Daily Tech News 3 March 2026

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Motorola and GrapheneOS have announced a partnership to produce Motorola phones running GrapheneOS. (Liliputing)

Though I'm not sure what else they would announce.

GrapheneOS is a version of Android without Google's proprietary software. It currently only runs on, uh, Google's proprietary hardware, which I'm not sure is entirely helpful.

Having it run on something else as well might be a useful option if you want to steer away from the Apple / Google duopoly for security and privacy reasons but aren't still looking for something officially supported.

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Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop" from its official Copilot Discord forum and then shut the whole thing down when people kept using the offending term, or, well, they did but they say it was due to spam. (Windows Latest)

Sure, Microsoft. I believe you.
Anthropic got declaude. (Bleeping Computer)

I was doing server stuff today and didn't notice. I do use Claude Code to get boilerplate stuff done quickly, like generating test cases, but I didn't miss it.
The US government is moving to ban memory chips from Chinese companies YTMC, CXMT, and SMIC... From government devices. (WCCFTech)

Which doesn't really change anything for the rest of us.
The Minisforum N1 AI is a combination NAS and desktop PC and is not made by Minisforum. (Notebook Check)

Typo by Notebook Check - the device is made by Morefine.

It has an eight-core Ryzen CPU, four 3.5" bays, three M.2 slots, dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, and an 800W power supply and room for a desktop graphics card.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I am asleep, though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 03, 2026 04:01 AM (1o8D5)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:02 AM (+YA9H)

3 !!

Posted by: clarence at March 03, 2026 04:02 AM (5nlkh)

4 >>>Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop"

Such a great word!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:03 AM (+YA9H)

5 I really am off to sleep, but I haven't been on this thread in forever, so have a good day Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 03, 2026 04:06 AM (0nHVk)

6 Good morning to everyone where it's morning, and good night to those where it's not!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 03, 2026 04:09 AM (BLOW1)

7 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at March 03, 2026 04:09 AM (lJ0H4)

8 G'Day everyone
Late start again

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 04:10 AM (Ia/+0)

9 The Day You Went Away - Wendy Matthews

Blecchh. Would not hang.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:13 AM (+YA9H)

10 Greetings to All Noble Teck Peoples

We are also have difficult with price of High Teck Equipments.

Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Youngs are concern how build data centerings.

We are are have sunlight, small river, fields for animals.

Is now concern of us.

Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at March 03, 2026 04:15 AM (8l6wf)

11 Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop"

It is an "issue"

Posted by: Official Microsoft Vocabulary at March 03, 2026 04:21 AM (8l6wf)

12 I prefer to call it microsux

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 03, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)

13 12 I prefer to call it microsux
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 03, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)

microsux - verb
microslop - noun

Maybe?

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)

14 Bible verses from the Jewish and Christian scriptures about hope and strength in hard times . Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yht53xtr

Posted by: Iran Watcher at March 03, 2026 04:34 AM (Nx5jP)

15 Another song I didn't know. Teen boy does a good job- "Gratitude":

https://tinyurl.com/4a4rsj8z

Posted by: Iran Watcher at March 03, 2026 04:41 AM (ix8EF)

16 Oops; forgot to change my sock.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 04:42 AM (ix8EF)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

18 Depending on the source of components, this could be made very secure. Motorola has a good reputation for its devices.

Posted by: clarence at March 03, 2026 04:43 AM (5nlkh)

19 Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop"

It is an "issue"
Posted by: Official Microsoft Vocabulary

Microsloth says what???

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 04:44 AM (tY81A)

20 Man writes on "God's undeniable power" and Daniel 6:25-28. Devotional is followed by additional insights and prayer. An "Upper Room" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/bdkcaf98

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 04:48 AM (ix8EF)

21 Evening and morning for an ealry March Tiu's Day, ever'body. I'm up early thanks to a certain giant black cat leaping across me starting at three am. I'm trying not to reward him for doing it -- I get up, but I don't play with him or give him more than the usual attention, and I don't feed him until five am anyway. I wish I knew how to stop this behavior!

