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#CommonplaceNotes https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/commonplace-book-supply-chains-hope-cool.html supply chains, hope, cool. thanks

Commonplace book: supply chains, hope, cool
Yes this: https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/115696408257250551 Helen Toner on generative AI and where it might go , which is a rare article...

Rare court victory against Israeli West Bank settlement offers Palestinians some hope | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/24/victory-against-israeli…

Victory against Israeli West Bank settlement offers Palestinians some hope
Christian activist Kisiya regains access to family land after an Israeli court ruled against settlers in the West Bank.

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year,
Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections,
labor,
mutual aid, and
local organizing wins in 2025
point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
In 2026, we the people can build power
and we can win significant victories if we:
🔸Show up for the most vulnerable in the face of federal government attacks and neglect;
🔸Push back on racism and misogyny, and support inclusivity;
🔸Call …

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

Klint Kubiak’s Raiders era begins with real hope in Las Vegas https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/24/klint-kubiaks-raiders-era-begins-with-real-hope-in-las-vegas/

Ultra-thin wireless retinal implant offers hope for safely restoring vision signals https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ultra-thin-wireless-retinal-implant.html Photovoltaic nanoassembly of nanowire arrays sensitized with colloidal nanocrystals for near-infrared retina …

Ultra-thin wireless retinal implant offers hope for safely restoring vision signals
An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Sedat Nizamoğlu from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University has developed a next-generation, safe, and wireless stimulation technology for retinal degenerative diseases that cause vision loss.

Hope you've enjoyed the influx of cat pics. Those are necessary for my sanity... Ni ni :neocat_flop_sleep:

The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…

I hope the SotU address touches on this, even if only in the response.
“DOJ busted deleting evidence of Ghislaine Maxwell holding 'blackmail' over Trump”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maxxwell-blackmail-evidence/
“Justice Department withheld and rem…

DOJ busted deleting evidence of Ghislaine Maxwell holding 'blackmail' over Trump
The Department of Justice was reportedly caught deleting evidence that sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was in possession of three interviews that could possibly be used as blackmail over President Donald Trump and were not released to the general public.On Friday, investigative reporter Roger Solle...

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your day is full of rest.

I sincerely hope that before too long, generative AI images are recognized for the lazy dogshit that they are, and that the design profession utterly ostracizes the practitioners who use them

“Our main story tonight concerns Twitter, or as it’s being called since Elon Musk purchased it a few years ago: Twitter.”
John Oliver is a treasure.
(And I hope you’re not active on that shit site anymore. 😉😉)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI

Thank you Twin Cities.
Your struggle gives us hope that
A new day's rising.
#Minneapolis #haiku

It's Christmas.
Hope everyone is doing what they want with who they want.
I'm with the family, have new led lights off various kinds. Nice day.
Gonna cook dinner in a little while. Folks can't really manage it any more.

AI is dangerous and bad etcetera But people that are suprised that people get into trouble using OpenClaw shouldn''t blame the technology this time, it is just sheer stupidity or a very large risk appetite. It is like handing your keys and all your login credentials to a complete stranger and hope everything will be allright.
#AI

RE: https://mas.to/@gleick/115952606396238455
Unlikely, but I hope somehow his phone will be used in evidence, so we can know what they said to one another. More likely is that the murderer will see to it that the phone disappears.

I hope Santa brings him bowel cancer for Christmas. https://aus.social/@jhaue/115773856102874588

Anyone know the song they're singing? I hope it is about event horizons …
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/806560629144043520/stephen-hawking-impersonators?source=share

Text of the Epstein/Nassar letter (Nassar was the creep who molested gymnasts):
"Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. **Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to “grab snatch**,” whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein."

#infosec and #networking friends local and abroad, I hope this captures in part what some of you are fearing, sensing, or seeing. There is a lot more one could say, but topically relevant here, an excerpt to locally elected government officials:
"[...] I'm seeing and experiencing…

Merry Christmas – I hope you are on the nice list, with just enough naughty that you got away with it.

Wine giant Gallo to lay off 90, shut down a key Napa facility - @…
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-20/wine-giant-gallo-to-lay-off-90-shut-down-key-napa-facility
'Customers are choosing quality, not quantity: they would rather buy fewer bottles and invest in a premium product, said Rob McMillan, Silicon Valley Bank’s executive vice president and wine expert.'
There is hope in (/for) America...

