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Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
Bill Benzon's take on the Mac Arthur grants.
(and I agree)
Once again, it's a Big Mac Attack! The "genius" prizes have been announced for 2020. Guess what? Most of winners have good gigs and don't need the money.
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2020/10/once-again-its-big-mac-attack-genius.html
Cool 1960s Soviet Calendars
These thick pads of pulpy newsprint propaganda are a treasure trove of graphic design.
https://themagnet.substack.com/p/cool-1960s-soviet-calendars
And
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HmqVoNaMUJX4kNECDiI_6llVs5EeAv08E5GiNjjU30g/edit
Crouching T2, Hidden Danger
(Apples T2 Chip)
Let’s talk about that thing nobody’s talking about. Let’s talk about a vulnerability that’s completely exposing your macOS devices while most are declining to act nor report about the matter. Oh, and did I mention it’s unpatchable?
Settle in buckaroo, we’re in for a wild ride.
White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines.
The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.
By Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-guidelines.html
From the Dept. of: "Of course, it's that way"
Women, workers of color filling most 'high-hazard/low-reward' jobs in Washington.
"The big takeaway from our research, is how particularly women are working under precarious conditions, a large number of women are both facing safety risks at high-hazard jobs and are economically at risk."
by Jake Ellison
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-women-workers-high-hazardlow-reward-jobs-washington.html
Paper:
To Read:
New Study:
Once Again, The Mainstream Media Is A Bigger Problem In Spreading Disinformation Than Social Media.
By Mike Masnick
Our findings here suggest that Donald Trump has perfected the art of harnessing mass media to disseminate and at times reinforce his disinformation campaign by using three core standard practices of professional journalism.
Paper:
And in the news of other scumbags:
John McAfee, Software Pioneer Who Fled the Law, Is Arrested in Spain.
The U.S. authorities accused the former antivirus impresario of evading taxes and said his extradition to American soil was pending.
By Mike Ives
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/business/mcafee-arrested-tax-evasion.html
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Nextcloud 20: One private cloud to rule them all https://zd.net/3lk4Ztz by @sjvn
The open-source Nextcloud keeps expanding its utility from simple cloud file storage to being a do-it-all business cloud desktop.
If you live in Oregon and have been displaced by the fires.
Don't worry you can still vote!
My ballot will be held starting October 14, till I pick it up, at the local USPS office,
Driver license or state id card needed.
Fires in Oregon
Displaced Voter FAQ
Remember The Pueblo Revolt
The Pueblo Revolt is as important to American history as Nat Turner’s rebellion, the Stonewall Riot.
Moreover, the Pueblo Revolt actually succeeded in kicking the Spanish out for 12 years and when the Spanish returned, it was in a less intensely exploitative way. And if you are Hopi, you escaped any European domination for a mere 160 years.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/10/remember-the-pueblo-revolt
And
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/pueblo-revolt-native-american-protests.html
Bob Gibson Keeps His Distance
Roger Angell’s 1980 profile of Bob Gibson for The New Yorker is as great a piece of writing about a great athlete as you’ll ever read. Like all truly great writing about sports, it’s not about the game at all.
The definitive case for ending the filibuster.
Every argument for the filibuster, considered and debunked.
By Ezra Klein
The filibuster has turned the Senate from an institution in which bills passed when a majority of senators support them to an institution in which bills can only pass, with rare exceptions, with the backing of a 60-vote supermajority.
https://www.vox.com/21424582/filibuster-joe-biden-2020-senate-democrats-abolish-trump
A Review of:
India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
by Richard M. Eaton
In particular, its huge Buddhist universities, such as Nalanda and Vikramashila, with their tens of thousands of learned monks, were regarded with deepest reverence — as though they were a sort of cross between Oxbridge, the Ivy League and the Alexandria Library.
ByWilliam Dalrymple
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44128461-india-in-the-persianate-age-1000-1765
The Chamber Of Commerce Dems From The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party Just Undercut Pelosi's Pandemic Negotiations With Mnuchin
Neither the DCCC or Pelosi's PAC spends much on progressives, making sure to keep the number of progressives down to a bare minimum, but they spend millions and millions of dollars protecting weak Blue Dogs and New Dems who don't generate much enthusiasm from woke Democrats.
By Howie Klein
https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-chamber-of-commerce-dems-from.html
While Facebook works to create an oversight board, industry experts formed their own.
A group of about 25 experts announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions.
By Olivia Solon
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-real-oversight-board-n1240958
(Important to me, as I would have given a lot to attend such a school. Instead they sent me off to college at 15 ½, way to young. Fucked me up for a long time.)
On the destruction of America’s best high school.
They are a national treasure. Challenging programs for the “gifted” are sometimes decried as “elitism.”
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
( I missed this.... Now I know)
Expanded Digital Edition Of Roger And Brian Eno’s ‘Mixing Colours’
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pvxHmMGWs0U&list=OLAK5uy_nB8sOfIvYQE_NMKY5GZY84ZPzSf0E7EDo
and
Hey you !
If you are new here.
Have you noticed that there are,
No ads?
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How is this done?
It is the work of @th3j35t3r
And all the people supporting his work by going pro !
It's just $5.00 a month. (the price of one of those horrible Starbucks coffees)
Not right away, you are welcome to use this for free.
But think about it.
https://counter.social/supportcoso.html
Some, but not all Pro features. There is also CoSoGroups !
@th3j35t3r
And anybody else.
Is there an updated graphic, like this one. That adds CoCoGroups into the list of Pro features?
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"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018