David Sloane

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Arranging computers and people at Bonterra aka EveryAction aka NGP VAN
he/him
Interests include #cats #mapoli #democrats #progressive #infosec #sysadmin #devops #privacy #ethernet #scsi #antifa #blm #feminism #transrightsarehumanrights #pcgamer
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@metroadlib: I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment. I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST. HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything...…

Today we witnessed the biggest advancement in glasses since 1979.

A comment on Mastodon I would like to "RT with CW" here:

https://mastodon.social/@GrayGooGirl@mstdn.games/110471284293929788

And for context:

The AP article:

https://apnews.com/article/drag-reading-event-ban-montana-speaker-canceled-4b40d8991b2fc1353f1dd2cf72bde62d#:~:text=Montana's%20new%20law%20banning%20drag,southwestern%20Montana%20city%20on%20Friday

Quotes from the targeted individual and the library director:

https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/controversy-over-cancellation-of-transgender-speaker-at-butte-library-continues

Adria Jawort: “Every trans activist, every LGBTQ activist is like, ‘Well, the thing we said was going happen that you said wasn’t going to happen—happened.’"

Library cancels trans speaker after Montana bans drag readings

Montana's new law banning drag reading events at public libraries has led to the cancellation of a Native American transgender speaker in a southwestern Montana city on Friday.

Associated Press

Heeeeeey pre-orders are open for @debcha's forthcoming book, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World.

It's going to be SO GREAT.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/

💗🚰 🔌 🚆 🌐 💡 🚽 🏨 💗

How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra: 9780593086599 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a maste...

PenguinRandomhouse.com

Oliver Willis writes that the current war of the right on trans people is a new iteration of an old war against any group the right finds convenient to demonize at the moment.

He writes,

#trans #Republicans
/1

https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-rights-anti-trans-playbook-was

The Right's Anti-Trans Playbook Was Used Against Blacks And Others Before

They're Always Wrong And We Have To Fight Them Until We Win

Oliver Willis Explains

Did you know: The annual cost of burglary, robbery, larceny, & auto theft COMBINED is $14B—but the annual cost of wage theft by employers exploiting workers is $50B?

Remember this when media or politicians cite crime but ignore the most costly crime of all—corporate wage theft.

Death on a Dairy Farm: What Really Happened to 8-Year-Old Jefferson Rodríguez

When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story.

ProPublica

On Monday, I wrote that brands need to stick by marketing decisions they make in the face of manufactured outrage, arguing that rolling out a big "Pride" thing and then doing a 180 in response to backlash was worse than not doing anything for Pride at all.

On Tuesday, Target proved my point. https://www.readtpa.com/p/brands-need-to-make-decisions-about

Brands Need to Make Decisions About LGBTQ Pride Marketing Right Now, Not When the Right Has a Predictable Meltdown

We're About to Find Out Just How Conditional Corporate Support for LGBTQ People Has Always Been. (Hint: Very)

The Present Age
Our top story: Via a #Twitter Space with Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis announces that he's "Ru in to b pre dent of th Un ted ates!"
Boots on the Ground

Anti-government organizations are filling a disaster-response gap — and using it to spread their message.

Grist