Dave

Dave

@flowstateneworleans.com

Long ago ABD in Latin American history. Profile pic's a flag Dolores Huerta gave my dad in the 80s. My most prized item. Recently exiled to Atlanta. :) Occasionally posting links to larger photo sets here from my own domain.

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David Simon
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

The citizen who yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" is, in this hard time, a patriot. Honestly, what is left to say about this level of misrule? What careful critique hasn't been already offered? What reasoned response to this full-on run at fascism and kleptocracy remained unspoken?

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CavsKermit
@cavskermit.bsky.social

More people on Bluesky should think carefully about engaging with small I'm-not-voting accounts that become more active after Labor Day in an election year. They're not trying to win the argument, they just want to have the argument and boost visibility.

Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

We need this. Give these folks a follow.

The Rule of Law Project@ruleoflawproject.org

Former Federal Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch New Organization to Ensure Criminal Accountability for Public Officials in the United States ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

ruleoflawproject.orgFormer Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law ProjectThe Rule of Law Project is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to restoring criminal accountability for public officials and law enforcement who break the law in the United States.
Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

Even France24 is kind of downplaying that this was a direct attack on Muslims, but they do have the story prominently displayed. I'm not seeing much about it in my normal news sources, if anything at all. Maybe it's not as convenient when the victims are the immigrants you're trying to demonize.

france24.comSuspect in racist Paris shooting transferred to psychiatric unit, had drugs in his systemA shooter suspected of killing one person and wounding five others on Friday in the town of Trappes, near Paris, has had his police custody suspended for a 48-hour psychiatric observation, anti-terror...
Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

The moment right after the last bit of melodica in New Order's "Your Silent Face" when the synth strings come on as the beginning of the long instrumental outro to that song.

Nick J Mascisaurus Rex Sr.@bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social

Tell me about a part, a moment, a time stamp in a song that has you like this.

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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com

I want a blue wave that excludes every one of these craven, bigoted motherfuckers.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

I saw enough mentions of Ethan Klein in my timelines (And then saw he's 'trending') to google to see who he is. Ugh. Some podcaster who looks like such a choad in the first story that came up that it's hard to fathom why someone would want to bother having an affair with him.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Abilu Tangwa.
@abilutangwa.bsky.social

For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced — while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice

Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

The only benefit to my stupidly expensive healthcare premiums in this job (the most expensive I've ever had by far) is that if I'm laid off, COBRA won't be as much of a shock as it was last time because I'm already paying most of the premium myself with little 'subsidy' from my employer.

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Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

As the contract that all of us "staff augmentation" workers work under goes out for bid again before year's end, I suspect I'll end up with even less of a subsidy from my employer or possibly no subsidy at all.

Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

"The repository reports 54 tested TV lists across 23 brands. Its detailed list is not limited to television sets: it also covers streaming boxes, sticks and projectors, including Chromecast with Google TV, NVIDIA Shield, Xiaomi devices, Fire TV hardware and XGIMI projectors. "

dev.tocleanyourtv Debloats Android TV and Replaces Its Home Screencleanyourtv uses Wi-Fi ADB to disable selected TV packages and install a small replacement launcher, while preserving a scripted path back to stock.

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#BruceSterling
@bruces.bsky.social

*I wonder if there's somebody who you can just *pay,* and then be "appointed" as a Trumpistan "Special Government Employee," like with DOGE and the War Department *Katie Zacharia style *This seems like a cool way to show up in a Cybertruck and just "investigate" some cool and expensive stuff

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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social

X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account. This is why Democracy Docket is not built on SubStack or any third-party platform that could one day turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Jenny Cohn
@jennycohn.bsky.social

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

I’m against the death penalty. I’ve long considered myself a pacifist. But, if I’m being honest, I would absolutely buy a ticket to a stadium showing of Elon Musk being beheaded, guillotine or not, and cheer when the blade made contact.

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Marta Jewson
@martajewson.bsky.social

New Orleans Police used facial recognition 'through' Louisiana State Police for years

WIRED@wired.com

Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

buff.lyChicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE ActivistsDespite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

Two days of detassling corn when I was 12 years old. Forever and always fuck child labor, especially agricultural labor. 2 months at a dotcom SEO company in 2000 where the expectation was you'd be in the office 70 hours a week, whether you had work to do or not playing ping pong or foosball.

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Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

And I just looked up that dotcom. It is still alive, calls itself a "global digital marketing agency" has 2200 employees and is owned by a larger foreign company. I had to do a small amount of double checking to be pretty sure it's the same company and not someone who just grabbed up the name.

Dave
@flowstateneworleans.com

I say we take them at their word and put a permanent ban on new data centers since it'll just replicate across IOT devices. There's no need for all that environmental destruction now, right?

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down

yhoo.itAnthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut downAnthropic says that AI models could soon self-replicate across smart home devices.