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A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. - Her fellow Republicans were not relieved to hear this news.
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read
This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only will only find one thread. Short fiction by Caroline M Yoachim.
Our Man Bashir
“ So my editor, and I, would like me to bring Garak into this.” - “ That’s interesting. There is an interesting angle for that.” -
Star Trek’s Alexander Siddig interviewed for Arab-American Heritage Month
Folks from round ere ain’t from round ere
Ten there were, dusty chronicles of forgotten lore…
New York Times, Get out of My School
Politics this, plagiarism that. Harvard is in the limelight, which means that the student journalists of the Harvard Crimson have picked up some competition.
“AI” George Carlin Sucks For Every Reason You Thought And More
“I watched a bad video hocking AI-created comedy pretending to be a beloved comedian so you don't have to, and you shouldn't” - though maybe the whole thing is just a scam.
Someone Who Is Good At The Economy Please Help Me
Articles asking us to feel sympathy for families barely scraping by on healthy six-figure incomes may be staples of the financial press, but it’s rare that they come packaged as real-world case studies attached to flesh-and-blood individuals. But that’s what happened just before Christmas... Clarence Thomas and the bottomless self-pity of the upper classes
Happy Life-Day Eve!
You must gather your party before venturing forth
The joy of a small and perfect thing
Zombie Apocalypse
Gordon lives again!!!
“A lone spaceship crash-lands on Mongo - - three humans on a mission of peace. An athlete, a traveler and a mad, desperate scientist. Alone against an empire.” - Flash Gordon returns in style with a new daily comic strip. Creator interview with Dan Schkade.
All Crimewaves Are Bullshit
Target and other chains have overblown the impact of shoplifting. The rash of store closures across the nation are, as might have been suspected, driven by other factors - in the case of Rite Aid bankruptcy to avoid opiate lawsuits.
Metal Horror Trash
“Are you talking to me?”
Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright at the BFI London Film Festival - (single link YouTube, 1h35m)
The Thirstening
“Hey Chloe,” you say, “I would like both Four Weddings and the Funeral and my relationship with Doctor Who completely sullied while still nourishing my relationship with my vinyl fetish. You got anything for me?” - Ten flicks that'll make you thirsty... for blood!
“Oh, have we decided it’s 1993 again? I guess I didn’t get the memo.”
If unchecked markets worked as well as Andreessen insists, we wouldn't be in this mess. The most powerful people in the world are technological optimists. They asked for our trust in the 90s, the 00s, and the 10s. They insisted that all we needed to do was clap louder. We clapped. They failed. We grew less trustful. - On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"
Diamonds and Rust
The Right to Read
“What they’re trying to do offends me at the root of who I am and what I’m about.” - LeVar Burton Wants You to Read Banned Books
Monster Liberty
There's been a great deal of media coverage over the past couple of years about the meteoric rise of Moms for Liberty, a well-funded and somewhat secretive Republican-aligned group aimed at expunging supposed "woke" or "progressive" influences from American education. But Pennridge High School that night illustrated a story that's gotten much less attention: The response of fed-up parents and educators who, without anything close to the resources of their conservative opponents, are organizing a grassroots effort to restore American schools to their intended purpose, that of educating children to be citizens of a democracy and full participants in an open society.
You've heard of this one, it fucking rules
Benito’s 50 New Streaming Spookums for Halloween 2023 - it’s spooky season so Benito Cereno has another list of streaming movies. It’s the good shit, check it out.
Fall of X
“Oh yeah,” I said. “Call me Mister Diamond Hands.”
Government-approved “private detectives” and “private security services”—they have their exams and licenses, and all that crap. That’s gatekeeping meant to distract the sheeple from the power of peer-to-peer, decentralized, distributed knowledge. I didn’t need a stinkin’ badge. Crypto is a private banking system, and I was a private bank guard—that was easy.
Money in the Bank - new fiction from John Kessel and Bruce Sterling.
Those Awesome Scientists
Cry Hard II
F@$K you and the Stool you came in on
“A restaurant is a lot of work… I’m not gonna give someone my satisfaction of judging all my work and the hundreds of hours my partner and I put in with one bite. It’s not fair. I was like, fuck that guy.” - Dragon Pizza owner Charlie Redd speaks to Rolling stone about his feud with Barstool Sports CEO and Tucker Carlson guest Dave Portnoy.
All Cops are at Coffee City
Coffee City, Texas has 250 residents, and 50 police officers. More than half of the have been suspended, demoted or dishonorably discharged from their previous jobs.
