The #plastics industry has heralded a type of #chemical #recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with recycled ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the #plastic crisis.
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As I told Axios, Governor Walz and Second Gentleman Emhoff represent "tonic masculinity, the antidote to toxic masculinity."
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/24/walz-trump-emhoff-masculinity-fatherhood
Read this passage from ex-Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger at the #DNC:
"Some have questioned why I've taken the stand I have. The answer is simple: We must put country first. And tonight, as a Republican speaking before you, I'm putting our country first. Because the fact is—I do belong here. I know Kamala #Harris shares my allegiance to the rule of law, the Constitution, and democracy. And she is dedicated to upholding all three in service to our country. 1/
@jeffjarvis The threat has never been runaway AI “taking over” and deciding to kill humans; the danger has always been humans using automation to accelerate their own sociopathy and launder inhumane decisions…
Your regular reminder that you shouldn't just check your registration
Email your loved ones and tell them to email everyone they know to check their registration.
US pol: Dems Fill GOP convention AND their own
I didn't really get why Walz and Harris were in Milwaukee tonight, but they were in the same convention center used for the RNC
DNC = RNC * 2
Frankly, very smart. Even if all ya'll can stay focused and we win this, there will still be grumbling about numbers.
This is an obvious demonstration of how they will dominate the popular vote. Now if only they can overcome the college.
Through VP Harris, "women can feel like they're laughing in the faces of the creeps and weirdoes who want to take away their freedom and happiness."
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/19/why-joy-matters-kamala-harris-hopes-happy-women-can-defeat-donald-and-magas-male-rage/
our straight-talking press, uspol
‘When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, her first response was “What?!” Her second: What’s an elector?
'“I was shocked and surprised by it all. I didn’t even know what an elector was. […] The crazy thing is it was all forged. None of it was my handwriting. It was definitely not my signature. My email was wrong, my address was wrong.” (1/2)
Cognitive dissonance.
I'm in the Bay Area, at an executive offsite doing strategy and planning. We rented a meeting room from a church near HQ. Discussing markets, efficiency, ARR, and such things.
Mid afternoon, church people showed up and started getting busy in the kitchen next door. Late afternoon the people started lining up for the hot meals site just outside our meeting room window.
I've been a regular volunteer at the hot meals site back home. I would much rather have been out with the church folks serving food to people who need it than in the meeting room doing capitalism.
@RavynWitch Same. Out of spoons, but need to find some.
Heading into the second day of an all day management offsite today. As an introvert, it’s immensely draining.
Gonna keep my focus on the team, and what we can do to maintain their supply of spoons. I run out of spoons really fast if I attempt heartless capitalism.
HEY FUN FACT: this was used as part of an Alexa/google home type thing! this is the "cloud" half, as in the part sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
It turns out every time the customer asked for something from the smart assistant, the WAV file was sent to the cloud box
where it is still stored. and I now have eleven thousand wave files
Now at: @haiku_brian
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