Gerald Figal

Democratic “leadership” needs to grow a pair and get in line behind the “disruptive” protesters. Cowards.

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials - WIRED

A picture of the world leaders at the summit in Lancaster House in London. The from row has Starmer in the middle flanked by Rutte from NATO, Macron, Zelenskyy and Scholz

NEW: This is a powerhouse summit gathered in London.

Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine.

Trump has disqualified himself & the US.

UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏

Leaders attending:
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Broadly! 😁

You’re the third person to send me this! I guess I’ve been branded.

Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.

Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.

Protests are set to take place on Presidents Day. Here is why A series of protests against the Trump administration's actions is planned for Presidents Day.

Nice! NPR is sharing the good news about 50501 protests tomorrow. www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

What is Musk-Trump regime doing for the American people? Tax cuts for billionaires, firing people and programs that help people, renaming stuff. Nothing about child care, education, cost of drugs, cost of housing, cost of meds,, cost of groceries, cost of health care ?

I'm going to post this video every day so we NEVER forget what TRUMP did on J6

As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders Ars staffers take aim at some of the web’s worst predatory practices.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Google Search makes the top 10. So glad I dumped it and haven’t looked back. Cleaner, un-enshittified options exist, ones that don’t track and scrap your data to turn you into a digital coolie.

I have a meeting with my Dean this Thursday to discuss it!

Will Elon Musk Do to the Federal Government What He Did to Twitter? An unchecked, unelected oligarch is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.

Elon Musk—an unchecked, unelected oligarch—is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.

DEI - Prof. Coffee Roastery Develop Empathetic Instincts

To commemorate the American white nationalist techno-oligarchy, Prof. Coffee has a new blend: DEI, "a diverse blend of equitably included beans that are grown, harvested, and processed by black, brown, and Muslim people from Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, and Indonesia."
prof-coffee.com/product/dei/

Tokyo Noir
#fujix100v #tokyo #noir

Just trying out Bluesky for posting photos. This is one of my favorite tintypes, 4x5 of my daughter several years ago.
#tintype #wetplate #collodion #vitax #petzval #portrait

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

Here’s the genealogy.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Google Maps in the US will change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley Once official government sources update.

Not a headline from The Onion. www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24...

I’m still just browsing about Bluesky to see how I’ll use it (or not—never really did Twitter much). I like the clean slate aspect of a new platform although I’m conflicted about social media in general. Definitely a breath of fresh air from the ad-strewn algorithmic hellscape of Facebook.

Trump’s Executive Orders Shift Higher Education Landscape With more than two dozen executive orders issued in the past week, the Trump administration has moved swiftly to reverse Biden-era policies and advance its own priorities—many of which carry significa...

My retirement from higher ed can’t come soon enough.
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"I Dread Returning To The US": Expats Are Sharing The "We're Being Scammed" Realizations They Had After Living Abroad - BuzzFeed