"Crisis feels so confident, so precise. And yet. I believe the space between hope and dread is an invitation."
—Anna Thurston ’19 M.A.R./M.E.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in her piece titled "How to Breathe in Uncharted Times: A Case Study" https://…

Raiders Hope Their Latest Coaching Hire Fixes Significant OL Issue https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-hope-their-latest-coaching-hire-fixes-significant-issue

Merry Christmas. Thanks for following. Whether it was a fancy hat, or the latest home computer, hope you got what you wanted.

🎄 Merry Christmas
🎄 Gleðileg jól
🎄 عيد ميلاد مجيد
Hope you and yours are having a good day!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Širom:
🎵 Hope in an all-sufficient space of calm
#Širom
https://open.spotify.com/track/5LrJ8m8g0GVwy4X4iAbpQq

I hope Rufus steps on a Lego brick

Turmeric Tyrant
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: I hope you'll lol, not take legal action.
#satire #potus45

Cowboys have one hope to beating the Chargers in Week 16 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/20/cowboys-one-hope-la-chargers-week-16/87862535007/

Good Morning #Canada
No nonsense news or fun facts this morning. I'm taking a few days off due to a busy schedule and a compressed family gathering. My oldest daughter has scheduled radiation treatments this morning and early on Boxing Day, so we're having a Christmas Eve dinner and exchanging gifts early tomorrow. I might post if something snark-worthy pops up but otherwise look for the next Good Morning post on the 26th.
I hope all Canadians have a safe and happy holidays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

Apparently (I wasn’t part of the group, got the report when I arrived on the scene) there was a caravan of multiple vehicles following ICE. Several ICE vehicles cut dangerously into the caravan and forced the observers’ cars to stop. That’s when they smashed the person’s window and took them.
It sounds like multiple people got video. I hope you don’t see it, for the safety of those whose faces might appear in the video. But I hope you believe me anyway. This is all really happening.

Merry Christmas guys, I hope you spend quality time with your loved ones and get a lot of presents!

"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://

Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech
Why replace human work with fossil-fuel-slurping mistake generators? Ecosia’s “Green AI” is selling false hope for bad tech

They're making a Far Cry TV series, which I hope is better than the movie.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/far-cry-tv-series-fx-noah-hawley-rob-mac-1236591190/

'Far Cry' TV Series Set at FX From Noah Hawley and Rob McElhenney
FX has ordered a series adaptation of Ubisoft's "Far Cry" video games from Noah Hawley and Rob McElhenney, Variety has learned.

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

Merry Xmas to all fediverse. I hope all of you are with your family in these days. 😊
A huge hug! 🫂
#fediverse #christmas #xmas

As usual, my sentiment for people at this time of year: Merry WTFever you celebrate. If you can do so with family, awesome. If not for whatever reason, I hope you have a date, or friends to chill with. If you don't bother with the holidays/people, have a decent day. Don't forget to find yourself a little bit of peace and/or joy. #Xmas

Brave Browser (@…) hasn't posted anything since August 2025. Did we bully the cryptobro homophonic browser off Mastodon?
Don't know, but I hope so :3 :8bitrainbow:

I hope the entire cyber sector just says no.
Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/hacker-who-stole-120000-bitcoins-wants-a-second-chance-and…

Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job
Crypto theft was "the worst thing I had ever done."

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
Read …

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

This is what happened to the web when the software industry never spent a moment thinking about long term stability. About users. About usability. About anything other than features and a fast buck.
Among many other failings.
Would be nice to some professionalism in future. One can hope, but I despair.
https://jimsbutchery.com.au

I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good.
That would be dishonest.

Raiders Hope Their Latest Coaching Hire Fixes Significant OL Issue https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-hope-their-latest-coaching-hire-fixes-significant-issue

Watching the first two episodes of the second season of #Fallout after a re-watch of season one feels ... empty.
In S02E02 all mysteries seem to have been solved. Everything anyone does seems boring. I have hope that Kumail Nanjiani's character can spice things up - but only a little.
:-(

I hope you never disabled the TPM while your system was Entra-joined. Otherwise, get educated on the consequences of what you did here.
☑️ Why you should ensure whether your #TPM module has not been disabled once - ctrlshiftenter.cloud

Why you should ensure whether your TPM module has not been disabled once - ctrlshiftenter.cloud
Hi everyone, in this blog post, I will write about the importance of the trusted platform module (TPM)…

