Heather Slania

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

finally some good news

Happy birthday!

Guess this means it’s finally time for me to watch the Sopranos!

No good advice, but those of us who really have to deal with all this appreciate those of you creating content we can enjoy.

You have to understand: to you, the recipient of the over-explaining, it sticks out ad an unusual occurrence, and you find it annoying or have other big feelings about it. But I do this all day every day. I do it to everyone. I do it in my sleep. It's engrained.

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Lessons from being online since 1995

1. Brandolini's law:
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

2. Chill before serving. (Mine)

3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware."

4. On the Media's rules.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

This is gonna be important to remember in the next month. I've already seen stuff about salt trucks blocking roads ( that happened during riot fest) and other actions that were months ago.

I don’t. But I have great conversations when I get to catch up with them.

A three hour commute round trip really helps sometimes.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

This is unconscionable. And illegal.

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Do these things and major in whatever you want.

I can’t even use the word “cisgender”on X without being warned. Pathetic.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

If Basic Income existed, it would be easier to abolish prisons, many military projects, and unnecessary law enforcement. People would not be dependent on these jobs to survive.

It would also give them freedom to leave jobs that mistreat them.

All of this is why rich/powerful people don't want UBI.

YouTube video by NPR ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

A white bunny with floppy ears rests its head down, lying on a soft, gray blanket.

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.

Westworld here we come

AI not making money is not an own imo. It’s illustrative that it should be of and for the public good. Can tech help us create a better future for all of us and the planet? It could, I think. Will it? Not when the control is in the hands of anyone who wants to subjugate others.

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
—Langston Hughes

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40 years ago, the police bombed a neighborhood in Philadelphia from a helicopter and destroyed 61 homes.

Note the date here.

Political scientists are the ones you should be listening to if you abide by the rule of listening to the alarmists.

WATCH: Historic Clayborn Temple Church goes up in flames after 130 years WATCH: Historic Clayborn Temple Church goes up in flames after 130 years

Umm, I don’t see this mentioned in any national news outlets… but the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, the site of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, burned down this morning. My sadness is immeasurable. www.fox13memphis.com/news/watch-h...