Finally a killer AI
“There are hundreds of poisonous fungi in North America and several that are deadly, They can look similar to popular edible species. A poor description in a book can mislead someone to eat a poisonous mushroom.” - AI generated mushroom foraging books are spreading on Amazon, placing the public at risk.
Home School Nation
How the GOP and Christian millionaires plan to syphon billions of dollars from public schools
Florida is just the start.
Florida is just the start.
Last Splash
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The Ideal Viewport Does Not Exist - the results of a little investigation into how fragmented browser sizes are across users, with some fun visualization.
Nobody drives in San Francisco, there’s too much traffic
One day after California green-lighted a massive expansion of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, the implications became clear.
At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All traffic came to a standstill on Vallejo Street and around two corners on Grant. Human-driven cars sat stuck behind and in between the robotaxis, which might as well have been boulders: no one knew how to move them.
At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All traffic came to a standstill on Vallejo Street and around two corners on Grant. Human-driven cars sat stuck behind and in between the robotaxis, which might as well have been boulders: no one knew how to move them.
“Truthfully, I try not to analyse my own intentions”
The Riker Maneuver
Late Stage Carpoolism
Autoenshittification - Cory Doctorow on the auto industries efforts maximize the exploitativeness of your car by turning it into an ink-jet printer with wheels.
Derailing the defund
It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
“I’m not expecting to win any of these bastards, but just to be nominated means the world.” - Zoe Thorogood, 24-year-old from Bradford, UK, has scooped the most nominations for this years Eisner Awards
You got a fast car
“On one hand, Luke Combs is an amazing artist, and it’s great to see that someone in country music is influenced by a Black queer woman — that’s really exciting… But at the same time, it’s hard to really lean into that excitement knowing that Tracy Chapman would not be celebrated in the industry without that kind of middleman being a White man.” On the complicated reaction to the Luke Comb’s cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car.
The stench of death emanates from Jeff’s balls
Corpse flower blooming at Amazon Spheres in Seattle The rare flowers can be up to 9 foot tall and stink of carrion in order to attract pollinators and bloom for 48 hours. More from United States Botanic Garden.
AMPTP's endgame for writers: They should all be homeless
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” - California is notoriously expensive to live in and rife with homlessness, writers are notoriously poorly paid and living precariously (and likely to become more soif the WGA's concerns are not addressed), and thus the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has decided its tactic to settle the current writers strike and finally break the WGA: Wait for the writers to be broke and homeless.
What is God in ethly guise? One or mampus giant eyes?
PJ Harvey comes to each album more or less a different person, playing different instruments, pondering different subjects in her elliptical lyrics. If you thrilled to the strident, triumphant To Bring You My Love, you might not be prepared for the explosive joy of Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. If you loved that one, you’d still have to make an adjustment for the politically barbed Let England Shake or the ghostly White Chalk. Harvey’s tenth album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, is much the same in that it is not the same as any of the artist’s previous work.
She’s fine and she’s human
Searching for Meg White - a profile and almost interview of the difficult-to-track-down White Stripes drummer.
Hipster aesthetic techno optimism
Game Studies Study Buddies, the Ranged Touch podcast which covers academic games studies on a text-by-text basis, takes a break from their usual material to cover Obama era time-capsule INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE.
Matt Murdoch's Murder-Free 34 Hours
Daredevil is Present and the Police Arrive Later - David Brothers dissects Daredevil #304 and takes a look at superheroes, race and policing.
Crumbs of Truth
Black, White, and Grey All Over: Where Binary Teaching Fails Underground Comix - The newly relaunched Gutter Review (previously Neotext Review) takes a look at teaching underground comics, generational changes in reading, Robert Crumb and the place of offense in literature. Previous Robert Crumb. Previously.
Amazon Primary - Breaking Up Big Tech
The Empty Quadrant
"That's the end. Howard Schultz did not put forward one policy he would enact as president." - Paul Constant wraps up a live-tweet of billionaire Howard Schultz's latest not-quite-presidential-campaign event. The not-campaign has been marked with a distinct lack of substance, mostly consisting of Schultz criticizing popular Democratic policies and espousing a bland socially liberal/financially conservative centrism that's been described as "The Empty Quadrant of American Politics". So who is this for and who is encouraging this? Probably the media, and their ongoing infatuation with false middle ground narratives.
I'm done with you rude motherfuckers
Crash II: Miss Daisy drives YOU
With a win at the PGA Green Book is now the lead contender for 2019's Academy Award for Best Picture. Oh dear.