Walking Checkov's Kiss

please do what you can for this family!

I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking.

I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process

Workplace Amputations Are on the Rise in Texas and Nationwide Over a decade, an average of seven U.S. workers a day suffered workplace accidents that caused or led to amputations. Those numbers are expected to go up with reduced federal oversight under the Trump...

One grim indicator of eroding workplace safety standards and enforcement: Amputations related to workplace injuries are on the rise.

I was thinking about Samaa today because I saw a little girl named Julia was killed in Gaza and I looked through all the photos to make sure it wasn’t her Julia (it wasn’t) but it was someone’s Julia

this has got to be malicious compliance, right?

The goal is to know that if you can't hit bedrock, that's okay - your goal is to dig deep enough to support the height and weight of your structure. The higher you build, the broader and more rigorous and deeper your foundation is required to be.

But the foundation is just as exciting as the top!

The curse of the researcher is to never hit bedrock. There’s always another layer and another until you arrive at “EVERYTHING IS RELATED TO EVERYTHING ELSE” which isn’t terribly useful very often.

This is very broad strokes stuff but that's why so much western narratives about AI are actually narratives of the fear of the plantation owner of the slave uprising. Soviet scifi had a wholly different premise, Japanese scifi has a different attitude towards technology and intelligence than the US.

What I was trying to get at, at the time, is that the origin of science fiction in the US is coming out of the pulps and a lot of the pulps are coming out of colonial narratives. The fear of AI or space aliens isn't far removed from the colonial narratives of the fear of native reprisals on settlers

A lot of the original lines for that stuff if I remember right, or don't mix up my history too badly, was laid with the telegraph lines which were run by the rail lines which were built on the cities that were the forts that were built on the settler caravan paths west, which is wild.

So in order to explain a key point, I ended up doing a lot of reading into the construction of the physical infrastructure of telecommunications and how that was actually a seriously meaningful thing politically. That influenced the direction of all US speculative fiction, thus its political lean.

Two men posing for a selfie outdoors. The younger man is in the foreground, wearing a white hoodie and looking at the camera. The older man is behind him, wearing a striped shirt and holding a metal pole. Buildings and temporary shelters are visible in the background.

Woman in a black hijab holding tent poles, with other people working on a tent in a refugee camp setting.

Man tending to a woman wearing an oxygen mask while lying down.

Man with a mustache wearing a striped shirt and black pants, holding medicine packets, sitting near a tent.

If we cannot collect the remaining donations my family and I will remain without shelter We still need $145 to be able to get tent My parents are sick and they no longer have the strength to endure these conditions Please help us or share our story Any support could save us
chuffed.org/project/azez

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

Reminder if you are not Mormon do not say git gud

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

i’m not trying to be a gender explorer i am literally just a man with a testosterone deficiency please act accordingly

This country is a burning house and it feels like everyone is interested in throwing gasoline on the fire rather than water and foam

This country hates Muslims, hates Brown men, hates Black men, hates Brown and Black women, it makes me sick with sorrow and anger

Who even really knew Muhiyidin Moye.

He should have attended Rev Jackson's funeral. Not Harris. Not Sellars.

What a horrific joke of a "nation" this awful place is

I hope the land heals and it is returned to her peoples.

They did not really care about Renee Good or Alex Pretti, just like they've forgotten about Trayvon and Standing Rock and Tortugita, countless dead heroes and martyrs and innocent victims. An abyss hellmouth and this country still selfishly points the finger at anyone trying to give a damn.

I am not going to save everyone from themselves it is clear there is no thanks to be had in it my instinct was always right that you could be like Ché and they'll spit on your grave for it

If I had any real control over my life y'all would never hear from me again

hope y’all had a wonderful international working women’s day.

remember: women hold up half the sky & enbies hold up the other half.

idk what the dudes are doing, you’d have to ask them.

solidarity & love, happy to be here.
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Imagine if you were taking a nap and a bunch of sandwiches ran in your room, freaked out, and ran back out

victory day lofi music cozy radio to build infrastructure by

there’s an east-german film about railway signalling that I found on YouTube, where there’s a shot of a signal box positively full of houseplants all around the windows, rather like my living room. I think about it often.

I love this painting but I never noticed that there’s a houseplant in the crane’s cab

Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

I only somewhat recently learned WHICH specific cop (funded by which files be-er in-ers).invented it!

As you may know, the DARE program in the US, notorious for not achieving it's stated goals re: student drug use, was actually invented for the sole purpose of getting cops inside schools to surveil teachers in LA after a judge found previous spying schemes illegal