HayWired (1868, Redux)
"Misinformation moves fastest when people are most desperate to know what is happening. The ground shakes and the wires go down and what fills the gap is noise shaped like knowledge. Every sign misread, every rumor mistaken for reporting, becomes its own aftershock."
US Coast Survey brig R.H. Fauntleroy on the Pacific Coast, George Davidson Papers 1845-1911, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
"Names record authority: who arrived, who stayed, who had the power to decide what would endure."
open.substack.com/pub/dalealan...
In moments like Venezuela, outcomes may hinge less on oil or ideology than on recognition itself. Prestige, in some administrations, functions as leverage.
"Over time, ARkStorm took on a life of its own. The name began to surface whenever an atmospheric river appeared in the forecast, regardless of scale or context. Social media accelerated the drift..."
"The glacier, a river of craggy ice nearly 20 miles long, pours out of the cloud-swathed southern Andes like a mirage."
The $325 million sale of the Connecticut Sun will only intensify WNBA players’ demands for a bigger slice of revenues in the ongoing CBA negotiations.
This earthquake/tsunami could have been more............................................................understandable.
From Kamchatka Life
Dale’s Bar
With one week left for the Senate to pass his rescissions package, Trump singles out the anti-PBS, anti-NPR part of the package and says "any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement."
Resistance to ICE raid at Camarillo farm.
Only ICE agents.
Awaiting export from a military industrial complex?
Flip the fucking script!
“Uh …nothing wrong with cosmetology school. Seriously!!!”
… but we don’t need them because we can get the weather on Internet, Radio and TV… right!?
You did this.
California has joined 15 other states filing suit against NSF & its acting director, alleging it has illegally terminated millions of dollars in grants & has imposed new fees ending or crippling research vital to health, economy & advancement of knowledge.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
I read it - and highly recommend it to friends and colleagues.
Deer in headlights.
"Magna Carta — “Great Charter” in Latin — has been used to justify many different causes over the centuries, sometimes on shaky historical ground. But it has evolved into a global symbol of the importance of fundamental freedoms, including habeas corpus."
"It is easier to believe a lie than to learn the truth." -Dale Alan Cox
Inspired me to get a BJ (not that kind).
US poisoned by agent orange.
First dock, portage and trucking workers.
I may renew my WaPo subscription - but not for a while though.