Anyway, I'm up, I'm sipping coffee, what more d'ya want?

Who are the young couple in the music video, the B & W portion? At first I thought the girl might be a very young Jane Fonda, but now I don't think so. Some French film?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 04:50 AM (wzUl9)

22 MicroSquashy

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 04:51 AM (wzUl9)

23 Good morning to all. 41 cloudy degrees here and going up to the 60s. Primary voting day. I hope everyone has a good day.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 03, 2026 04:55 AM (fJeEs)

24 Movies! has Hitchcock's Lifeboat from 1944 on in an hour. I think I will plunk myself down and watch all of it; don't think I've ever seen it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 04:57 AM (wzUl9)

25 This NJ company has hired disabled workers for 20 years to help make their candles :

https://tinyurl.com/2mws952b

Sunny Skyz site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:04 AM (PFs9e)

26 Sorry: candle making business story was from "Good News" network site:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:05 AM (PFs9e)

27
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 03, 2026 05:12 AM (tljrc)

28 Music interlude was nice

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 05:17 AM (Ia/+0)

29 G'morning, all!

50.5 degrees out, so a good morning to walk in a bit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:18 AM (iMotb)

30 Nrg. Mornin' Horde.

"Anthropic got declaude." *heh* Clever and amusing, Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

31 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 03, 2026 05:19 AM (bQ4nt)

32 Based on current events, it is time for me to get my CWP. Actually, well past time to do so.

But, South Carolina is kind enough to offer the course at no cost to the applicant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb)

33 Someone at Microsoft hasn't heard of the Streisand effect.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

34 mornin yall. Headed to Alabama this morning, up towards Tuscaloosa. I shall return with a bandaid on my knee.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:25 AM (vFG9F)

35 excerpted:

Aelfred The Great retweeted
Spencer A. Klavan
@SpencerKlavan
10h

Kids who pass off foundational cognitive tasks like memorization to AI will be lost in an ocean of people just like them, all powerless to think their own thoughts, dependent on bad mechanical imitations of mental acts they have no capacity to perform or judge for themselves.

They’ll grow up into glazed-over subaltern dupes at the mercy of machinists who view them as little more than farm animals to milk for training data.

You could hardly do a worse disservice to a young person right now than to empty out the contents of their soul and strip them of the mental armor that only a rigorous literary education can provide.

And all in the name of some gullible claptrap about humanity and tech that wouldn’t stand up to five minutes’ scrutiny if the people peddling it and swilling it down had ever read a single thing worth reading.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:25 AM (+YA9H)

36 "Kids who pass off foundational cognitive tasks like memorization to AI will be lost in an ocean of people just like them, all powerless to think their own thoughts, dependent on bad mechanical imitations of mental acts they have no capacity to perform or judge for themselves."

That's what I think can happen. I also think that some may reject it totally, and a counterculture may arise.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:28 AM (vFG9F)

37 fd lets hope it didn't rain all night, the day you left with the weather oh so dry

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 05:29 AM (Ia/+0)

38 I'm sure this is nothing.

https://tinyurl.com/438p6dzu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:33 AM (iMotb)

39 Skip, don't you cry for me...

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (vFG9F)

40 Good morning, one and all. Snow and freezing rain last night so I spent some time chiseling my car free from the layer that had accumulated.

One comment I have about current events. It's absolutely wonderful to have a Secretary of War who understands that you don't blab about your war plans no matter how much the press demands it.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (OPGS/)

41 Not only are we suffering from measles mumps and rubella, WAVY10 has announced that Trump’s Iran war is raising gas prices now.
Right now, today.

Posted by: Accomac at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (8jVAy)

42 math alert:

Aelfred The Great retweeted
vixhaℓ
@TheVixhal
17h
If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, the exact order you get has almost certainly never existed before in human history and never will again.

