ICQ User Interface in 2005

ICQ User Interface in 2005

Pretty much all our current issues trace back to things like this and it does seem like a lot of Dems/progressives ignorantly support segregation, but when they find out the racist history, will they change course, especially if their kids are benefitting?

A photo of one of these “primary units”—except for the windows, it looks like a modest one-floor house of the type built in huge quantities post WWII

Recent discourses (mini-schools, school architecture, rezoning) have reminded me to re-up an astonishing bit of US history I didn’t learn until I was old: to maintain segregated schools, Flint, MI, built these one-room schoolhouses instead of redrawing district lines or building large annexes, etc

States should not be in competition with each other to attract business.

I also would love Hollywood to have a glow up. It’s potentially so cool. I mean the pantages has the cutest bar attached to it, the Frolic room, and theres other historic and even some new cute things! But then you got to navigate the bootleg spidermens and ripleys believe it or not.

Campaign donations and contracts that sit outside public scrutiny are exchanged, services are rarely rendered in a manner that satisfies the contracts, electeds get to point to success while those in need of services rendered are left without relief.

Miles Davis’ star on the walk of fame.

It’s irresistible in our celebrity obsessed culture, but doesn’t change the fact that it is a strange phenomena. You could go to a cafe a 20 min walk from there and maybe see some of the celebrities with stars IRL, but never near the stars. Also my dentist is off the walk of fame and me yesterday:

Just a reminder that housing non-profits are vectors for corruption and cruelty often functioning in and around Dem party machines.

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

The suit was filed Friday and on Monday the county started producing records. Gotta be a world record.

Aside from the sanitary implications from this incident, the walk of fame is still such a wild concept. A list of celebrity names in the sidewalk inexplicably attracts tourists from all over the world who will risk rolling in unfathomable filth to take a photo with a placard.

But I work in this world, encourage this behavior, benefit from it even.

I am not one for this world.

It’s the experience they share with their companions that they can relate to others with.

Like the waiting is part of the experience they love. The line, to them, is communal, social, a gathering, not just a queue to buy lunch.

It’s weird that on weekends people love the experience of waiting in line for food indulgence.

Today, as AI CEOs talk about the sacrifices that must be made for a “glorious future,” we should be similarly wary of what effects their products are really having in the world. There’s no question there is a disruption in progress and that generative AI is implicated in it, but the desire of corporate executives to deskill and disempower workers is a far more consequential driver than any new technology. Humans are not being eliminated from much of this work; their roles are simply being transformed, hidden, and devalued — in the same way capitalists have been doing for hundreds of years. When tech billionaires make bold claims that make their technology is inevitable and revolutionary, we should all take a pause and think about the real intentions behind the exaggeration.

The tech industry has long sought to transform, devalue, and hide the work done by humans so they can present their machines as far more powerful than they truly are.

That is no different in the era of generative AI.

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Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.

Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
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For a summary of the recent research program's findings that inform @workingfamilies.org's Working Families Guarantee proposal, see this memo (April 17, 2026).

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Dems are a big tent party. Lots of people in the Democratic Party get-it and they need support to vault over the party leaders who are straight-up bigots and nationalists

In addition, there's this induced demand thing that means all that freeway widening (and those many $$ billions) will not solve your traffic congestion problems. Follow the 710-South process and re-think widening those other freeways too.

Hey Metro - there's this climate emergency that means you can't just widen the heck out of every freeway in L.A. County. Really.

It sucks that I have no faith in Dems to want to be good faith partners with China so we can import their battery tech.

Biden started the 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, somewhat continuing trump 1 tariffs on Chinese solar. It was a stupid decision.

Don’t fuck this up Democrats, we want to import this tech. We want be good partners. Ford can go fuck themselves.

So the posts about how much a biz cost to get started are weird flexes right? It doesn’t “illuminate” but just shows how much $$ people have available to potentially waste.

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
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Lol

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

"Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online."

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