https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/skipped-showers-paper-plates-an-arizona-suburbs-water-is-cut-off.html I know it's a different part of Arizona AND ALSO feel like it's weird to not talk about all the industrial development underway in the state to expand US semiconductor manufacturing which is very water intensive!!
This week's best sentences: miscellany from the National Archives, an epigraph, an accordion, the conveyor belt of gentrification, soap: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-03/
I've noticed something quite notable about the anti-Section 230 crowd who come after me. They claim (falsely) that Section 230 enables harassment, but then, they are the most aggressive harassers/bullies we've seen in the Techdirt comments.
The latest one casually throws around bigoted slurs while claiming that we're supporting harassment and abuse because we support 230.
https://rocks.guide/national-archives-notes-ii/ new NARA bloggé out, this time with weird photos
Can't stop telling people I'm so excited about my friend's book but also my friend's book is a very serious history of the Oakland Police so it's weird to be happy about it https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform
I guess no one would make a sticker that said "Communism" or "Anarchism" because those have cool symbols already? Weird of capitalism of all the ideologies to not really have a logo I guess
honestly still amazed that someone is out there making stickers that just say "Capitalism" in the Coca-Cola font and that sticker has an audience
very small breakthrough finds in research yesterday:
- Prior to WWII there were exactly two industrial tantalum powder and products manufacturers, one in the USA and one in Germany and most of it came from Australia
- By the end of the war, the supply chain had almost entirely shifted to Belgian Congo and the govt had built that one US manufacturer a $4.71 million facility to expand their production
- As of 1942, all of GE's fused quartz feedstock came from Brazil
Incredible 40-minute archive documentary about manufacture for Operation PLUTO - rapid-deployment undersea fuel pipelines to support the liberation of Europe in WW2.
This week's perfect sentences are from @kissane, a 2013 undergraduate thesis, Leslie Marmon Silko, The Mountain Goats, and a World War II veteran: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-02/
birdsite discoursing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/elon-musk-cuts-more-twitter-staff-overseeing-content-moderation reminded of the blog post I saw early in twitter exodus cautioning that mastodon lacked a trust and safety team as a reason it was Not The Thing and like...at this point, pretty soon Twitter won't have one either