RE: @Nola_Haynes@findout.media
This needs to be a Big Movement.
Any white player that considers themself an "ally" must also refuse to play in the confederacy. Let those schools become marginalized athletic (and academic) shitholes.
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Obbie King
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mastodon 4.7.3Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability.
Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention.
Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.
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Another data point proving the age-old axiom, "If you want high school students to get deeply interested in something, try banning it."
"Students moved from learning a four-minute song to immersing themselves in the history of Stonewall. They learned more about Marsha P. Johnson and they spoke at the School Board meeting about her powerful legacy of fighting back for her community."
https://captimes.com/opinion/natalie-eilbert/opinion-the-wisconsin-school-board-hell-bent-on-erasing-history/article_c0529411-e890-4093-a20d-ed2cf2f02ff1.html
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@grammargirl@zirk.us "AI tells you things that are wrong in a way that sounds completely believable."
Ah, so AI is like Wally Cox on Hollywood Squares! (Use this analogy on old people. We'll understand.)
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@VE2UWY@mastodon.radio @straphanger@urbanists.social I've worked in IT since the early '90s (now retired), and every place I worked had a room overstuffed with out-of-date computer hardware. This equipment can run for decades, but is cycled out every 3-5 years.
So, yeah, there's gonna be a shitload of top-end servers on the market in about 5-10 years. Suppliers of new hardware will have to move on to whatever is next.
"...he’s spent more time in 2026 interacting with an anonymous account called “XFreeze” than with any other user. It’s unclear who is behind XFreeze..."
How do we know that "XFreeze" isn't just another account controlled by #ElonSchmuck himself? That'd be on-brand for him.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/22/elon-musk-the-odyssey-casting
CBS news was my soundtrack thru the 80's and beyond. Before the Internet and time servers, the chime at the beginning of the hourly newscast was the most accurate way to set your watch. And their news stations (KNX in LA, KCBS in SF, many more high-powered stations) kept us informed.
Between nuking radio news and kicking Colbert off the air, CBS as we knew it is long gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/22/cbs-news-radio-end-major-loss
#CBS #news #radio
"the construction faces unforeseen costs. The lot is mostly topped with riverbed soil..."
Don't they mean SAND? It's the first time I've experienced this construction euphemism. Of course, most of this city is built on sand... er, "riverbed soil".
(We're talking about La Crosse WI, on the banks of the Mississippi River.) #LaCrosse
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@straphanger@urbanists.social At least when the railroad bubble popped, we still had all that track and rolling stock. When the AI bubble pops, what's gonna happen with all those server farms?
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@infobeautiful So many ways this chart is bullslop. I've studied Spanish, French, Czech and German (along with my native English). I found Czech much easier than French (simpler phonetic rules, for starters). So why is it lumped in with all those "hard" languages with strange alphabets?
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social Saying it's "for entertainment only" is a legal CYA line. Note the rest of that section: Copilot fucks up, so don't trust it with anything important, and don't sue us if it makes a Very Expensive Mistake.
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@PipGowenlock Maybe they got the ratio upside-down?... in that it should be one vegan restaurant for every 128 people?
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social CW: Picky copy-editor note...
To say "same time" isn't precise. A summer sunrise is 4-5 hours earlier than a winter sunrise, so they're obviously at different "times".
That said, I struggle to come up with better words to express "same stage of sunrise process".
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@iFixit@mastodon.social I've read lately that some vapes even have a computer built in, and some have been hacked into service.
I'm glad to see the band #RareEarth getting a lot of mention in the news these days. I remember hearing this Detroit band described as "the only White band on Motown." They had a few hits in the 70s doing some stock Motown tunes.
I met some members of the band in a Motel 6 parking lot in 1990. I had just completed summer #Dead tour, and they were between shows on the county fair circuit.
Respectable guys, decent band, I'm glad they're getting attention. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmxgwuMMGrP9qIdbpCeQeNsntDK9dsTXw
My weather radar is showing a red box (i.e. tornado warning) in #Madison
Hope all is well, Mad-town!
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online I grew up in dairy country, had friends who lived on farms, spent many afternoons hanging out with neighbor kid while he did his cow-related chores.
I don't think either of us has ever sat on a cow. Never seemed like a good idea.
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@haraldkliems@fosstodon.org Ah, but will any of the performers/speakers be able to show up? I'm watching the radar, and you guys are getting pounded right now.
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@HoffmanLabs@infosec.exchange That's the Eternal Paradox of IT work. When everything Just Works, people have no idea how much you've been working your ass off to get it that way.
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@mattdawhit@mastodon.iow.social I see, so that's not a cargo bike but a three-wheeled trailer? Steering that assembly must get dodgy sometimes, no?
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social It looks like some sort of Assembly code, but I don't recognize it. I'm familiar with 8080/Z80 and 6502 (8-bit) Assembler, but I have no idea what processor this was supposed to run on.
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@Orca@nya.one @iFixit@mastodon.social That's not nothing. There were people doing useful work on less capable machines back in the 8-bit days. (TRS80 Mod 100 laptop comes to mind)