What Kind of America Survives After Trump?
What Kind of America Survives After Trump? | The Tyee
Crystal ball visions of a new constitution, a new kind of republic, perhaps even a split into two nations.Crawford Kilian (The Tyee)
‘Marines train for war:’ Veterans blast deployment of military to assist ICE in Florida
‘Marines train for war:’ Veterans blast deployment of military to assist ICE in Florida
Local veterans are speaking out against the deployment of 200 Marines to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida. Over 200 veterans have signed an open letter opposing the use of the military in this capacity.Alex Cook (ClickOrlando | Orlando, Florida News, Local Headlines | WKMG News 6")
Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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"to protect children from our website we are amassing a database of coerced child images on our website."
are you kidding me with this shit. I knew bluesky was a foul joke but going beyond that is both unnecessary and redundant.
Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.
As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.
Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
President’s opposition to offshore wind more than a decade ago now threatens a huge industry in the US and beyondOliver Milman (The Guardian)
'Pay Them What They Deserve': 1 in 6 Teachers Work a Second Job
'Pay Them What They Deserve': 1 in 6 Teachers Work a Second Job
Teachers with many years of experience are just as likely to take on extra jobs as those who are just starting out, data shows.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
As ICE Operations Expand, How Are Immigrant Allies Responding?
As ICE Operations Expand, How Are Immigrant Allies Responding?
Communities across the U.S. are organizing rapid response networks, court accompaniments, and using apps like ICEBlock to protect immigrants and fight back against aggressive ICE raids and detentions.Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí (KQED)
How Ralph Ineson Went From a Nameless Pilot in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to the Almighty Galactus in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
Fantastic Four: First Steps: How Galactus Devoured Actor Ralph Ineson
Working with then-unknown filmmaker Robert Eggers on 'The Witch' supercharged the actor's career, eventually allowing him to play one of the biggest characters in the Marvel mythos.Brian Davids (The Hollywood Reporter)
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mailbox.org, Posteo and @Tutanota@mastodon.social are secure, data-friendly and established.
They each have their pros and cons. For example posteo has a lot of payment services, I think tuta has a own client, and mailbox.org is really clean AFAIK.
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Fascism Is Tacky
Fascism Is Tacky:
The administration that populates its Instagram feed with AI-generated images of eagles, money, and the DJT Jerk Off Dance just withdrew from UNESCO, the UN’s cultural agency. This is the second time in as many terms that Trump has pulled us out of the organization. In a comment to the New York Times, a State Department spokesperson accused UNESCO of promoting “divisive social and cultural causes” (Palestinians’ right to exist, mostly) and maintaining an “outsized focus on the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda” at odds “with our America First foreign policy.” Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to rename the Kennedy Center’s Opera House after Melania.
Slog AM: ICE Detains High School Theater Director, Israel Strikes WHO Site, and CEOs love Bruce Harrell
The Stranger's Morning News Roundup.Hannah Murphy Winter (The Stranger)
The administration that populates its Instagram feed with AI-generated images of eagles, money, and the DJT Jerk Off Dance
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Can Burning Man survive the financial desert - and keep its soul intact?
Can Burning Man survive the financial desert – and keep its soul intact?
Organisers say creative culture, not profits, will secure the desert festival’s future despite $20m budget shortfallDani Anguiano (The Guardian)
I have never been. But being in music circles that have traditionally had close ties with the festival. What I've generally heard is that it's a shadow of what it was 30 years ago. For whatever that's worth.
It definitely seems to be losing it's identity. Once a communal celebration of art, music, and culture outside of the main stream. It's definitely gotten more exclusive and watered down. Victim of it's own success and capitalism.
Blue Angel Blues
Parades and fairs have always been about excessive use of energy. That we're now considering this stands in tight contention with the meaning of tradition. Is there a correct answer here? I'm not qualified to say.
But Seafair sans Blue Angels isn't ... Seafair. Perhaps, in time, it will evolve, as will we (hopefully taking the national anthem out of sports games), but for now, give the kids -- and maybe some parents -- what they want. 670 tons with how much carbon we're spewing makes a rounding error look significant.
Every sort of event like this has always produced waste; one need not look back further to the amount of literal horse shit from parades mere decades ago.
Pageantry is pageantry. But it means something to people, and to say "we're wasting fuel" -- well, what portion of society doesn't?
I'm not going to address your framing. It's not as though Seafair is unique in any manner ... hell, in Ashland, Ore., for the Fourth of July, fighter jets would fly down the Bear Creek valley from Klamath Falls to start the parade.
I take the bus. Do you? Because if not, the per-capita carbon emissions you're ascribing to a couple of fighter planes is peanuts.
ICE Detains High School Theater Director, Israel Strikes WHO Site, and CEOs love Bruce Harrell
Trump Is Afraid of Teachers: Last week, ICE arrested and detained Fernando Rocha, a theater manager at Juanita High School in Kirkland. His lawyer told the Seattle Times that Rocha entered the US on a tourist visa in 2018, and before it expired, he applied for asylum. The case is still pending. Meanwhile, ICE Seattle claimed on Twitter that Rocha was wanted in Brazil for theft, a claim that his family in Brazil called “outlandish.”
Slog AM: ICE Detains High School Theater Director, Israel Strikes WHO Site, and CEOs love Bruce Harrell
The Stranger's Morning News Roundup.Hannah Murphy Winter (The Stranger)
RFK Jr to remove preservative thimerosal from all US vaccines
RFK Jr to remove preservative thimerosal from all US vaccines
Anti-vaccine campaigns have targeted thimerosal for decades despite no evidence of ingredient causing harmJessica Glenza (The Guardian)
Anyone got experience with Ducky keyboards?
