Kirsti

DE biz reg form for Cornell Companies Inc

Cornell companies Logo, an evil looking black pyramid with a triple line V inside, one line blue one black

biz entity reg for GEO Reentry inc, a Delaware corporation for surveilling everyone who’s ever been imprisoned

The 1980s style logo of GEO Reentry SErvices, blue letters with a world map in green in the O of the word GEO - suggesting their plans for making all the world a prison

The GEO Group, Inc. weird in that it’s registered where it’s main HQ is (Florida). But the OG private prison company has many subsidiaries registered as DE biz entities, incl. prior acquisition Cornell Companies Inc. (notable for an absurdly evil logo) & GEO Reentry, Inc. (just absurdly evil) /fin

@sjgochenour.bsky.social - I got to attend this talk Leigh Bardugo gave about her book "The Familiar", a Sephardic fairy tale of sorts, set in 16th c Spain. It's well worth your time.

Came here to recommend Felicia Grossman & Sacha Lamb but I see other folks beat me to it. :)

Exactly this. Housing as "investment" requires constant increase in prices, the faster the better. Housing as housing does not.

Years ago, during the Michael Brown uprising I started doing a dive into how our police forces are trained, how they're staffed and what the requirements were. I learned a number of things that shocked me pretty badly.

Just seeing this now. Really fascinating. Hungarians apparently still had measurable Yakut ancestry in the Middle Ages but by now are genetically indistinguishable from others in Central Europe, while Finns are still 10% Yakut

Detail of extraordinary pale coloured honeycomb plaster work in the Nazrid Palace of the Alhambra, with an equally remarkable carved dark wooden ceiling above it to the left.

The one really good photo I made at the Alhambra in the Nasrid Palace last week. Astonishing as the first time I saw it, the detail, craft and devotion is dizzying

Talked to a college friend about my summer visit in Delaware & getting to see another friend's son in a play at Longwood Gardens. Turns out her brother's kids were in the same play. Because it's Delaware, so of course they were. 😆

I'm never going to get through my library queue if people keep writing more good stuff! 😆

I know Ichiro left the Mariners to play for the Yankees, but there’s no way the fans anywhere else loved him as much as we do.

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maya Angelou

#blackwomen #blacksky

Happy to wait for the newsletter for a bit if it means less money ends up funneling through to a platform that hosts neo-nazis!

Oo! Thanks for the recommendation!

I used to live near a doggie daycare whose customers often parked illegally blocking the road while picking up their dogs. Those stickers started showing up on people's cars & strangely people stopped parking blocking the road.

It would be a shame if someone stuck a *bunch* of removable Avery labels saying "This is not a parking space" to the side mirrors and windshields of those cars.

I think I'm going to hire a cleaner & then buy a robovac for each floor of the house.

15-year old vacuum cleaner broke while I was back East. Kid & Spouse haven't bought a new one yet while Kid agonizes over getting the best one that he can handle with chronic pain & fatigue. House-- with 2 long-haired humans, 2 cats & 1 golden retriever hasn't been vacuumed in 4 weeks.

I have a deep-seated loathing of dust & Spouse has an intense love of dust-gathering tchotchkes. We've agreed that he needs to dust all the shelves with those things (otherwise I tend to end up breaking them in frustration while trying to dust around them)

an aerial view of Gaza City, showing widespread destruction and a landscape of severely damaged and destroyed buildings.

We should never forget the suffering that resulted from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. Oh wait, I’m told this is Gaza today.

New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog, in which we return to that favorite intersection of sexuality, pornography, and political satire.

alpennia.com/blog/are-we-...

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a list of people who post a lot about those topics.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

It's no fun when all available options suck!

Rainbow yarn skeins coiled on a line. The middle of 3 skeins is a bubble chunky base

Something colorful for your TLs. This was a partial order including Rainbow Magi skeins.

I can feel the days getting slightly shorter so I'm in panic mode (as a solar powered person) and wanted to remind everyone to enjoy good weather when it's there lol.

And somewhere over the rainbow...

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No technology is neutral.

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Where the wild things are on a back vest with ungovernable on it

On a trip to Disneyland in my 40s: I knew in my rational mind that was an actor on a float, but in my heart that was Ariel blowing kisses at me & it was the most wonderful experience ever!

There isn’t a solidarity day outside of NWDC today but you can come support @laresistencianw and @imapnw by showing up at the fundraiser for both orgs today from 5-10 at @camp_moxyjos. We hope to see you there!

#AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

Where are the "People are angry: behind the waves of pro-Trans marches" or "People are angry: behind the anti-genocide protests" articles? There are a few, but the far-right always get special treatment.

#AI is a drug dealer.
I’m contemplating an analysis approach for a new dataset, and I’m not sure what its pitfalls are. I don’t want to bug my usual colleagues, so I think, fine, perhaps this is finally something a #LLM could be good at. 🧵

And I notice that YouTube replaced non-English audio, in this case, a Black woman who took time to learn other languages, with an English speaking robot that sounds white*.

Intersection of monolingualism & supremacy.

Whoever maintains this French channel disabled auto-dub, or YouTube exempted it.