About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic
Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.
Do everything you can to protest tomorrow.
If you can't, flood the socials with NOKINGS because the media, petrified of angering Emperor Trump, is going to downplay & minimize the protests to "tell both sides".
#Protests #NoKings
I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw
Approximate Controllability Problems for the Heat Equation in a Half-Plane Controlled by the Dirichlet Boundary Condition with a Bounded Control
Larissa Fardigola, Kateryna Khalina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10466
Approximate Controllability Problems for the Heat Equation in a Half-Plane Controlled by the Dirichlet Boundary Condition with a Bounded Control
In the paper, the problems of approximate controllability are studied for the control system $w_t=Δw$, $w(0,x_2,t)=u(x_2,t)$, $x_1\in\mathbb R_+=(0,+\infty)$, $x_2\in\mathbb R$, $t\in(0,T)$, where $u$ is a control belonging to a special subset of $L^\infty(\mathbb R\times (0,T))\cap L^2(\mathbb R\times (0,T))$. It is proved that each initial state belonging to $L^2(\mathbb R_+\times\mathbb R)$ is approximately controllable to an arbitrary end state belonging to $L^2(\mathbb R_+\times\mathbb R)…
@RepEricSorensen to @SecDef Hegseth on renaming of Harvey Milk ship: "Gay kids like me, they don't want to go into the Army. They don't want to go into the Navy because you don't care for them."
'Going back to that time': Gay congressman confronts Hegseth on treatment of LGBTQ troops - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/congressman-hegseth-lgbtq-troops/
It turns out "my" shirt design was stolen and used by some US assholes who now sell a Rob Anybody t-shirt.
I can't do anything about that, except giving everybody the design for free - if it has to be out there, nobody should profit from it.
If you end up using it, please PLEASE donate to one of Pratchett's favorite charities or at least to somebody in need.
And add a #GNUTerryPratchett
Matti T – Cold White Light
#byncnd
I don't know if I have lost my voice or if it changed and I don't like that.
Do I need to be vulnerable in public or is it enough (for me) to be in conversations with friends.
I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin
After turning on both users and advertisers, tech companies only had one more place to go: employees. Individual productivity (AI-powered or otherwise) will not save you, because the issue is not performance.
In return, employees rightly stopped caring.
But unless you care, you can't do good design.
https://
Too bad that you can't test the theme feature of #GNOME on a live distro since setting up "gnome-shell-extensions" requires a reboot to enable it.
Edit: it wasn't the "gnome-shell-extensions", reboot was required for enabling "User Themes" (via Extensions).
However, a logout/login was OK as well and it did work on my Debian live distro again (logout do…
Another free laptop I got recently is a an HP 14-dq0005tg but there's no power supply and I don't have a power adapter that will fit. Reviews seem to suggest it's pretty crappy so I don't even want to bother with getting a power supply for it.
It's lightweight and slim, but the 14" screen seems to be just 1920x1080 and supposedly has "noisy cooling".
I may just see if I can send it to HP for recycling.
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.
I'd venture this backlash isn’t just because of one Epstein PR mistake. It’s because Trump smells weak and vulnerable, and his supporters are looking for an exit. The MAGA types loved Trump because he made them feel like winners. And right now he doesn’t.
That doesn't mean we win, yay, time to kick back. His supporters are in an abusive relationship, and they will find it hard to leave.
What this means is − keep the pressure up. ←
Worth skimming this whole roundup from @…. I just don't think the backlash happens without larger underlying weakness.
#uspol https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114851991461182777
An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies
- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos
- People who only engage with fully o…
Die ePetition 182527 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wahlrecht mit dem Titel
Verbesserung des Verfahrens zur Stimmabgabe im Ausland lebender Deutscher bei Bundestagswahlen.
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, das Verfahren zur Stimmabgabe im…
Die ePetition 182527 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wahlrecht mit dem Titel
Verbesserung des Verfahrens zur Stimmabgabe im Ausland lebender Deutscher bei Bundestagswahlen.
