“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯
- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I pasted it into my word processor, and it counted about 6,700 words.
Waymo blocks first responders at scene of mass shooting in Austin
I can't believe it's been 7 1/2 years since @atherton.bsky.social scared the shit out of me with this great primer on the thorny issues around AI-driven autonomous weapons, and things have only gotten scarier www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/m...
If I understand the 2nd question correctly, do you mean something like the bass walk up on this song, around 0:35?
"Bald Head", recorded by Roy Byrd (later known as Professor Longhair) in 1950, is the earliest example I can find, but not sure it's the first.
youtu.be/WL6fLicbS00?...
This is still one of my favourite videos ever, perfectly explaining the staggering amount of public money that’s going into NOT solving traffic congestion.
“It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit."
Jevon’s Paradox via Australia’s great show “Utopia.” Please share!
=Q ZUashington Examiner Subscribe Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a 'major gift to the Right' By Steven Nelson August 17, 2017 4:00 am
From: Sent: To: Subject: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Monday, August 14, 2017 9:59 PM Valeria Chomsky Re: address of where to meet. ? it is not a ease, it is the condo purchase, in a corporate name. w=ll explain all tomrmorw On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Valeria Chomsky < ‹mailto) › > wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Tomorrow at 1pm wor=s. We have a commitment around 4pm. |= will be great to see you. And please give us some advices. We=found out that the lease of the condo in Cambridge seems to have been put =nder one of the trusts without Noam's authorization or even his knowle=ge (there were lots of papers to sign when we closed the deal). Not =ure yet because the answers are too slow -- something that seems unreasona=le to me. Best, Valeria<=r> =/div> ----- Forwarded message -----F=om: jeffrey E. ‹jeevacation@gmail.c=m› Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:40 PM Subject: To:=Valeria Chomsky < ‹mailto
From: Sent: To: Subject: Peter Thiel < Monday, August 14, 2017 3:38 AM jeffrey E. Re: Probably can't get there before Thursday... Ho= long are you in NYC? I may be there later this week... From: jettrey E. <jeevac=tion@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:16:47 PM To: Peter Thiel Subject: Re: leave santa fe wed morning, see chomsky and fly to new yok. you should see santa fe, you will I=ke it. tues ? On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Peter Thiel < ‹mailto: > > wrote: Are you in Santa Fe until Thursday and then in=NYC? From:=jeffrey E. «=eevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:04:56 PM To: Peter Thiel Subject: im going to meet chomsky in tucson wednesday. =ou are welcome.,
On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
It's Boverino
My theory for North America is that this is the consequence of the fact that every urban profession shifted to work in the wrong field: road engineers design public spaces (it should be planners), planners meddle with architecture via design reqs/codes. Architects became façadists.
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
Not all stories around Nobel Prize medals are positive, however, and some of the choices made by laureates were quite controversial. Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920, reportedly gave his medal to Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels during World War II. Hamsun, who met with Adolf Hitler and Goebbels in 1943, was a Nazi sympathiser who supported the German occupation of Norway. Historical accounts indicate he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a symbolic gesture of support. Hamsun's reputation was destroyed after the war, although his literary works continue to be studied.
Trump shares some interesting company as the last person to be gifted a Nobel Prize medal they did not earn was Joseph Goebbels.
Increasingly it's clearer to a lot of people what i have been saying for a while: people use "inflation" and "prices" to talk about their own difficulty making ends meet or affording big ticket items once "inflation" became a big media news story. It's not actually about CPI or even increases.
For reasons TOTALLY unrelated to current events, you could print keychain whistles and hand them out
The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with @uytaelee.bsky.social of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.
Brakes are death.
1. Term limits make legislators less experienced and capable. This means fewer & worse laws pass. It also empowers governors (neutral change), bureaucrats (a little bad) and lobbyists (very bad). 2. Term limits reduce legislators’ incentives to listen to or care about voters.
Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.
Before (2024) / After (2025) the pedestrianization of Pont d'Iéna, Paris 16. Before that, tourists taking selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower had to go in the middle of the wide lanes of general traffic. Now they are in a pedestrian zone and just have to cross a slow bus lane (20 kph = 12 mph).
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump.
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
Leonard Cohen: Live in London
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
John Gillette said Democrat @jayapal.house.gov urging protests is a call to overthrow the government and she should be put to death. He thinks the J6 rioters were "political prisoners" who did nothing wrong.
story via @jerodmacevoy.com
Important TOMORROW:
The LA City Council is going to vote on whether to legalize single stair buildings. Opponents have launched a disinformation campaign, and we need people to give public comment in support.
Will you be joining me tomorrow at 10am in City Hall?
quote from culture of cities: Instead of accepting the stale cult of death that the fascists have erected, as the proper crown for the servility and the brutality that are the pillars of their states, we must erect a cult of life: life in action, as the farmer or the mechanic knows it: life in expression, as the artist knows it: life as the lover f eels it and the parent practices it: life as it is known to men of good will who meditate in the cloister, experiment in the laboratory, or plan intelligently in the factory or the government office.
quotes mumford's the culture of cities
'we must erect a cult of life'
apropos for today...
Not sure how to fix it, but there's some ways to work around it. If you're using Finder in "Icons" view, it may be less disruptive to switch to "Columns" when moving files.
If spring load happens and you want to back out quickly, press Esc key. If you accidentally move a file, undo is Command+Z
It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture
