the spread of the virus.'"

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Nice Rig! RT @spann Spann's Home Studio


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Palladium is up 22% in one day. 😳

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So many scientist wanting to be rockstars right now.

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Ian Lipkin on Lou Dobbs: “A few minutes after giving a dry cough during the remote segment, Lipkin said, ‘I would like to say on this show tonight, this has become very personal to me, too. Because I have COVID as of yesterday’” [😐]

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The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision that bodes ill for the future of civil rights. [Blatant attempt to run cover for Ginsburg here. Gross.]

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The correct music for day 10 of quarantine/lockdown is Hall & Oates mix. Starting with Kiss on My List.

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HPE Warns of New Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40,000 Hours [Ugh. Didn’t we just do this last year?]

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Birmingham shelter-in-place order [This is a meaningless order. It changes nothing. It’s just political metooism.]

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Tue, 24 Mar 2020

CARES Act: "$500 billion fund that Republicans have proposed to support distressed companies. Democrats have argued the fund gives the Treasury too much discretion." [He's not wrong. Executive branch is already too powerful.]

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Microsoft Cuts Back More Office 365 Features to Handle High Load [Microsoft's cloud has been overpromised. I haven't seen any word from AWS or Google about scaling down due to load.]

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"President Donald Trump said the deadline for Real ID – known in Alabama as Star ID – is delayed indefinitely due to the threat of coronavirus." [Stick a fork in that one. It's not coming back.]

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HIPAA Penalties Suspended for Telehealth During COVID-19 National Emergency | Healthcare IT Today

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