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Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/watch-jazzy-spies-1969-psychedelic-sesame-street-animation.html

Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count

When asked for their favorite Sesame Street segment, many children of the 70s and 80s point to Pinball Number Count. Psychedelic animation, the Pointer Sisters, odd time signatures—what’s not to love?

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Freeman Crouch 51m ago

Phangurl Di 🖖2h ago

I need more #StarTrek #RESIST imagery!!! Don't you? #uspol

Freeman Crouch 4h ago

The Tennessee Holler 4h ago

Again: This is why @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty just voted for long airport lines, rejecting TSA funding again. Any other framing is ignoring the simple facts being laid out in front of you. He wants to “SAVE” his own ass and cling to power. He doesn’t care about you.

Freeman Crouch 6h ago

LinkingDot:social 6h ago

🧵Paul Krugman: «Over the weekend…Trump…announced that the US would begin bombing power plants…that supply electricity to Iran’s civilian population—unless the Strait was cleared.
At 7:05 AM Monday Trump called the whole thing off…
Who could have seen this coming?
The…person or people who bought large quantities of stock market futures and sold large quantities of oil futures around 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement.»
#InsiderTrading #Iran #FuturesMarkets #WallStreet
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=191963224&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ecpv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Treason in the Futures Markets

People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets

Paul Krugman

Freeman Crouch 6h ago

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Alfie Kohn 6h ago

Also relevant to the "Tests are better than grades" claim is this intriguing association: The more intense a state's standardized testing system, the more negative its citizens' attitudes tend to be about government and education: https://www.academia.edu/8273200/Learning_Citizenship_How_State_Education_Reforms_Affect_Parents_Political_Attitudes_and_Behaviors

Learning Citizenship? How State Education Reforms Affect Parents' Political Attitudes and Behaviors

Over the past three decades, the states have adopted a suite of reforms to their education systems in an effort to improve school performance. While scholars have speculated about the political consequences of these policies, to date there has been

Freeman Crouch 1d ago

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Basmitharts 1d ago

Some folks in Florida can still access the gender affirming care that they need.

Freeman Crouch 1d ago

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Freeman Crouch 1d ago

Ugh, some days are so stunning that saying something original about (waves around) all this defeats me. The boost button is my friend.

I'm here though.

Freeman Crouch 1d ago

allison 1d ago

ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile

Freeman Crouch 1d ago

Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊1d ago

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?