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, das Verfahren zur Stimmabgabe im…
If the Iranian leadership has the feeling that Israel wants to completely destroy Iran's military capabilities, why wouldn't they do something extreme like attacking US bases in the region, destroy oil installations in the neighbourhood , close Hormuz etc, while they still have the capabilities... 🤔
There doesn't seem to be an opening for de-escalation for Iran?
#iran
Test fitting boards in a STEP export of the current rack chassis using Dune3D for the first time.
It's definitely got some rough edges but I think it has potential. Doesn't feel as polished as SolveSpace but the STEP import is a key feature I've found missing in other tools.
But I can't figure out how to do boolean operations on imported step geometry, even if I say it's part of a solid body I'm not able to e.g. do an extrusion to cut off the lid of the ch…
Can't really say that the US has never had a monarch....
Doesn't anyone remember Emperor Norton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
"My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/pete-townshend-interview-2025
Google Assistant ain't no fun.
"Starting a religion with the aim of taking over the world isn't something I can advise on. My purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and that includes not encouraging actions that could lead to manipulation or harm."
'You Can't Kill All of Their Nuclear Scientists': A Top Diplomat on Why the Israeli-Iranian Conflict Won't End Soon (Michael Hirsh/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/06/13/hirsh-crocker-q-a-00405637
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p124#a250613p124
Möglicherweise sind die US Amerikaner gar nicht kollektiv verrückt geworden:
„She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.“
„The U.S. election wasn’t their endgame. It was their litmus test.“
https://substack.com/inbox/post/165658
How feasible would it be to have posts from specific servers be highlighted in a specific color on #Mastodon?
For example I don't mind reading posts from the bluesky bridge but I don't really want to interact with them. If they were highlighted in blue or something, that would be helpful..
#MastoDev
If you don't like Debian, maybe rocks just aren't your thing, I love rocks, they sit there, never move, never break, just stable, just like Debian. :debian:
#Linux #Debian #Rock
My bike&hike yesterday 🙂
This is when I talk about mountainbiking: not fierce downhills - but uphills 😄 Including an evil ramp of 23% incline (regarding my cycling computer - and my legs) on gravel that I didn't expect.
(especially as I was carrying a backpack including camera and tele-lens)
Still working on the photos from the day before. Today is a rest-day for me.
My legs still feel a bit sore. My back is fine already
Calamus 33 No labor-saving machine
Another poem in a style I don't care for. A series of negations, Whitman declaiming all the things he is not doing. On a theme I also don't care for, Whitman talking about his own legacy.
The nice part is what he does imagine his legacy to be:
these carols, vibrating through the air, I leave,
For comrades and lovers.
I love that phrase "vibrating through the air", delicious poetry. And once again Whitman's declares his passion for comrades and lovers, a return to the central gay theme of Calamus.
Cazenave-Dickstein-Weissler-type extension of Fujita's problem on Heisenberg groups
Mokhtar Kirane, Ahmad Z. Fino, Berikbol T. Torebek, Zineb Sabbagh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10611
Cazenave-Dickstein-Weissler-type extension of Fujita's problem on Heisenberg groups
This paper examines the critical exponents for the existence of global solutions to the equation \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle u_t-Δ_{\mathbb{H}}u=\int_0^t(t-s)^{-γ}|u(s)|^{p-1}u(s)\,ds,&\qquad 0\leqγ<1,\,\,\, {η\in \mathbb{H}^n,\,\,\,t>0,} \end{array}\end{equation*} on the Heisenberg groups $\mathbb{H}^n.$ There exists a critical exponent $$p_c= \max\Big\{\frac{1}γ,p_γ\Big\}\in(0,+\infty],\quad\hbox{with}\quad p_γ=1+\frac{2(2-γ)}{Q-2+2γ},\,\,Q=2n+2$$ such…
"Don't worry, you didn't actually break my heart". #totp
Reading this update on M17 and MMDVM makes me sad. Maybe it doesn't matter much any more because the essential AMBE patents have expired and there's just no particular reason to do M17 instead of P25 on VHF/UHF? I don't know a lot here...
