My take: business interests do not in the main care about Pride or DEI. They care about PR.

This is starting to feel more and more like a planned property grab.

Why do we as a species hate teenage girls so much?

School segregation got reinvented under many other names, including "redlining" and "public housing" and "urban renewal."

The folks in power have numerous strategies available to keep people in their place, as it were.

A complete set of security screw bits is ~20 bucks and they're far more useful than I realized until I acquired them.

I've been saying for years that the only difference between the GOP and the DNC is the timeline.

The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.

And where our priorities as a species are when it comes to atrocities like this.

I have a very difficult time imagining an internet that is both interoperable and ranking-free. Now, that having been said, we are well outside my area of expertise here so I'd love to hear from folks who know more than me.

"When a hero comes along . . ."

. . . I used to teach this to high school sophomores in World History. To whom is this news?

Among many other domestic terror groups who should be scaring the shit out of us as a nation.

I can tell you that an average 2-bedroom apartment was about 600USD when I moved to the city I currenlty live in. Today the cheapest apartment in town is 1300USA/month and getting higher. If I hadn't been lucky enough to buy a house when I did, I couldn't afford to live anymore.

The loss of public trust in the CDC in particular and public health in general are a huge problem. We'll need a generation or two to fix it.

Stay tuned, as I have thoughts and ideas on that in an upcoming article.

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As with our dentention centers on the US/Mexico border, we'll only see select portions of this after they've "addressed the issues" innate to putting people in holding facilities.

I'm really glad that you're enjoying Linux, and I'm doubly glad that your hospital found a solution to keep their system running smoothly!

Facebook has always been first and foremost an advertising platform, and they went where the money is. Some of that's the automated algorithms, some of that is deliberate corporate informationeering.

I offer some thoughts on the decline and fall of the internet here, and I think it's germane to this discussion: https://michaelhjenkins.substack.com/p/visions-of-a-post-apocalyptic-internet?r=26iex9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

We live in the Attention Age and the world runs to a large degree on emotions. This is fine, everything's fine.

Cody Doctorow wrote a short story about a group of newbie hackers doing just that.