Sunday, May 29, 2022
Saturday, May 28, 2022
The present extinctions...
Some 20,000 species are now on the brink of extinction, including one in four mammal species, one in three amphibians, and one in eight birds. In the last 500 yers human activity has caused more than 1,000 extinctions.
Friday, May 27, 2022
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Why is Matt Yglesias? - by Parker Molloy - The Present Age
Why is Matt Yglesias? - by Parker Molloy - The Present Age: Søren Kierkegaard as I did less than two weeks ago: we live in an “age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere.”
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
The Greatest Casualty of the Ukraine War Could Be Planet Earth Itself | Portside
The Greatest Casualty of the Ukraine War Could Be Planet Earth Itself | Portside: he war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and south. Many thousands of soldiers and civilians have already been killed or wounded, some 13 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes, and an estimated one-third of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed. Worse yet, that war’s brutal consequences have in no way been limited to Ukraine and Russia: hunger and food insecurity are increasing across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as grain deliveries from two of the world’s leading wheat producers have been severed. People are also suffering globally from another harsh consequence of that war: soaring fuel prices. And yet even those manifestations of the war’s “collateral damage” don’t come close to encompassing what could be the greatest casualty of all: planet Earth itself.
Any major war will, of course, inflict immense harm on the environment and Ukraine’s no exception. Although far from over, the fighting there has already resulted in widespread habitat and farmland destruction, while attacks on fuel-storage facilities (crucial targets for both sides) and the
Texas elementary school shooting updates: Students, 1 teacher killed in Uvalde - The Washington Post
Texas elementary school shooting updates: Students, 1 teacher killed in Uvalde - The Washington Post: A gunman killed at least 14 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott said.
Monday, May 23, 2022
Don't Be So Hard On Yourself: Advice for ADHD Adults
Don't Be So Hard On Yourself: Advice for ADHD Adults: Don't be so hard on yourself! Adults with ADHD tend to be self-critical. Learn how to practice self-compassion.
'More Evil Than Even I Imagined': Theologian Calls Southern Baptists' Massive Sexual Abuse and Coverup an 'Apocalypse'
'More Evil Than Even I Imagined': Theologian Calls Southern Baptists' Massive Sexual Abuse and Coverup an 'Apocalypse': Russell Moore, the former President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, is calling the massive sexual abuse – including child molestation and rape – in the SBC an “apocalypse.” He says, “I cannot help but wonder what else this can be called but a criminal conspiracy.” The Southern Baptist …
Useful passage that gets to the heart of Baudrillard's 'fatal strategies'
Objects and images are traps which reality is kind enough to walk into, playing an intelligent extra's role, but the traps never close on it, nor it on them. If illusions are always illusions of a reality, reality, for its part, is never the reality of anything but an illusion. Or rather, illusion does not stand opposed to reality, whether we are speaking of the illusions of childhood, war or love: it is a more subtle reality, which envelops primary reality in the sign of its disappearance.
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The whole world is merely an illusion of the senses and the sensory trace of that disappearance. It is in the sense that objects deceive us by the space, the distance from their own sources – but in the end, we become the object of the objects which deceive us, and we fall under the spell of that distance.
Jean Baudrillard, Fragments: Cool Memories III, trans. Emily Agar, London: Verso, 1`997, p. 116.
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Saturday, May 21, 2022
From fake customer accounts to fake job interviews, Wells Fargo is just the worst
From fake customer accounts to fake job interviews, Wells Fargo is just the worst: Wells Fargo is once again making headlines for being a terrible, unethical company even by the poor standards of the financial industry. Just over two years after the bank paid a $3 billion fine for opening millions of fake accounts in the names of...
Friday, May 20, 2022
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Monday, May 16, 2022
Saturday, May 14, 2022
14 May 1938 the England football team gave a Nazi salute before a match in Berlin.
They had been ordered to do so by the govt which had made a pact with Hitler when much of the ruling class supported fascism.
