Tootfinder

Space Camp fundraising has been hard this year. Beyond the cancelled fundraiser in Jan, people are kind of tapped out with donation requests: there’s been so much dire need for groceries, rent assistance, stuff like that…well, when survival is in question, education and joy become luxuries for the privileged.
That’s what happens in times like these. But I’ll be damned if I let ICE rob these kids of Space Camp without a fight.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Mobb Deep:
🎵 Survival of the Fittest
#MobbDeep
https://lakimisalive.bandcamp.com/track/mobb-deep-survival-of-the-fittest-lakim-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7N1Vjtzr1lmmCW9iasQ8YO

Gamer haben die Hedgefonds-Manager ausgetrickst: Gelesen im Buch von Douglas Rushkoff, "Survival of the Richest."
Gamer sind offenbar eine neue Macht.
Hoffentlich haben sie,
anders als die krankhaft Reichen,
gelernt, dass Hass und Gier zu nichts führt ausser Not und Elend.
Dann können sie uns vielleicht helfen, uns vor den Algorithmen von Meta, X & Google und andern Auswüchsen zu schützen.

Don’t get me wrong: I think it is •still• worth haranguing congress to use the powers they have and crank all these legal gears as hard as they can. It’s perhaps worth it now more than ever as the MAGA coalition falters and politicians look to their own post-Trump survival. There are battles to win there.
I’m just saying we shouldn’t pin our primary hopes on the legal system. Massive, relentless popular opposition is the bedrock here.

Five regional newspapers in Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Philly, and Salt Lake offer examples of sustainability for the news business, as WaPo shrinks (Dan Kennedy/The Conversation)
https://theconversation.com/as-jeff-be

As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival
Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.

Qesser Zuhrah has just been picked up by an ambulance seconds ago. I wish for his survival and future wellbeing. Shame on Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy for not even listening to the hunger strikers and their demands!
The silencing and criminalization of Palestine Action has seen hoards of arrests, with the hunger strikes it may even claim its first lives. We must do everything in our power to prevent this, which means at least giving all arrested a chance to a fair trial!

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us | Nature
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet. Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Art d'Ecco:
🎵 Survival Of The Fittest
#NowPlaying #ArtdEcco
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Mongolians’ winter survival food is suutei tsai — our special milk tea made with ghee, butter. - YouTube
#mongolia

@… it is optimism (conditional on Mastodon’s survival) 😅