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#PJPants4Ever: Twitter Says Employees Can Work From Home Permanently #PJPants4Ever: Twitter Says Employees Can Work From Home Permanently
#PJPants4Ever: Twitter Says Employees Can Work From Home Permanently Some Twitter employees won’t ever have to return to their offices, even after the coronavirus lockdown ends. Twitter employees who maintain servers or handle other jobs involving physical labor still must come in, CEO Jack Dorsey wrote in an email to his staff on Tuesday. Many others can simply continue to work remotely, Dorsey told them. Twitter is even boosting its employees’ allowance for work-from-home supplies to $1,000. “If our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen,” Twitter’s Je…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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FAKE NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced COVID-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die FAKE NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced COVID-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die
Fake NEWS: Warning Of Thieves Using Chemically-Laced Covid-19 Masks To Rob Residents Won't Die The folks at Facebook thought they’d killed a viral “warning” that villains were going door to door handing out coronavirus protective masks doused with chemicals to knock out unsuspecting victims and rob them. But it still won’t go away. Facebook yanked the bogus post, along with two stunt videos in which people acted out the scenario, as part of its fight against false news and bad info. “False information,” a warning that replaced both videos now says. “Checked by independent fact-checkers.” Yet people are still sharing the actual image -- not just in the U.S. but around the world – on …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Retired Police Captain From Mercer County Promotes 'Light On COVID19' Retired Police Captain From Mercer County Promotes 'Light On COVID19'
Retired Police Captain From Mercer County Promotes 'Light On COVID19' A retired police officer and his grandson from Mercer County came up with an idea for thanking first responders, health-care workers and other essential employees during the coronavirus crisis. Leave your porch light on 24/7 until the COVID-19 outbreak ends, said former Ewing Police Captain David Morgan. Morgan and his grandson, in this Facebook post,  also suggested sharing photos of people next to their porch lights on social media with the hashtag #LightOnCOVID19. "Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Staff, First Responders, Police, Fire, EMS, Utility Personnel, the Food Service Industry and…

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by Jon Craig