Laura Hogan

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Hannibal Smith and Thomas More are my patron saints. Here to épater les bourgeois and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum. #Lawyer, #Leftist, #horror nerd, not necessarily in that order. Trying to improve my #German (which is mediocre) and my #Spanish (which is terrible). Not actually a potato. #urbanism #YIMBY #OpenStreets #WarOnCars #fedi22
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When did “concerning” become an adjective and how can we make it stop?
Drivers in Manhattan May Pay Congestion Pricing as Soon as April 2024

New York City may begin charging motorists traveling into major parts of Manhattan as soon as April 2024.

Bloomberg

Great article from Slate on parking and what to do about it:

https://slate.com/business/2023/05/parking-spots-cities-paved-paradise-cars.html

The Insane Standard That America Applies to Parking

We’ve warped how we live to accommodate our cars. And yet.

Slate

ICYMI on Friday, students from over 300 Florida high schools and colleges:

- walked out of their classrooms
- taught each other DeSantis-banned Black and LGBTQ+ history lessons
- AND checked their voter registration statuses

Gen Z isn’t playing. https://www.inquirer.com/education/florida-walkout-2-learn-student-protest-education-20230421.html

Florida students say they’re walking out and teaching themselves banned history lessons to protest censorship and anti-LGBTQ laws in education

Florida students are participating in Walkout 2 Learn: a walkout across schools in protest of anti-LGBTQ censorship of underrepresented communities in education.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Silicon Valley’s elite made their billions through luck, not genius. But as the public turns on them, they want to protect their privilege, so they’re trying to convince us they’re inherently superior.

For Disconnect, I explain how billionaires like Elon Musk are bringing eugenics back by promoting effective altruism, longtermism, and pronatalism. The goal is to cement their position at the top, and we need to stop them.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-silicon-valley-is-bringing-eugenics

#tech #elonmusk #inequality

Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back

Elon Musk is the most prominent face of the effort to protect tech's privilege

Disconnect
Ok, no one looks like forest animals anymore. Whew.
Ummmm, have we all changed to forest animals? Or is there something weird with my Mastodon app?

‘When arguing that every age has its own Fascism, the Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached “not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.”’

Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

So, I think Beau is Afraid is kind of a masterpiece. (I’m not sure it’s #horror, but it doesn’t matter)
So the first person Pope Francis quotes in his new book is Bertrand Russell. Jesuits, man.