Your occasional reminder that this isn't really the second Gilded Age of American capitalism 'cause the first didn't actually end
#protests I'm writing my representatives with my own demands. 1) stop pretending hate groups are peace groups, 2) call hate groups out when hate is found, 3) shut down mob harassment of jew, black ,gay where it isn't a protest it is a hate rally on campus harrassing target groups, 4) withdraw federal funding of campuses which allow hate rallies, 5) deport every visa holder who is arrested at one of these protests for violence or incitement. https://nypost.com/video/radicals-endorse-hamas-tell-columbia-students-hijacking-planes-is-heroic/
Reps moving quickly -
Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) plan to introduce the College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability (COLUMBIA) Act
https://www.jns.org/bipartisan-columbia-bill-would-create-third-party-jew-hatred-monitors/
Trump and the RNC announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-election-interferrence/
Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants
https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/
Using old insurance fire maps, researchers have enabled a machine-learning system to recreate 3D models of neighborhoods that no longer exist. https://news.osu.edu/turning-old-maps-into-3d-digital-models-of-lost-neighborhoods/
Oh, look, Bloomberg doing uncritical press releases for Copilot. TFW when you've literally gotten more nuanced and thoughtful analysis of the tech's potential benefits and dangers from the perpetually stoned teens that hang out in your neighbor's backyard...
Your occasional reminder that Chris Pratt is a useless goober
I am a few hours late, but it's okay, the essay is old enough to forgive me: It's early in the morning on 15 April and thus time once again for Roy Brander's brilliant 1995 essay about risk management, Thomas Andrews, and the Titanic. Please do read.
Formerly @agunn and @agunn_at_work on that dead bird site, but free of the fouled nest. Hi there!