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

Trump already weekend at Bernie’s-ing it through his trial, complete with decay flatulence.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:50 PM on May 5, 2024

Dunno if covering up sex crimes in sports really counts as a major career.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:04 AM on May 6, 2024

Protesting for Gaza on US universities

That guy certainly seems to be a prize idiot and I guess we are going to see his face plastered everywhere now.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:58 AM on April 26, 2024

"this is just like that time when students felt that the cafeteria's low-quality banh mi were culturally offensive rather than just bad and there was a rally".

A story that was essentially concern trolling bullshit.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:23 AM on April 29, 2024

One of the most famous incidents of campus outrage was totally misrepresented
How a single article in Oberlin’s student paper about food got turned into a major national controversy — and why this matters.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:56 AM on April 29, 2024

Hebrew news going with the classic octopus metaphor for the Soros conspiracy
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:43 AM on May 1, 2024

If cops cared about cop fatalities they’d take basic COVID precautions and take more care when standing in traffic.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:40 AM on May 1, 2024

Why Does the NYPD Hate This Bike Chain?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:12 AM on May 1, 2024

“They Are Insecure For A Reason” David Roth, Defector,, 30 April 2024

Really good article on the little mini industry of coddling far right causes from supposedly liberal vantage points.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:37 AM on May 1, 2024

The press is doing a bad job of explaining the UCLA clashes. From what I can tell, it was a bunch of toughs just attacking the original protestors in the middle of the night for no reason, yet media outlets across the spectrum are mostly framing it as “groups clash”.

Always worth double checking any headline like “groups clash” where one of those groups might be the far right or the police and 100% the instigators despite “balanced” headlines and coverage.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:36 PM on May 1, 2024

Last night, UCLA-employed police stood down and allowed a fascist mob to beat students at the protest encampment for hours.

My union, UAW 4811, representing 48,000 academic workers across UC, has initiated a strike authorization vote in response.

We will protect our students and communities.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:16 PM on May 1, 2024

Pretty sure all serious counter-antisemitism work is dead at this point.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:44 PM on May 1, 2024

Here’s the definition. TBH most of anything bad done with it will be done by deliberate misreading and broad interpretation.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:46 PM on May 1, 2024

In the bulletpoints at the bottom, this one is going to be used very selectively:

Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

These two are going to be used ridiculously broadly and frequently in denial of reality:

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:59 PM on May 1, 2024

This is like that bill… if it said you couldn’t mention bonesaw murders when Mohammed bin Salman is being talked about .
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:15 PM on May 1, 2024

You can tell they’re peaceful protestors as the police were prepared to go near them. Violent mobs they ignore or protect.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:43 AM on May 2, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protesters, University of Minnesota reach agreement to end encampment
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:54 AM on May 2, 2024

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mart Gaetz were both against the bill because they thought it might harm actual antisemites, a concern that I suspect is deeply misplaced.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:12 PM on May 2, 2024

Claims That Student Protestors Are Chanting 'Death to America' Are Bullshit - But Washington is falling for the hoax, urging an FBI crackdown
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:09 PM on May 2, 2024

All the universities that called down violence upon their students and faculty? They could have just waited a little bit. Or thrown out crumbs. Instead they had to apply maximum histrionics, escalate all the way to the federal government and shoot peaceful protestors in the face.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:30 PM on May 2, 2024

Because of the face-shooting or because of the march-to-Iraq-war style justification of the face shooting?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:30 PM on May 2, 2024

Fox and its fellow travellers

Lordy, I wish this was just FOX and not CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Atlantic etc… and not just a little bit, they’re all super all in on it.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:48 PM on May 2, 2024

NYPD officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Hamilton Hall at Columbia, DA's office confirms
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:52 AM on May 3, 2024

Not suggested: Israel stops bombing embassies.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:59 PM on May 3, 2024

A Statement From the Pulitzer Prize Board
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:31 PM on May 3, 2024

Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu’s resignation
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:00 PM on May 5, 2024

Teen Vogue: Police Clashes at Columbia University and UCLA Campus Protests Prove They Don’t Belong There

I keep having this problem when I go somewhere to interview sources and by the time I get there, they’ve been arrested.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:49 PM on May 5, 2024

The core query softness continues without mitigation

Another great aspect of ads is how as sites optimize ads don’t so they end up being the bulk of the data transferred.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:03 AM on April 30, 2024

Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change

As tech expert Ed Zitron says, it appears the changes "target websites that make money using affiliate marketing links...and major publishers that have turned a lot of their content into link-driven stuff". Which, fine, the line from Google whenever these tweaks are made is that they're trying to improve the search experience for the average users, but those sites are only built this way… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:20 AM on May 5, 2024

Tis no man tis a remorseless eating machine

To raise enough cash to make the deal happen, Golden Gate sold off Red Lobster's real estate to another entity — in this case, a company called American Realty Capital Properties — and then immediately leased the restaurants back.

