Modern Day Bartleby

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Former Clevelander, St Louisan, & San Franciscan now Tokyoite with umpteen interests. He/Him/They/Them all good.

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On Chris Hayes podcast with Jamelle Bouie they talked about a possible reason for optimism: Project 2025 seems to have deeply penetrated TikTok. Anecdotally, my 15 yr old mentioned to me all the counselors she works with at camp have been talking about it and what rights they’re worried about losing

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Well-behaved Yale professors seldom make history

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“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

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“lobbying campaign… with Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson and tech investor David Sacks all calling Trump to try to lock in Vance." That info bubble thinks “everyone” shares their grievances, and the only reason people say otherwise is leftists control everything. Positive sign if you want Trump to lose.

Behind the Curtain: Why J.D.www.axios.com Trump loved the veepstakes drama, and milked it until hours before the Republican convention opened.

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🎂 Birthday special! Blue Gal's Pittsburgh homecoming turns into NYT family feud & diner focus group. Plus, heartfelt listener letters & Medicare at-home care deep dive. It's personal meets political in pure ProLeft style! www.buzzsprout.com/229/15426642

Ep 820: Western Pennsylvania And The Gorilla They Didn't See - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Galwww.buzzsprout.com Orwell said,

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BC people: BC hydro is offering free portable air conditioners to low-income households. Deets in link.

Free portable air conditionerswww.bchydro.com

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I am having an absolutely incredible day at an economy themed amusement park for kids in Japan. I don’t know even know where to start. My kids have been doing jobs all day. They’re earning money. Different types of jobs pay different amounts of money. Some, like cheerleading, pay negative money. 😂

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Why can't more journalists reporting on "AI" straightforwardly say "This is bad, actually"? Ex: In this article juxtaposing the grandiose claims of OpenAI et al with the massive environmental footprint of LLMs, Goldman still has to include this weird AI optimism: fortune.com/2024/07/12/a... >>

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The "unity convention" is now airing a terrible rap song with the refrain "FJB."

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I see you, I hear you, I’m surveilling you

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In the midst of tremendous change, the core of scholarly #book #publishing remains constant. It’s about the author and their ability to make generative contributions to public conversations. Read more from Fred Appel, Publisher. press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-li... #sociology #anthropology

The life of American Afterlivespress.princeton.edu I first became aware of Shannon Dawdy’s American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and Princeton author Bryan Wagner, suggested that sh...

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Jerome Powell can become a legend here and lower interest rates every time Trump threatens him. This would be like the macroeconomic version of Trump getting fined every time he defames E Jean Carroll.

Donald Trump warns US Fed chair not to cut rates before the election https://www.ft.com/content/11bc931f-5c5e-4e3c-9ceb-9bdca25430ad

Donald Trump warns US Fed chair not to cut rates before the electionwww.ft.com Ex-president says he would let Jay Powell finish term at central bank if he was ‘doing the right thing’

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I came to Bluesky for the same reason I came to Twitter: to learn from and about people and things I do not experience regularly so that I may exist as a better and more rounded individual. The Shitposting™️ is just to keep the brain juices flowing but 99% of my time is spent reading and empathizing

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The citizens of Arkansas are fighting like Hell to get a referendum legalizing abortion on the ballot for November.

The 4 legal questions that will decide the fate of Arkansas's abortion rights ballot initiative - Arkansas Timesarktimes.com While we wait to hear how Secretary of State John Thurston responds to supporters of the abortion amendment, here's a breakdown of the issues at play.

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“What we are witnessing is an information system working as designed. It is a machine that rewards speed, bravado, and provocation. It is a machine that goads people into participating as the worst version of themselves” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Flattening Machinewww.theatlantic.com The chaotic aftermath of the assassination attempt shows a toxic information system working as designed.

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“I Told Israelis About the Tragedy of One Gazan Woman. I read her words aloud. I wanted Israelis who have never heard about Gaza to know about the lives of the Palestinians on the other side of the fence” Sheren Falah Saab www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...

I told Israelis about the tragedy of one Gazan woman. The audience was shockedwww.haaretz.com ***

The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate

“In any other country, we would recognize Cannon’s actions—dismissing a major criminal case against a presidential candidate on the first day of his party’s convention—to be part of an ongoing constitutional coup.” Michael Podhorzer www.weekendreading.net/p/oops-they-...

Oops! … They Did it Againwww.weekendreading.net And they are not so innocent

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Oops! … They Did it Againwww.weekendreading.net And they are not so innocent

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Have been digging into the 90s karaoke scholarship for a project recently, and struck by how much is relevant to more recent work on streaming. Recommendation algorithms, licensing issues, a huge range of distracted/functional listening, panics over what it's doing to music -- all there

"There’s no way on earth you can curate for a high-end luxury brand using an algorithm." I'm listening for how a human choosing what music to play gets gradually reframed as a kind of fancy, bespoke thing Quote from doi.org/10.1525/jpms...

“The Part of the Music Industry That God Forgot”: Streaming and the B2B Background Music Industrydoi.org In October 2020, the B2B (business-to-business) background music company Soundtrack Your Brand—formerly Spotify Business—launched the world’s first full-catalog on-demand streaming service for backgro...

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"I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented," the director said... right on the heels of a Rare analysis showing how including climate in TV and movies "increased support for governmental action on climate change and boosted several hard-to-move attitudes on climate justice."

‘Twisters’ chose not to mention climate change. Here’s why | CNNamp.cnn.com The summer blockbuster puts nature’s ever-more destructive power in the spotlight. But like the titular twisters, there’s a hole at the center.

The Republican Party is an international harm syndicate

PREDICTION: it's going to turn out that Musk's $45 million/month to this SuperPAC will be earmarked almost entirely for Twitter advertisements. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Musk plans to give $45 mln a month to new pro-Trump PAC, WSJ reportswww.reuters.com Billionaire Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super political-action committee, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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PREDICTION: it's going to turn out that Musk's $45 million/month to this SuperPAC will be earmarked almost entirely for Twitter advertisements. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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not an original observation by far, but: one of the most useful things about project 2025 for the left is it's a way to organize people against Christian nationalism, and beyond this election, because they are not going anywhere

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just heard an ad for "the new era of A.I." like oh dang is it actually useful now? will it do anything but string randomized words together? does it add creative jobs rather than take them away? tell me more, advertisement

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A few years ago New York City was reclassified as “humid subtropical” thanks to climate change so it’s as if you were in North Carolina back then and were trying to make do without AC there.

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

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BREAKING: SCOTUS halts tonight's scheduled execution of Ruben Gutierrez in Texas, highlighting another question of whether the Fifth Circuit is ignoring Supreme Court precedent.

The 6 Republican Party international crime syndicate Injustices on the Supreme Court have declared open season on the unhoused

If the shooting was “not related to the RNC,” why would cops from Columbus, Ohio be involved in the first place? Also, pretty on the nose for cops from a red state to come to a blue city and kill a homeless black guy on the second night of the RNC. www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Yes, the Yiddish word for bedbug is וואַנץ / Vance Poor Bret Stephens has been replaced.