the suburbs were founded on a politics of silence and look how that turned out for everyone. silence was used explicitly as a justification for redlining because some (racialized) populations were 'inherently loud.' the expected quietude of women and children is its own separate can of worms!!
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
I’ve watched off and on for years. His biggest problem is scope creep. “Oh! And it should play the flugelhorn! And the bagpipes!” If the restarting is malicious, he’s hiding it well
Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.
So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other
Wolves wish they could be as aggressive as geese
Say what you will about Jeffries, but he’s an expert with unforced errors
Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.
my most prized possession
Macbeth: SHIT
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha.
We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Illinoisans:
Dick Durbin's office numbers:
202-224-2152 (DC)
217-492-4062 (Springfield)
Tammy Duckworth's office numbers:
(202) 224-2854 (DC)
(217) 528-6124 (Springfield)
Not one more cent to this government until ICE is defunded. No excuses.
Counterpoint: you can and some of you will give yourselves honest to G-d PTSD watching it. Doing that will make you less able to maintain your life, to experience the joy you need to be resilient, to nurture the relationships that will support you, and to be an effective activist.
Oh yeah, I’m using that from now on
a poorly drawn cat seen from behind, reduced to a simple rounded shape with two pointed ears, looking very… hm… peachy
a chubby white and gray cat seen from behind, curled into a round loaf shape on a bed. its body looks almost perfectly circular
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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
I would like a week that I don’t have to yell at my representatives, please
Just before the town hall, a reporter asked Ellison about the difficulty states faced in prosecuting federal agents like the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. “The idea that they’re absolutely immune is a misstatement of the law, and it is a dangerous misstatement of the law, because I don’t want any ICE agent or Border Patrol agent or any agent to think that they can just kill people and then that’s it,” Ellison told the group of reporters. Then he asked rhetorically: “What about Ruby Ridge? You ever heard of that one?” Years after an FBI sniper shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the state of Idaho prosecuted the federal agent. The federal government went to bat for the agent, claiming that he was immune under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Idaho was allowed to prosecute the sniper — similarly, Minnesota is also entitled to investigate and potentially prosecute the officer who shot Renee Good. But a different example loomed larger in Ellison’s mind: the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers shot into a crowd, ultimately killing five people.
“It’s not exactly analogous, but we are talking about local authorities in Boston, prosecuting imperial agents of the colonial power, the central government, in England. And they were prosecuted. Two of them were convicted. John Adams actually represented a few of the imperial officers.” The Boston Massacre, said Ellison, was obviously “in the mind of the framers of the Constitution” at the time the document was written.
“They were thinking about this event, and they would have never conceded the state’s authority to prosecute a federal officer,” said Ellison, going on to add, “The states of the United States pre-date the United States. It is federal courts that are limited. Not state courts. State courts have plenary power.” He finished with a dramatic flourish: “It’s true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It’s also true that there’s no statute of limitations on murder.”
I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
The year the iPhone came out, 90% of people either had one or wanted one. Like 5 minutes after the dot-com bubble burst, we all joined MySpace. Netflix had people cord cutting immediately.
It’s so blatant how bad they’re lying. We’ve SEEN good tech revolutions. This ain’t it! We’re not dumb!
Just a normal Tuesday
they put the postal service in the fucking constitution
it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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i just hope AI can make your game run without RAM cuz no gamer is gonna be buying any anytime soon
Oh yeah. I’ve done it since high school at least
I do this too, but I’m not sure that’s a useful data point in this case
That’s the plot line where the show lost me. It just ran *far* too long
“Tearing down” a public figure who is willing to throw away trans people is morally correct, actually.
