"In his complaints to federal health officials, he drew comparisons between the Tuskegee study and medical experiments Nazi doctors had conducted on Jews and other prisoners." apnews.com/article/buxt...
Reminder: any resident of Texas can get a FREE digital library card from the Houston Public Library system. Only $40/year for non-Texas folks!
Their Libby hold lines tend to be long but you can have up to 15 holds. If your local library system is limited, check it out: houstonlibrary.org/mylink
If you want access to free books, please get a library card.
In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.
Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.
As an author and reader, I support libraries!
#books#libraries
I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t
when people say stuff like "you really can just straight up ignore all mainstream media," it's worth asking what vested interest they might have in you doing that.
e.g., allred's for-profit schools have been in the news lately for allegations of predatory lending: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
Picked up my kids from my in-laws in Jersey last night, and on the 2 1/2 hour drive home my almost-6-year old kept singing the mashup of the Hamilton soundtrack and M.I.A.'s Paper Planes she'd made up:
"My name is Alexander Hamilton
All I wanna do is BANG BANG BANG BANG
And take your money"
my cybertruck post is really a microcosm of the trans woman experience. my post (of which i made precisely zero dollars on) has repeatedly had the attribution cropped off, reposted by someone who almost certainly is making money off of it, and is also degendering me at the same time.
in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters
Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it
I do not believe that Everything Is Fine and Everything Will Absolutely Work Out - I am absolutely an incredibly bleak pessimist at heart - but I also really, really *hate* declaring defeat and doom way before we know what’s going to happen.
the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me
I want you to do me a favor. I want you to look around yourself and think about what story your surroundings tell about you. think about what you would believe about a person who existed here. now I want you to break that story. I want you to leave evidence that you are someone else. someone happier
Taking a step back, it’s pretty remarkable that “legacy” tech companies like Google, Facebook, etc. have gotten worse not just on average but in every facet. It’s not like they have some recent hits and misses, it’s *everything* they do that’s getting worse.
While I appreciate this may be *a* reason I think the reason people hate tech right now is that basically every major platform has fallen into ruin in lockstep with the highest corporate profits in history, and when asked, companies like Meta say "yeah it'll get shittier too"
