Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
I had a conversation this afternoon with the director of my regional public library, about Libby. She said that tagging books as Notify Me is what tells her what to buy. Libby notifies her about the requests for books from users, and if any book has more than three requests, she orders it. So using Notify Me is important!!!
#Libby #PublicLibraries #Books
JD prayed in the group chat, so yes, I got added too. Wasn't my choice.
I saw 4 bald eagles circling around together on my way home. More and more birds are coming baaack and it makes me really happy!
Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121
Neoliberalism is the extraordinary belief that the most greedy, self-centered, self-interested people will somehow work together to create the greatest good for all.
Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.
How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?
The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.
If you are not a US citizen and you are thinking about coming here, please strongly reconsider. I would be concerned for your safety, and to be honest these idiots need to feel the pain of tourism and international business drying up.
The US has what are effectively secret police snatching up people and disappearing them into a detention system. Some people reemerge in two weeks, some stay in there.
Don't risk it until something changes.
Security and hacker conferences and the like should really be considering alternate venues for international audiences, and consider whether they are being held in places queer folks within the US can safely attend.
Weird how the jobs that AI-boosters say AI is going to replace never seems to include the management or executive class.
Truth is not an echo chamber, accepting other people who aren't hurting anyone just by existing isn't an echo chamber, kindness isn't an echo chamber.
I don't need to consider "alternate beliefs" that are just lies. There's this idea that if I'm not constantly reading stuff by straight up Nazis, that I won't understand that they are Nazis. Not having to read nonsense as possible facts is one of the really cool things about having critical thinking skills.
I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like
"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."
A few years back I got this photo of a honey bee in flight, returning to her hive.
Had to shoot a few hundred photos just to land this one.
Wired has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an 
emoji. https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/
WIRED · Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
Blood in the Machine · OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character.
What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy whose image was bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy visible at the center.
Warped space, right before your eyes!
https://esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/ #space #science #art #nasa #esa
