Mastodawn

Jason V Mar 2, 2025

The Conversation U.S.Mar 2, 2025

"Today, approximately 43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish as their primary language, representing roughly 14% of the entire population. If those who speak Spanish as their second language are included, then the U.S. is the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Mexico." https://buff.ly/x5vygtP
#USPolitics #News

Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history

Trump’s campaign produced campaign materials in Spanish to reach more voters. Now that he’s president, his White House is going English-only.

The Conversation

Jason V Mar 1, 2025

#music

https://youtu.be/nnzYOEO-gMI?si=8HiFeJ_0X5_C5o61

Annona...my niece.

YouTube

Jason V Feb 27, 2025

"When the official count of Covid deaths passed 35,000 in April, Harris wrote to Musk to ask, cheekily, whether this meant he’d won the bet. Musk did not respond. In fact, to read Harris’s retelling of it, that was the end of their friendship and the moment he watched his old comrade disappear into a kind of alternate reality."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/opinion/covid-fifth-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z04.IB3N.NLwgltyEef-S

Opinion | The Fifth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic Reveals New Lessons

Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, it’s hard to remember what the beginning was like.

The New York Times

Jason V Jan 19, 2025

Jeff Jarvis Jan 19, 2025

A key mark of totalitarianism is government and party ownership and control of the means of speech and information. The party, through its main apparatchik, owns Twitter. The government wants to own TikTok. The only free speech is the fascists' speech.

Jason V Jan 12, 2025

Mill Valley, CA

Jason V Jan 5, 2025

Hoppers Hands
Fort Point
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, CA

Jason V Jan 5, 2025

San Francisco, CA

Jason V Jan 4, 2025

New bike racks, wrapped in a bow
Emeryville, CA

Jason V Dec 28, 2024

Bay Area Goodwill
Emeryville/Oakland, CA

Jason V Dec 27, 2024

I’ve often thought it curious that DEI and ESG are lumped together as equal violations of some conservative principle.. but kudos to Costco for standing up (at this time, especially) for their version of inclusion.

https://kottke.org/24/12/costco-board-pushes-back-against-anti-dei-activists

Costco Board Pushes Back Against Anti-DEI Activists

A group of Costco shareholders, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s continued assault on the equal protection clause of the 14

kottke.org