John Whitley

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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast: reactormag.com/the-avengers...

The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactorreactormag.com Working with The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, the actors came together once more for a very important cause.

*Even if* they had serious and legitimate problems with this program (reader: they do not), opting out at cost of direct and immediate harm to citizens in need to make some political point is despicable.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Long election campaigns also put the emphasis, over and over again, ON THE ELECTION rather than on governing: like voting is all we as citizens have to do; like winning is the most important quality in a candidate. GOVERNING. The thing is GOVERNING. Elections should be a means of accountability+

Long elections waste immense amounts of money. they harass potential voters into apathy. They play into the horse-race, scandal-fed view of politics that feeds deeply unserious media coverage. They NOT INCIDENTALLY make it difficult/impossible for campaigns to deal with last-minute surprises.

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

This just in: f*ck the US two-party system.

folks gonna miss this from just the headline, but someone should point it out: the lack of live fact-checking by the moderators *was part of the agreement* by the campaigns. It's not just that CNN /didn't/ live fact check it. It's that they /weren't allowed to/.

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Antique dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.

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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Florida’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors and many of its restrictions on similar adult care are unconstitutional. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

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HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY WE WIN And they're Jewish queers to boot lfg www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Social vs. Anti-social particle collisions: Maybe they just collided and annihilated each other

I cannot believe the Threadnought made the NYT. I don’t know if this means social media is real or the Times isn’t.

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If copyright law destroys the AI industry remember who to thank

Does ScarJo have a case against OpenAI? Legal experts walked us through the possible arguments — and say the law is on her side: www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/t... feat. @jtlg.bsky.social @tiffanycli.bsky.social

Why OpenAI should fear a Scarlett Johansson lawsuit | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Could Scarlett Johansson sue OpenAI for creating a voice assistant that sounds like the actor’s performance in the 2013 film “Her,” about a man who falls in love with an artificial intelligence?

Tell me someone's not a spinner without telling me

The number of people who cannot tell a goat from a sheep is fucking appalling

This is a great-if-depressing thread. I was infuriated to learn my alma mater had used #3 on my favorite prof, in a subdiscipline that the then dept. chair thought "wasn't real ". (karmic payback: it wasn't long before said subdiscipline was getting its own well-funded departments.)

Some examples of academic gatekeeping: 1) telling someone their research “doesn’t count” 2) excluding adjuncts/staff from professional development or funding 3) drawing arbitrary disciplinary boundaries to exclude people 4) reinforcing faculty/staff hierarchies 5) defaulting to blind peer review

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Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: sherwood.news/tech/how-to-...

How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondassherwood.news I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....

I'm happy to report that The Onion still cuts like a KNIFE

Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalismwww.theonion.com JERUSALEM—Following its ban of the Qatar-based news outlet’s operations in the country, Israel accused Al Jazeera Monday of being a mouthpiece for journalism. “It is clear from its continuous, 24-hour...

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Stolen from a colleague…

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The students at my school did this. They negotiated for it, they got it, and they're disbanding their encampment now that they're done. Not one arrest. No police. The first campus in the UC system to do it.

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That's even weirder for me than putting Coraline on the list.

Seems to be a popular name: www.thebump.com/b/mazikeen-b...

Mazikeen - Baby Name Meaning, Origin and Popularitywww.thebump.com Learn about the baby name Mazikeen including baby name meaning, gender, origin, and more.

Nailed it.

I wanna know who’s doing the crisis PR for the Columbia president so i can hire them in the future and do the exact opposite.

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Something else that Mike Harrison put me onto on Twitter when it was Twitter - this fantastic performance of Hunting the Wren - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lURe... (neither of us could figure out whether the interruption in the middle is genius, catastrophe or both)

LANKUM - Hunting the Wren (Live in Dublin)www.youtube.com Subscribe to LankumDublin here ➤ http://bit.ly/36qVmBkOur 4th album "False Lankum" is out now on Rough Trade Records. Listen/order here: https://lankum.ffm.t...

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You know you fucked up when even the NYPD is throwing you under the bus. hellgatenyc.com/columbia-min...

Columbia's President Saw 'Danger' in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Even the Cops Disagree - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com You know you fucked up when the NYPD is throwing you under the bus.

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It seems to me that when a society privileges a group to murder and abuse weaker people with complete impunity, the natural and proper reaction of a free person is to hate that group and resent the society that enables it, and acquiescence is a sign of unsuitability to be a free person.

5 years ago NYPD officers broke into Kawaski Trawick's apartment while he was cooking dinner and within 112 seconds fatally shot him. When asked if anyone was hurt the cops said: "Nobody, just a perp." NYPD just announced the cops will face no discipline.

Shame Upon New York City: Kawaski Trawick's Killers to Face No Discipline - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com Five years after police killed Trawick, the NYPD announced there will be no consequences in a late-Friday news dump

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All these bills are nearly identical and they all do one thing: ban anything that promotes energy conservation

This is real. This is what the House GOP is doing next week.

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I am back again with more This Is How You Lose The Time War fanart #art

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Are you a worker? Do think workers should have rights? Trader Joe's doesn't, and are trying to dismantle the NLRB. Stop shopping at Trader Joe's. hellgatenyc.com/trader-joes-...

Fredd Moore, who said he was fired from the Essex Crossing location in late January because he was vocally pro-union, said that customers should see Trader Joe's as "New York grocery store Walmart."

Trader Joe's Quietly Argues That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional: 'They Just Don't Care About Workers' Rights' - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com Workers at the Essex Crossing location on the Lower East Side say that this escalation of anti-union tactics can be felt in their store.

Strongly Typed Ghouls is my new band name

I just received the creepiest error message I've ever seen: "TypeError: The body has already been consumed."

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Breathtaking article.

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

Behind F1's Velvet Curtainweb.archive.org If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

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In other words the difference between "life creates it, makes it grow, it's energy surrounds us and binds us, luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" and fucking midichlorians.

Emotional realism trumps worldbuilding "realism" every time. I don't care that a power or whatever not got mentioned before or is explained beyond "quick, join hands and combine our life energies!" if it works. And if your interest is in your characters, not your playset, it will most of the time.

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Hey fellow USians, if you’ve been suffering with the ADHD shortage the government would like to hear from you on the subject in the next 60 days. (This message will be periodically repeated.)

Regulations.govwww.regulations.gov

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holy shit: "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole," by Isabel J. Kim. (the title is the content warning) clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasyclarkesworldmagazine.com Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

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A sweeping investigation into prison labor tied hundreds of millions of dollars to hundreds of popular foods brands. Prisoners are largely uncompensated and are often excluded from protections. “You can’t call it anything else. It’s just slavery.” apnews.com/article/pris...