On The Road - To Xi’An/ Quiescence ➰
在路上 - 去西安/ 静止 ➰
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Radioactive Cesium gives the shrimp an extra tangy-ness, and it can give you a warm feeling inside for the rest of your life. 🦐🍤😋🤤🥵🤯💀
But we don’t need no stinkin’ food inspectors, do we doge/maga; thank god for musk/45.
https://time.com/7310679/fda-shrimp-radioactive…
Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
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Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share
An MIT report says 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, mainly due to a "learning gap" for both the tools and the companies (Sheryl Estrada/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-perc…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Flying Vipers:
🎵 Jackals
#FlyingVipers
https://flyingvipers.bandcamp.com/track/jackals
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zHgpl1IhHVdGOErtfuSCL
Aha!!! This is one of the pieces I was trying and failing to think of upthread, from the always excellent @… (and I’m embarrassed that I couldn’t bring it to mind earlier, sorry Jennifer, it’s so good and so important):
https://jenniferplusplus.com/the-free-software-commons/
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Cleaned up my #Pixelfed a bit, updated a few descriptions and removed duplicate photos:
https://pixelfed.social/midtsveen
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OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/open-ai-sora-bryan-cranston-sag-aftra.html
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In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/technology/personaltech/meta-smar…