The number of possible arrangements of 52 cards is 52 factorial, which works out to a number so large that it has 68 digits. To put it in perspective: even if every person who ever lived shuffled a deck once per second since the beginning of the universe, you would still barely scratch the surface of all possible arrangements.

So every time you shuffle a deck, you are most likely holding a sequence that is completely unique in the history of the universe.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (+YA9H)

43 Time for the walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:37 AM (iMotb)

44 4 women and a dog?
I think there was a lot of H8 going on, why is the question

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 05:39 AM (Ia/+0)

45 FenSpouse really likes Hank Williams Sr. so here he is doing an old time hymn, "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is calling":

https://tinyurl.com/5yfbe4a5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:42 AM (8Cor4)

46 "Officials said that the stabbing followed a crash and isn’t believed to be terrorism-related. "

They always say that. The people that were there were certainly terrified.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:46 AM (vFG9F)

47 14 Bible verses from the Jewish and Christian scriptures about hope and strength in hard times . Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yht53xtr
Posted by: Iran Watcher at March 03, 2026 04:34 AM (Nx5jP

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Good collection.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 05:49 AM (+qFxn)

48 “ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Romans 8:28

Posted by: Marcus T at March 03, 2026 05:49 AM (u/66v)

49 Breakfast: seasoned scrambled egg within toasted nacho cheese taco; a whole-grain English muffin with peanut butter and honey. Plus coffee, of course.

I'll feed the furry thugs during the first commercial break in LIfeboat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

50 Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 05:49 AM (+qFxn)

They are nice, aren't they?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:52 AM (rZCVI)

51 The moving guy I talked with last week, and the real estate agent in Owensboro, have not called or emailed me back since last week. Oh, well. Time to move on and find somebody else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

52 38 I'm sure this is nothing.

https://tinyurl.com/438p6dzu
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:33 AM (iMotb)

archived site:

https://archive.is/tyeK6

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:54 AM (+YA9H)

53 Good luck, Wolfus. I hope you find someone better and soon.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 05:56 AM (OPGS/)

54 @44/Skip: None of the news stories on this issue contain much more than some bare details, not enough to figure out how things escalated from a car crash to two homicides, even more injuries, and a dead dog.

This one's going to need a homicide investigation. News inside of Fairfax County, Virginia might carry a follow-up story, but I suspect the rest of the world will likely never hear more about what happened unless one or more involved is a sufficiently important person, or it ends up being an embarrassment for the State Department.

The Linked-in in page for Llemondo shows he was an IT guy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

55 Wolfus, if you are open to it - we broke our cats' habit of waking us by using timed feeders, dispensing dry food.

Later in the day, they'd get wet food.

They were NOT happy about this change, of course.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 03, 2026 05:58 AM (8AONa)

56 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 03, 2026 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

57 Wolfus, if you are open to it - we broke our cats' habit of waking us by using timed feeders, dispensing dry food.

Later in the day, they'd get wet food.

They were NOT happy about this change, of course.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 03, 2026

***
I've been trying to shift them later in the morning and later in the evening. In any case I don't feed them until 5:00, even if Stirling wakes me at 3:30.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

58 No moon here - too cloudy
Hope others get to see the eclipse

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:00 AM (7fEFu)

59 So every time you shuffle a deck, you are most likely holding a sequence that is completely unique in the history of the universe.
Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (+YA9H)

----

I believe what you've written. I just wonder if the superficial shuffles many of us use could result in a repeat.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:01 AM (0/kKZ)

60 Too bad it's raining today. It was a beautiful full moon last night

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:02 AM (0/kKZ)

61 I believe I caught an eclipse of the Moon this morning? Either that, or I’m losing my mind. Last night, the Moon was full, or nearly so. This morning, a crescent moon turning fully occluded or whatever. If it was a briquette, I’d say it’s time to put on the steaks. Really had me wonderin’ for a while

Posted by: Common Tater at March 03, 2026 06:07 AM (8c30T)

