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"In select stores, based on historical sales performance."

If Books Could Kill: Conservatives vs. Pride Month
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:26 PM on May 13, 2024

I’m not sure how much of Target’s decision making was swayed by worker safety, but anyway.

Some I’m sure… but it’s also their standard lie for closing stores, so I wouldn’t trust it completely.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:44 AM on May 14, 2024

They basically over expanded, got stuck with a bunch of underperforming small stores and started bigging up “crime” as a reason to close them all when that didn’t work.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:45 AM on May 14, 2024

Possibly the danger to employees was the fuck off big street between it and the part of Ballard people actually shop in.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:57 AM on May 14, 2024

Can he open the cabinets with the locked up goods?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:29 PM on May 14, 2024

Protesting for Gaza on US universities

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Ramps Up Actions to Counter Antisemitism on College Campuses and Protect Jewish Communities
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:07 AM on May 7, 2024

NYC Driver Rams Into Anti-Genocide Protest, Hospitalizes One
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:04 PM on May 7, 2024

Meir Kahan

Have not seen a source on that which was definitively not just based on the guys last name, but if he is that’s clearly an apple not falling far from the tree.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:21 PM on May 7, 2024

Trinity outlines plan of action for Israeli ties following end of BDS encampment
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:06 PM on May 8, 2024

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:42 PM on May 8, 2024

Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:49 PM on May 8, 2024

@cassidy@ mastodon.blaede.family :
White people in ski town: “Dear Native American, please come paint art about the struggle of native peoples.”

Lakota artist: *Paints a piece referencing Palestine, with proceeds supporting the UN Crisis Relief Fund*

White people in ski town: “Stay in your lane!” *Revokes residency program*
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:09 PM on May 11, 2024

Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’ - Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:23 AM on May 12, 2024

Top Republican donors fund group doxxing pro-Palestinian college students
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:26 AM on May 14, 2024

"Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists"

Dorsey likes Nazis and doesn’t know why anyone else might not like Nazis. He’s basically Elon-lite. Bluesky being a disappointment to him is very good news about Bluesky.

This thread by the Bluesky dev lead is also very good.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:56 AM on May 13, 2024

There’s certainly a kind of dumb that comes from being just reasonably smart but convinced you’re the biggest super genius that ever walked the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:31 PM on May 13, 2024

Because they are spoiled children.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:50 PM on May 13, 2024

He’s basically entirely surrounded by reactionary suck-ups, like all tech billionaires.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:35 AM on May 14, 2024

"Well, you seem like a person, but you're just a voice in a computer"

Sorry, wrong moral panic.

Lots of stupid moral police going on right now; concern at capitalism using this shit to mulch everything down to nothing sure isn’t one of them.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:18 PM on May 13, 2024

Fake Deep Fake

People really have to get into the habit of assuming the police and prosecutors lying is the most likely explanation of any outlandish accusation without evidence rather than treating that as an outlier.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:59 AM on May 11, 2024

When The Daily Dot, a tech news website, looked into the deepfake claims in May 2021, and asked Reiss about the methods he had used to establish that the videos had been digitally altered, he admitted he had relied on his “naked eye”, adding, “We hope Mrs Spone during the course of the preliminary hearing or trial will enlighten us as far as what her source and intent was.”

These would be the last public comments Reiss made about the case. On 26 May 2021 he was… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:00 PM on May 11, 2024

Fallout was supposed to be a warning!
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:00 AM on May 13, 2024

Battle Beyond the Movies

The procession to the cemetery will be extremely slow in order to pad out the running time.

It will also use footage from a previous funeral.

The attacking spacecraft will be suspiciously familiar and you might even argue it didn’t need it, but when you have an attacking spacecraft it might as well go in.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:40 AM on May 13, 2024

Finally, your checkers can nuke again!

There’s a name I’d not heard in a very long time…
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:57 PM on May 12, 2024

Hey voter voter voter voter... SWING!