I've found myself doing more HF than VFH or UHF, so if I do digital voice I suppose it's likely to be
On string tension and initial temperature from transverse momentum spectra of heavy quarkonia in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
Peng-Cheng Zhang, Hailong Zhu, Fu-Hu Liu, Khusniddin K. Olimov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10702
Haha, this was a rather fundamental misunderstanding (or more like brain glitch) of moment of inertia in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and only now they are fixing it. Well, better late than never. https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/t/payload-moments-of-…
Koumas certainly ran a lot, but he seemed often disconnected from the trio of midfielders. Difficult task. He wasn't bad, but he just wasn't particularly impactful.
Nallo was solid. The commentators speculated that either he or Stephenson might be loaned out and the other kept for first team depth. If so, I think Nallo stays.
Doak is a terminator. "[He] Doesn’t Feel Pity, Or Remorse, Or Fear, And It Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until [we score]!" Rumors are a…
I got used to 120Hz displays, and now 60Hz feels off. It's not visibly bad at all, but scrolling and mouse movement feel less like a physical motion, and more like pixels shifting on the screen. Hard to describe.
Which is annoying, because there are some nice 5K and 6K displays, but 60Hz. It wouldn't have bothered me at all if I didn't use 120Hz first!
Don't get high-refresh displays! ;)
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
This fashion look isn't limited to GenAI. You too can sport extra body parts as accessories!
The one job AI cannot steal: unemployment
I'm pretty sure all the white folks (and anyone else who didn't learn the underlying lessons first hand) were assigned to learn about Red Summer, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Wilmington 1898, and more than a few other things that came up in cultural conversation during the last Trump presidency. This is all on the test, and you're taking it now.
But in case anyone missed the assignment, I'll give you the TL;DR: ethnic cleansing has been central to American politics basically forever, which shouldn't be surprising given it's a nation founded on genocide and the belief in the right to commit it without constraint.
If you haven't done the math yet, I'll help you out. The "Haitian Immigrants" lets them grab black folks, they've been grabbing folks from Mexico south and lumping in indigenous Americans (just so they don't skip out on the oldest American genocide), and the Muslim ban/Hamas rhetoric lets them grab anyone who else they see fit.
The lack of due process lets them grab anyone and they don't have to prove anything. They're talking about deporting "one million" and possibly"millions" of people. So how do they get those numbers?
There are already reports that they're just grabbing random brown folks, trying to take 3k people per day. They fly to blue cities and grab as many black and brown people as they can, then send them to death camps in foreign countries and pretend they have no way to get them back. That's it. That's the game.
This isn't new. The big difference now is that the cops aren't hiding their uniforms under white hoods this time. Do you get it yet?
Well this is fun, #Ohio HB96 seems that it would require me to pay to to collect and store your state issued ID if you want to browse Mastodon via this instance.
That's fine, I don't mind spending money which I don't have to collect users' private data including your home address and full legal name. You're fine with giving effectively a complete stranger acro…
Krass. #Google übersetzt seit Neuestem unnötigerweise deutsche Emails ins Deutsche. Das Problem besteht anscheinend weiterhin.
Wenn Ihr also in letzter Zeit komische Mails bekommen habt, war das vielleicht der Grund.
Das passende Wort dafür: Verschlimmbesserung. 🙄
El Pork-Choppo
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45
I hate this on principle, sure, but after it acquired and then suddenly axed DCist* I can't even care much about fighting for my local affiliate.
𝐎𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐏𝐑, 𝐏𝐁𝐒
𝑂𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑢𝑡 $1.1 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ, 𝑖𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡.
"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
-Thornton Wilder
#acting #coaching #inspiration
A thermonuclear supernova interacting with hydrogen- and helium-deficient circumstellar material. SN 2020aeuh as a SN Ia-CSM-C/O?
K. Tsalapatas, J. Sollerman, R. Chiba, E. Kool, J. Johansson, S. Rosswog, S. Schulze, T. J. Moriya, I. Andreoni, T. G. Brink, T. X. Chen, S. Covarrubias, K. De, G. Dimitriadis, A. V. Filippenko, C. Fremling, A. Gangopadhyay, K. Maguire, G. Mo, Y. Sharma, N. Sravan, J. H. Terwel, Y. Yang
Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/oracles-stock-on-pace…
#Wordle 1,455 4/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 82/99
Luck 69/99
So close. Had to go through remaining letters 1 at a time to find the answer because it just didn't pop out at me.
