Good afternoon all. Another of Trump's Lawyers has taken a plea deal. This one is Jenna Ellis. Ellis pled guilty to aiding and abetting false statements and writing. She was sentenced to five ye… (View Post)

12 months ago, Forbes reported Facebook as having 15,000 employee or contract moderators. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertzafft/2022/10/09/twitter-facebook-et-al-the-case-for-freelance-content-mod… (View Post)

Social media does Schadenfreude well. My favourite from this weekend was the Manchester Useless (*) supporters wailing all over twitter that their failed football club was perhaps going to be signifi… (View Post)

I had a forum thread about this on Buildhub back in 2019, too. It went on forever, with all the opinions you could wish for, including redesigning the dishwasher itself (why is the cutlery rack not d… (View Post)

Off-topic: Heat pump anecdata. I've been playing for about 18 months with a portable heat pump running off solar to cool the hosue in the summer, and reduce gas consumption in winter by heating … (View Post)