Michael O'C

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Flâneur, lapsed overachiever, shoshin devotee

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Pretty clear that the last couple of hours did nothing but confirm this

Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

@benwikler.bsky.social seems to have given up on us over here so I thought a screenshot from the other place would be ok #goodnews #data

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So let’s make some noise.

Why is The Quiet New Deal so quiet? | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

R E.M.'s music has been a touchstone of my life since I saw them open for Gang of Four at the Ritz in June 1981. One of the few bands worthy of such a moving tribute as this one from Annie Z

Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe playing together as R.E.M. tonight at the Songwriters Hall of Fame(!!) induction ceremony merits a newsletter about fandom, growing with our favorite music and (of course) the lovely "Losing My Religion" performance. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/oh-life-it...

"Elections are afterthoughts when you own the Supreme Court" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-afterm...

The Aftermath Peoplesarahkendzior.substack.com The killers of democracy don’t get to declare that it’s dead.

"Mainstream journalism’s cynical self-imposition of limits on what publications may presume to know mimics fascism’s opportunistic ignorance while acting as its handmaiden" 🔥🎯

The courts have given media a freebie to start using basic words for Donald Trump and assume basic facts are in evidence. When you don't see that, you're seeing a choice.

How Not to Report on Donald Trump - Truthdigwww.truthdig.com A.G. “Dash” Sulzberger’s Silicon Valley-inflected skepticism and open-debate pieties are a recipe for dangerously irresponsible journalism by omission.

As a long time, now former Texas resident, I can't endorse this enough

The thing about Texas is, there are 1000 good reasons to live here. 900 of them relate to nature, others to arts and food. It’s so heartbreaking that the roughly 12 dimwitted oligarchs who run this place as a private feifdom have made it unsafe for so many people to even travel here.

1000 times this

That feeling of realization of what a committed city dweller I am when this is what comes to mind seeing friends' and family's social media posts for MDW #mulch #azaleas #windchimes youtu.be/f3RNsCuwI-Y?...

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Hell yes 🔥

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Polarization or Radicalization?open.substack.com This post is a little unusual for CAMPAIGN TRAILS, but we’re heading into a long holiday weekend, so … why not. This morning I woke up to an email from a columnist at a major newspaper, asking for my ...

Maria's not on BSky (yet) but The Marginalian newsletter is one of my favorites because of great work like this "....human beings are rough drafts that continually mistake themselves for the final story, then gasp as the plot changes on the page of living" www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/17/a...

On Giving Up: Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mindwww.themarginalian.org “Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings.”

PSA www.tomsguide.com/ai/how-to-bl...

How to block Google AI Overviews from appearing in your search resultswww.tomsguide.com And no, it doesn't require a Chrome extension

Brazenly fascist Supreme Court justice flaunting the total absence of SCOTUS accountability

An upside-down American flag — a symbol embraced by Donald Trump’s supporters who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen — flew at Justice Samuel Alito’s home while the Supreme Court was considering an election case in early 2021. nyti.ms/3QP6nGu

For some reason, I've been hearing Tom Petty's music everywhere in my world over the last few days. Feels like I should pay it forward by sharing this sublime version of one of his best songs #learningtofly #yesthatsstevie youtu.be/yxXBhKJnRR8

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly (live 2006) HQ 0815007youtu.be HQ-Video. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly, released 1991

This warning isn't just for professional creatives - if your personal journals, documents, etc are only stored in the cloud, you don't legally own them

A dreadful warning. www.wired.com/story/what-h...

What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docswww.wired.com In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear.

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The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a fascinating read #language #japan #kanji aethermug.com/posts/the-be...

The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Languageaethermug.com An extra dimension that you can play with.

Winding down from this happy, memorable day by listening to Prince, as one does. The groove from this song is still a killer almost 40 years later youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?...

Prince & The Revolution - Raspberry Beret (Official Music Video)youtu.be "Raspberry Beret" from 'Around the World in a Day' (1985)☔️ Listen to more Prince here https://lnk.to/PrinceStream📺 Watch all the official Prince videos her...

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"These escalations against students are a choice. Police can be patient, even passive. The Texas DPS proved that when they loitered outside the ongoing slaughter of grade-schoolers." www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-t...

The Kids The Guns Are Forwww.momleft.com The same police force that failed Uvalde children is arresting peaceful student protesters at UT Austin. It's not about safety. It's about order.

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Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Now that Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley are calling for the National Guard to be deployed to Columbia, it's worth remembering what happened when the National Guard was deployed to Kent State and Jackson State some 54 years ago. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Bloodlustopen.substack.com This afternoon, Senator Tom Cotton — whom you might remember from his previous principled stances like “drivers should simply assault left-wing protesters,” “the military should simply attack left-win...

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This, to me, is an important critique private equity firms and the current phase of vulture capitalism in addition to AI. There is no goal of creating a product, something to be enjoyed or desired, something to be proud of. It’s fundamentally about extracting or using rather than doing or making.

And when you devalue craftsmanship and expertise, you’re devaluing practice, synthesizing knowledge, experience from living. You’re devaluing humanness and individuality.

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the future of the internet is enormous spaces containing nothing but ai’s screeching to each other getting increasingly sicker as they ingest more and more of their own waste while the humans slink off to cool dive bars to share things in peace and quiet

Breaking News: Meta will begin to incorporate its newest AI-powered assistant more comprehensively into Facebook, Instagram and other apps. The software will become practically omnipresent — inside the news feed, in search bars and in chats with friends.

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Appswww.nytimes.com Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

Lol at 'warning sign'. If you don't realize that it's already happening here in the US, you're not paying attention

A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S. From @alexzfinley.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1806...

Russia Is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is It Happening Here Too?newrepublic.com A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.

So much this ⬇️ The blowback is growing every day .... hope it's ok with you @courtneymilan.com if use tech #dethusiast in other forums

I used to be a tech enthusiast. I am becoming a tech dethusiast. I don’t want any more tech to buy. I don’t want smart appliances. I don’t want smart pants. I don’t want smart dumbbells. I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.

My favorite song of the year so far. Katie and MJL slayed this one on Colbert last night ICYMI youtu.be/YL3iHhERWJw?...

Waxahatchee -youtu.be Listen to the full album: https://antircrds.io/4cm8rz9

Just watched one of my favorite movies. I must have seen it 25 times by now but it's still so joyful and life-affirming #labellaluna #snapoutofit #notus youtu.be/MN3sPq9RJKM?...

MOONSTRUCK (1987) | Official Trailer | MGMyoutu.be Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to m...

My tv binge this weekend has been Mad Men season 2, with all of its Meditations in an Emergency references. This time around it's these lines from 'Mayakovsky' that grab me: Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.