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MS Data Science and proud Luddite. Physics/chemistry/CS/math teacher, philosopher, musician, bread maker, and pickup basketball player.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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This is a very quarter baked idea but it feels like it would make way more sense to Sovietmaxx with government owned restaurants/food halls instead of grocery stores. You get far more significant economies of scale, less food waste, more time savings for poor people who don’t have time to cook etc.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.
a Casa Grande, Arizona resident's statements to his city council opposing Flock went viral this week; I talked to him about why he presented his "plan" to surveil all government officials, and how he feels about seeing the moment all over the internet www.404media.co/casa-grande-...
'I Would Never Do This To You:' Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
“They didn't understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”
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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
nytimes.com
@liberalcurrents.com can I reserve a copy? I can't afford it until September :(
This is because there's valuable signal information being scooped up. Devices move past with wifi/Bluetooth enabled -> still able to track individuals and determine behavior patterns
404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
I played piano tonight at #thefalloutshelter and had a great time. Nerves were getting to me so I just started talking. I got a lot of laughs and loosened up immensely. #thismustbetheplace #murphy'slawschool
I played piano tonight at #thefalloutshelter and had a great time. Nerves were getting to me so I just started talking. I got a lot of laughs and loosened up immensely. #thismustbetheplace #murphy'slawschool
Metaverse real estate tycoon turned sex doll manufacturer turned Ed tech pioneer. Fascinating.
Julie Carpenter, PhD@jgcarpenter.com · 3w agoIn 2024, Tokens.com, a Toronto crypto company best known for buying virtual land in the metaverse for $2.4M, acquired McMullen's company Simulacra, RealDoll's parent, for $16.7M. The merged company took the Realbotix name. Same team, same skin tech, same guy behind Harmony sex robot concept. A/2
Cameras and microphones in a room full of minors, run by a company whose other product line is intimacy tech, should trigger way more scrutiny than "trust us, it's closed." What happens to interaction logs? Who audits that? What's the retention policy? None of that is answered in the reporting. 11/
Look at how Sally is described: "lifelike appearance," silicone skin, long brown hair, an adult woman's likeness. That's not a neutral pedagogical choice. That's the same narrow, hyperfeminine embodiment template Realbotix has been refining for its companion products, repurposed for kids. 8/
Now, Realbotix. I've been researching this company for years. It didn't start in education. It started as Tokens.com, a crypto/metaverse company, then acquired RealDoll's parent company. RealDoll has spent decades building hyperrealistic sex dolls and sex robots. 5/
That's not incidental. Under-resourced districts are easier sells for "innovative" tech and harder places to say no when a company frames it as closing an opportunity gap. Rural and Indigenous communities keep getting cast as the beta testers for whatever Silicon Valley wants to normalize next. 4/
The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said. www.wired.com/story/reflec...
The US Approves the Launch of a Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night
The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said.
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"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry (Gift Article)
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
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Sell the hardware at a loss or at cost to lock in the software and data rights recurring revenue. How do I know this is the play? Andreeson Horowitz is an investor. MRR is the name of the VC tech game. Someone FOIA the contract, pretty please. @taylordahlin.com @eff.org @aclumn.bsky.social
JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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So, well, TFG wanting to deface the Six Grandfathers further does (unfortunately) play to trope. I will state that I think that the mountain looked better when it was known as the Six Grandfathers. Kind of like how I think the highest peak in the Smokies sounds better as "Kuwohi". 42/end
Now, this is NOT the kind of stuff the NPS would tell you about the making of Mount Rushmore, and honestly at this point in the nation's history it'd probably be flatly ILLEGAL for the NPS to go into that detail. The Smithsonian does: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sord... 40/x
The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore
The sculptor behind the American landmark had some unseemly ties to white supremacy groups
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And not *just* "All white Presidents", but two of them explicitly as slaveholders, and pretty much each and every one well recognized First Nations peoples as Presidents that were racist as Hell He couldn't have made more of an absolute "fuck you & all you stand for" to the Lakota if he tried 39/x
So Borglum also had. A definite Reputation of being An Artiste (in the general sense of a Kanye West sort, which is to say "I am an arrogant bastard that will have Fits and also have an Ego that has its own gravity attraction well") and exhausted the patience of the UDF, who sacked him. 36/x
Anyways, at the same time as this massive push towards Confederacy Historical Revisionism was taking place...the United Daughters of the Confederacy was throwing up statues all over the place to dead traitors, often *explicitly* labeling them as memorials to the cause of white supremacy. 22/x
