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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal

Oh weird new Duolingo update finished my Spanish course.

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Also, there is no fucking shame in things saved in the edit; that's what the editing is for.

From what I've heard, Star Wars is the very definition of a film saved by the edit.

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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task

John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life

June TTM returns for #cardsky njwv.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/j...

June TTM Returnsnjwv.wordpress.com June started off right where May ended up. First return of the month landed in my mailbox on the first day of the month. I initially shied away from this card because I wasn’t sure about the photo but...

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After 1.5 years, a Stanford Committee recommends continuing to take fossil fuel money for climate research. In a total own-goal, the report points out similarities btw this decision & Stanford's vote to keep taking tobacco $$ in 2007.

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Not saying this prescriptively, just descriptively, but BY FAR the most powerfully transformative and effective presidency in my lifetime belonged to a guy who was too senile to know where or possibly who he was

Also true for high-info voters tbh; would love to see some polling on how important the new wise-man leaders of the Remove Biden movement think it is for their replacement candidate to support an aggressive NLRB for instance

Would love to see someone use this as an excuse to include it with Greek/Roman myths and other foundational stories.

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)

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It is almost impossible for me to imagine how the first thirty years of the Internet could be as poorly documented as the first thirty years of radio or television were. Let alone the vaudeville performances that preceded them.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

A #cardsky mailday featuring @brubaker.bsky.social again. njwv.wordpress.com/2024/06/27/a...

A couple envelopesnjwv.wordpress.com A quick post about a couple of envelopes which showed up over the past week. I didn’t call them PWEs because one of the envelopes was a 9×12 manilla envelope from Kenny. Inside where a pair of TTM ret...

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post an image people will hear when they see it

post an image that people will hear when they see it

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Urinetown was meant to be a cautionary tale, not life goals.

in ann arbor (michigan) they're doing a pilot program where they pay a tech company $500,000 to put out fancy portable toilets that require a smartphone to scan a QR code to access

Looks like it's time for everyone to add the Bluesky team to a starter pack.

“I was added as a recommended user in someone’s starter pack. Can I remove myself? No. If you’d like to not be suggested as a user to follow in someone’s starter pack, you can ask them to remove you via Bluesky DMs. You can also report a starter pack to Bluesky’s moderation team (see below).” Lol

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Remember, a large portion of silent films are lost, not due to decay or fires, but because they were intentionally junked by their studios. Among the worst was Paramount, aka CBS/Paramount. People come and go. Corporate culture is forever.

2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

Corporate suits seem awfully determined to make sure people stick to physical media.

ComedyCentral. com, had been home to clips from every episode of “The Daily Show” since 1999, and the entire run of “The Colbert Report,” but as of today, the site is gone

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The best part of being a writer is the part where the suits destroy the evidence that you once had a job.

ComedyCentral. com, had been home to clips from every episode of “The Daily Show” since 1999, and the entire run of “The Colbert Report,” but as of today, the site is gone

On one hand. Yeah this is horrifying. On the other hand this is 100% what that show deserves.

I'm so sorry.

I bet #cardsky has opinions here. For my part it's base-centric boxes.

What's your favorite kind of breaking? 1. news 2. bread 3. dance 4. Bad

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Someone put up the foam brick pedestrian crossing concept in Pittsburgh. For people in the city, this is at Negley and Rippey.

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Undergrad and grad students struggle with citation, including tracking an idea back to its original source. Generative AI can’t and likely won’t ever be able to do this. It’s a huge problem if we care about intellectual property and integrity. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sourceswww.theatlantic.com How will OpenAI keep its promise to media companies?

So illegal bribes occur before the action and totally legal gratuities occur after?

Gratuities! You know, gift cards, lunches, plaques, books, framed photos, or *disguising the phrase with a yawn* thick envelopes full of cash. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Photography just in general.

Social media in a nutshell..

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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The founding fathers: checks and balances The Supreme Court: checks