62 Full lunar eclipse at ~5:30am Central.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:07 AM (FLbV4)

63 The state trooper shot the guy with the knife in self defense. Apparently, the rage is strong in this one.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:08 AM (PEg9t)

64 My windshield has a coating of ice on it, not good

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)

65 62 Full lunar eclipse at ~5:30am Central.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:07 AM (FLbV4)

63 The state trooper shot the guy with the knife in self defens

Would have been a beautiful sight here eight hours ago. But it's cloudy now.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:11 AM (EqY/n)

66 Full overcast (unlike last night) in North Texas. Oh well.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:13 AM (FLbV4)

67 Lebanese Jewish American confronts lefty protesters in Philly
The obnoxiously surround him
No violence thankfully

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/
2028680248943124686?s=46

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:15 AM (7fEFu)

68 Yeah, it’s fantastic. But I was a might bewildered, because I went to bed with a full Moon, and then it was a crescent moon. “Must be a cloud”.. But there isn’t a cloud in the sky.

What is the offending object blocking off the moonlight?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 03, 2026 06:16 AM (8c30T)

69 I went to look Wendy Matthews up on Wikipedia and they're running a banner ad saying "Wiki Love Ramadan!".

Odd.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 03, 2026 06:17 AM (LpxA0)

70 "What is the offending object blocking off the moonlight?"

* checks leg; doesn't answer

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:18 AM (FLbV4)

71 What is the offending object blocking off the moonlight?
Posted by: Common Tater

Er, that would be us, sir.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:19 AM (7fEFu)

72 >>> You could hardly do a worse disservice to a young person right now than to empty out the contents of their soul and strip them of the mental armor that only a rigorous literary education can provide.

I am fighting back in ways that no one will ever know nor care about.

Posted by: fluffy at March 03, 2026 06:19 AM (AN2gy)

73 @63/JM: "Apparently, the rage is strong in this one."

https://youtu.be/_o_DpQ7GO30

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 06:20 AM (O7YUW)

74 News inside of Fairfax County, Virginia might carry a follow-up story,

This happened on Sunday. I don't see any follow up yet on WTOP or other local newz sites. I don't have much faith in the local newz here in Babylon DC. It's not much better than there national counterparts.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2026 06:20 AM (sAmhv)

75 I've been trying to shift them later in the morning and later in the evening. In any case I don't feed them until 5:00, even if Stirling wakes me at 3:30.

Posted by: Wolfus

==

It sounds like a battle of wills- you're trying to train them, and they're trying to train you!

In our situation, we realized the fur balls had way more reserves of stubborn, so we opted to change tactics.

I am not ashamed to admit I was laughing on the inside as the cats came to realize that, no matter what, food was going to arrive at 7, and the groggy humans would not be part of the process.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 03, 2026 06:22 AM (8AONa)

76 >>> Hope others get to see the eclipse

I saw it briefly while the moon was setting.

Posted by: fluffy at March 03, 2026 06:24 AM (AN2gy)

77 It’s a gorgeous clear night for an eclipse out here in the boonies. As promised the moon is reddish orange.

Should I blame reflected light from Mars or …….TRUMP?

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 03, 2026 06:24 AM (eBSBx)

78 Lebanese Jewish American confronts lefty protesters in Philly
The obnoxiously surround him
No violence thankfully

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/
2028680248943124686?s=46
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:15 AM (7fEFu)
==================
"You are spoiled Americans on the side of a terror regime!"

Nailed it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 03, 2026 06:24 AM (AcqKZ)

79 “That would be us, sir”

Well don’t let it happen again!

