Good morning ☕️🙂
day before Thanksgiving holiday - making a pecan pie, the bread stuffing, cranberry sauce & baking sweet potatoes...love this kind of day - wish you all a good day too.
#cosophotography #photography
It bothers me every day when I see truth slipping away and facts being considered equal to opinions or not caring about the difference - our culture and democracy must demand more from our leaders, media, and ourselves. This is a 2018 very short article by Timothy Snyder maybe even more stark today than then. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/opinion/authoritarian-leaders-trump-putin-orban.html
When I was in Prague, shortly after the Velvet Revolution, there were fake cameras on most of the light poles.
The communist government had used the illusion that everyone was under surveillance all the time to control behavior.
Now we have governments actually putting people under continual surveillance and acting like it's for our benefit.
Eight Days A Week - Beatles
https://youtu.be/XTfmuDjwQTw
Oof. At *least* turn off your location on devices.
"The pervasive surveillance machine that has been developed for digital advertising now enables other uses completely unrelated to marketing, including government mass surveillance,” says Wolfie Christl, a Vienna-based researcher at Cracked Labs who investigates the data industry..."
#news #1984
Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
/nosanitize
NY bagels are the bomb!!
Your smart TV is snooping on you. Here's how to limit the personal data it gathers https://zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/your-smart-tv-is-snooping-on-you-heres-how-to-limit-the-personal-data-it-gathers/ by @sjvn
You can't stop smart TVs from looking over your shoulder, but you can at least cut down on their snooping. #privacy
#JazzAndRockOdyssey #CoSoMusic
Today's rock
#RollingStones - Crackin' Up, live 23 Jul 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0gZLZSR1eE
#AuschwitzMemorial #NeverForget
“ 26 March 1905 | An Austrian Jew, Viktor Frankl, was born in Vienna. A neurologist & psychiatrist. One of the founders of psychological humanism. He passed through Theresienstadt and the camps of Auschwitz, Kaufering & Türkheim. He survived. Author of 'Man in Search of Meaning'.”
#cosomusic
I Will Survive - Cake
https://youtu.be/3VFOEa8K-6Q
#cosomusic
Crash Into Me
Dave Matthews
https://youtu.be/k7in-9E3ImQ
New Order. Love Vigilantes.
#cosomusic
https://youtu.be/-VFWqLmVWx4
Good morning CoSo. ☕
...and in the end...
20 albums that greatly influenced your taste in music. One album per day, for 20 consecutive days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20
#cosomovies
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
final chase scene & beautiful soundtrack
https://youtu.be/I5IYGuBB2qU
In ALABAMA. Where 52% of voters are Republican. Nationwide, 43% of Republicans want abortion to be legal.
Hoping 🤞 that the GOP made a GRAVE error by passing all these anti-abortion laws.
“Lands beat Republican Teddy Powell by a wide margin — about 25 percentage points — in a politically moderate section of northern Alabama that Donald Trump won by a single percentage point in 2020. Just fewer than 6,000 people voted — offering a limited snapshot of voter attitudes.”
#politics ” An Alabama Democrat who campaigned against the state’s near-total abortion ban has won a special election to the state legislature, a stark signal that reproductive rights is a potent issue for Democratic candidates, even in the deep south.
Marilyn Lands won the state house seat on Tuesday, defeating Teddy Powell, a Republican, by 63% to 37%.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/27/alabama-democrat-win-marilyn-lands
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