IT IS TIME FOR THE WINTER PARALYMPICS!!!!
The Paralympics are the most consistently mind-blowing sporting event on the calendar. I promise you simply reading about how various Paralympic events work will make you say WHAT?!? or HOW?!?!? out loud at least once
Anything any technology has to offer, they pervert into a way to extort more of the little we have left. They don't care about anything and when they do care, they hate. They're jealous and resentful of the people that DO make and know and create. So I don't hate technology at all. I hate them.
A hand holding a whole pฤ czek in a piece of white paper
A pฤ czek cut open to reveal raspberry jelly filling
First pฤ czki after seven years in southern Indiana ๐ itโs good to be back!
Havenโt tried it yet this year, but last summer Olympics CBC had free and pretty solid coverage as long as its website thinks your computer is in Canada
A profound artistic expression in its own right. Hang it in the โฆ oh wait.
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
Ausschnitt einer unfertigen Illustration einer Haubenmeise. Fokus liegt auf dem Auge, das im Gegensatz zum Rest schon ausgearbeitet ist. Es glรคnzt und sieht lebendig aus
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can't come to him with peace. Why, good night! He'll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can't speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can't communicate with him in Chinese. You have to find out what this man speaks. And once you know his language, learn how to speak his language, and he'll get the point. There'll be some dialogue. You know the language the Klan speaks. It is a duty, it's your and my duty as human beings, it is our duty to our people, to organise ourselves and let the government know that if they don't stop that Klan, we'll stop it ourselves. So I don't believe in violence - that's why I want to stop it. And you can't stop it with love. So, we only mean vigorous action in self-defence and that vigorous action we feel we're justified in initiating by any means necessary. The press call us racist and people who are "violent in reverse." This is how they psycho you. They make you think that if you try to stop the Klan from lynching you, you're practising "violence in reverse."
Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to โremain calmโ
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
what the fuck is happening here I have so many questions
A begonia, some sort of angel wing or dragon wing variety
A pot of houseplants (spider plant, dragon wing begonia, and striped tradescantia) hanging in a sunny window. There is snow on the ground outside.
@tzam2299.bsky.social spidey and friends are happy lads
@ap_dsc: I don't care how good AI gets. I don't want to read words no one cared enough to write. I don't want to look at pictures no one cared enough to draw. I want to experience things made by human beings because, as a human, I'm craving human interactions.
I don't often have hate in my heart, but I feel hatred toward AI.
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lmao Iโm the opposite, unless Iโm actively watching a game I really do not want screens
These are all extremely fair points
(Except no game being onโ obvs this makes it ineligible for game watching, but to me the whole deal of atlas is very far from somewhere Iโd even think to go to watch a game)
Switchyard brewing used to be a great place to watch games but a) turns out the owners sucked and then b) they closed
SPILL THE BEEF
Proud to be a Hoosier for the very first time in my life???
LETS FUCKING GO
posting this at 8:30 am is wild
1. City traffic-deaths pitch hits a wall: Ann Arbor promised in 2021 it would eliminate serious injuries and deaths from traffic accidents by the end of 2025, aka next month, and instead the number of incidents so far this year has hit an eleven-year high. On November 19, Transportation Commission members eagerly awaited a year-end report and some promised new ideas, but transportation engineer Cynthia Redinger failed to impress. Her two big โasksโ were for the commissionโs support in a budget request to council for a driver-education campaign and to push for legal permission to set up red-light cameras and other โautomated enforcementโ techniques. Crashes In Ann Arbor author and safety advocate Peter Houk was especially dismayed, telling Redinger, โWe have been trying unsuccessfully for a very long time to change driver behavior through driver education and messaging, and what we need to do is change our facilities to encourage drivers to interact in them the way we want them to. โฆ Weโre not going to get there by asking them nicely.โ Council member Dharma Akmon tells a2view sheโs also disappointed; sheโs been pushing for quick-build traffic-slowing fixes like the recent redesign of Pauline Ave. Persuading Lansing lawmakers to reverse the current ban on automated enforcement โ if it were likely to succeed, which she doubts โ is not a fast-moving solution, she says. Watch the key part of the meeting here (https://youtu.be/PLdne7vIK9g?si=D9vQnt4ZupWdYkIA&t=7473)
The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a... ).
But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (๐งต)
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
unsolicited advice because I have this problem too: use two parallel dumbbells as grips instead of hands flat on the floor
I cannot express how much I hate this
