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I was in SF for a few days this week. There are cars lining every street, owners paying pennies an hour if they're paying anything at all for the space and the state is tearing up homeless encampments as though the people in them have anywhere else to go or any way to get there. There are parking lots taking up half a city block all over downtown and an affordable housing crisis.
Subsidized housing and full employment programs for cars, subsidized theft and state-sanctioned cruelty for people.
I've often wondered. Please boost.
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#Linux #Mac #Microsoft
The fact that:
1. This election is between a black female cop and a 34-time convicted white male felon
2. Almost every police union supports the felon
Should tell you everything you need to know about who the police really serve.
60% of the way through the best music summer in a while!
6/19 Micky & The Motorcars
6/20 James McMurtry
7/10 Leo Kottke
7/19 Tasting Notes (w/Seattle Chamber Music Society)
7/20 Hootie & the Blowfish
8/6 Oliva Rodrigo
9/6 James McMurtry
9/12 Pearl Jam
9/13 Bruce Springsteen
9/21 Billy Bragg
For those wondering “Why can’t •my• rep be more like Ilhan Omar?,” yeah, that’s a fair question, and it has a fair answer:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113007433707353356
Keep in mind that even Ilhan has twice now faced tough primary challenges from a local creepazoid running a right-wring-funded-Dem “police and Israel oogity boogity!” campaign. She defeated him narrowly in 2022, soundly in 2024. Point is, every politician only has so much leeway. It's activists swaying public opinion who can buy them more.
@[email protected] Part of what leftists like about folks like Bernie and AOC and Omar (my rep!) is their solidly left-leaning constituencies mean that they can simultaneously be politicians at home while being activists on the House/Senate floor. And I do really appreciate them speaking my truths into the congressional record! But we need to recognize that being national activists the way they are is simply not a choice available with every congressional constituency.
"Administration officials have said they pulled their support from the indoor heat rule in March after discovering the rule would cost state prisons billions more dollars than the workplace safety agency estimated."
https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/gavin-newsom-california-workplace-safety-board/
Some important reminders of history and the reality of our society’s power structures in this thread from @seachanger:
if we step (for one minute) outside our obsession with shaming individuals for the circumstances they are in, we’re forced to see Harris as someone who stood up to the police unions out of conviction and principle and a sense of duty to her own promises. California’s Democratic Party mafia, enforced by white women, then broke her political knees this is not just about Kamala Harris, this is about patriarchy, white supremacy, rampant corruption and a political party rooted in organized crime
Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess”
“But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during a talk at Stanford that has been pulled offline.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai
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