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JK @miniver.bsky.social · Apr 28

I put together a proper website

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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.

Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com

Arizona Public Service killed my mother

www.APSKilledMyMom.com

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3h

Vigorously disagree. The Founders understood themselves as trying to construct institutions which blunt factionalism and compel better alignment of interests. What blindsided them was that their institutional designs were not as clever as they hoped.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3h

Aaand now I am thinking about creating a story game with a tapestry mechanic

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 8h

one of my go-to touchpoints is “is it possible for this system to generate the events surrounding and during Fleetwood Mac Rumors tour?”

if not, probably needs more drama hooks

have just realized I have a new one to add to my list, and that’s “can this do The Lion In Winter” (2/2)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11h

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3h

Cover of the early-edition rulebook for Vampire: The Masquerade

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19h

I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21h

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll need to get SO stoned to counter the nausea from talking to the guy

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, the seminaries are not doing their jobs properly with these guys if •I• could take them apart

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

Light a Silk and set it aside and there should be a few drags left when you’re done.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, I am drifting far away from the point, which is that it indicts our entire society that the nation’s most prestigious newspaper would see fit to interview this contemptible hobgoblin

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously why are we letting atheist scientists debate these guys when a random Buddhist priest could give them a crisis of faith in ten minutes?

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

For the first 10 minutes they have a genial theological pseudo-debate about the merits of Calvinism vs Catholicism and I wanted to jump through the phone like Kool-Aid Man, “excuse me, sir, I am just a simple stonecutter with some questions”.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Most of America, alas

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Book cover for ‘Stand On Zanzibar’ by John Brunner

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Walkable neighborhoods are expensive because we don’t make enough of them!

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

Unsurprising. There are good reasons to attribute a lot of the vandalism to unaligned wreckers.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

And Portland is a sprawling city with a river that runs through the middle of it!

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 15h

i lived ~12 blocks from the protests downtown and i had no idea they were even happening initially. i had to be told by a neighbor.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3d

There was non-trivial vandalism in that area — smashed shop windows et cetera — but most of Portland, even most of downtown, was untouched. I knew Portlanders who had no idea any of this was happening!

The Trump administration sent Feds, escalating everything further.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

And after a decade in Portland now, I still cannot get my head around the mix of left & right in the cultural politics & politics politics. This place is weird.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

Having migrated to Portland from the SF Bay it is weird for me to hear it described as “extremely” expensive but of course it is

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

I think Portland is a target because of a combination of the circumstantially-contingent street action stuff I was talking about combined with the ‘Portlandia’ image of left coast culture

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a city: and he looked, and, behold, the city burned with fire, and the city was not consumed.

And Trump said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the city is not burnt.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Pretty Khemyst @prettykhemyst.blacksky.app · 17h

What happens when you don't have multiple.modes of transportation that assist with time to said destination. Still would love to have hig speed rail but not sure we are even going to get it.
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"Airlines Are Now Credit Cards With Wings” — Delta Admits It’s Now Choosing Routes To Chase Amex Spend - View from the Wing

Delta isn’t just flying passengers anymore — it’s flying for the banks. On its latest earnings call, the airline admitted it’s expanding in cities like Austin and Raleigh because those markets deliver...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah we are in Regime Politics territory now and everyone of these people needs to be hired by organizations like CA DOJ fucking ASAP. You need people with guns and the legal authority and training to use them who are not predisposed towards the regime, and you need them now.

Philip Bagley @pb102.bsky.social · 19h

And hiring damn near every FBI guy booted by Trump and his enablers they can get their hands on

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 17h

It’s true

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