Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.
The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
Link+ may have broader reach:
marinlibrary.org/faq/link-plus/
linkencore.iii.com/iii/encore/?...
Interlibrary loan a possibility?
Pink flowers on branches along a railing. On the other side of the railing is pavement one story down between two long high walls, but there is blue sky in the distance past the walls.
"At any rate, spring is here ... and they can’t stop you enjoying it."
G. Orwell, "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad," 1946.
Don't know if diversion is any use but yesterday on the new Cornell University Library digital archive collection at archive.org/details/corn... I was able to download an old edition of Black's Law Dictionary & thence to learn that "Hookland" is a real word. Thank you for the word & for your work.
Thx. Weirdass experience, though, to read it in 2025 and keep thinking, "2007."
While you're here though: help us remember where AI stood in 2007? If *The Gone-Away World* appeared now, the miscombined info taking literal shape would read as a metaphor for "AI slop" - but what led you to that then? And they remind me of the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" - any link?
Man hands on crockery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?
This is wonderful.
My dad's story was that his third-grade teacher read to the class from a wonderful book with a chapter called "Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire" and a man who shoots his best arrow at a dragon. Took him years to identify it as *The Hobbit*.
View down King Street in the Mission Bay urban redevelopment district in San Francisco at twilight with black metal lamps, rows of leafless street trees, trolley wires, an approaching streetcar. Sky is sepia with a faint rainbow descending so it appears to touch the middle of the street in the distance. The scene is reminiscent of Southern/Eastern Europe.
San Francisco looking more Besźel than usual this evening.
But it shouldn't be necessary. Forcing people to clamor to get things back is shifting burdens unfairly.
Today, February 19, is the Day of Remembrance in memory of Executive Order 9066, the 1942 order that sent more than 120,000 Japanese Americans into dispossession and incarceration.
jacl.org/day-of-remem...
I insist on thinking this kind of education does some good. Thank you for your service.
The Densho Encyclopedia is a storehouse for examples of large and small ways of advancing justice and helping people and communities to hold together under extreme pressure. encyclopedia.densho.org
In the U.S. I think our slowness to recognize and reject old European anti-Romani tropes is one reason for the systemic refusal to treat unhoused people as full legal persons, both through failure to recognize rights in the law and through frequent impunity for extrajudicial mistreatment.
“Don’t let fear stop your happiness.”
On Friday, an unaccompanied child client of the UNLV Immigration Clinic received his lawful residency and left this message with his handprint.
A sunset in narrow layers of pink-orange sky and pearly clouds behind San Francisco's Twin Peaks and the iconic Sutro Tower TV antenna. View is from South of Market under a freeway viaduct. Includes the upper part of the mural at 7th and Brannan Streets featuring the Sta-Puf Marshmallow Man and the Ghostbusters, who are weirdly drawn to appear as cartoon characters in the style of "The Simpsons."
San Francisco: the Sta-Puf Man mural and Sutro Tower from under Highway 80 at Brannan.
3 pixiecup lichen, about 2mm x 3mm tall. Tiny trumpet shapes
Shield lichen in a headstone. Concentric rings of “not leaves or roots”. Lichen is hard to describe, sorry
Pale pink lichen with dots. At least in real life they’re pink. They look gray herr
Um. Hmm. Like tiny grass? I can’t really describe. Very short greenish stemlike lichen.
#Lichen 📷🍄 🍄📷
Joseph Lelyveld, author of *Move Your Shadow*, has died at age 86. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/b...