We’ve certainly now whittled down hope that things could in any way get better to the barest fucking minimum.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:02 AM on May 7, 2024

The police violence or the right wing vigilante violence the police are standing back for.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:56 AM on May 8, 2024

Perfect get the room decades ago, if it was ever here. We are now at “things will continue to get worse and the government will maybe talk like that’s a bad thing” vs “things will continue to get worse at a greater pace and the government will being enthusiastic about that”.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:00 AM on May 8, 2024

Ha. KOSA is back on the agenda again and possibly bitterness and tiredness have overwhelmed my humour sensors.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:24 AM on May 8, 2024

Young Michigan voters reveal deepening political problems for Biden seven months after start of Israel-Hamas war
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:47 PM on May 8, 2024

Hillary Clinton Accuses Protesters of Ignorance of Mideast History

Honestly if she ran again I think she’d still have it in her to lose against Trump.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:29 AM on May 10, 2024

We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read

The audio version (there is an audio version!) has a little introduction about the challenges of adapting it as well.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:31 AM on May 10, 2024

They said the quiet part out loud

Can’t say I care for it. Conceptually I guess it’s not so different from one of those “see all these objects? Your phone does that now” images that have gone around, but it’s tone is weirdly grim and destructive.

And we’re at a time when basically nobody creative is going to make any money again and huge corporations are going to make all of it, which for sure makes it bad timing.

The vibes are off.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:19 PM on May 9, 2024

I can’t say I’d care for the LG ad either TBH.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:56 PM on May 9, 2024

Does that mean all music is good now? Is nothing tacky?

What are Pixies tickets going for these days, I ask you

Gouge away.

(Actually fairly reasonable, before scalpers jack it up, but nowhere near me. I see some $250 VIP packages in there)
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:33 AM on May 9, 2024

I don't care for Creedence.

Being a regular Just King Things listener means regular exposure to Uncle Stevie’s Mixtape and through it a shit ton of Creedance. It’s okay. He listens to/namechecks worse.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:17 AM on May 9, 2024

In AI, it’s easy to argue about philosophical questions over-much

Can capitalism be taught to think before it kills us all? All signs point to no.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:49 AM on May 9, 2024

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs

I’m pretty sure if nothing unfortunate has occured between the 1994 initial publication of BS7666 and now then all relevant systems have been hardened against Bobby Tables issues, and honestly 1994 was very late in the day not to know about basic data sanitation.

Suspect this is someone being pissy.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:40 AM on May 8, 2024

Did someone’s kid make an app?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:07 AM on May 8, 2024

Honestly if we are going to change one thing to make it more convenient for data entry and it’s not date/time what are we doing?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:37 AM on May 8, 2024

Which timezone?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:44 AM on May 8, 2024

Is there a reason why the street signs can't have a place in the database?

Major lack in these stories of any kind of identification of what database we are talking about. All the scenarios I can think of are homebrew stuff like the excel example above - god knows enough of the world runs on excel sheets maintained by non-developers - or corrupt IT consultants selling shoddy goods that probably fall over in a number of other ways.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:30 AM on May 8, 2024

I’m gonna use something more human and sensible like microseconds since the dawn of UNIX.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:42 AM on May 8, 2024

To name streets?

Sure, fuck it.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:00 PM on May 8, 2024

The core query softness continues without mitigation

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry - Remember that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers? We did some digging — and it's got tendrils into other surprisingly prominent publications.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:05 AM on May 8, 2024

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls (but in this case.......)

The process of erosion is just that much further underway. Literally nothing has been done to shore anything up in the meantime.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:18 PM on May 6, 2024

Okay, fine: nothing even remotely sufficient has been done.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:37 PM on May 6, 2024

The Rock is going to be a HUGE asshole if he ever does the pivot to politics he’s been semi-hinting at, I guarantee it.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:49 PM on May 6, 2024

The “neither right nor left”, ie “right”.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:43 PM on May 6, 2024

LOL and LMAO. Democrat fandom, quite the drug.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:57 PM on May 6, 2024

Shocker there from Judge Cannon.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:15 PM on May 7, 2024