pet treats? khakis???? white people going after poc when amazon’s race war on what white people need to survive is right in the open

Rotunda of the US Capitol where people are standing, many in military camouflage, holding signs that read "End the War on Iran" among other messages.

The #BraveOfUS stand up and confront power and that's exactly what @vetsaboutface.bsky.social is doing with 150 veterans and active duty military in the Capitol rotunda right now to demand Congress end this criminal war on Iran.

Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa had some goats. His neighbors said to him: Your goats are damaging our property by eating in our fields. He said to them: If they are causing damage, let them be eaten by bears. But if they are not eating your property, let each of them, this evening, bring a bear impaled between its horns. That evening, each one brought in a bear impaled between its horns. Ta’anit 25a

The HOA bylaws failed to account for God’s tendency to perform miracles for the righteous

University administrators: It’s our mission to make every student feel safe on campus.

Students: Ok, when you do X I feel unsafe. Can you change it?

Op-ed writer for the next two decades: Triggered much??????

student protesters adopted the language of harm, trauma, offense, and identity in part because it was a discourse the university bureaucracy understood and was required to address. it was effective. after that adults never stopped punishing young people for speaking that way.

The other fabulous part of the AI publicity plan is “teach this junkware everything you know so that I, a rich CEO, can use it to put you out of work”. Wild how that isn’t being received with enthusiasm by the general public.

Forget tenure or h-index. I have reached the true mark of academic prestige. This academic term I teach in a classroom where I can control the temperature.

Thanks to everyone who signal-boosted this. No new work has been forthcoming, unfortunately. Please keep me under consideration for upcoming projects - both C/O and WFH! I feel like I'm doing my career-best work at the moment but nobody will hire me for new projects!

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works!

This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one).

Hope you enjoy it!

perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

“Will Social Security Run Out?” Is the Wrong Question: How Lawmakers Can Protect Beneficiaries and Strengthen OASI Is Social Security really in crisis? This report examines the OASI Trust Fund, lessons from 1983, and policy options to secure benefits for the future.

Now, attention has returned to the Trust Fund reserve.

But as we’ve argued, “will Social Security run out?” is the wrong question. Benefits are a legal obligation, and policymakers have clear tools to close funding gaps and protect full payments.

President Franklin D Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act of 1935 YouTube video by Committee on Education & Workforce Democrats

April is Social Security Month — a chance to reflect on one of the most consequential programs in American history.

In 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, FDR signed the Social Security Act, creating a national old-age insurance system. 🧵

Nevada police may be tracking your phone's location without a warrant. Here's how. Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.

“Because of the contract’s low price tag (about $12,000 per year), it appears to have eluded public discussion. It only needed to be signed off by a state clerk, circumventing the typical approval process for major contracts that require sign-off from the governor, Secretary of State,” and the AG.

"For nearly 1 in 4 girls (23%) confined by the juvenile justice system, the most serious charge levelled against them is a non-criminal 'technical' violation of probation (16%) or a status offense (7%) ... [B]oys are held for these technical violations and status offenses at half the rate of girls."

I know Trump is sick in whatever is left of his soul seeing this. Not his #1 crush chilling with his opp!

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights The Trump administration coerced platforms into removing ICE monitoring projects such as ICE Sightings - Chicagoland and the Eyes Up app, the lawsuit alleges.

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Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

USDA study shows working conditions in meatpacking plants likely drove coronavirus outbreaks The analysis supports what workers long suspected—working shoulder-to-shoulder coupled with high line speeds hastened the virus’ spread.

2021

"Overall, meatpacking plant workers were much more likely to be exposed to the virus than workers in other manufacturing jobs.

“It is a strong possibility that the physical proximity of the workers in meatpacking plants is directly linked to the outbreaks in the spring and summer of 2020.”

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

These data centers are delayed because of supply chain problems w/ chips that AI has caused & I wager most of them will never get built because political opposition will kill then before they break ground. Closest thing to poetic justice since Janet Jackson was rocking those box braids.

Looking at youuuuuu, information science...

5 was mine, but we had #4 as a family line for a minute

"People whose ancestors lived it say the American Revolution is a more a diverse story..."

Bless every American archivist who got voluntold to run their institution's 250th commemoration.

Silver lining to being disabled = it's not me.

Every article like this is trash, mealy-mouthed cowardice.

They talk of "lesser known stories" and how the effort to tell them is "under pressure."🤡

They don't say what is plain to see: "Racist people don't like Black stories being told, and so make active efforts to erase them from history."

I have always been disabled, but I've never been *this* visibly and functionally impaired.

It's been a radicalizing experience; the more limited my mobility options are, the more confrontational I feel I need to be. I can't just go around or power through anymore.

This shit has been humbling, to say the least.

This is the first year I haven't made enough money to file taxes since I started working during the junior Bush admin.

Apparently when you push your body hard enough, long enough, it will pump its own brakes.

Somewhere in the chaos of saving myself, I seriously injured a nerve in my low back and became completely disabled.

Shoutout to medical marijuana, baduanjin, all of my martial teachers, and a rad Portland witch letting me crash at their pad while I recover daily living functions.

I've been through hell and back this last decade after complications of a hidden EBV infection followed almost immediately by long COVID, and a radical self-reckoning that compelled me to turn my entire life inside out.

Zoomed in snapshot of my profile page, emphasizing follower count of 420. The drugs number.

Just hit 420 followers.

If you're flush with cash and down for mutual aid, kick me a tip to stock up on Green Front $20 ounces while I'm living on less than $200 per month.

Venmo @sambrambling
www.ko-fi.com/sambrambling

As an information scientist, it's really cool to see this governance process play out.

I've converted to this doctrine