MLF

@marklfilteau
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I'm me.

The fundamental problem with making "DEI" your bogeyman:

Everyone likes Diversity (we're all different, and that makes life fun).
Everyone likes Equity (it's another word for fairness).
Everyone likes Inclusion (no one wants to be left out).

Really, what were they thinking?

https://newrepublic.com/article/195097/angry-trump-kills-woke-program-and-accidentally-screws-maga-voters

Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters

It’s called the Digital Equity Act. That word—“equity”—caught the White House’s attention. So now Trump is moving to nix funding—but it could cut off millions destined for red America.

The New Republic
Words to live by every day regardless of politics.
I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.

title text: Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

(https://xkcd.com/3081)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3081)

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xkcd

Pro tip!

If you do not have an answer to a question, remaining silent is always an option available to you!

women in space but it sucks

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Bruce Cockburn - Call It Democracy

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America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson Hart

On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opp

Molson Hart