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What's the blues, when you've got the greys? Mathematician, Software Person. Mixed. Haunted. I fight for the Users. He/Him/His. Chicago.
Really feels like the public sentiment against Flock just isn't going to reverse course any time soon (*whether that translates into enough cities officially removing them to render their network obsolete is a different story). Every day there's a new headline about vandalism now, lol
FOX 9@fox9mn.bsky.social · yesterdayEight Flock cameras stolen throughout Winona have authorities asking the public's help getting them back.
“Without accountability, you know this is just going to continue, and continue, and continue,” said Norma, @aclu-nj.org's client who ICE assaulted outside Delaney Hall. Norma's right. That's why our affiliates filed 54 claims demanding accountability on behalf of people harmed by federal agents.
“The ICE agent behind me grabbed the back of my shirt and just threw me like a sack of trash”
People keep suing the agency for beating them up.
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
🚨 Crowd Control season two premieres TOMORROW! Featuring host Jacquis Neal, and comedians like Bob the Drag Queen, Reggie Watts, Maria Bamford, Gianmarco Soresi, Taylor Tomlinson, Ron Funches, Dulcé Sloan, and more!
Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Good Will Hunting - Math Genius
Alt: Good Will Hunting scene where Will does a really easy graph theory problem on the chalk board in the hallway.
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Chet Faliszek@chetsucks.com · 4d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
This piece about previous experiments in city-run grocery stores is very good: www.propublica.org/article/food...
Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn’t Solve Food Deserts
The community of Cairo, Illinois, once a food desert, welcomed its new market last year with balloons and cheers. But the store is struggling — exposing problems with the programs set up to help.
propublica.org
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social · 7d agoAll I'm going to say on this is that if there was a simple solution to food deserts, people would have already done it. Government subsidized grocery stores might be the right option in some scenarios, but it's not necessarily true and unintended consequences can leave people worse off than before.
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
futurism.com
With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning. We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time. . Photo by Mikolaj Rotowski
Federal officials admitted in a recent lawsuit that Donald Trump has denied funding to Democratic-led states. trib.al/h1PW019
Trump Ignored His Own Team on Funding for Blue States
Federal officials admitted in a recent lawsuit that Donald Trump has denied funding to Democratic-led states.
trib.al
The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.
BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Wednesday designed to ban purchases of guns and ammunition from firms that flout federal law and do not take steps to prevent weapons trafficking. @wttw.bsky.social
Mayor Johnson Signs Executive Order Designed to Ban Purchases From Gun Dealers That Flout Laws
Gun policy group the Brady Campaign has urged elected officials to use their procurement power to force gun companies to change how they do business, since cities and states spend millions of dollars ...
news.wttw.com
I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
this is absolutely scorching, but I laughed out loud at "There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible."
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Oh, goddammit. Just put a 1-2 product limit on stuff & put it out randomly without announcing drops. Believe me, we already know who the scalpers are and we shame them in person & talk shit about them behind their backs. You don't need to scan our faces for that.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.“There's no indication that facial recognition or government ID requirements will be tested outside of Japan, but some fans may welcome such measures.”
Really love how July is now just the month of assorted weather horrors now
tobi and i used to be friends, and he didn’t used to be this way at all. seeing how that level of success ruined him has been just mind-blowing to me too much money + bubble == literal brainrot
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
Can recommend. Having a good all-the-same-artist font pack means when you pick a few that seem reasonable, they'll be more likely to work together than a random assortment sourced independently. Like you still need to follow uh, good taste, but odds are way higher assuming that.
Chequered Ink@chequered.ink · 2w agoWe have literally just gone on image flip and made like 7 of these because we A) need money B) want you to have 1200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
This is such an extraordinary project. No story about Chicago in 1919 can be told completely without Eugene Williams and the other victims of this week of terror.
Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering victims of 1919 Chicago race riot: 38 names set in stone. A bike ride today will celebrate the completion and installation of 38 memorials. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.
Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.
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