Friday, May 13, 2022
Foster Care Agencies Take Millions of Dollars Owed to Kids. Most Children Have No Idea. | The Marshall Project
Foster Care Agencies Take Millions of Dollars Owed to Kids. Most Children Have No Idea. | The Marshall Project: The majority of states obtain money intended for foster children with disabilities or a deceased parent without telling them, The Marshall Project and NPR found.
In 2021, an average of almost 50 people per month were shot and killed or wounded in a road rage shootings in the U.S.
Road Rage Shootings Raise Alarms in Texas - The New York Times: Dozens have been reported in Texas alone amid a pandemic surge in gun purchases and a country increasingly on edge.
Billionaire Peter Thiel amasses $5bn tax-free nest egg in retirement account | Peter Thiel | The Guardian
Billionaire Peter Thiel amasses $5bn tax-free nest egg in retirement account | Peter Thiel | The Guardian: ProPublica reveals files on other billionaires’ tax-free savings in Roth IRAs, which were originally intended for middle-class Americans
Thiel, the pro-Trump, PayPal and Facebook billionaire who accrued his wealth in part by manipulating our rigged tax system, has spent $25 million to elect right-wing, anti-democracy candidates in just two swing states alone. And he’s spent millions more on candidates & Super PACs
Thiel, the pro-Trump, PayPal and Facebook billionaire who accrued his wealth in part by manipulating our rigged tax system, has spent $25 million to elect right-wing, anti-democracy candidates in just two swing states alone. And he’s spent millions more on candidates & Super PACs
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Roe Is as Good as Dead. It Was Never Enough Anyway. - Boston Review
Roe Is as Good as Dead. It Was Never Enough Anyway. - Boston Review: It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
North by Northwest funny goof
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Trump wanted to launch missiles at Mexico to ‘destroy drug labs’ | Daily Sound & Fury
Trump wanted to launch missiles at Mexico to ‘destroy drug labs’ | Daily Sound & Fury: By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 8:18 AM ET, Fri May 6, 2022
Washington (CNN)Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says in his new book that then
Friday, May 6, 2022
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout - TK News by Matt Taibbi
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout - TK News by Matt Taibbi: A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won't the company answer questions?
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Y: The Last Man Season 2 Is Not Happening
I was still hoping our terrible cultural moment would shift and this terrible news would be reversed....
Y: The Last Man Season 2 Is Not Happening: Y: The Last Man is not returning for a second season.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump wanted to shoot Black and anti-racism protesters
Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters: "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Wonderful use of location (Louisville, KY) in this horror movie
What was your shooting schedule for The Clovehitch Killer, and where did filming take place? Duncan Skiles: We shot in Louisville, Kentucky. We shot for 25 days in October/November, so that spanned into Halloween and the election of Donald Trump, which were both oddly fitting.Nov 16, 2018
Q&A: THE CLOVEHITCH KILLER Director Duncan Skiles on Cinematic Influences and Working with Charlie Plummer and Dylan McDermott - Daily Dead: A haunting coming-of-age tale that's as heartbreaking as it is horrifying, The Clovehitch Killer strips away the cheerful veneer of one small town American family to show the sinister secrets that sometimes hide in the most innocent places. Simply put, The Clovehitch Killer is one of 2018's must-watch movies, and to celebrate the film's release today […]
Q&A: THE CLOVEHITCH KILLER Director Duncan Skiles on Cinematic Influences and Working with Charlie Plummer and Dylan McDermott - Daily Dead: A haunting coming-of-age tale that's as heartbreaking as it is horrifying, The Clovehitch Killer strips away the cheerful veneer of one small town American family to show the sinister secrets that sometimes hide in the most innocent places. Simply put, The Clovehitch Killer is one of 2018's must-watch movies, and to celebrate the film's release today […]
Debtors of the World, Unite! - Boston Review
Debtors of the World, Unite! - Boston Review: Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity.
How Americans' love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest - Washington Post
How Americans' love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest - Washington Post: The pattern is clear: First, the forest is razed. Then the cows are moved in.
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