After reading the indictment, the most troubling thing about the SPLC news to me is that the feds were clearly directed almost immediately after Trump installed Kash to find a way to shut down / seize the most public facing anti white-nationalist org in the country. (this is not an SPLC endorsement)
Wicked and the divine is set I believe 2015ish, a handful of pop stars are reincarnated (kind of) gods and have powers that come w that, draws a lot of influence for those chars from famous artists, one sec and I can send pics
Two separate comic series (same creative team tho), both about people’s relationship to music, both have a music/magic thing going on as well. Phonogram is set in the early aughts and has a ton of direct references to songs (and music videos) of that time and earlier.
Feel like Phonogram/The Wicked & The Divine handled this territory pretty well
Studios laying off hundreds and thousands of employees with the excuse that they can move production to the UK and not have to pay for healthcare because the UK has socialized medicine should be humiliating to the US government.
And by that same token, education in the US as it stands today is also by no means a guarantee of being politically astute. I've seen PhDs and folks with all kinds of graduate degrees fall for easily debunked propaganda because it was in the New York Times.
There are a lot of non-cyber folks speculating wildly about how and why and what it all means, all understandable questions. Before searching for deep and hidden meaning, I would urge you to consider the ancient strategy of throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks
this is fucked, obviously, but also gee I see the SPLC leadership’s plan of appeasing these assholes by throwing the most effective parts of their org under the bus over the past few years is playing out exactly like anyone who’s not an idiot nonprofit leadership type would have expected.
At Mayor Wilson's State of the City address Friday, he again relied on anecdote -- not data -- to prove his response to homelessness is working.
@lmonghughes.bsky.social digs into the numbers today:
How do you do, fellow kids? meme
The number of ppl I know who have been told “try couchsurfing?” By their case manager bc of shelter access barriers and lack of paths to permanent housing is infuriating
It's not just an environmental disaster. This is also the input water into the hundreds of desalination plants along the Persian Gulf, the drinking water supply of millions in several countries
Staff at an Oregon Amazon facility have continued to come forward since our reporting last week on a death there to describe what they say are challenging and sometimes dangerous working conditions.
We take you inside our reporting in this episode of Notes from the Edge.
the penne opticon
Last chance to get one of these shirts I designed for Mass Defense Hotline!
does anybody have reading recs (nonfiction) for researching 1920s-era eugenics? I'm looking particularly when it comes to mental illness or disability broadly and particularly in America or Canada but if you have good stuff on any front let me know
Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor
Last week, a 46-year-old “tote runner” died on the floor of an Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon, while pushing a large cart of parcels. The company forced fellow employees to keep working while the corpse lay on the floor in a pool of blood.
what is the charge. what crime has been done
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Lol. I know multiple people actively moving here even though they could work remote from anywhere, because they like it here. Try talking to real people instead of ragebait opinion columnists
I met a Chumash elder in college who told me that days similar to yesterday in Portland would be called “lizard rock days,” where it’s warm enough that you want to warm up by spreading out on a rock to heat yourself up.
This interview still FLOORS me. Then Facebook partnered w/ Cambridge Analytica (under Bannon) to socially engineer the 2016 election by targeting/radicalizing white ppl into what’s now MAGA, it’s chilling AF. We would not be here w/o Meta! Need a deep dive piece that puts all the atrocities together
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
tech NEEDS the mass to believe that AI is mystical & a benevolent all-knowing force because giving data labelers health care & a fair wage would collapse the whole financial model of the AI scheme. the point of AI is to not only maintain the existing class boundaries but to make it much more rigid
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
Lights Out Alert for April 18! 4.4 million birds will be flying over Oregon skies tomorrow night (and another 4 million the following night). Please turn lights out for migrating birds so they can see the stars they use to navigate to their breeding grounds.
📢Lights Out Alert! Tomorrow night, approximately 4.4 million birds will migrate through Oregon's skies. Help keep them safe by turning off your outside lights and drawing your blinds so they can see the stars they use to navigate to their breeding grounds.
📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon
A permanent stain in Oregon history will be that the city of Grants Pass took its desire to punish homeless people all the way to the Supreme Court. The small town was used by cities and states in the West to set the precedent that homeless people can be punished for being homeless—anywhere, anyhow.
I need you to understand that any method for 'verifying' age, as opposed to self-reporting age, is going to- by necessity- be both a major risk to personal security and also a significant violation of privacy.