Peter

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Tech volunteer if I can help. A work in progress, according to Ethel.

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Our republic keeps getting more and more banana. We're approaching the banana republic singularity. Not a singularity we should be aiming for IMO, but here we are.

This Orban shuttle diplomacy between Russia, China, and Trump smells like late-stage planning for a geopolitical October surprise.

Breaking News: Donald Trump is expected to meet with Hungary’s right-wing leader, Viktor Orban, in Florida on Thursday, days after Orban met Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Trump Is Expected to Meet With Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, in Floridawww.nytimes.com The meeting would come after Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been aligned with the former president, made unexpected trips to China, Russia and Ukraine.

Great news!

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.

TFW when you realize the fix is in, really really in.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveya...

Graveyard of empires - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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"the Court has begun to implement the policy preferences of its conservative majority in a new and troubling way: by simultaneously stripping power from every political entity except the Supreme Court itself"

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Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is about to get a shitload of filings challenging federal regulations and other agency actions.

SCOTUS overrules Chevron, a massive blow to the ability of federal agencies to function. The familiar 6–3, with Roberts writing for the majority www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Julian Assange is free (www.theguardian.com/media/articl...) Jeremy Corbyn wrote today: "Julian exposed the crimes of the powerful. His incarceration was — and always will be — a grotesque miscarriage of justice. Never stop fighting for the truth. Never lose hope. Never, ever give up."

Julian Assange leaves UK after striking deal with US justice departmentwww.theguardian.com It is anticipated the WikiLeaks founder will plead guilty to violating US espionage law at a hearing in Saipan and will be allowed to return to Australia

Capitalism w/o competition and a free market is exploitation, example 1 gazillion.

RealPage might be individually responsible for a huge part of the American rent explosion? I wish everyone involved a very painful [REDACTED]

A National Cartel Fixing Rental Housing Prices: The Scandal Continues to Grow | naked capitalismwww.nakedcapitalism.com The company at the heart of the rapacious conspiracy finally makes a statement following FBI raid in Atlanta.

So some astronauts stranded at ISS by Boeing's Starliner may need to be bailed out by SpaceX. Too soon to tell for sure. Here's hoping for the best and safest outcome. Can't help but think - if Boeing is going to strand anyone in space it should be Boeing's executive leadership.

Feels like Boeing is no longer fit for purpose.

Boeing Starliner’s return was delayed again. It will not happen before July 2. There’s no reason to think the vehicle won’t be able to bring crew home but…this is just getting more and more embarrassing for Boeing.

Not good.

Republicans have effectively criminalized studying how information moves on the internet at the request of a handful of billionaires and racists. I was writing a book about this, but went and did some other thing. If someone wants my notes or wants to talk to me about who to talk to, let me know.

absolutely correct

legalizing sports betting was such a profound societal failure.

Getting death threats from aggrieved gamblers, MLB players starting to fear for their safetywww.usatoday.com Major leaguers are getting concerned for their safety from gamblers since MLB and gambling companies have joined forces.

In his usual understated way, Jonathan Pie considers the immigration issue in the upcoming UK election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBr2...

2024 Election Specials: 2. Immigrationwww.youtube.com Tough Talk & Expensive Gimmicks? How about taking immigration seriously for once.

Thank you Patti Smith - pattismith.substack.com/p/rainy-day-...

Rainy Day Revisitpattismith.substack.com Happy Memorial Day

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I work on climate professionally. Django is right.

Look. I care about climate change a lot. I'm close to a single-issue voter on the subject! But we have GOT to stop worrying about what are, in the scheme of things, rounding errors. I hate, hate, hate this kind of personal-responsibility climate stuff, it's deeply counterproductive.

Absolutely not.

This is a nightmare. "The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more" www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24...

Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCswww.theverge.com Would you like a timeline of everything you do on your PC?

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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

When Online Content Disappearswww.pewresearch.org A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

Me neither.

No I don’t think I will

And here's an update from the UK from our hard-working correspondent Laura K. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/sunak-has-...

Sunak has a solution to our problems: a war on disabled peoplewww.normalisland.co.uk They are the cause of everything we used to blame on refugees

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also the conservatives never fuckin shut up i can hear them clearly even inside my bubble they never fuckin shut up

The frequently asserted conservative belief that liberals grow up in bubbles and aren't exposed to conservative ideas and so need to be forced to be exposed to conservative ideas is so far removed from reality it's insulting.

I have seen the future and it's filled with stupid AI chatbots that never quite understand anything accurately enough.

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you too will live to see your songs of exuberant sex and rebellion be used to sell you allergy medicine

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The 12-month running mean global temperature anomaly continues to tick upward... Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

unconscionable behavior by the feds in this case. miserable overreach. terrible tragedy for Aaron and such a loss for all the rest of us.

Whenever I download a free article from JSTOR, I think about all the people who tried to throw Aaron Swartz into prison for decades for trying to make JSTOR content free.

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The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.