ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/11/pharma-drug-priding-biden-negotiations/

How the Osage Nation helped Martin Scorsese make ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ more authentic

From the White savior narrative at the heart of “Dances With Wolves” to the Indigenous stereotypes in “The Last of the Mohicans,” Hollywood doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to portrayals of Native Americans.

#Oscars #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon #Osage #Native #Indigenous
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/21/entertainment/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-nation-cec/index.html

Why the US needs strong privacy laws, part M of N.
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112076512091315409

Trump’s freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/11/trump-campaign-speech-anatomy/ donny darko is at it again ~ just sayin'

we're seeing bro levels at about 74%

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There is nothing wrong with outrage based on facts.

Outrage about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade may will probably keep Biden in the White House.

But manufactured outrage to fuel a for-profit industry is not good for anyone.

It is not good for democracy.

It is not good for the victims.

It is not good for the people trying to put out forest fires of misinformation with a squirt gun of facts.

https://terikanefield.com/invented-narratives-and-the-outrage-industry/

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@glyph I had a lot of people ask for a clock, but they're a bunch of trouble to build out of atoms, so I decided to learn how to write code for the iPhone and built an app. I got it approved by the App Store and now you can get a software-only, free, no ads, no tracking version of the Solar Metric Clock so you always know where the sun is.

https://www.olsons.net/projects/multiclock

House Speaker Johnson reveals at SOTU that he didn't even bother to read the bi-partisan border bill before declaring it dead?
"As House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shook his head in apparent disagreement, Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a staunch conservative who negotiated the bill, nodded, saying, 'That’s true.'"

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-7-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#SOTU #Biden #Democracy

"the Nazi party rose to power in the wake of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that carried a long tail of disability and illness. In 2020, CNN noted that, “the relative impact of the flu was correlated to strength in support for Nazism.” Further, disabled people were the first targets of the mass execution campaigns of the Nazis. Public propaganda labeled disabled people “useless eaters” (which sounds more and more familiar these days), and the eugenicist murders of disabled people led to

Not all software should need access the internet. It’s okay to provide service offline. In many cases, it’s even better. Unplug it 📴

Found online:

Corporations are people. Embryos are people. Is there anything MAGAs don't think are people?

Oh, right. Women.

Bet frogs are loving this leap Thursday.

Mistigram: @pixelblip's #teletext animation here, with high fidelity accurately reproducing through period technology the experience of attending a #rave in the '80s, was intended for inclusion in the new music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection... but we had to withdraw it upon learning that it singlehandedly doubled the final filesize of the pack. (Fortunately, you can enjoy it here.) PLUR and rave on!

https://youtu.be/DLYb8AN-468