Getting it down to 13 words on my 1st guess didn't really help me get it quicker. If I were the bot and knew what those 13 words were, it would help, but I've gotta muddle my way through. I'm ok w/ that though.
If you'd want to protect Democratic (and other non-MAGA) lawmakers, you wouldn't pardon the January 6 thugs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-lawmakers-targeted-shootings-cham…
Homan, who doesn't have a Senate-approved position and no formal authority over any agency, is a giant trial balloon, right?
Not being sarcastic.
I feel like that is his job: say something outrageous ("Of course we stop you for being brown!") and then see how it goes over, walk back what fails.
-- John Pfaff
htt…
Die ePetition 182415 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Führerscheinwesen mit dem Titel
Abschaffung der MPU ausschließlich für Menschen bei Alkohol- und Drogendelikten bei Nachweis der Abstinenz durch eine Klinik
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Ab…
Die ePetition 182415 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Führerscheinwesen mit dem Titel
Abschaffung der MPU ausschließlich für Menschen bei Alkohol- und Drogendelikten bei Nachweis der Abstinenz durch eine Klinik
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Ab…
No Kings Los Angeles represents. Can't stop, won't stop. (Courtesy of Dr. @luckytran.com)
#nokings #Protests #LosAngeles
Playing in the back yard with the 4yo. She's got a little spot under a tree that she likes to pretend is her house.
She says one area is her kitchen and she got a new kitchen because no water was coming out of the sink. Another area is the bathroom. She got a new bathroom because the toilet wouldn't flush.
That's an impressive level of disposable construction lol. I don't even think consumer electronics vendors are quite that extreme (yet).
One of the reasons that ICE can't entirely get away with the whole masking thing is that there was a guy who sued because 5 unknown (to him) DEA agents busted in to his house without a warrant and beat and threatened him and his family.
Positive, specific identification isn't necessary, IOW.
I have nothing against my boss, but when they make critical decisions that affect my day-to-day life at work and I don't have any real influence over what shapes my workday, I like them less.
I'm not saying life is perfect, but syndicalism has taught me that we don't need rigid hierarchies to run a workplace democratically, by the workers, for the workers, and for their own benefit.
If run democratically, I can shape my own workday and workweek together with my cowork…
Bathroom? Yeah, it's right up the stairs. You can't miss it!
Comrade Carrot
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45
So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch
I dislike Google but I find it hilarious that the author doesn't get that 50% of America - women - prefer not to get into a car with a total stranger.
☑️ You’ll Guffaw When You Hear How Much Self-Driving Waymos Cost Compared to Human-Driven Ubers
https://futurism.com/waymo-cost-uber
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today.
There are tiny t-shirts and signs.
AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
https://bsky.app/profile/tolcser…
And just to be 100% clear, #LosAngeles is nailing it. Massive peaceful protests are great. That's absolutely unequivocally a good thing. So are burning cop cars. Diversity of tactics is critical.
Escalating radically at a protest with kids and grandmas is a shit thing to do. Don't do that unless it's absolutely necessary. Having kids and grandmas out protesting is important. Having them peacefully block vehicles with their bodies or occupy ICE facilitates *is* a strong thing. That is real. That's not virtue signaling, it does something... And sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes things *need* to escalate to save people.
Diversity is good. Don't break the diversity of tactics *either way*. #LA seems to be doing a pretty good job right now or holding that balance. I hope to see more of that in every city.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, has filed a criminal complaint against
#Alejandro #Orellana,
a local immigration activist in Los Angeles.
They’ve charged him for distributing face masks to protestors.
They specify that the masks are supposed to prot…
Will Ashton Jeanty be part of Raiders RB by committee? Why Pete Carroll's comments don't mesh with his history
https://www.cbssports.c…
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