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Sometimes I think about the fact that years ago, I bumped into Matt Pinfield two days in a row - once at a Jane's Addiction concert, then the following day walking through Times Square. The first time was a normal social moment, bullshitting after a show. The second time, I think both of us were uncomfortably surprised. It's that second memory that I cherish.
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it's only "AI" if it comes from the san francisco bay area . otherwise it's just sparkling autocomplete
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Ahead of the release of video footage documenting the police execution of Tyre Nichols, the authorities are deploying all the standard tactics in the counter-insurgency playbook:
—Delay the release of the video
—Appeal for calm while mobilizing the same police forces that carried out the killing to be prepared to carry out more violence on a massive scale
—Permit some family members and activists to view the video in order to enlist them as spokespeople demanding a certain kind of response and delegitimizing those who do not comply
—Spread fear about an invented identity ("outside agitators," "gang members," "antifa") in order to preemptively justify violent repression
—Fire the officers involved; if necessary, initiate legal proceedings (these can always be dropped later)
All this has become standard practice. This is how they hope to suppress unrest, even in the most egregious cases of police murder.
But they have no intention of diminishing the amount of violence that police employ, nor addressing the disparities that render that violence inevitable. This is obvious because they are putting all their energy into managing the public response to police violence, not into seeking any sort of change.
If there is to be any change, it will have to come from us.
@trinsec No problems making new corpses although the savor is in the looting. 🙂 Will check it out though. Thanks!
If there was a video game where you just went around looting corpses, my wife would play the hell out of it. Her birthday is coming up so any recommendations welcome!
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Terrific insider piece on Twitter under Musk, marred only by too many unnamed sources. https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji
Swapped my self-hosted Bitwarden instance for Vaultwarden, and it was completely painless. RAM usage is way down and nothing broke.This is very happy news. And to think: my Friday nights used to be strictly for getting hopelessly drunk and debasing myself. These days, I'm too tired to drink and only debase myself in socially acceptable ways.That's the kind of personal growth I can fully endorse.
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RT @havingalaugh
genuine tears at this, laurel & hardy themselves couldn’t craft a better gag
Alexa: play Boom Boom Dollar
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Did you watch the "Kevin McCarthy's tormentors" this week?
I did. During which I kept thinking of this piece published in the Washington Post in 2012 by Norm Ornstein and Tom Mann.
It's difficult to describe how utterly establishment Mann and Ornstein were at the time. One was at Brookings, the other at American Enterprise Institute.
They saw what was happening: The GOP's attack on all institutions. The press didn't want to know. Now it does.
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Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."
Conservatives. Is that what they are?
John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:
"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."
Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"
Is MAGA conservative?
Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?
As a general rule, I hate congressional Republicans, but I love people that make Kevin McCarthy eat shit. I'm having a mildly conflicted evening.
Few things bring me the zen calm of organizing my music library. Just scan, tag, sort. World without end, amen.
@Gbudd My dog figured out how to choose the larger pet bed, but struggled mightily when it came time to utilize the space.
The only thing funnier than power metal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJMNYpRikE
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