Yep, that’ll do it every time.

We’re only hearing about all you can eat because shoplifting doesn’t really apply as an excuse. Maybe they can demand local politicians to increase police numbers so every buffet can have a cop.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:06 AM on May 3, 2024

My understanding is that all cops are all-they-can-eat.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:54 AM on May 4, 2024

Guy talks About Starship Troopers for 25 minutes NOt clickbait

Yup, the age old quandary, I know it well.

Have come around to the point of view that you can’t make the humour too dark, the satire too broad, the whole thing so obvious that SOMEONE won’t take it at face value and maybe embrace it, and you just have to live with that.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:18 PM on May 2, 2024

Hey voter voter voter voter... SWING!

Are Arabs in the state really prepared to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump? In a word: yes.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:54 PM on April 30, 2024

Accept the blame if he loses then.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:03 PM on May 2, 2024

The Case Against Reparations Through Art

Props to any Austen riff that bothers to ask where the money comes from, honestly.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:49 PM on April 30, 2024

Hamilton doesn’t exactly impress on its treatment of slavery mins - they’re going to mention it until they’re gonna not and the it’s just dropped. Possibly some clever commentary on the history of revolutions but probably not.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:04 PM on April 30, 2024

If you want to lightly ruin the chill queer vibes of Our Flag Means Death think about historical Stede Bonnet bring a slave owner prior to his piratical career.

History, a minefield.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:19 AM on May 1, 2024

The reason so much of news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you.

No but he is part of the UFO cover up conspiracy.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:17 PM on April 30, 2024

Brings up too many sad memories for Chambers fans and people expecting True Detective Season 1 to have a Cthulhu at the end.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:02 PM on April 30, 2024

Vicky Osterweil on the muddled anti-politics of contemporary movies

3rd one is gonna be nuts.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:10 PM on April 30, 2024

The deal is he's not as relevant

The Seinfeld show is more popular than ever with kids and Larry David has remained liked and relevant, and I hope both of those things annoy him intensely.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:33 AM on April 30, 2024

You couldn’t do that joke today because it’s a business model for at least five start ups.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:19 AM on April 30, 2024

Simply put, there is a *ton* of fascist-chic cosplay involved

i'd be happy just making these fuckers pay their taxes

That and the apocalypse would cause them roughly the same degree of alarm.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:50 PM on April 27, 2024

They just don't want to pay taxes

Oh I don’t know. I expect they want to not pay for ANYTHING on top of not paying taxes, have the state back that desire with force and to be congratulated as the cleverest and most beneficial figures in world history.

Also it should be illegal to make fun of them.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:40 PM on April 27, 2024

I guess I have no choice but to love this song forever

FWIW my parents let we know about new music they were listening to all the time and my dad still does. Did you know Faithless have a new album and it’s pretty good? Now you do.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:25 PM on April 26, 2024

Albums as events seem to be making a little bit of a resurgence even, despite repeatedly being declared dead since the dawn of mp3s.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:53 AM on April 27, 2024

“Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle.”

Marc Andreessen’s book club

Incredibly cursed phrase.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:22 PM on April 26, 2024

These people think they are inventing some kind of cool cyberpunk libertarian fantasy, with their rich people enclaves and private police to keep the poors out and stupid imitation armored cars they are just inventing Brazil. Their security guards can’t start kidnapping them for money soon enough.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:41 AM on April 27, 2024

Examining What "Never Again" Means Through the Lens of Magneto

Gillen has a whole bit in this in Immortal x-men #10 with a Xavier musing on the whole “protecting a world that fears and hates” thing and asking who it is they are protecting against?

and… well, in x-men comics it’s usually other mutants.

But there’s a twist to it that renders that narrative somewhat unreliable.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:13 PM on April 26, 2024

X-Men 97 sort-of speed running Krakoa (on a different island) is really interesting.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:13 PM on April 26, 2024