Posted by: Common Tater at March 03, 2026 06:25 AM (8c30T)

80 I don't see any follow up yet on WTOP or other local newz sites

The only story I found on WTOP was where the stabber's name was posted. Waiting to see if this was a "mental health crisis."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 06:26 AM (OPGS/)

81 No lunar eclipse for me. From a news article describing the timing: "However, for those in the eastern time zone, the moon will have set before then."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

82 The earth’s shadow is gobbling up the moon. Pretty cool actually.

Being 29 is great. Wake up for the hydraulics stay for the Show.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 03, 2026 06:29 AM (eBSBx)

83 I like how the “news” somehow valiantly tries to straddle that oh so thin line when describing a troon “experiencing” mental health issues. Even normal, well balanced transexuals go crazy on occasion, you see. But, of course they are totally normal, normally.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 03, 2026 06:30 AM (8c30T)

84 But, of course they are totally normal, normally.
Posted by: Common Tater

And they have a manifesto but we can't release it because it might fall into the wrong hands and cause transphobia.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 06:38 AM (OPGS/)

85 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I got the word from on high yesterday from my employer that remote work is going to come to an end for a lot of folks, including me.

We're expected to be back in the office on August 3.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 03, 2026 06:39 AM (ESVrU)

86 We're expected to be back in the office on August 3.
****

And you will be retiring the 2nd of August, nyah?

Posted by: clarence at March 03, 2026 06:42 AM (5nlkh)

87 @83/Common Tater: It takes boys and girls years to learn to control their impulses towards violence that are magnified by the hormones that manifest during puberty.

Now you start dumping in opposite-sex hormones into their system which they have NO experience with... This sounds like a horror-show experiment created by Dr. Josef Mengele (and from the outcomes we're seeing, that's pretty much how I view it.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 06:43 AM (O7YUW)

88 I got the word from on high yesterday from my employer that remote work is going to come to an end for a lot of folks, including me.

I have a cartoon about a boss telling his people to come back to the office. When asked why, he said "So I can monitor you better."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 06:43 AM (OPGS/)

89 Now you start dumping in opposite-sex hormones into their system which they have NO experience with

"But it puts puberty on hold just like when you hit pause on a beautiful piece of music!"

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 06:45 AM (OPGS/)

90 Senator Cornyn is running scared. I've received a half dozen "surveys" in the last week asking who I'd pick. And you can tell from the wording and how the question is set up as to who sent it.

F Cornyn.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 06:45 AM (Wc+7N)

91 We're expected to be back in the office on August 3.
****

And you will be retiring the 2nd of August, nyah?
Posted by: clarence at March 03, 2026 06:42 AM (5nlkh)
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Sadly, no. I'm only 29, so I don't have that option right now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 03, 2026 06:46 AM (ESVrU)

92 @NR Pax: That's pretty much it for a lot of managers out there (who aren't good ones). Their metric is "butts in seats" and whether you have the appearance of working. Form over function.

The proper metric measures amount of work output (versus expected) and the quality of same, but that requires effort and work on the part of the manager.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 06:47 AM (O7YUW)

93 Bye Bye John

Posted by: Ben Had at March 03, 2026 06:48 AM (+nEug)

94 This sounds like a horror-show experiment created by Dr. Josef Mengele
——

Technically speaking, you’re way, way more correct than many might realize.

The US spook agencies actually picked up where they left off after the war. One of the avenues of “research” done at the concentration camps revolved around what they called “trauma based conditioning”. Child rape was found to be the most effective. That’s what’s going on here.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 03, 2026 06:50 AM (8c30T)

95 Good morning all. Thx Pixy.
Human body is funny. Walked to the local convenient store about an hour and a half ago. It was 16° . It's been in forties last couple of days when I'm out and going back down to 16° made it feel like it was a few weeks back when it was 0°.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 03, 2026 06:50 AM (HYqoK)

96 Some kinds of work are suited for remote; not all though.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:53 AM (7fEFu)

97 I got the word from on high yesterday from my employer that remote work is going to come to an end for a lot of folks, including me.

I have a cartoon about a boss telling his people to come back to the office. When asked why, he said "So I can monitor you better."
Posted by: NR Pax

Post covid, our entire IT department (other than desktop support) said, "we ain't coming back to the office. We can do all of our work from home. We'll quit and be hired somewhere else before our HR exit interviews".

