We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
I have a feeling that if I said an elected official should be tarred and feathered, I would be singled out by right wing media who would pressure to get me fired, I would likely be fired, and might even receive a visit from a federal law enforcement agency.
"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?"
Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
The texts have the tenor of adolescent boys playing video games, which tracks, of course.
Trump signed executive orders to expand logging on public lands while bypassing environmental protections. His “energy emergency” declaration lets him override regulations entirely.
Seems like a pretty important detail
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
True.
@thespaceshipper.com just reminiscing about Moon and thought you might enjoy this model miniature of the Eliza “rescue” ship from the end of Moon-
PROP - PR Over Policy.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
So inspiring and joyful to see American composer Morton Subotnick, aged 91, share his stories and celebrate the background to the legendary Buchla 100 synthesiser.
youtu.be/FWQtTRPUrVM?...
Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription
Today in pulp I look back at the simple idea that launched a thousand fanzines: Letraset!
Launched in 1959 by Dai Davies and Fred Mackenzie it heralded a graphic design revolution that brought funky fonts and trendy typefaces to the masses... #fontsunday #booksky
Original was played on a ‘30’s F-hole acoustic?!
#NowPlaying “Other, Like Me” (2020), a documentary about the history of #COUMTransmissions and #ThrobbingGristle by Marcus Werner Hed and Dan Fox, in collaboration with the BBC. This is the hour-long version for TV. archive.org/details/Othe...
