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Lunchtime Photo

1 year 2 months ago
This is world famous Melk Abbey, about halfway between Linz and Vienna in Austria. At any given time, its population is 22 monks and about two thousand tourists. Those 22 monks do a helluva job raising funds.
Kevin Drum

Century-old hardware store adds second site

1 year 2 months ago
New Market Hardware, a hardware store that has operated in the Central West End for more than a century, has secured an additional locationthat will be used to expand new revenue streams added in recent years.
Nathan Rubbelke

Remote workers spend less time working

1 year 2 months ago
Employers have increasingly turned to surveillance of keystrokes to make sure their workers are actually working, and this is especially true of people working from home. However, remote workers can fight back with hacks that fake keyboard strokes and mouse movements. The Wall Street Journal reports: When Teramind examined an anonymized sample of 1,000,000 workers ...continue reading "Remote workers spend less time working"
Kevin Drum

GOP Really Committed To The Bit That Speech They Don’t Like Is Censorship

1 year 2 months ago
The House Oversight Committee is investigating NewsGuard, a private company, for supposed “censorship” for the crime of… offering its own opinions on the quality of news sites. The old marketplace of ideas seems to keep getting rejected whenever Republicans find that their ideas aren’t selling quite as well as they’d hoped. Up is down, left […]
Mike Masnick