@xor end of an era
Hey, US folx? Here's where we're at.
Without IMMEDIATE repercussions, this pretty much puts paid to the idea of the political right and the rule of law. And yeah I know, "it was always blah blah" w/e NO.
What This is is literally an entire state opting out of the norms that keep our country even moderately functional. That is DIFFERENT.
Without even that thin veiled pretension to rule of law, most of you haven't seen the kind of thing that we're in for, in your politically cognizant lifetimes. Alabama republicans needs to be taken to task on this, and SWIFTLY.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715
@TeamMidwest my mom lives near the hill if you need a bathroom or a cool drink (I am serious she loves this sort of thing)
Episode 13 of Question Mark, Ohio: a fire, an ally, a crystal cave. Get caught up today. https://questionmarkohio.com/episodes/thirteen/
This has slid under the radar of mainstream news sites but Google Chrome now has a proposal for DRM for the web. It’s basically a way for a website to ask a browser it’s running on a trusted browser or device.
It will help detect & prevent bot traffic or scrapers. But will also enable sites to detect & block ad blockers as well. A final nail in the coffin of the Open Web that made Google a trillion dollar company.
"Britt Russert reformulates this as “fugitive science,” forms of apprehension that operate on lines of flight carried out by black and native practitioners to understand their place and future in the world outside the distorted view of empiricism."
https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ii-web.pdf
via @ingrid
reading reviews of Oppenheimer has encouraged me to return to Lou Cornum's barnstormer essay The Irradiated International from 2018 https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ii-web.pdf
@jonoabroad AI can feel it coming in the AIr tonight