Nobody Asked Me…

This is yet another reason to NOT be on the cloud…

Congressional staffers were left struggling to conduct business only days into the lame-duck session amid widespread Microsoft outages on Thursday, with staffers expressing frustration to POLITICO over the ongoing situation.

The global outage impacted the Microsoft 365 suite, which includes Outlook email accounts, used widely in Washington federal offices. Microsoft posted on X Thursday that users “in any region” may have been affected by the outage, which was due to “a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable.” The company later wrote it was “opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief.”

Full article, HERE from Politico h/t Steve

This ‘may’ just be the tip of the iceberg, if you think about it…

Hackers are hitting major companies, infrastructure, etc. (like the chiller/freezer issues in Europe), and we know they don’t have anything approaching good security.

And Microcrap is known for its ‘buggy’ software, using the end users as the beta testers for years. And when you put a ‘suite’ in the cloud, and that ‘cloud’ goes down, guess what…

You’re SOL. While the article talks about the congresscritter’s issues, what about those little folks with the one or two person shops? What about those folks? A lost day of billing, or invoicing, or order taking might be the difference between profit and loss.

In other news, also h/t to Steve, we have this BS…

Link, HERE…

To me, this is more about the beta male ideal the left/feminists want, neutered males, only to ‘service’ the feminists at their leisure.

Raconteur Press, HERE, among others, is publishing books aimed at the YA boys market, and frankly are being pretty damned successful at it, IMHO.

They have a number of selections and authors specifically for boys, from a number of different authors. I’ll just call out one of them, by Dave Freer.

This book won the First Special Prometheus Award for Young Adult Fiction 2026! HERE is the Amazon link for the book.

And this is just one example. There are a number of others, plus the majority of the anthologies are also readable for YA audiences, IMHO.

We all knew Commiefornia was bad, but this… Talk about suckers!

Blue states are insane. In California, billions have been spent on high-speed rail that hasn’t been built, and likely never will. But things are even worse in Boulder, Colorado, where residents voted for a train back in 2004. They began paying taxes for the train in 2005 with a promise the train would be complete in 2014. Now, almost two decades later, residents are still paying for a train that hasn’t been built.

Full article, HERE at Town Hall.

And there is this from the Dems… quelle surprise? Non…

Several prominent Democrats who ran on an “affordability” message were largely silent when pressed by Fox News Digital on their sudden pivot to foreshadowing investigations into the Trump administration, including in many cases its immigration enforcement efforts.

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who is poised to lead the House Oversight Committee, responded to Democrats’ win Tuesday with a statement: “Lawyer Up”, despite having pledged to prioritize household costs alongside government accountability.

Garcia told CNN before the election that “Democratic priorities” would be lowering the cost of “gas, groceries, the mortgage, the rent,” alongside combating government corruption.

And the Cornell faculty is apparently awake, not coherent, but awake…

Cornell University’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution Friday expressing no confidence in the university’s central administration and in its president Michael Kotlikoff over the school’s handling of alleged sexual assault on campus.

The vote of no confidence is a sharp rebuke to the university’s leadership. It comes nearly two months after a former student, identified only as Jane Doe, sued Cornell, the Chi Phi fraternity chapter, seven of its members and several other entities, alleging the school failed to protect her and adequately punish students after she was sexually assaulted during a fraternity house party in 2024.

Full article, HERE from CNN.com

All three of these are just a random snapshot from yesterday’s media dribble…

And none of the three are positive, IMHO. And this doesn’t even get into all the other crap going on surrounding AI (LLMs) and the data center backlash which is pretty much flooding the news.

Personally, I think these show just how gullible the sheeple are and uniformed about what is going on around them. And just how much politicians lie… that too… But that’s not unexpected, is it?

22 years and nothing to show for it? What is Boulder smoking? Oh yeah, pot is legal up there…

And the Dems are acting just like Dems always do. Pander to the masses, then as soon as the election is over, it’s back to ‘their’ business as usual and to hell with their constituents.

And Cornell? Really? Did they not read any of the information that has come out about the actual interaction that took place? Or is this a CYA for the faculty to show ‘they’ had nothing to do with anything???