@codinghorror Queen + Bowie "Under Pressure"

I mean name me the GOP administration that wasn't a clown car like this? I never give libs much smoke when they talk about the competence gap between the two parties because they're more or less right. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Trump isn't the closest thing to Hitler we've had in America because he is - but in terms of "the government is broken, everything is falling apart, these guys can't even handle basic administration" this is literally what every GOP President I've seen does...

Angelenos: if you didn't know that there is a new-ish restaurant/brewery at Union Station (which replaces several failed and/or surly previous instances), then I would like to let you know that "Everywhere" is a fine, fine spot. Not super cheap, but not completely outrageous. It's a really big - and utterly gorgeous - space.

Anyhoo - it's also one of those spots that's good for meeting up with a group, and I'm thinking that maybe we should do a Fediverse meetup there. Can people get to Union Station?

https://www.everywherebeer.com/pages/everywhere-los-angeles

Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black.

Tens of thousands of people have been without power for nearly two weeks.

Many are without safe water as well.

Yet every data center is up and running.

Using enormous amounts of both power and water to enrich the billionaire owners.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.

#uspol #oligarchy #poverty #abolishbillionaires #indiana #gary #datacenters

@mattblaze Is that Lactaid? I seem to remember something like that on their label. It was the only milk I could handle, back when I used to drink the stuff. Nowadays, I buy the little bottle of whatever, just to make eggs fluffy.

Which would you rather do? The 1% make more profit from the top photo...

It turns out that even putting incrementality aside, functions resulting from our paradigm have attractive features, such as parallelizability.

jack nicholson zoom in jpg

Today in Stockholm, Friends joined #DenStoraKlimatDemonstrationen .

It felt important to be there. Not only because the climate crisis asks something of all of us, but because public witness matters.

It was also colourful and full of life: people gathering, walking, speaking, listening, and dancing.

Thank you to everyone who came, organised, carried signs, shared space, and helped make the day feel hopeful.

#Quakers #Kväkare #ClimateJustice #Stockholm #FriendsOnTheFediverse

@ieure My main lesson is a strong negative opinion about Bemis products. Multiple variants of theirs have all had issues in a short time frame and needed replacing. Kohler seems okay so far, but I don't have as long of an experience with them yet to know for sure.

Libcom: **The Re-emergence of Anarchism in Chile (1983)**

https://libcom.org/article/re-emergence-anarchism-chile-1983

oh lmao i did not realize i was describing incremental hashing this whole time. ok cool so i am atm equivalent to mihir bellare in 1996

Roblox Claims A Dead Kid 'Waived All Rights' Because She Clicked 'Agree' At 8 Years Old

Every time you think there’s no lower depth for #Roblox to reach, the company fetches its shovels. The people who described the “pedophile hellscape” of their product as “an opportunity,” and who recently hired a new “parent advocate” who proceeded to immediately blame all the game’s horrendous failings on parents, have now attempted to get a wrongful death case thrown out of court by arguing that a 13-year-old who died by suicide had signed away her rights to sue when she agreed to the app’s terms and conditions at eight years old.

The #EpsteinClass, bringing enshittification to grade school. Guillotines, anyone?
https://cybernews.com/news/roblox-teen-suicide-lawsuit-8-year-old-terms-child-safety/

@TreeStarMan jeepers, Euan! I'd forgot that you went to MHS! Don't think I remember any of those names - I was there from '84-'88 and don't have lots of fond memories although I think it gave me a bit of life experience and appreciation of diversity that many others didn't develop... I was too focused on academics and not enough on living in those days... My life expanded quite a bit after high school, although I suspect much of the perspective I had after that came from those years.

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories?

1. It's not real
2. It's not us
3. It's not bad
4. We can't fix it
5. You can't trust the info/experts

Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories?

1. It's not real
2. It's not us
3. It's not bad
4. We can't fix it
5. You can't trust the info/experts

Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huh. Wikipedia doesn't have an article on Fritz Leiber's "Silver Eggheads" novel, even though "wordwooze" and smashing the wordwooze generators seem, to me, at least, pretty relevant.

@thomasfuchs I miss when the reddit reading channels were people instead of the generative crap.

Doubly so since the chance of those posts also being generated has skyrocketed.

@catsalad Nuh uh, leave my cuticles alone!

Newsflash, and I would like the Canadians to pay attention here for a minute because this affects you and your media is not telling you the truth:

There was NEVER a deal to be made. We are NOT negotiating. Trump wants to take over Canada and every trade deal we "negotiate" with you is just another means to that objective. We are NOT negotiating. People NEGOTIATING don't demand to control your trade agreements forever. This was NEVER a negotiation, it's war in suits.

Carol Highsmith dedicates her life's work to the public domain.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/23/800088136/community/highsmith-has-donated-her-photographs-to-the-library-of-congress-since-1992-creating-a-collection-of-nearly-100000-images-all-of-which-are-in-the-public-domain/

Photographer Carol Highsmith (b. 1946, Leaksville, NC) has donated her life’s work —- nearly 100,000 photographs so far —- to the Library of Congress, and all photos are in the public domain.

#photos #landscape #US #PublicDomain