We won.
Tesla Chicago is closed.
Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.
Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com
Giant white ranunculus, with floral greenery around it.
White floral centerpiece, with ranunculus, viburnum, tulips, and greenery, sitting on a wooden table. Why are florists so into silly green plant balls?
View from above of floral arrangement.
I was having just a very tough day yesterday, and asked friends to send flower pictures. Well, the universe and Flora also sent an actual bouquet! My neighbors are giving away these floral centerpieces and they are amazing, especially covered in rain drops! #BloomScrolling
I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
View of the living area in the tiny house on a sunny afternoon. There's a couch and coffee table, a bookshelf on the right, French front doors on the left, and a storage loft above. The ceilings and trim are all richly stained wood--decidedly cabin vibes.
View of the opposite end of the tiny house, including the dining bar, kitchen area, bathroom, and stairs to the sleeping loft. Again, very cabin-y. A full-size washer and dryer are visible in the bathroom.
View from the stairs of the sleeping loft. There's a queen size bed (pictured), and decent storage for clothes (not pictured).
Exterior view of the tiny house! It has metal skirting and steps, both included in the sale. Overall it's light gray with white trim and a dark gray roof, with lots of windows. The adorable twee cabin vibes continue.
Hey folks! I'm selling my tiny house, it's all prepped and ready for someone new to love it as much as I did.
If you're interested, please reach out, I'll leave DMs open for a while! Happy to answer any questions, and I've got a more detailed sales flyer I can share upon request.
Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists.
We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't.
Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding
Tuition costs, homeless rates, food bank usage rates, and debt never seem to count either for reasons I suspect I'd need a MA in economics to explain away I mean understand.
tbf theres certain data that the chartbros dont like sharing
just… believe people? bsky.app/profile/turt...
Meanwhile the percentage of renters with rent over 50% of their income is virtually the same now as it was at the peak of the Great Recession.
I’m not sure why I’m getting such a kick out of this, but on my walk this morning, my foot slid on something laying on the sidewalk. Looking down, angry and expecting to see a pile of dog crap, I found, much to my delight, that for the first time in my life, I’d actually slipped on a banana peel.
yeah, seems like you're definitely headed for "transformation"
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
And, miraculously, both kids practiced beautiful music this evening w/ very little prodding, and the student thesis I'm reading is shaping up so beautifully. Even more #TinyJoys
This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part
you love to see it
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
I am once again asking
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Literature & Government, or L&G with the LG, a lecture series engaging campuses across Virginia in thoughtful dialogue on democracy, leadership, and public life.
Coming to a campus near you!
Kid no. 2 is having little break throughs understanding geometry and cosines, Kid no. 1 is so happy now, kitties are snuggled down, and the house is peaceful. #TinyJoys
I'm reading Paula Fredrickson's Ancient Christianities. The first Five Hundred Years. I needed this book in grad school, and again, the first time I taught my Ancient World in Cinema class. I'm so glad it's around and I get to read it now, as I once again need this background!
So far, it's great!
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Israel bombing a synagogue in Tehran is the kind of symbolism that would feel too heavy-handed in a work of fiction.
But yeah. That tracks in this ridiculous timeline.
May God bring comfort and safety to the Tehran Jewish community.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”
After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
@aoc.bsky.social spitting truthbombs here.
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Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.
For every one of these “teachers should really get over it and jump on the inevitability train” articles (which are mostly of the editorial genre), there are 10 actual studies establishing the dire, destructive effects of AI use and dependence on things like, ya know, cognition.
I often feel like that it my best contribution in peer reviewing, giving the reading list of fundamental work in my field that they have skipped / neglected to engage with, even if some is cited. But I can feel like I"m a broken record!
No app, computer program, or LLM can translate between languages as well as a human. No app, computer program, or LLM can produce a perfectly "correct" translation.
