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What a wonderful woman. A gift to the world. Her legacy cannot be overstated.
On Jimmy Fallon’s show, she said:
“There’s so much wrong with the world today, and there’s so much need for a message of hope. Because if we all lose hope, then we may as well give up.”
RIP, Jane Goodall.
What a wonderful woman. A gift to the world. Her legacy cannot be overstated.
On Jimmy Fallon’s show, she said:
“There’s so much wrong with the world today, and there’s so much need for a message of hope. Because if we all lose hope, then we may as well give up.”
RIP, Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall was one of perhaps a handful of people I've ever heard speak, like the Dalai Lama, who you just feel their presence and aura as someone truly special.
Truly was glad I got to be around her in person, once - something I won't ever forget. 🙏.
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
RIP Claudia Cardinale
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
I've reached an age where friends start dying off one by one, until I become one of them.
I've lost at least 5 friends around my age in the last 5 years, 1 a year. Good people who deserved to live to 100 or longer. More than half didn't even make it to 50. One just last week.
#RIP Gull.
(1/2)
RIP Claudia Cardinale
Pearl Jam's Wreckage seems strangely appropriate in these heartbreaking times;
"Oh, visited by thoughts and not just in the night
That I no longer give a fuck who is wrong and who's right
This game of winner takes all, and all means nothing left
Spoils go the victor, and the other left for dead
Uh-huh, combing through the wreckage
Holding out, holding on
Combing through the wreckage"
Here they are playing it live in Las Vegas;
Another perennial favourite that seems appropriate, Hope by Fat Freddy's Drop;
"Hope for a generation,
Just beyond my reach,
Not beyond my sight."
https://fatfreddysdrop.bandcamp.com/track/hope-for-a-generation
(EDIT: swapped out link to version of Hope I prefer)
#RIP to the Freddies' legendary rhythm section, DJ Mu (Chris Faiumu). Released an anniversary edition of Hope would be a fitting tribute to Mu's legacy. I'd pay for it. Funds raised could go to his whānau or another worthy cause.
I do appreciate the fact that many people are thrilled and excited to talk about the movie Hackers like they are. But when asked about it, they are typically shocked that I hated the film.
Yes it was in part that by comparison to the 1992 film Sneakers (and of course reality itself) it was wildly inaccurate, but as someone who remembers Eternal September* the film Hackers became its own version of that with a massive influx of newbies on security and hacker mailing lists and USENET channels saying "Teach me how to hack" who wanted instant results and would not respond well to pointers to papers and whatnot filled with technical details. "But I want to hack, not do homework!" was a reply I remember seeing that summed up a common feeling amongst newbs. Trying to explain that the film exaggerated and was fiction simply fell on deaf ears for many.
And that is why I hate the movie Hackers. Just remembering the film Sneakers that starred Robert Redford (RIP).
🕯️ Personal Update | Honoring My Fallen Friend at Kyiv’s Independence Square 🇺🇦
Today I visited Oleg Salynk, age 28, from #Kherson —a #humanitarian volunteer who embodied courage, compassion, and an unforgettable sense of humor.
Oleg welcomed me during both of my trips to Kherson in 2023 and 2024. He always said to me with a smile, “It’s ok, bro,” as we practiced translating English and Ukrainian.
🙏🏽 I would’ve traveled here for no other reason than to honor him.
Heroyam Slava🇺🇦
RIP to trailblazing and award winning Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene
(6/22/1952-9/1/2025)
#GrahamGreene #actor #film#Indigenous#FirstNations#Oneida#RIP #movies
RIP to trailblazing and award winning Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene
(6/22/1952-9/1/2025)
#GrahamGreene #actor #film#Indigenous#FirstNations#Oneida#RIP #movies
#RIP botsin.space, and bot hosting on Glitch (thanks Fastly);
https://botwiki.org/blog/a-decade-of-botwiki/
I discovered botwiki through a web search, after finding the tombstone on botsin.space. Thanks to @stefan for the blog posts there about all this, and the link to the detailed postmortem by the founder and admin of botsin.space;
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/12/21/12-21-botsin-space-post-mortem/
Lots to think about in there.
Holy crap did you know Hakim Bey died in 2022?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/us/peter-lamborn-wilson-dead.html
He was 76. #RIP you old pirate ⚓
Terrance Stamp was great in Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’ (1999)
“What is ‘The Limey’ about? Drugs, girls, guns and revenge? Not at all. It’s about retirement. It’s about tough guys who talk big but are past their sell-by dates… Soderbergh’s visuals place them in the eternal world of California wealth and sun, heaven’s waiting room, where the old look young until they look dead.” — Roger Ebert
#TerranceStamp#RIP #movies
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-limey-1999
🕯️ Amnesty International mourns the deliberate killing of Al-Jazeera journalists including Anas Al-Sharif in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The attack is condemned as a war crime and an assault on press freedom. Justice and protection for journalists must prevail. #PressFreedom#Gazahttps://www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-condemns-the-deliberate-killings-of-al-jazeera-journalists-including-anas-al-sharif/ #rip 🕊️
🕯️ Amnesty International mourns the deliberate killing of Al-Jazeera journalists including Anas Al-Sharif in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The attack is condemned as a war crime and an assault on press freedom. Justice and protection for journalists must prevail. #PressFreedom#Gazahttps://www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-condemns-the-deliberate-killings-of-al-jazeera-journalists-including-anas-al-sharif/ #rip 🕊️
I am a little sad that there is not a CBC headline/alert for #TomLehrer passing away.
Tom Lehrer was kind of the proto-Stephen Colbert and all the other public performing satirists. Just with a piano, instead of a full music video.
is his "We will all go together when we go”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
really that much different from “Billionnaires are actually good”. There’s just a little more glitz in Colbert's version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-9JzV5wfQ&t=165s
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