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AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842307/att-connected-life-smart-hom…

AT&T’s new home security system is powered by Google Home and Abode
AT&T is launching Connected Life, a new smart home security offering built around Google Home that keeps working during power or internet outages.

Just been working on some cards for my home assistant dashboard. Very nice animated dashboard except the developer coded low humidity as bad and high humidity as good. Obviously from a much more arid environment but made me laugh while reversing it.

After fully working from home for three months while the office was renovated, I had to RTO today. This is what was in the "welcome back" bag waiting at each of our desks. I dunno if everyone got identical items or if there was a larger selection of cheap trinkets with different nonsense motivational phrases on them.

The same receptionist in my office building that nagged me today about leaving my computer (that I dial into remotely when working from home) on when I'm not in the office, just asked me to leave the front door of the building wide open because she's too warm.

"Cold, the air and water flowing
Hard, the land we call our home
Push, to keep the dark from coming
Feel the weight of what we owe
This, the song of sons and daughters
Hide, the heart of who we are
Making peace to build our future
Strong, united, working 'til we fall
Cold, the air and water flowing
Hard, the land we call our home
Push, to keep the dark from coming
Feel the weight of what we owe
This, the song of sons and…

Economic boycott and sit-in protests at Home Depots are working
#resist

Economic boycott and sit-in protests at Home Depots are working
After ignoring for months demands that they prohibit warrantless ICE raids from taking place on their property, Home Depot has finally begun to cave under the pressure from protestors.

The problem I have with working from home, and for myself this time of year is that I feel very isolated.
It's difficult to get that across to anyone not in a similar situation.
#Isolation #WFH

In some kind of record, I have moved 1247 steps today. I usually walk around more when I'm working from home, but there's literally nowhere to go and I have been writing a paper all day... Hope the storm dies down soon.

God morgon mastodonter - idag sitter jag hemma och slipper gå ut i -16 grader.
Good morning fedinauts - I'll be working from home so I don't have to go outside. It's freezing -16 degrees celsius outside

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Not a brilliant analysis from the MS but 2 nuggets:
Extending the freeze on tax band and National Insurance thresholds is an attack on working-class people’s take-home pay. Yield £7.6bn p.a.
Left's proposed 2 per cent tax on assets in excess of £10 million is estimated to bring in £24bn p.a.
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My employer sent out guidance on working on site, tomorrow. I'm glad that I get to just work from home. #Milwaukee

The only downside to working from home is not having snow days. The campus is closed, so only WFH workers are online today.

Fedex just shipped a package from Taiwan to NL for me, tried to deliver at a random time during a working day. Found me not home, then immediately threatened to send the package back if I don't leave delivery instructions. Then only let me talk to AI agents, who don't understand what I want.
This level of dysfunction is staggering. Surely it can't be good for their bottom line if packages are sent back across the world all the time?

Of course it was the bios... After my 747 take-off sounds I finally found the 'prefetch' setting and turned it off. Working from home today was a quiet affair (me shouting at co-workers aside😆 )
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