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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".

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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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“I before E except for when your weird foreign neighbour Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters”

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With sincere apologies to Ornette Coleman, here’s where the real divide between Israel and the US over Biden’s ceasefire proposal is found. www.forever-wars.com/phase-2-the-...

'Phase 2': The Shape of Israeli Rejectionism To Comewww.forever-wars.com Biden has declared that Israel's reasonable war aims have been achieved. Netanyahu is in no position to agree. Only U.S. pressure can break the impasse. Will Biden apply it?

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“Who’s this chucklefuck?” she asks. Charles le Fuck silently bristles at the informality…

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No one disputes the industry is in a major slowdown. It’s a terrible time, and many of us are hurting But this article’s claim that it was caused by the 2023 strikes is bullshit The slowdown & strikes were caused by the same thing: bad business decisions at the top🧵 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Hollywood crews in 'crisis': 'Everyone's just in panic mode' as jobs declinewww.latimes.com 2023's dual strikes by writers and actors created a dry spell for everyone in Hollywood. Crew members are still feeling the aftershocks.

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This is exactly right, and also exactly why the media struggles to report on what his admin's plans are

I think honestly a key to Trump's popularity. He inverted the theatrical aspect from one where the Meet The Press class were in on the joke and the conservative voters were the rubes, to one where the conservative chuds were in on the joke and the DC crowd were the rubes bsky.app/profile/rinc...

I was in a (relatively) high-speed chase while driving in a 2003 Kia Spectra; I didn't want to get pulled over (for reasons) and managed to escape using a tried-and-true technique I learned from GTA San Andreas

What's something about you that sounds made up but it's not? Mine is one time I made a t shirt for my bicycle gang and it looked too much like a motorcycle club logo so I had to go before a Bandidos general and plead my case to use it and also not to be killed

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The abuse of public records to attack researchers, a thread: On Tuesday morning of this week (May 21), Matt Taibbi began to send me a series of messages requesting my response to a series of leading questions about public records that he planned to publish as part of an upcoming series of articles.

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This is a good example of how organizations in the US are helping normalize authoritarian terminology (whether they know it or not) by promoting pseudoscience about young people, mental health, and education. 🧵 1/9

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Make him sit there while you walk through the meaning of Christian nationalist symbols. You think the guy who couldn't keep his mouth shut at Obama's state of the union will be a sympathetic witness?

Just subpoena him. Force him to testify. Of course everyone will lose their minds. Who cares? It's good politics and good for the rule of law.

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"Police don’t solve serious or violent crimes w/any regularity, & spend very little time on crime control." They spend more "time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often wo reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime.'" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the datawww.reuters.com A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

Excellent thread:

The @nytimes.com editorial on "campus chaos" needs a spanking for its misinformation, hyperbole and credulity in its embrace of right-wing narratives. Let's take it apart, shall we? 1/

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To catch everyone up on billionaire brainworm machine politics: 1) an NPR “whistleblower” wrote an article in The Free Press alleging anti-conservative bias at NPR three weeks ago 2) the brand new CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, had a bunch of tweets that revealed her to be progressive; opportunity!

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Faculty members of Georgetown’s history department have released the following statement about the brutal assault of one of our distinguished alum, Professor Steve Tamari, by the police. Please share. 🗃️

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer

Now this is the equivalent of Martin piling on

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“kill them with kindness” NO, dingus circle ⭕️✍🏻

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A WKCR reporter is describing how much more damage NYPD caused to Hamilton Hall than the protestors

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One thing that I don't think has really been internalized by enough folks is that /any/ direct citizen-police confrontation is dangerous, and in the US, due to gun and police issues, can be very dangerous or deadly. Calling in cops doesn't mean someone /will/ die. But it does mean someone /might/.

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Ms. Rosenberg

This remains the most accurate summary I’ve seen yet

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New York Times, February 20, 1969. Chicago Tribune editors throw a fit and refuse to publish any stories about college protests.

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Columbia University’s President was terrible at basic strategic comms, and now we’ve got police snipers on the roofs of campuses around the country. I got a little mad about it in my latest post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

The only thing university administrators had to do was NOTHING.open.substack.com They had one job. How did they mess it up so badly?

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So fun fact: The Onion takeover started when I posted "so uh how do we buy The Onion?" on Bluesky. @leilza.bsky.social then reached out to me with a LinkedIn message and the below email. Then we got @strle.bsky.social looped in and it got very real. www.axios.com/2024/04/26/t...

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They want right-wing speech to be protected on campus and people protesting genocide to be ground under. Some people call this hypocrisy, but it's much more sinister than that. These double standards are about HIERARCHY. They're about how the right wants to order the world.

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"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them."

A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protestwww.mcsweeneys.net Dear members of the University community, The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for ...

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seriously, “corporate conscience rights of hospitals” is just fucking insane.