Jane Fonda said, "Hope is activism."
Greta Thunberg said, "Don’t go looking for hope. Look for action and the hope will come."
Barack Obama titled his book "The Audacity of Hope (2006)."
Be audacious. Do NOT give up. Give hope.
#WeThePeople #HopeInHumanity

Good evening!
Here's a photo similar to one of my last - but this time without the stranger in the photo.
this spot was really pretty cool that day! with the fog and frost. Sometimes a person walking by ... there so many different .. hm moods/motives/situations to capture - just in a single spot.
Anyways, I hope you like it and don't see it as .. intimidating/strange as the one with the stranger in it ;)

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/one-glacier-is-actually-growing-and-perplexed-scientists-hope-to-discover-its-secrets/

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets
The samples were drilled across 100 meters of ice, equating to some 30,000 years of glacial history. 

I'm not "religious" per se,
though I sometimes watch
my 3D printer on the first layer
and silently pray...
#3Dprint #hope

Hi everyone, hope you’re doing well. I’m reaching out to ask for support for this GoFundMe. This cause is important and whether you can donate or simply share the fundraiser, every little bit helps and is greatly appreciated. Here’s the link: https://gofund.me/1b84fc1a3

Let's hope we are being festive and not the other one.... #Wordle
Wordle 1 678 4/6
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"Even in 'modern' contexts, people do find in nature and in natural processes, quite routinely, an eternal (and often cyclical) story of hope. There is a kind of redemption in seeing heaven in a wildflower."
—Lav Kanoi ’24 Ph.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in his piece titled "A Climate of Hope Where Religion, Ecology, and the Arts Meet"

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/115941198098862825
MAKE HOPE NORMAL AGAIN

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Don't overreact. Remember, this is for your beloved leader.
JENNA: Well, I hope Blake appreciates this.
BLAKE: Renounce. Renounce.
ORAC: Renounce what? Tell us what.
BLAKE: Freedom. Freedom Party.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/127

I saw a Hackaday comment where someone admitted they were wrong and apologized.
Maybe there is hope for the world…

I hope the game get back in the good graces of gamers.
Iceflake's First Patch for Cities Skylines 2 is GOOD! by City Planner Plays
#videogames

POTUS: Pedo Of The United States
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: I hope you'll lol, not take legal action.
#satire #potus45

on the bright side, attrs is now doing half a BILLION downloads per MONTH
which is like 140 million too little for the pypi top 20. oh god i hope fastly never lets us down
https://pypistats.org/packages/attrs

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Faith, Hope & Charity:
🎵 Heavy Love
#Faith #Hope #Charity
https://freakingsnap.bandcamp.com/track/heavy-love

If you’re wondering what the Internet has become, Cloudflare Radar offers a good overview. In the top 10, there’s nothing outside the large conglomerates. I hope we can change this trend over the next 10 years.
#internet #openinternet

Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…

Florida prosecutor agrees: Photography is not a crime
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges — the prosecutor agreed

@… Is there a possibility of some blog posts this year? Hope you're doing well.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Wyclef Jean feat. Hope:
🎵 Perfect Gentleman
#NowPlaying #WyclefJean #Hope
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kJrESsM3ISObFTfBQfJ8H

Glasgow's Hope Street. [via Lesley Riddoch]

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

RE: https://blackqueer.life/@FinalGirl/116109738869811721
This gives me hope for the young generation 💪

Cowboys Predicted to Sign $12 Million Former First-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/devin-bush-free-agent-prediction-dallas/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Louddaaa:
🎵 Hope
#Louddaaa
https://chillhop.bandcamp.com/track/hope-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YiCmf9l32p2ebbBzCTjdu

Hopium vs. Doomerism — #futurism

Hopium vs. Doomerism: The Courage to Stay When Both Feel Hollow
Between toxic optimism and despair lies a harder path: staying. This essay explores how to keep your heart open when hope and doom both feel empty.

Well that was a truly excellent paper. Not only are the kids alright, they never cease to give me hope.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: Yes.
AVON: Then I agree. [Lets go of Blake]
JENNA: Deactivating.
BLAKE: Vila, Gan, Jenna: we're going for a ram, take out the command ship.
GAN: A ram?!?
BLAKE: I don't see that there's any other hope for us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/173

Pumpkin Pinochet
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: I hope you'll lol, not take legal action.
#satire #potus45

Hope this puts you in a festive spirit. One of my favourite carols. #music #mandolin

Bovino is in the city again, and they always go especially off the rails when he’s here.
I hope that motherfucker gets frostbite and has to have something amputated.

