Affirmative action is evil except when it got Clarance Thomas into Yale.

Immigration is evil except when it got Vivek Ramaswamy $50K for kids of immigrants.

Diversity is evil except when it got Nicky Haley’s father an HBCU job.

Conservatives personify “I got mine, screw you.”

Gun deaths among US children reached new record high in 2021, study finds

Guns remains the leading cause of death among American children and teens.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/gun-deaths-among-us-children-reached-new-record-high-in-2021-study-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Google Chrome has added "Ad topics" that track your interests across the web to share with advertisers for targeting.

If you use Chrome, go directly to this settings page right now:
chrome://settings/adPrivacy

Click into each of those options and toggle them off!

If you have multiple Chrome profiles, you need to do this for each profile.

You are not under any obligation to help Google with their monetization by giving up your privacy.

Okay this is messing with my head.

Arkansas borders 6 states and it's possible to travel south to enter all of them.

I want an apology from all the mansplainers that mocked my belief that privatizing NASA and relying this heavily on SpaceX would undermine the national security policy of the United States.

https://t.co/WoMI4XEPhE

I've been essentially off Twitter for almost a year now, and Mastodon has become an increasingly rich, diverse replacement. Many of the gaps that were here a year ago are filling in.

I still miss the extensive breaking news coverage and official government and org accounts I remember from Twitter.

When I've mentioned this in the past, zealots here have suggested I shouldn't want those things and that they'd somehow ruin this "community".

I disagree. We can have those things without Nazis.

I am absolutely infatuated with Canadian graphic design from the '70s. It seems to have been born from the modernist styling of the Canadian Centennial and of Montreal Expo '67, and it absolutely flourished from there. Even the governments in Canada embraced the intense minimalist and geometric style—I still remember their PSAs, forms, and ads from my childhood in the '80s.

And I just found this amazing site that captures so much of it: https://canadamodern.org/