THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
With 80% of Institute of Museum and Library Services staff now on administrative leave, ALA President Cindy Hohl spoke with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about the agency’s vital role and the importance of federal library funding—especially for small and rural libraries.
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"Let the president know that if he does ever do that there will be a rising up of people's voices, a rising up of 'good trouble' as John Lewis would say. To say, 'not in my country. This is unacceptable!'"
🧵 @booker.senate.gov on Trump's threat of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 as early as April 20th, effectively declaring martial law:
"But why wait for April 20th? Raise your voice now. Stand up now. Cause some good trouble now."
Thank you, @booker.senate.gov, for speaking truth to power, lifting up more voices, and publicly acknowledging the limitations of the legislative branch to get us out of this mess.
"Change does not come from Washington. It comes to Washington by the people who demand it."
There can't be an effective revolution if we can't even agree what's happening.
"How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?"
-Audre Lorde in "Apartheid U.S.A."
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Certainly, and thanks for writing it! I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Rendering of 3 spheres sitting in the corner of a room. Various pixels are unexpectedly black, and it creates circular banding effects on the two walls and floor.
While adding support for shadows, and trying to fix some expected 'acne', I rendered this bizarre image. Not sure yet, but I think it has to do with the precision of the epsilon value I use for floating point number comparisons.
Ellipsoid illuminated by a single point source light
Recently started @jamisbuck.bsky.social's Ray Tracer Challenge (pragprog.com/titles/jbtra...). It's fun seeing a ray tracer I'm programming from scratch come to life. Here's one of the earliest renderings that actually looks 3d.
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I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
A black and white photograph of a Japanese American teenage boy. He is sitting on a large duffel bag tied with string, on the sidewalk next to some suitcases. He is looking out of frame over his left shoulder, his hands folded in his lap and with one foot cocked on its edges. His body language looks anxious to me.
This is a photograph of my great uncle, Jim Ida, in 1942. The photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange as part of her documentation of the Japanese American incarceration. He is sitting with his family’s bags, waiting to be taken to an internment camp. (Tanforan, I believe.) He was 17.
Totally! I enjoyed the thread. I'll keep banging this drum with you too.
Investing in a single company that does what you warn about seems similar to the lottery ticket.
I empahtically agree with your thesis, but I don't quite follow the distinction you're making here.
Leverage is when debt is used to magnify gains/losses.
Would diversified investments, e.g. broad market funds, align with your point?
oh, camel! 🐪
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Folks please don’t forget to ALT your images! The more new folks show up here the lower the adoption of ALT is and that’s a bummer cause it means not all Bluesky users can enjoy your images!
Here’s how to turn on prompts to remind you to ALT:
Screenshot of Frogger-like game: Scabby the rat tries to dodge five lanes of cabs and buses to get to the New York Times building.
Did you know that @nytguildtech.bsky.social created a few strike-related games that you can play guilt-free while respecting the picket line?
For example, you can play Strikle! Or you can help Scabby cross 8th Avenue to the picket line guild-build.netlify.app
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Your insights will be incredibly important to our work post-election.
I don't think my fears are unfounded, though. Much of my thinking on this is shaped by reading "IBM and the Holocaust" (ibmandtheholocaust.com) and "Normal Life" (www.deanspade.net/books/normal...).
Fear also has a cost even when it buys a sense of safety.
I support whatever decisions you make. 🏳️⚧️
... despite having the option to legally update my name and gender, I still refuse to out of fear that it paints a legal and unrevocable target on my back.
Yes, this means I have to periodically dead name and misgender myself, and it sucks.
It's wise to to have a fresh passport.
Regarding gender markers, everyone should do what they feel is best for them!
That said ...
I'd like to give you three pieces of advice.
One. Start using Signal. Start now. Set it up with your personal and professional contacts. Do this when you don't need it, so it is set up *if* you need it.
Two. Find out who the activists in your local communities are. I don't mean the political party
It's beautiful how quickly this image conveys the intuition. I was scratching my head until I saw it.
Mobile IDs promise convenience, but before you download your state’s app, there’s a few questions worth asking yourself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Wow!! Thanks.
👀 Can we get a banana for scale?