Ready Player One -
Ernest Cline wants you to remember the 80s.
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Monday, 12 September 2022
quote [ Illegal cannabis farms are engulfing parts of California and exploiting farmworkers who labor in squalid, deadly conditions, a Times investigation finds. ]
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Thursday, 8 September 2022
quote [ The Republican Party enabled Donald Trump, as he convinced his base that the election was stolen.
. McConnell chooses silence. [Pence] says to the President, ?I can't do it.? Liz had given a really compelling narrative about why we have to certify the election. . A great deal of American democracy relies on simple good faith. . If anything was revealed to us, it was just how fragile the system we have. . It was the lie that sparked an insurrection, existentialist threat to American democracy, created by decisions made over years, partisan warfare, moral compromise, warnings - ignored. ] Does anyone watch PBS?
Some would believe every word in this documentary, yet the very documentary techniques used on this program, broadcast falsehoods and are believed by others.
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Wednesday, 27 July 2022
quote [ To find fire morels, forage after wildfires. ]
And the burns scar
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Friday, 8 July 2022
quote [ Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital bleeding after collapsing while delivering a speech in the city of Nara in western Japan, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. ]
Seeing reports that he is showing no vitals.
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Thursday, 7 July 2022
quote [ The GBI released surveillance video from Wednesday morning?s explosion that destroyed the Georgia Guidestones. ]
Hahaha! Didn't john oliver interview someone who said they wanted to do this?
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The Mythic Image -
One of the most beautifully presented books on mythology around.
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Wednesday, 30 March 2022
quote [ a Russian cyberattack downed Ukraine?s biggest telecom and broadband internet provider, Ukrtelecom, to disrupt the country?s connectivity.
(Nokia) announced cutting off the company?s ties with the invading nation as per the latest sanctions. According to the NY Times, Nokia would also leave behind some equipment crucial for Russia?s SORM surveillance tool. ] So Nokia is no better than Huawei for 5G. Cisco also supplied equipment.
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Thursday, 3 March 2022
quote [ An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring protesters. ]
This cyberpunk game sucks.
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Tuesday, 1 February 2022
quote [ Pennsylvania has almost 3,000 bridges classified as structurally deficient, though state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Thursday that tally has actually been halved since 2008.
Over six years, $4.2 billion that could have helped fix those bridges has instead gone to State Police, he said. ] Confused? More bridge collapses!
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Sunday, 30 January 2022
quote [ The Crisis Text Line?s AI-driven chat service has gathered troves of data from its conversations with people suffering life?s toughest situations. ]
This raises moral questions will in me on ow to gather information for suicide hotline AI themselves, that immediately get downed out by learning this wasn't even kept within a non-profit.
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Thursday, 4 November 2021
quote [ Katy, Robert, and Cody went to Midwest FurFest. They left with a tale of a Nazi terrorist attack, and a useful guide to surviving the worst year ever, together. ]
A bit of an old one perhaps, but I think it's still relevant. Podcast from Cody Johnston & Katy Stoll (Some More News) and Robert Evans (Behind The Bastards)
The furry community continues to suprise me The link is for part one, but part two is in the extended.
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The Ecology of Freedom -
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
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Used archive to bypass paywall of LA Time article.