As it should. *sigh* customer support.

Jeez! That’s ridiculous. You kept local copies of everything, right?

The FIRST episode of Season 2.

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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Oh my. Nope. Never had one of those. I was into the E-mu samplers, with some Nord, Virus and Waldorf. Never went down the Ensoniq rabbit hole

What is worth it is _trying_ it to see if it’s good or better. Sometimes you go for the quick sure solve, but if time
isn’t breathing down your neck, it’s worth the investment to try things. That’s where the great showrunners/producers shine - creating the space to experiment.

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

What My Mom's Dementia Tells Me - emptywheel My mom's getting the intervention and continuous care she needs. But this post isn't about my mother.

What My Mom’s Dementia Tells Me.

The applicable lessons are from 1930’s Germany.

Also post-war Germany. The children of the Nazis will know what they did, and they will be ashamed of them.

But a good canvas for splattering with all manner of taints.

Nice to see that the uber-wealthy still get to pick the winners.

For Oregon I think that is part of it, and the other part is there's so many miles of roads, with a lot susceptible to that winter degradation, but not that large (or high income) of a population to pay to maintain all of them to the standard we'd like.

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No one is entitled to customers (sales numbers, fans, etc)

Well, well, well… how the turntables…

Amazing. You managed to not say where the store is.

This.

Yeah. It’s hard feeling as much enthusiasm this year.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Spotify has been dog water pretty much since it started. Not surprised they keep crossing everyone's lines as they go.

I bet they’re loving this in Russia

This is claimed to be AI generated.

President Miller loves talking about himself in 3rd person.

So she can report back to President Miller?

That’s plenty. 🙂

These snowflakes. smh

The rain is scheduled to come back, so we should have some storm drains that need to be cleared out.

Shhhhhh. We keep that rumor going to scare away transplants and keep the housing market affordable.