Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

Some have been raising questions about the potential affect of current solar storm activity on satellite operations, and in particular the potential for something called Kessler Syndrome where loss of navigational control results in satellites colliding with each generating a runaway cascade of destruction (https://interestingengineering.com/science/kessler-syndrome-spacex-starlink-orbital-chaos).

Perhaps the foremost advocate for sensible regulation of low earth orbit, astronomer Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets discusses this subject: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112416664121492169

I have egregiously abused my (moral only) authority as the faculty adviser of the new Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés to explain why the Bluebook is an abomination. It's time to light every copy on fire and start anew.

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nljr/vol1/iss1/2/

And here’s the thing: more of the US’s farmland is farmed by tenants now (40%) than in a previous peak during Jim Crow (28% in 1920).

We sure do love to talk about how agriculture's changed over the last century. But somehow, we missed that very significant detail!

FWIW I’ve never met anyone at PBS that looks like the that fellow. 🤔

When a woman or girl goes missing in the woods, no one assumes it was a bear.

This is taught to 7-year olds in our schools, because our society loves guns more than children, you absolute chucklefuck fartwaffle

The intended effect of equating student protests with the horrors of the mass atrocities committed by Nazi Germany is to legitimize violence against the protesters.

What a shameful, disgusting instrumentalization of the Holocaust.

The actual Kristallnacht was a country-wide pogrom in November 1938 in which the Nazis killed hundreds of German Jews, threw tens of thousands in concentration camps, destroyed hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish businesses.

Was even a single person hurt at Columbia?

Regardless of how you feel about the content of the protests, one thing is absolutely clear: If you've read any of @pluralistic books, you would definitely not be surprised at the police's actions last night at Columbia University. The books have been an eye-opening education in how adversarial modern protest response is.

Breaking: South Dakota governor Kristi Noem takes her vice presidential aspiration to gravel pit and kills it.

Fight for your libraries. Don’t let them take away your library by defunding it out of providing vital services. Don’t let them shackle the library with rules meant to prevent the right people from getting the right book to change their life. Don’t let them close the doors, because you know they will never open again. Fight for the freedom to read and explore new ideas. Fight against censorship and denying people the materials their souls need. If a library closes, it will never open again. You couldn’t create libraries today. You want to loan out books? And people will just willingly give them back? Are you mad? Naïve, perhaps? Once a library closes its doors, it’s over. The book banners have won. Do not let them win. Fight for libraries. Fight for library workers. Fight for patrons. Fight for free people reading freely. #libraries #censorship #librarians #LibraryWorkers #LibraryPatrons #BookBans

Campuses aren't being rocked by protests.

They're being rocked by politicized administrators ordering students beaten and jailed to satisfy the political elite.

Let's be clear who is causing the violence.

the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

https://www.tiktok.com/@msolurin

#policebrutality #studentspring #abolition

Columbia University’s President was so bad at basic strategic comms that now we’ve got police snipers on the roofs of campuses around the country.

I got a little mad about it in my latest post.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-only-thing-university-administrators?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Normalize asking people, “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

I have ZERO faith in a Supreme Court who's rationalizing putting SEAL Team 6 at anyone's front door.

A transcript of #NaomiKlein's speech at the Seder in the Streets in front of Senator Schumer's house in New York City. 👇

This thread is the whole speech because, well, it's that important -- Klein went out in public and claimed a path for US Jewish futures that is in coalition with those harmed by Zionism, but that is also deeply nested within Judaism as a multi-millennial tradition. We're lucky to live and breathe at the same time as Naomi Klein...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

The #unemployment rate for US-born workers averaged 3.6% in 2023, the lowest rate on record. Obviously, #immigration (white line) is not causing high #unemployment among US-born workers @economicpolicy chart @BloombergTV

Imagine my surprise, dear reader, when the Altoids tin in my junk drawer actually had Altoids in it.