I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
One second the accusation is that the Davids "neglect of the role of crop attributes in mediating development" the next "they concede that only cereal farming and storage made bureaucratic empires possible."
Like minds are welcome to agree to agree in the form of a disagreement, I suppose, but […]
“There's no amount of press coverage that could ever fully document the scale of the ripple effect of trauma that this has on the city of Minneapolis,” one resident told HRW. “And when these cameras go away, we’re still going to be here grieving and traumatized.” Calls to local suicide hotlines […]
you love to see it
Meta's entire budget is $200 billion a year in ads. Journalism was a byproduct of the local advertising markets that Facebook replaced; now you just get slop and viral conspiracy theorists.
Here they violated a basic election transparency […]
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I cannot for the life of me comprehend how so many liberal hawks imagine they have any grounds let alone means to stop Iran's perfectly legal and perfectly real ballistic missile program. Like they're going to reach any agreement of any kind under the long shadow of American perfidy without Iran […]
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116772379588130447
"more than 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node"
RE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/116766633397568723
"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining a little so you can have more of it." --"as Michael said?"
Who is Michael?
This review of Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything accuses them of attacking strawman arguments but the strawperson on page 252 is Jared Diamond (that is the page they quote his explicit argument that farming didn't expand faster because it couldn't) […]
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"Abundance" is just another disguise for neolib billionaires funding freeloaders to front rather than rejuvenating the journalism they filched for their fortunes.
https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/
Meta is lobbying for their own "legal immunity from child-harm claims" to be amended to the ironically named "Kids Online Safety Act."
https://www.aol.com/articles/exclusive-meta-lobbies-congress-protection-200438000.html
The _Prospect_ has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
The post New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement appeared first on The American Prospect.
prospect.org
June 18 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms has lobbied the U. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters.
