Unix admin type person playing with servers, switches, routers, and telephones at Oklahoma State University.
Spews forth electromagnetic radiation as KF5PFU.
The New York Times Pitchbot creates satiric examples of headlines reflecting the "Paper of Record" fetish for (among other things) normalizing right wing extremism.
The headline below -- "Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask." -- is NOT from Pitchbot.
Head=>desk.
Protest is becoming a crime in Trump's America, and so is journalism about protests.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/journalists-facing-charges-after-covering-roebling-protests/65454195
I keep wondering when the "mainstream" press will realize that neutrality on democracy's survival -- a precondition for a free press -- is contributing to democracy's death.
"Journalism is printing something that someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."
-- George Orwell
#journalism #PublicRelations #Truth #power #elites #Fascism #Nazis #tyranny
Cuts to public media will smash budgets of some local radio stations
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-s1-5469908/trump-npr-public-community-radio-corporation-broadcasting-federal-funding-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
@futurebird The swerve that scares me is when more and more of the internment camps get converted into labor camps. If that's the plan, it might explain why they don't feel an urge to deport people quickly. I'm aware of at least one case where an agricultural worker got abducted into one of Trump's camps and then forced* to perform the same sort of farmwork he was performing before but now being paid about as much per day or per week as he used to get paid per hour
* Asterisk
ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.
Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.
It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.
When I was working any meeting I held was 30 minutes max, agenda had to be sent beforehand, no discussion of things that weren't on the agenda and the meeting must have cookies.
Me too...And I refused to delay the start of the meetings for latecomers...The meeting started at the scheduled time.
@sir_toootenstein @darwinwoodka @georgetakei
Yeah. I'm soooo bad. 😏
@georgetakei
...but not so advanced that engineers are ever given enough time to do a proper job.
"This will take a couple hours, Captain."
"You have 30 minutes."
"Sure thing. Just go back in time and tell us an hour and a half ago."
We shouldn't have to keep doing this over and over for every single one of your images, @georgetakei! Stop being lazy! 😠
#AltText4You
A social media post from "Comrade Sisko" says "At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes," with a screenshot from one of the Star Trek series wirth the captain and his staff sitting around a table.
Thanks for the info, which makes sense. But I still say that George is responsible for making sure he reaches his *whole* audience.
Right! IMO, I don't think #GeorgeTaKei has a good excuse for continually disrespecting part of his fanbase by not using #AltText .
Evern stranger ,everyone listens and allows others to make a contribution before making a decision!
That's how we know it's Science Fiction and a Morality Tale 😁🖖
And resolve their problems triumphantly as they arise, to most-everyone's satisfaction, 5 minutes before it's too late.
Do they build brand new seats for these sets, or do they get them from Office Max and spray paint them?
Dan Gillmor
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