Funny thing is? Yeah. You can monitor their output just fine from remote locations.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 06:54 AM (Wc+7N)

98 Ben Had,

Which John went bye-bye?

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 03, 2026 06:55 AM (eBSBx)

99 That's it. Stop the war. A UNESCO site was hit in Tehran

Posted by: Ben Had at March 03, 2026 06:55 AM (+nEug)

100 @94/common tater: The depth of evil some people are capable of reaching never ceases to shock and sadden me.

@96/vmom: True, and any work that can be done remotely can be outsourced (or at least that can be attempted.)

Okay, work time. I gotta go whoosh, because the work I do can't be done from home!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 06:55 AM (O7YUW)

101 Government workers, for example, can not-work from home just as well as they do in the office.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:56 AM (7fEFu)

102 Post covid, our entire IT department (other than desktop support) said, "we ain't coming back to the office. We can do all of our work from home. We'll quit and be hired somewhere else before our HR exit interviews".

Funny thing is? Yeah. You can monitor their output just fine from remote locations.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 06:54 AM (Wc+7N)
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Yup. 99% of what I do is a combination of online web-based apps, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive.

There's nothing there that requires an office presence.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 03, 2026 06:57 AM (ESVrU)

103 Good morning morons

Spending the morning watching videos of hot Iranian girls celebrating in London, L.A., and Paris.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2026 06:57 AM (RIvkX)

104 Alas no blood moon for me. It sank below the hilly, woodsy horizon before the event.

Too bad, it was a beautiful clear sky for viewing.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 03, 2026 06:57 AM (kpS4V)

105 Pete Bog, Cornyn. I don't believe he can salvage this one.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 03, 2026 06:58 AM (+nEug)

106 Full lunar eclipse at ~5:30am Central.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026

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Not visible with the trees across from me, and I think it's pretty cloudy too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 06:58 AM (wzUl9)

107 >>> Hope others get to see the eclipse

I saw it briefly while the moon was setting.

Posted by: fluffy

>Clear skies. Pretty nice. Smaller than expected. Binoculars made it better. It's cold outside.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 03, 2026 06:58 AM (gVUi7)

108 Ben Had,

Which John went bye-bye?
Posted by: Pete Bog

Hopefully Senator John Cornyn.
Not a Friend of Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 06:58 AM (Wc+7N)

109 92 Their metric is "butts in seats" and whether you have the appearance of working. Form over function.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

The funny thing about remote work is that it cuts back on the need for expensive office real estate so you'd think higher ups would like the idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 06:59 AM (OPGS/)

110 Spending the morning watching videos of hot Iranian girls celebrating in London, L.A., and Paris.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I like that and the Twitter posts where they are castigating the AWFLs in this country.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 06:59 AM (OPGS/)

111 Yup. 99% of what I do is a combination of online web-based apps, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive.

There's nothing there that requires an office presence.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Same with our Customer Service department. We proved that during Covid. But we didn't have the leverage that IT had.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 07:00 AM (Wc+7N)

112 Nood. J.J.

Posted by: Tuna at March 03, 2026 07:01 AM (lJ0H4)

113 Thune's flanked by Barroso and Lankford, but Cornblow is missing from the group grope. Hate them all; godless putz.

Posted by: kingsman at March 03, 2026 07:02 AM (ehY6c)

114 The funny thing about remote work is that it cuts back on the need for expensive office real estate so you'd think higher ups would like the idea.

Posted by: NR Pax

They just might. In ten years when the leases expire. Breaking a commercial lease is expensive. Especially when the building was built with the express intention of you being the anchor office space.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 07:03 AM (Wc+7N)

115 Lebanese Jewish American confronts lefty protesters in Philly
The obnoxiously surround him
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I saw one in Rome.

They make me nauseous and the periphery of my vision gets red.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 03, 2026 07:04 AM (RIvkX)

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