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A must-read piece from a tech worker at Google, on the urgent need for a worker-led “AI arms embargo”: www.thenation.com/article/soci... #ai #NoTechForApartheid #TechLabor #TechWorkers #organizing

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TIL there's a new book by Abby Covert to hang on placing a bookshop.org order.

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Barthes being timely:

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Think so, but I'll defer to @goingmedieval.bsky.social

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Free link to crazy WSJ story about Musk and his “harem drama.” Can’t do it justice with the four-screenshot limit! www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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This is the best expression of what I couldn't voice when trying to watch it, and why I went back to the original.

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Just a reminder, if you were an REI member who purchased more than $10 worth of items in 2024 or joined in 2024, you can vote until midnight May 1st to reject the proposed slate of anti-labor Trump supporters for the REI board vote.escvote.com/REI/

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I'm a simple, country not-a-lawyer, but do Constitutional rights apply to all, or just the ones we like?

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The Washington Senate just approved HB 1596, which will require drivers convicted of reckless driving or excessive speeding to install an automatic speed governor as part of their probationary driver's license. The vote was 40-8. www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/14/o...

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If you love your library, listen up…

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@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social Watching Demons (1985) and it cuts to some random punks driving around. The driver tells someone to take the wheel, takes a snort up his nose from a straw, says, "That shit'll wake the dead". And you can see it's coke (as in a can of Coca-Cola).

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I had a joke about the Cyclops but it just lacked depth.

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This is great. The real benefit, I think, is that something like this strengthens institutional and in-group resolve. It's not about persuading outsiders to resist, but bolstering the people with an institutional affiliation who are marginal actors.

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Paid my federal and state taxes today. I guess that's supposed to turn me into a libertarian, but just makes me want more of a Nordic tax system.

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Old bodies, new Mindlessness. Weekly broadcasts start here.

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Here’s a look at some facts and figures about the federal government’s veteran workers – who they are, what they do and where they work. www.pewresearch.org/...

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And it's also a thinly veiled attempt to coopt idealism (however misplaced) for the purpose of a single company's bottom line.

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism, has died at age 89, according to his family. cnn.it/43R9Mw7

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After listening to Robert Evans’s deep dive on Alfred Hugenberg, I couldn’t watch Rick Steves’s well intentioned but shallow summary of “stuff just happened after WWI” in his special of fascism.

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Watching Red Letter Media's second Re:View of Star Trek TMP is my comfort food today

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