Grammy Nominations 2022 Announcement: Updating List.

I don’t care about the Grammies at all, but that’s a very cute outfit Olivia is wearing in the accompanying photo. It’s butch and femme at the same time without being overbearing. Wish I could see her shoes.

Ok, I found the performance that was from. Why only 720p? But you can see the rest of the outfit. (Damn she’s so good.)

This is the only decent still of it I could find:

Big platform shoes, maybe Doc Martens. Not sure.

Is your Christmas present spying on you? How to assess gifts’ privacy risks.

I miss the old days, when only schizophrenics suspected that inanimate objects were listening to them and/or sending them secret messages. Now it’s real.

EU calls for calm amid violent COVID protests across Europe.

Why are so many European countries doing this to themselves? They are breaking their own compact with their citizens and it’ll long-term result in reduced vaccine and booster uptake and more deaths. And when the next pandemic hits, it’ll be so much worse.

Much of the discontent, however, is targeted at politicians who had promised that vaccinations would bring freedom. With the Delta variant making sure contagion remains rampant, EU governments are being forced to reimpose constraints and — in some countries — slap tougher restrictions on the nonvaccinated.

Notice that language: “forced,” as it’s not a choice.

So as everyone is acknowledging, the problem is with the unvaccinated, but restrictions are being placed on the entire populace in most places. What sort of sense does this make? This tells you it’s not really about the pandemic at all.

Resist lockdown now or you won’t have a chance later. It was a very, very bad idea to emulate something innovated by an authoritarian government (China) in a panic as a permanent “pandemic” solution. Very bad indeed.