Part of me really sympathizes with Americans because I very much believe in democracy and the power of the vote...but Republicans have almost completely nullified the ability to course correct at the ballot box, because they have realized the pro-democracy coalition doesn't have the will to prevent them using illegal, unconstitutional & unethical methods to rig elections.
I fear that the time to show them that the cost of attempting this brazen theft was too high has passed.
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Alabama Republicans Pass Last-Minute Gerrymander in Middle of Election
Republicans want to stop an active election so they can redraw the maps and strip Black political power.
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Tom's political theory for this moment in time...
When "sensible" Centre-Left parties don't deliver meaningful positive change for society, Right-wing populist parties flourish.
(I am so incredibly smart for realising this... well, at least smarter than the Centre-Left parties spiraling into oblivion)
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We could have open source, cooperatively built ed tech, where students and faculty write specs, fix bugs, test, and develop features, instead we have a private sector boondoggle.
NEW w/ @lorenzofb: Hackers have defaced a bunch of school login pages for Canvas, the student portal made by ed-tech giant Instructure.This appears to be the latest effort by the ShinyHunters to apply pressure on the company.
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The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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All they had to was listen to a Black woman named Anita Hill, and believe her. That was the entire assignment. This still makes the blood boil.
The white braintrust really thought "any Black guy will do" after Thurgood Marshall. Polite bigotry does some of the worst damage.
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Despite Anita Hill’s claims in 1991 that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her when he was chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Thomas was a...Democracy Now! (YouTube)
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Ted Turner is dead. The man wasn't great by any means - but he co-created Captain Planet when everyone was making toy commercials instead of entertainment, and it's not nothing.
So kick a corporate or fascist polluter in the balls in memory of Turner. He may not of liked it, but it's a better legacy than any billionaire deserves.
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Hey internet, what's the temperature please?
Internet; 6 degrees. Feels like 2 degrees.
Hey internet. That's utter nonsense. 6 degrees feels like 6 degrees. 2 degrees feels like 2 degrees.
This is how I know the internet is neurotypical.
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Spanish newspapers are keeping track of the #hantavirus ship as it moves towards the Canary Islands where remaining passengers will be examined and repatriated.
What’s new to me in this report is that 23 people got off the ship in St Helens, and nobody was keeping track of them.
These 23 individuals are now the subject of an international contact tracing effort led by the World Health Organization (#WHO), as the outbreak is linked to the #Andes strain of hantavirus, which can spread between humans. One of these passengers, a Swiss citizen, has since tested positive and is receiving treatment in Zurich.
Y’all remember how covid got its first big push? A cruise ship. It docked, the Trump admin sent healthcare workers to deal with it, then those healthcare workers got on national airlines and flew around the country, and a few weeks later…epidemic.
Unbelievable that these people weren’t being monitored for a human to human spread vector.
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Today is the fourth anniversary of the surgery I needed for colon cancer. I have a year and a few months left of surveillance before I can throw myself a party, but so far, so good.
#FuckCancer but also our medical system, which wanted to diagnose me with depression 🙄 rather than listen to what was going on before I got to Stage IIIc. I am lucky, because people a decade younger have died of this.
Stay on your doctors for better care, stay on your politicians for better #publichealth
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Battlestar Galactica could defeat an Imperial Star Destroyer.
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Star Destroyers were originally presented as invincible, but with an exposed shield generator at the top, which makes them vulnerable to attack.
Then in Star Wars: TIE Fighter, they became rather vulnerable to heavy rockets and space bombs, as if they had no point defense.
It might be hard to judge a straight up engagement, but it's likely the fighters are going to do all the work.
A new fediverse platform might be dropping!
Meet Fedibook!The idea came from thinking about what it actually takes to get regular users onto the fediverse. Mastodon is great (i love it), but the follow-based model feels unfamiliar to some. Friends and Groups though — that's something everyone already understands.
So Fedibook is a fediverse platform built around exactly that, using ActivityPub. Think federated address book meets social network, with the kind of social graph people are already used to.
Current status:
- Friend requests across servers working
- News feed working, with visibility levels: public, friends-only, or local server onlyHoping to open up for early testing and feedback soon. Open source of course.
#fediverse #activitypub #fedibook #danmarkskifter
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"une batterie de 82 kWh bruts et 77 kWh utiles. Au fil du temps, la marque débloquera peu à peu les 5 kWh inutilisés via des mises à jour à distance pour compenser l’éventuelle usure."
