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Geek of food and tech. Plus sundry other things.

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An urbane, educated fascist is still a fascist. They also used “talisman” incorrectly, it should be plural. As a bonus, the image they chose to evoke was steeped in colonial white supremacy. So that was nice. Whoever wrote this is a TEMU William F. Buckley.

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For the GOP this is a play for rural whites. They DGAF about non-white folks, rural or not. It’s a good policy (stopped clocks, amiright?), but it would be best coupled with free college and student grants so that non-rich people can get an education without living on credit.

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The idea is that there has been an inflation in job reqs. Many jobs that don’t need a BA require one now. This prevents economically disadvantaged people from taking those jobs. Racially marginalized and rural folks are less able to access to higher ed, so it hurts them particularly.

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Here’s a picture of my dog doing his best Rygel impression.

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This is why it’s important to find ways to sell the same piece multiple times. Low cost reproductions as things like stickers or art prints are a great way to do this. My offspring does beadwork, for example, and they have stickers made of some of their pieces that sell quite well.

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That’s depressing AF, but if you read Calhoun’s speech on the Oregon Territory, it is pretty clear that he thought having a permanent underclass of Black people stabilized class relations Southern society.

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Or I might like what he did with his first leak but while accepting that even very intelligent people who take heroic action are still people and therefore fallible. Anyone advocating for Kennedy at this point is either a sock puppet, a dupe, or a fool. Kennedy is an astroturfed spoiler candidate.

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IDGAF if his brain is in colostomy bag and he’s a really just a marionette operated by communist lizard aliens. He’s still better than the fascist narcissist who wants to play Hunger Games.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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*finger on monkey’s paw curls* “President Biden announced at the democratic national convention that he is stepping back from the campaign, and he will be replaced by Hillary Clinton.”

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The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler, begins in 17 days.

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Ooh, it would be awesome to have him dare Trump to go on too. Hubris *really* hurts on that show.

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I think the argument is that if you ban the speech of Nazis or “terrorists” all you have to do to justify any act of censorship is call the person you want to silence a Nazi or a terrorist. But OTOH, it’s hard to justify letting them engage in hate speech. Especially since we know it harms people.

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And I thought that strip was boring and depressing before I knew this.

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But we got a lot of numbers and golf scores.

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What I wanted to hear Biden say: “You disgust me sir. You are a liar, a cheat, a narcissist. It sickens me to share the stage with a man like you. But I am here because I am here to to ask the American people, the people who love democracy, the people who truly love this country, to stop you.”

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The main thing that landed was Biden’s statement “you have the morals on an alley cat”. Biden should have been relentless on this.

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Time for some def communication?

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Is the Boobies-Kinkos effect related to the Bouba-Kiki effect?

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The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out.

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Behold the field in which my fucks are grown. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.

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I’m with you 100% except for when people say “honing in”. I reserve the right to be irrationally angry about that. That’s not what the word “hone” means or how you use it as either a verb or a noun (outside of this execrable eggcorn). Watch out for the honing pigeons, they have very sharp beaks!

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Gay marriage, PrEP access, HIV medication, employment protections, bias crimes, and a panoply of other rights, protections, and safeguards for LGBT people are on the ballot this fall and we ought not make the gamble we made with reproductive rights in 2016 again

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No doubt. I’ll bet Storm Thurmond was charming at parties and hardly ever used the N word. Still doesn’t change who he was and what he believed.

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Here I was thinking the 30 second rule was a really lax version of the 5 second rule.

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As my daughter pithily remarked, SCOTUS were fine with it because they know no one enforces it anyway.

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Council members say no to homelessness recommendations; equitable transportation advocates decry proposals to cut community-based programs; and police recruits won't get a chance to take an easier hiring test any time soon.

Today's Afternoon Fizz: publicola.com/2024/06/21/a...

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The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled.

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a play, in three acts.

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I suppose it’s once again time to start obsessively reading Andrew Tannenbaum’s excellent election website every day.

He wrote some great computer science textbooks and he runs a damn fine website.

www.electoral-vote.com

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I wonder if it’s more effective at helping people if it’s monthly or annual. When you’re just getting by, being able to get a lump sum all at once is a chance to take care of big expenses that you haven’t been able to manage. OTOH, once a year is a long time between payouts.

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Thanks for the link. My gods, what a hellpit Twitter has become. It was bad before, but it’s festering.

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I mean, sure, a digital signature is probably good enough. But nobody’s gonna buy a yacht after the IPO of their GPG based startup.

I hadn’t heard of worldcoin. Simultaneously interesting and terrible.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin

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It would be ironic if all the Gen AI pollution were going to finally create a real use-case for blockchain.

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This was the view when I looked up today on NYC. Great theater weekend and then a momentous vision of mirroring sky and skyscraper

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The powerful need to balance the total desperation in the system. Make too many people too desperate and you spend your life trying not to wind up like Mussolini. Levers like healthcare and education are also very powerful & less likely to lead to pitchforks. Still, hunger is the ultimate lever.

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That’s because, for the oligarchs, it’s not about absolute wealth, it’s about relative wealth. They can already buy any things they want. For the abstract things like impunity, and power, making everyone else poor makes them easier to acquire. A hungry person will do almost anything for food.

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