For some reason or another, a whole third of all mechanical keyboards in the biggest local computer retailer's online store, are Ducky. Probably because they have ISO and ANSI layouts, a lot of colors, different sizes, and different switches. And they're ordered from abroad when bought, not stocked locally. So loads of choice and no cost showing them as available.
So since my only real options here if I want a full keyboard or TKL with blue switches are a couple of different Ducky models (one 3, Shine 7) in various colors, I'm wondering if anyone has personal experience with Ducky? I've read both praise and hate online, so can't really make heads or tails of the quality.
While They’re Losing the Public, Democrats Are Winning on K Street
While They’re Losing the Public, Democrats Are Winning on K Street
The DCCC raised record levels of lobbyist cash in the first half of the year, per new disclosure.Donald Shaw (Sludge)
This EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it.
This EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it.
The Office of Research and Development produced the science underpinning regulations on everything from PFAS to pesticides to lead.Zoya Teirstein (Grist)
Gun Violence In This Midwestern City Isn’t Abating. Its Leaders Halted Programs That Could Help.
Fort Wayne Is an Outlier to the Midwest’s Gun Violence Drop
Without government funding, local activists in Fort Wayne say interrupting violence is an uphill battle — especially among young people.Josiah Bates (The Trace)
Colorado attorney general committed to defending in-state tuition program for undocumented students
Colorado attorney general committed to defending in-state tuition program for undocumented students
Texas and other states are grappling with legal challenges against in-state tuition programs for undocumented students. So far, Colorado’s program remains untouched.Jason Gonzales (Chalkbeat)
US Army Touting Grenade Dropping Drone Shows Just How Alarmingly Behind The Curve It Still Is
Army Touting Grenade Dropping Drone Shows Just How Alarmingly Behind The Curve It Still Is
The U.S. Army asks "Have you ever seen a drone drop a GRENADE?" The answer is yes.Joseph Trevithick (The War Zone)
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Hundreds of Iowa Meatpacking Employee Visas Revoked
Hundreds of Iowa Meatpacking Employee Visas Revoked
200 JBS employees from four countries are losing their U.S. work authorization.Nina B. Elkadi (Sentient)
How National Cancer Institute funding cuts could affect the fight against the disease
How National Cancer Institute funding cuts could affect the fight against the disease
For decades, the National Cancer Institute has spearheaded breakthrough advancements against the disease.William Brangham (PBS News)
Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont
Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont | Civil Eats
A new state law establishes protections for immigrant families against housing discrimination, aiding farmworkers.Riley Ramirez (Civil Eats)
NPR's editor in chief and acting chief content officer Edith Chapin told colleagues Tuesday morning that she has decided to step down.The veteran news leader's announcement comes just days after the Republican-led Congress, driven largely by President Trump's claims of liberal bias at NPR, voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.
Once again, for those in the cheap seats: If you want to know why journalism -- real journalism -- is perceived as having a liberal slant, it's because our fucking job is to question everything.
Journalism is not toeing the party line. It's not holding back on investigations because someone in power might get pissed off.
That's the job.
Memphis leaders say being called ‘dumbasses’ by a state lawmaker is part of a bigger problem
Memphis school leaders say being called ‘dumbasses’ by a legislator is a symptom of bigger problem
Two Republicans want to create a state-led Memphis-Shelby County district. But local advocates are pushing back on what they call misleading and offensive claims.Bri Hatch (Chalkbeat)
Winning play is home school.
The new strategy to restrict abortion nationwide — without saying ‘ban’
The new strategy to restrict abortion nationwide — without saying 'ban'
Trump won’t back a national abortion ban, but anti-abortion groups have other ideas on how to severely limit access to the procedure even in states where it is legal.Shefali Luthra (19th News)
Trump pulls US out of UN cultural agency UNESCO for second time
>"President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said.
UNESCO was one of several international bodies Trump withdrew from during his first term, along with the World Health Organization, the Paris Agreement global climate change accord and the U.N. Human Rights Council. During his second term, he has largely reinstated those steps.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-pulls-us-out-un-cultural-agency-unesco-second-time-2025-07-22/
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency dedicated to strengthening our shared humanity through the promotion of education, science, culture, and communication.We set standards, produce tools and develop knowledge to create solutions to some of the greatest challenges of our time, and foster a world of greater equality and peace.
Protecting biodiversity, responding to artificial intelligence, advancing quality education, safeguarding heritage, and ensuring access to reliable information are some examples of the work that UNESCO does with its 194 Member States across the globe.
Yup, the U.S. does not (currently) align with any of that.
Jeep maker Stellantis says it will lose $2.7 billion due partly to tariffs
Jeep maker Stellantis says it will lose $2.7 billion due partly to tariffs
Sales in North America plummeted by 25% in the second quarter, Stellantis said.Max Zahn (ABC News)
The Trump Regime Targets California’s Sanctuary Status at the Expense of the American Creed
The Trump Regime Targets California’s Sanctuary Status at the Expense of the American Creed
A commentary piece on how the federal government’s immigration sweeps appear to go well beyond contempt for local 'sanctuary' policies and demonstrate that they respect no protection in the very things they purport to be guarding: the law, the Consti…KQED
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in reply to mesa • • •As intended.
First they're going to collapse the ad model by eliminating most clicks.
Then they're going to put all of the information they've been scraping from the now-bankrupt websites behind paywalls.
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in reply to WatDabney • • •Joke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
We are the wealth of information in the internet. C
... show moreJoke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
We are the wealth of information in the internet. Corporations don't own it. We are it.
ori
in reply to WatDabney • • •Why would they do that, when they can charge advertisers to bias the LLM? How much do you think Adidas would pay to have their products advantages mixed into any response about sports gear, undetectable?
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