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A group of Democratic senators is demanding answers from the Department of Education
on its decision to renege on its obligation to 3 million student loan borrowers enrolled in the
"Income-Based Repayment program",
which forgives any remaining student debt after 300 payments, which typically takes about 25 years.

Lawmakers Slam DOE for Suspending 3 Million Borrowers’ Student Loan Forgiveness
The Department of Education suspended a program that forgives any remaining student debt after 300 payments.

Man this is really cool
“We were even encouraged to dig out some particularly gnarly old stuff that hadn’t seen the light of day in years”: Freqport FreqInOut FO1 review | MusicRadar https://ww…

“We were even encouraged to dig out some particularly gnarly old stuff that hadn’t seen the light of day in years”: Freqport FreqInOut FO1 review
We take a look at Freeport’s latest in/out box which promises to morph your hardware into plugin form without breaking a sweat

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nacho Picasso:
🎵 Life of Pi
#NachoPicasso
https://nachopicasso.bandcamp.com/track/life-of-pi
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fR1kHbDRznfB6PZywTCd1

Forgive the screenshot from BlueSty, but this broke my heart. I am so grateful I have dual citizenship.

… und die daten werden dann alle in eine Azure-cloud geladen, die von China aus administriert wird.
Was für eine «partnerschaft» soll das sein!?
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/grenzpartnerschaft-mit-den-usa-eu-k…

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴‍♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

Not being allowed to install what I want on a phone is like being told I cant make a sandwich with the bread I bought.
#Android #Google #FreeSoftware

Working Americans are set to take to the streets this Labor Day
with over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies and protests planned nationwide.
The mobilizations, spearheaded by the "Mayday Strong Coalition" of national, state, and local labor and community organizations,
will protest what organizers call a “billionaire agenda”
that is suppressing the labor movement,
attacking workers' rights,
and burdening families across the country…

Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.