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Federally subsidized internet service

2021-05-12T15:29:58Z

Tens of millions of Americans are eligible to get $50/month from the US government to help pay for their Internet service for the next few months. Eligibility for the "Emergency Broadband Benefit" includes people with low incomes, anyone who lost a job or significant income during the pandemic, people who are getting other benefits including food stamps, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income, and anyone who is already getting subsidized or low-income Internet service.

The FCC estimates that the application process should take about ten minutes, but you do have to apply. You can start at https://getemergencybroadband.org/how-to-apply/

The law authorizing this was passed in December, and the FCC now has it up and running in most of the United States.

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Federally subsidized internet service

2021-05-12T15:27:17Z

life goes on

2020-11-06T01:10:04Z

Our Internet connection was down when I woke up. Unrelatedly, I think, I got an email from Google saying that if I hadn't tried logging in 34 minutes ago I needed to change my password.

I did that, and then spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why my iPhone wouldn't let me enter the new password, before it occurred to me to turn WiFi off on the phone--apparently if WiFi is on but it can't find the server, it just keeps looking rather than thinking "I'm a phone, I have a connection through a cell phone ocmpany."

The afternoon has been a lot better: cattitude and I went for a walk on an unexpectedly warm sunny day, I've done several of my PT exercises, and the mail brought two beautiful magnets made by minoanmiss as well as the replacement timer caps for my pill bottles.

In a few minutes, I will carve the chicken Cattitude roasted, and we will have dinner.

Also, Resistance Labs emailed to thank me for sending 29,490 texts over the last couple of months. I think that's initial texts, not counting answering replies (to either those, or texts sent by other people); it certainly doesn't count the 1800 I sent specifically for the Biden campaign Tuesday evening.

Also from that email, "With volunteers like you, we sent 150,550,128 texts since August 1st, with over 80 million in the last 30 days alone." Which really is a lot, especially for people in Florida and other swing states--and we weren't the only people texting, not by a long shot.

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