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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 · 4h

Most of America, alas

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

Book cover for ‘Stand On Zanzibar’ by John Brunner

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

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

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 5h

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

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 6h

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

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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.
viewfromthewing.com/airlines-are...

"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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 8h

It’s true

nicolemaplecoenen | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 12h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 8h

I am not a professional psychologist, but …

Ollie McClellan @olliemcclellan.bsky.social · 8h

Which of the three bozos in the back is the official Salacious B. Crumb of this administration?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 8h

That falls under disjoints in cultural meta-communication, which has very similar manifestations.

If I could force everyone in the world to take one short class, I would teach them a few essentials about recognizing when that is happening.

Meta-communication, dishes, and justice

Personal blog of Jonathan Korman

miniver.blogspot.com

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 8h

All true

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 9h

I refined this thread into an addition to a long post indexing comments on autism & ADHD, mostly focusing on subjective experiences

Neurodivergence

Personal blog of Jonathan Korman

miniver.blogspot.com

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 10h

to be clear i would be much less stressed out if we actually existed in the world where LLMs were glorified markov chains/autocomplete and we understood exactly how they worked

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

Fair enough. I’m sorry I overread “they are just playing the melody with more instruments”!

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

I think this reflects a similar confusion to my own, where I had a hard time parsing what you meant by that post.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

I recognize that you are talking about a structural difference! I’m trying to more fully articulate some of the structure of that structural difference.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

That’s a thing, but a different thing from what I’m talking about here.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

This has a LOT of implications which I have found clarifying.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

To overstate the case:

An allistic speaker does not care about speech-content in itself. Allistic speakers use the speech to provoke their interlocutor’s Mindreader into registering the thought they want to communicate as the meaning.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

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