I'm one of the ones who likes to read the long form. I want to understand things beyond an AI summary.
I start with the fullest picture possible as a staring point for forming my perspectives.
I miss working in TV news, when I had the privilege of seeing the story parts that didn't make the cut.
Those are healthy uses as long as one has the emotional/intellectual development sufficient to parse the data stream into a coherent context grounded and validated in the offline world.
Actual milage varies in the level of sophistication people possess.
I wouldn't call it evolution. It's more likely the consequence of a few hundred years of social policy influenced by eugenic ideology.
Be it by breeding, economic constraint, or conditioning through social influences, our oligarchic overlords seek to make us into docile chattel in their service.
I was highly impressed by the inclusiveness delivered to the online participants at last year's STF. They made me feel like I was part of the conversion in the room rather than just watching a camera live streaming from the corner.
I have my cyber experience for this year locked on my calendar.
Humans functioned under standard time for our entire existence up until the 19th century.
There's no shortage of modern conveniences that aren't healthy for individuals or society.
It's beyond me why people keep spotting the problems, yet choose the opposite of a solution to try to fix them.
There is plenty of disruption every time the clock flips. To say we function just fine under DST, shows that you aren't among those who feels this well documented disruption.
I'm sorry, but that rational boasts your privilege without making a considered policy position.
Standard time is the fix.
Hope the time in the real world offered you opportunities for grounding.
Your return is most welcomed, and your absence respected. More people should take pauses from the rabbit holes that lurk in social media.
Thank you for the reminder that taking time away from 'this', is a healthy behavior.
Everyone needs a Toivo!
Happily I too have had my cohabitation time with a Toivo. Topically, the very same Toivo in point of fact.
I mark that time as a cherished milestone on my lifes journey.
Sadly, our Toivo is a finite and unique individual, unequipped to deliver Toivo-ness at global scale.
I dream of one day having a home like Grandpa Vanderhof in 'You Can't Take It With You', filled with a small collection of eccentric people all pursuing thier own groove.
That kind of set up works best with some kind of inheritance or sugar daddy backing the endeavor.
Sadly I have neither.
Ok, I started down that rabbit hole. I'll stop there for everyone's sake.
You can find me in the bar getting tanked with Cassandra.
Stay safe folks, wear your #N95s RFK doesn't have your back.
It's just so painful to be part of all this sausage being made.
All of this is a cycle of generational trauma that results in stunted social and cognitive development of human maturity, happening at a societal scale. The adults running the show are not in fact grown ups capable of self regulation.
That whole politics makes strange bed fellows thing.
Trumps entourage are echos of that portion of America's founding coalition that hold the idea 'humans are chattel' that is so foundational to the Confederacy.
Abolitionist & bigots who opposed slavery for very different reasons came together.
I think a Truth and Reconciliation process like South Africa went through is a good starting point.
I am unlikely to ever like these people. I will never fully trust them.
I am willing to work with them to achieve any common goals. That's how coalitions work. Coalitions are how change happens.
I was really bummed that OFA, the organizing movement that backed Obama's healthcare reforms, failed to get enough traction with their volunteers when it pivoted to Immigration after passage of the ACA.
They also faced a GOP wanting to reserve this issue for what we're seeing on the streets today.
WHEN YOU BRUTALIZE IMMIGRANTS, ARREST JOURNALISTS, TRY TO STEAL ELECTIONS, BUILD CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND USE FEAR AND THREATS OF IMPRISONMENT AND VIOLENCE TO ENFORCE CONFORMITY, DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING CALLED FASCISTS.
I remember being appalled at the Dems for apparently succumbing to the republicans agenda until the move fully exposed the hypocrisy of the GOP when it was rejected simply because it came from their opposition.
They care more about beating the Dems than about implementing their own policy agenda.
The current double speaking dystopia has been really harshing my ability not to mention desire, to 'freak the mundanes' with my weirdness.
I spent a lifetime cultivating uniqueness only to be drowned out by the current weirdness generated from a massive sociatal trauma being expressed.
Oh my dog! was that an L?
I'm can be a little triggered by my synthetic nemesis these days.
Please don't dilute the celebration of authentic organic human
weirdness with hallucinations distilled from the stolen spoils of intellectual property regurgitated by the environmental disasters housed in data centers owned by oligarchs seeking the eradication of a world where weirdness can thrive.
The justification for removing the Pride flag from what's recognized as the birthplace of Pride, is that it isn’t on the list of approved flags and must be removed.
They act as if they aren't the same people making that list of approved flags who are also capable of approving it with a pen stroke.
This is some tax-dollar math I wish everyone would keep in mind: direct government employment for government projects will always be more efficient - no extra layer of bureaucracy to manage contracts and contractors, and no private profits to pay!
My silhouette pointing up at a starry night sky with the Milky Way streaking through it.
what is human existence? it turns out it’s pretty simple: we are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.” — dr. michelle thaller, nasa astronomer
If there's an entity out for eating your cats, they're likely also putting money into this PAC.
Supporting murderers and arresting journalists (and celebrating the arrests of journalists). What does this tell you about the Trump regime?
Oh, my! 😱
I have fond memories of when I met Greg. We were both in the Foglios’ wedding party - he was Phil’s best man!
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These are easier to read when they include Alt text.
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
Please consider making your excellent coverage more accessible to all.
Protecting the venerable starts with including the venerable in the conversation. Alt text reaches people far beyond just disabled communities.
Candle lit here in the PNW for Minnesota and all of the people impacted by ICE thugs' violence. Daga ayaangwaamizig, Indinawemaaganidag! (Please take care, all my relatives) All power to the people!
I would like to bookmark your contact info, just in case.
I didn't see the link to which you referenced.
Could you provide.
Paying attention to current events AND remembering stuff.
That's all that's needed to see how full of Sh*t the MAGA minions are. The focus of their wrath changes with each news cycle. Rebels without a clue, easily manipulated.
The only consistency they have ever shown is their hatered of decency.
We're living in a Bizarro world of cos-playing criminals.
Here a group of wanna be eugenisist in lab coats violate multiple privacy policies to cook up some psudoscience citations to fool the scientifically illiterate and forever taint AI with their racist propaganda.
Bad news on so many levels.
