Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org

#USPol #PSA which I am going to repeat periodically until election day (boosts appreciated for reach)...
If you care about a functioning democracy and don't want to be an asshole, please do not write in joke candidates on your ballot.
No one ever sees those votes except a couple people at city hall and the clerk who has to count all the write-ins, forcing all the tired election workers at the poll to stay later.
Please, vote for a real candidate or leave it blank.
Thank you.
#voting #BeKind

Worth a read.

Gift link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/opinion/trump-second-term-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E04.xXOd.JwLDA8QJwwLM&smid=url-share

Pedestrian deaths have risen alongside the height of vehicle hoods.

Dems will support this leg., but will reckless, FF-loving Rs vote for any changes to the oversized vehicles?

Oversized trucks & SUVs "create danger for everybody else on the street bc of their mass & of their height, whether you're walking or biking or inside a smaller car."

Lawmakers are expected to introduce a bill that'd require fed standards for hood height & visibility to protect pedestrians-.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5084276/pedestrian-protection-bill-bigger-cars-trucks

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.

#News #Video #Environment #EPA #Business #Oil #Chemicals #Government

https://youtu.be/06wOoPngOwM?feature=shared

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

Spotted in #ottawa

Just sayin'.

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

https://vote.gov/

Email your loved ones and tell them to email everyone they know to check their registration.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/110442757

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/

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Say what you feel about being excited by electoral politics or partisan politics, but the roll call at the DNC always hits hard, as an idealized depiction of a diverse, forward moving society.

So may it be so beyond that arena, one day and soon.

‘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)

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

I'm in New York City! <3

Met with a friend and walked from Brooklyn Bridge to Upper Manhattan. A long stretch of Park Avenue was made car-free yesterday, to be enjoyed by pedestrians and bicyclists (and I also saw a unicycle!).

And can't it please always be like this?