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Interests: PNW, bicycling, whale watching from shore, antitrust, Lina Khan, Frances Perkins, tech ethics, data analytics, parks, sandwiches, energy efficiency, Iceland, Mars, occupational safety, puffins
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No Other Land returns to The Grand this Friday!! Get tickets: grandcinema.com/movie/no-oth...

I created 3 newLetterboxd lists backed on TMC's programming during January 2025. Jan 20: MLK Jr Tribute boxd.it/EFaMM

Any other former mascots out there w the same fav acting role by a singer? Bruno Mars as Sad Mouse on SNL

Is today's news tempting you to cancel your Washington Post subscription? I fear an exodus of liberal readers will only hasten its shift rightward. May I suggest the better move is to break up with Amazon? We have a guide for you:

I assume this means the Post will now be eagerly accepting pieces about Amazon's attempts to revoke the personal liberties Americans enjoy under our labor and antitrust laws.

The "campus free speech" and "cancel culture" panics were obvious efforts to seed the ground for a huge expansion of left-wing censorship and right-wing propaganda. That effort appears to have worked.

A billionaire championing "free markets" is a billionaire championing his own "personal liberty" to have complete monopolies and stamp out anything that that does not add to his own personal pocketbook.

I miss my 2nd gen iPod nano so much. I miss the simple text based UI and the ability to control it tactically, w/o having to look at it. A dream for a light traveler! I'm bummed Apple chose to abandon rather than advance those features. Imagine how nanosized it'd be if they kept it up!

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️ www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Here's a gorgeous photo of Io for you. From the Juno spacecraft, taken on 3 February 2024. Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS

"DeepSeek is the canary in the coal mine. It’s warning us that when there isn’t enough competition, our tech industry grows vulnerable to its Chinese rivals, threatening U.S. geopolitical power in the 21st century." Lina Khan on the dangers of not breaking the market power of the Tech giants:

Canada is "reviewing" its many cloud contracts with Amazon after the tech giant killed a budding union by closing 7 facilities and firing 2,000 people. It should follow through on the threat and cancel those deals.

DEAR MISS PERKINS excerpt! @slate.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

#LastFourWatched #FilmSky

In response to the dark times to come, I hope that some states and judges take up my recommendations in “Privacy in Authoritarian Times: Surveillance Capitalism and Government Surveillance” ssrn.com/abstract=510...

Tomorrow is the release day for "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts To Aid Refugees From Nazi Germany" by @theotherrbg.bsky.social Despite powerful political opposition, FDR's Sec of Labor was very clever & persistent when it came to helping others. I can learn lots from her

hello pals. keep your chins up.

So much wrong here but one to highlight is the danger of having media intertwined with corporate interests. Independent journalism is important....

1. Big news! The FTC took action today to end Walmart’s stranglehold on the grocery market. The agency filed suit against Pepsi for giving illegal and unfair price advantages to Walmart while charging competing grocery retailers higher prices.

One of the most ecologically valuable intact landcapes left in America.

the vinyl revival completely sucks. CDs have better fidelity, are more portable, less wasteful, and significantly cheaper. every time i see an album get some big fancy remaster and that remaster is only available on vinyl and streaming i want to scream. no one is gonna hear the details bud.

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

bob hope understood something a lot of people still can't reconcile: apologizing is actually really easy and you can do it as much as you want

God, Lina Khan and the renewed FTC have, hands down, been the best and most successful aspect of this administration