Ils vendent un système à double fond avec une arnaque de contrôle à distance.
Et ils s'en vantent !!
La merdification est sans limite.
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A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND
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"At 440 acres, Sibley Prairie in Brownstown Township is conserving some of the last acreage of lakeplain prairie in the world.
Lakeplain prairie, or a Lakeplain Wet Prairie, is a seasonally wet biodiverse landscape in the lakeplains of the southern Great Lakes.
Less than 0.5% of Michigan’s original 160,000 acres of lakeplain prairie remain, according to the Michigan Natural Features Inventory."
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Less than 0.5% of Michigan's lakeplain prairie remains. Activists race to protect 440-acre Sibley Prairie before it's sold to developers.Ian Solomon (Planet Detroit)
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Владимир Путин встретился с лидером политической партии Франции «Национальный фронт» Марин Ле Пен.Президент России
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Frank Liberati, #Detroit Democrat, files suit to deadname fellow Dem candidate.
See, it's this kind of shit. I applaud Hertel for standing up for her, but Frank Liberati needs to be named and shamed. Doing my part.
“I’m just here trying to talk about getting our utility bills down, I’m here trying to get single-payer healthcare in the state of Michigan,” she said. “These are the things that I’m talking about, and everyone else is bringing up my gender.”
Whaley also expressed her initial shock that she would be facing these types of attacks from within her own party."
#Michigan #MichiganDems #TransgenderCandidates #JoanneWhaley
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A Democrat running for Michigan’s 2nd House District in November has filed a campaign complaint against one of his primary opponents, a transgender woman, alleging that she violated state campaign law by not listing her deadname on her affidavit of i…Katherine Dailey (Michigan Advance)
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I'd be very curious what legal precedent he thinks there's grounds on to sue. Any chance there an article or something that links to the filing?
Also, what an ass.
In the article I included there's more of an explanation.
Edit: ope, she did not, in fact, include said article. 😃
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A Democrat running for Michigan’s 2nd House District in November has filed a campaign complaint against one of his primary opponents, a transgender woman, alleging that she violated state campaign law by not listing her deadname on her affidavit of i…Katherine Dailey (Michigan Advance)
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"We've decided to focus on making lightsabers for toddlers." -- Blender, probably
(I'm only upset because I love #Blender and it hurts to see it being destroyed, like watching someone you love smoking glue.)
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The First Amendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air.
Read our statement:
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The FCC is neither the journalism police nor the humor policeFreedom of the Press
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Dear Star Trek shows…
Star Trek fans don’t care about special effects. They just don’t. You could have the greatest CGI background you want, but if the story doesn’t speak to the heart of what Star Trek is, the fantastic ship battles and stellar scenery won’t mean shit.
So please, take that CGI money, and spend it on writers who know the show.
Thanks.
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For example: Deep Space Nine has any number of episodes which have very little, if any, moments in space, but is rammed to bursting with examinations of morality, decisions of governance, and the human condition.
Science Fiction can be a thriller, but it can also not be and still be SF. This proves that the ‘thriller’ stuff of — zoooooom — and — pew! pew! — is totally fun but not *necessary*.
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver
Fair. Like any art, it’s not for everyone. No one is going to like everything, and not everyone will like one thing.
I like politics and struggles of will and so on, and feel less interested by stories of war and battle strategy.
Thankfully, Star Trek’s universe can have both!
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A Beautifully Foliaged Endive
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in reply to Emma: ƒ(☕️, 🐈⬛️, 🚀️) ⇒ ℂ • • •A different approach to digital technology in schools | Dave Lane
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in reply to Emma: ƒ(☕️, 🐈⬛️, 🚀️) ⇒ ℂ • • •This really makes so much sense - I remember that schools were already building software maintained by staff and students - like UW IMAP - it is shocking that there hasn't been an effort to replace these e-learning portals with something developed at the schools themselves.
Probably just not a lot of "fun", so it feels like a situation where schools are being penny-wise, pound foolish.
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in reply to Emma: ƒ(☕️, 🐈⬛️, 🚀️) ⇒ ℂ • • •Catching up with a friend at a wedding who stayed on the staff in the IT department at my NY university a decade after I had moved on felt like I was learning about tech 5 or more years before they were on the radar of commercial vendors.
It is crazymaking to know that our country as a whole is defunding our future (in more aspects than just computing, obviously).
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