Why is caregiving so hard in America? The answers emerge in a new film A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy in the U.S., revealing why those caring for family are often on their own.

A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy in the U.S., revealing why those caring for family are often on their own.

I don’t need or have anywhere to put 17 pieces of a stainless steel cookware set. At most, I need 11, but 17 is cheaper than 11…

I am reminded again that the speed of technological advancement has outpaced that of ethics and values.

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.

Flock “is building a product that will use people lookup tools, data brokers, and data breaches to ‘jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person,’ allowing police to much more easily identify and track the movements of specific people around the country without a warrant or court order…”

In the meeting audio obtained by 404 Media, the Flock employee described the sorts of information the company will supplement ALPR data with. The first is data breaches. One example the employee pointed to was a 2021 data breach impacting users of Park Mobile, an app that allows users to pay for parking without physically going to the parking meter or in some lots where meters no longer exist. That data included license plate numbers with their owners’ associated email addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases mailing addresses. With regards to Flock, “Nova ingests that and is able to use that to contextualize the data. So we're now able to make that cognitive leap from LPR to person,” the employee said.

What the actual…

Help, I keep buying more books before I finish reading the books I already have! Also, I tend to read multiple books at a time because I need “brain candy” too while I read heavy nonfiction. This is out of control. #booksky

Yes! That too.

I noticed mine said it was currently raining when it wasn’t yesterday. And it seems the forecast tends to be super inaccurate any longer than 2 days out.

I've definitely noticed that weather forecasts aren't as accurate as they were 6 months ago and it's only gonna get worse from here.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

This is horrible.

I need another rage room trip, just in case. Proactive self-care.

All. Bad. 🙃

Whew this right here.

My laundry-related Achilles heel is lipstick/lipgloss in the dryer 😩 entire loads have been ruined

Trying this new practice where I paint for 30 min and however much I complete in that 30 mins is what I complete

Is this about me or am I choosing to make this about me

Succinct and the truest of true.

I simply don’t have the patience to blow dry my hair. How do people DO this in the morning? It’s impossible

(Derogatory + Historical)

I’ve worked in the fashion industry on the sourcing/product development side for 12+ years… I just have to avoid all the hot takes before they give me a headache

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

America doesn’t know how to function without free/cheap labor cuz it never intended to be without slaves.

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

Reliving my school days in the garment district 🥰

"We have a massive sprawling low-wage service sector. You could make that into the middle class if you really wanted to, but I don’t think we want to. I think we prefer to lament about the lost past, but it cost a lot to destroy the future."

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Procrastination and perfectionism are two sides of one useless ass coin.

I’m super close to finishing a textile collage I had the idea for 7 years ago. It took me this long to even get started because I thought it would take forever… it’s taken a little over 2 months, lol

I’m enjoying the answers to this, especially as I am currently watching and reading A Discovery of Witches