Peter Josyph

Harlan Ellison - Pay the Writer YouTube video by Harlan Ellison

Yes - we need to get paid, correct.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLr...

Citizen’s arrest arrested by Big Tech…

Oh they did? All by themselves? Did they show up all at once or arrive separately?

ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases A judge ruled that the Navy’s long-standing policy to withhold records from its criminal trials violated the First Amendment.

NEW: The Navy is no longer allowed to shroud its criminal trials in secrecy and must provide public access to hearings and records, a federal judge ruled last month, the result of a yearslong lawsuit filed by ProPublica.

Roma - Campidoglio.

Nevicata del 1956.

Mario Carbone.

Bluesky only grants me access to the Cloud on my MacStudio. Copy & paste from a drive won’t work either, even with compressed file sizes. To post from a drive I must copy & paste a jpg into an email, copy that and paste it into Bluesky. Sometimes that works. Odd indeed…

Thanks Peter. I also reject that implication though I do also think there are different orders of evil.

Names and titles matter.

When you nominate an illegal, immoral operation as Epic Fury, it announces disinterest in reason, restraint, or accuracy.

I reject the implication that attacking Iran as a PR distraction would’ve been more just/responsible if AI-directed missiles had been more accurate. “Schoolchildren” sounds more egregious than “building janitor,” “office worker,” but all are equal prey to Trump’s wholesale killing machines.

If AI hallucinates citations then it’s pretty obvious it can make other errors. The negligence is trusting it without scrupulously checking.

VC, startup culture, private equity, tech bros, the whole lot is rancid.

Bluesky won’t let me access images from desktop drives, where my life as a photographer and images of my paintings reside.

Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage.

Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

david harvey's the story of capital is so good i wish marx were real

He’s at CUNY in NYC, which I quit after one semester because I refused to learn to swim with eyes open under water in order to take a BA in Philosophy.

Same place that disinvited Bertrand Russell because his mere presence in front of a class would be a bad moral influence.

Long long ago…

The 70's can't be referenced without The Deer Hunter IMO.

Masterpiece throughout.

“You see this? This is this.”

You got it!

Way back in my late teen early 20's when I was a cashier, there were a few things that, "If I hear that one more time...." 😂

I’m going to host an adult seminar on Picasso and let me tell you, Gramps, if I hear Word One about “my grandson could do as well” all hell is breaking lose, I don’t care if the group average is 70 to 90 years of age - I’m going to let ‘em have it…

My top 3 films by an American filmmaker haven’t been displaced since the early 70s:
DR. STRANGELOVE
HUD
HUSBANDS

Lately THE MASTER has been trying to edge its way in but no cigar…

Trump said the U.S. is “doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly.” Then he gives the U.S. a 15 out of 10 grade for the Iran war. 🥴

Six Americans are dead and he’s grading it like a game.

Your basic desire is the maximum of war, you are really the super-war-spirit [...] It isn't in the least true that you, in your basic self, want ultimate peace. You are satisfying in an indirect, false way your lust to jab and strike [...]. You are simply full of repressed desires, which have become savage and anti-social [...]. It is not the hatred of falsehood which inspires you. It is the hatred of people, of flesh and blood. It is a perverted, mental blood-lust. (L 2: 392)

Not a journalist to Trump, but, amazingly, D.H Lawrence in a letter to pacifist Bertrand Russell.

Bertrand Russell – D.H. Lawrence: A Digital Pilgrimage Posts about Bertrand Russell written by James Walker

Russell was briefly inspired & influenced by Lawrence, but as he says in PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY and his autobiography, Lawrence’s savage critiques of everyone - Russell included - became intemperate, unjust, and biased toward Fascism.

I still say some of his novels are superb.

A good summary:

Russell: “I was a firm believer in democracy, whereas he had developed the whole philosophy of Fascism before the politicians had thought of it.” He realized Lawrence hated everyone, and his theory of blood-consciousness was rubbish, “though I did not then know that it led straight to Auschwitz.”

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

On the fight to get big ‘reputable’ companies to take down work that is being sold illegally (work stolen from my partner) these are my conclusions:

Amazon: Absolutely Shite
Etsy: So so
Redbubble: Utterly Shite

Shop at Etsy with care, blast the others into space, I won’t use Amazon ever again.