Technicians who climb cell towers have dangerous jobs. Now they’re getting a not-for-profit group, “focused on unifying, protecting and advocating for the tower technician workforce,” organized by former tower climber Tommy Schuch. My colleague Tommy Clift reports on Fierce Network: Tower climbing veteran launches Climber Protection Group
Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge loves the new Superman movie.. I’m jazzed to see it. I’ve been burned out on superhero movies for years, but I’d love to see somebody breathe new life into the genre. This one seems written for the current political era, emphasizing Superman’s immigrant origins and painting Lex Luthor as a nativist villain.
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? By Michael Tomasky at the New Republic — Sure looks that way. Trump is bringing back slavery. It is not an exaggeration to say that — it seems to be exactly what the Republican-led U.S. government wants to do.
Text message spam is getting to be a problem for me. I’m thinking of activating the iPhone feature where you can shift text messages from unknown senders into their own inbox, but I do occasionally get an important message from someone not already in my contacts. How do other people handle this?
He’s Ringo. And Nobody Else Is.
Lindsay Zoladz at The New York Times:
Starr then drifted back to a memory of his early days gigging around Liverpool, before he joined the band that he sometimes refers to as “the Fabs.” “When I first started,” he said, “my mother would come to the gigs. She would always say, ‘You know, son, I always feel you’re at your happiest when you’re playing your drums.’ So she noticed. And I do.” He smiled. “I love to hit those buggers.”
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Insomnia isn't anything you should lose sleep about
Journalist Jennifer Senior writes at The Atlantic about her own and the nation’s struggles with insomnia: Why Can’t Americans Sleep?.
Like Senior, I have struggled with fierce insomnia, sometimes getting only two hours per night of sleep for several nights a week. It started in 2020 or so. And like Senior, medication has corrected the problem for me. She takes Klonopin; for me, it’s 50 mg of Trazodone, an antidepressant. I take it at bedtime, and I sleep soundly most nights. It hasn’t fixed my insomnia, but it’s reduced to two or three nights a month.
Not only is restored sleep great for my physical and mental health, but I get the added benefit that I can drink as much coffee as I want, whenever I want. It’s coming up on 4 pm right now and I’m thinking of fixing myself a cup now!
I’ve recently become conscious of how often I say, “Cool.” It’s an all-purpose word for me, meaning “OK,” “thank you,” “good-bye,” “that’s good,” etc.
It seems lazy to me to keep hitting that word. I need alternatives.
Candidates:
- Ave atque vale.
- Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down.
- Get your hands off me you damn dirty apes.
- You’re damn skippy.
Other ideas?