“Keep hope alive!” These are the words that the Rev. Jesse Jackson shouted four times at the conclusion of the electrifying speech he delivered at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Yesterday his voice fell silent. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-02

'Keep hope alive': Dean Greg Sterling's reflection on Jesse Jackson

Historians confirm: Tomorrow won't be better than today https://archive.ph/rNuG2 (archived from https://www.nytimes.com/2026/…

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things
which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally
omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
-- René Descartes, La Geometrie.

Marmalade Misogynist
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#satire #potus45

As reefs vanish, assisted coral fertilization offers hope in the Dominican Republic | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/as-reefs-vanish-assisted-coral-fertilization-offers-hope-in-the-dominican-republic/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Faith, Hope & Charity:
🎵 Heavy Love
#Faith #Hope #Charity
https://freakingsnap.bandcamp.com/track/heavy-love

Cowboys say hello to Christian Parker and hope he can turn around a dismal defense https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-say-hello-to-christian-parker-and-hope-he-can-turn-around-a-dismal-defense

Abominable Showman
bot by @…
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#satire #potus45

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Witness:
🎵 Hope Springs Eternal
#Witness
https://witness.bandcamp.com/album/hope-springs-eternal-a-tribute-to-nujabes
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ds7uAG7RlUuDVNqQqfW2f

Why There’s Still Hope for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-theres-still-hope

ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Faith, Hope & Charity:
🎵 Heavy Love
#Faith #Hope #Charity
https://freakingsnap.bandcamp.com/track/heavy-love

“there is no person more impatient to solve the affordability crisis than Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States.”
JD Vance Test Drives the Lies That Republicans Hope Will Win the Midterms - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/economy/jd-vance-test-drives-the-lies-that-republicans-hope-will-win-the-midterms/

"Integral ecology reminds us that humans are at their best when they understand their home and care for it."
—James Jenkins ’15 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in his piece titled "We Must Build with Others the Future We Need” https://

When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Americans don’t realize how much time is spent just getting water around the world.
https://bsky.app/profile/djzaber.bsky.social/post/3mcpabz7elk2k

Dr. DioxiNation (@djzaber.bsky.social)
Want to feel good for a bit? Watch this. There is hope....and even optimism! I feel it. I hope you do also. https://youtu.be/UfHwZyE2GnM?si=gR8K_ZSljf34_dLR

"Instead of belittling those who question climate change or policy solutions, I want to offer an intellectual hospitality that invites others on a journey of mutual discovery."
—Walter Kim in his piece for Reflections, titled "Creation Care: A Journey of Discovery" http…

Winning the NFC East is now the Cowboys' only playoff hope https://insidethestar.com/winning-the-nfc-east-is-now-the-cowboys-only-playoff-hope

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Arcane Hope:
🎵 Nature Prayer / Lunaria Annua
#TheArcaneHope

Unfortunately, I’m hearing what @… said through other channels as well: it appears to be nothing more than a geographic shift. Someone just posted that Roseville (north / northeast suburb) is “swimming in ICE” right now.
Godspeed to the suburbs right now. I hope we’ve been able to pass along enough of what we learned here in the heart of the city. The sprawl is going to make rapid response a lot harder out there….
(If you can’t view post: it just says ICE was swarming the southwest MSP suburbs yesterday.)
https://mspsocial.net/@paulference/115928364896531961

According to sociologist
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
the AI future is for the rich.
Cottom’s contention is a bleak one — the idea that the most powerful billionaires in the world are using AI to seize total control of humanity
But she isn’t short on hope.
“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansion vision of the future...
That’s my daring idea."

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.

"The natural world transmits its own data, a kind of counter language to what’s scrolling on our sleepless screens. It’s a relief to be reminded that we are part of that counterworld, which we might still plausibly call the real world."
—Editor Ray Waddle writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet"

Don Snoreleon
bot by @…
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#satire #potus45

A notorious flesh-eating fly
that once wreaked havoc on U.S. livestock
is inching closer to California again.
#NewWorldScrewworm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educating veterinarians and farmers, they hope to stop the pest before it gains a foothold.

Founding Farter
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