“‘When we think of Custer’s Last Stand or the Battle of Little Bighorn…we should think of it as a successful defense by Native people against an attempted act of genocide,’ says Lindsay Stallones Marshall, assistant professor of history at Illinois State University…”

https://apple.news/At96945z7TSWTgTzsmhT78g

The coronation arrests are just the start. Police can do what they want to us now | George Monbiot | The Guardian

“The more unequal a society becomes, the more oppressive its laws must be.”

Great opening line here from #Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/12/coronation-protest-arrests-police

#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

Library Official Resigns After Publication of Her Secretly Recorded Inflammatory Comments
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Judy Eledge, deputy director of the #Anchorage Public #Library, is leaving her post after ProPublica and @anchoragedailynews documented her history of offensive comments and social media posts about #Native Alaskans and the #LGBTQ+ community.

#Alaska #libraries

https://www.propublica.org/article/judy-eledge-anchorage-library-alaska-resignation?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post