Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Knick Knack Patty Wack is short for Knicholas Knacholas Patricia Wacklemore

How @emilylip.bsky.social nearly got "right hooked" by a truck driver in Queens last week — days before a girl was killed by a truck driver in Manhattan pulling a similar maneuver. youtube.com/shorts/0xjbt...

I almost got "right hooked" by a truck while biking in NYC #cycling #bike #bikecommute #nyc

YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC

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This Day in Labor History: September 5, 1934. The governor of North Carolina called out the National Guard to aid mill owners in the textile strike overtaking their state and the east coast. Let's talk the critical 1934 textile strike and the state repression of it that forced FDR to pass labor law!

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

HEADS-UP, NERDS! I'm leading a walking tour of Morgan Park for Chicago for Chicagoans on Sunday, 9/20 at 11. It will start at this lovely station, allowing travelers to experience the delights of the Rock Island line. Free, but this is for a nonprofit. Please give them money! Tickets available 9/6.

Lady Topham Catt@ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · last yr.

Continuing my sporadic tour of the Beverly/Morgan Park historic station district. This 1892 station at 111th is a rarity for having a 3 story section originally used to house railroad workers. It was designed by John T Long, better known as the architect behind the Yale Apartments in Englewood.

I'm sorry but "a huge number of NYC cabs now are remaindered EVs running grey market software written by some dude in a garage" is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

JarekFA@jarekfa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I asked a driver how they service them since they’re no longer made. He said they have a guy they go to for all the software updates and all that. Even though, it has many missing typical car elements. (Like cruise control or power windows even I believe).

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked The Pentagon Papers exposing the lies told to the public about the disastrous Viet Nam war, forever becoming a hero in history. Now... someone PLEASE leak #TheEPSTEINFiles & end the biggest coverup scandal of all-time! 🙏

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

I’m launching an all-reflecting-pond-updates news service: Algae-zeera.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As NPS drains the Reflecting Pool for repairs, thunderstorms and strong rains work to replenish the water.

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access

Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

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Apparently, AI is just as obsessed with David Bowie as the Goblin King as the rest of us are.

James “Vamp” Fleet@horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 5mo ago

- Jay-Z, “Monster”

Organizers now say more than 180 protests planned for this weekend -- Saturday April 25 -- against Trump ICE prison camps nationwide: www.mobilize.us?org_ids=44001

Brutal.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

This is a two way race.

Maybe Trump is the exit dose this whole fucked-up system needed? It’s like chemotherapy — the poison ALMOST kills the system but out of that chaos comes the death of the cancer? If this tears apart MAGA *and* neoliberalism then go man go.

I’ve been saying this so much of late. Empathy and imagination are joined when we are immersed, and allow us to be another age or color or gender; feel a different desire. Bad art makes it harder, but lack of imagination or empathy in a reader is worse.

JA Westenberg@joanwestenberg.com · 7mo ago

"I specifically can't relate to this character" has become the dominant form of art criticism and it's the saddest thing I've ever seen. Imagine telling Kafka you're not a giant bug so the story doesn't resonate. The entire point of fiction is feeling something about someone who isn't you.

a hard reign’s gonna fall

a perversion is under way. grotesque series of lies by a traitor and convicted felon masquerading as 🇺🇸 leader on live tv. add to that child-sex trafficking predator, rapist, murderer and that begins to describe the macabre twilight zone spectacle. #SOTU

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

Fix Your Hearts or Die

It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

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I think it’s morbidly funny how ill equipped the democrats are to face this moment. Just a bunch of huge nerds offering to do the bully’s homework for him if he stops hitting them

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court

String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

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I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Hang the entire Gorsuch concurrence in the Louvre. Master class in telling your colleagues they’ve lost their fucking minds.

"American prisons have never been much for the First Amendment, and now, the Trump administration is exporting prison-style censorship to the general population."

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us

The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

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Here is a larger scanned version for those interested in Neuromancer. archive.org/details/crop...

cropped : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Original 35 mm Slide cover art

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Honestly sick of science journalism implying human minds have talents no other species does. Ofc other animals have _some_ interiority and imagination. Stop perpetuating the myth that humans have biological differences which support our “dominion” over the earth and animals.

Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · 8mo ago

An ape having pretend tea parties with scientists suggests humans may not be the only species capable of imagining.🐵 ☕️ buff.ly/pxMBoIX

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video