anderbill
I am not the droid you are looking for. Also an open access advocate and inveterate punster.
Joined Oct 2019
Running list of disinformation about current protests
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/hoax-misleading-claims-george-floyd-protests
Keep that BS filter working. Gah!
anderbill
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This is worth 8 minutes of your time.
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1266523344624631809?s=20
"This country could be on fire almost every night in almost every city. It’s not, because most black people in this country choose to exercise tremendous restraint. Most black people are still willing to talk this out. Most black people have the courage and fortitude to withstand the violence done against us without lowering ourselves to the level of an American police officer.
America should be more thankful of that. And it should remember that it’s a choice."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/minneapolis-rebellion-floyd/
anderbill
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I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that our Tresury Secretary is a man who once foreclosed on a 90-yr-old woman over a 27 cent error.
He took her house because her check was 27 cents short.
Yea, this guy is the guy Trump has saving the Economy and everyone's jobs.
Government and public health experts need to trust us, and they need us to trust them too. For that, we need transparency on the strategy to move into the next phase. We can’t invest in the plan if we don’t know what it is. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/could-new-zealand-s-bubble-strategy-offer-a-way-out-of-lockdown-1.4236986#sst /ht @mollywood
COVID-19 and the Turn to Magical Thinking https://www.sapiens.org/column/conflicted/covid-19-magic/ via @SAPIENS_org
In a long Twitter thread @GeorgeMonbiot writes "Unless we think for ourselves, we obliviously mouth other people’s words." which I take as a reminder for me to do my own thinking.
anderbill
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My daughter’s g-g-g grandfather signed the Treaty at Fort Laramie in 1868
This is section 16 of it
The New Yorker @NewYorker
"This hearty stew serves five, which is perfect for my current household: me, my cat, my two porcelain dolls that have begun speaking to me, and my porcelain doll that is currently not speaking to me owing to a misunderstanding."
today's twitter gem: my name is nobody - @HildaMadeira: i have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.
why is it my confidant?
because it remains silent.
kierkegaard
From twitter (yesterday): Zeeshan Pathan @ZeeshanJaanam
Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.
Eavan Boland
"Lasting resentment over how the US went missing in action in the coronavirus wars of 2020 may change the way the world works."
anderbill
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(This my final word on Zoom, try and use anything else.)
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom.
By Bruce Schneier
"The company collects a laundry list of data about you, including user name, physical address, email address, phone number, job information, Facebook profile information, computer or phone specs, IP address, and any other information you create or upload. And it uses all of this surveillance data for profit, against your interests."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html
http://blog.japanesecreations.com/no-sew-face-mask-with-handkerchief-and-hair-tie
good for those men's cloth handkerchiefs
anderbill
I am not the droid you are looking for. Also an open access advocate and inveterate punster.
Joined Oct 2019