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If you really want to get upset about something going on in open source / open data space, I would suggest considering Niantic.

After years of refusing any communication with #OpenStreetMap, not to mention -any- kind of support. Niantic joined the Linux Foundations @linuxfoundation Overture (for substantial amounts of money), but its customers continue to vandalize OSM, burning lots of volunteer time at multiple levels.

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413

Thinking about how in Monkey Man the entire training montage is Dev Patel punching a bag of rice but somehow this also made him really good at situational awareness and dodging punches in all the subsequent fight scenes

Today in labor history April 28, 1919: Anarchists mailed 36 booby-trapped packages to enemies of the working class. Inside each package was a 6” x 3” block of hollowed wood filled with dynamite. Their targets included U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, because he had been imprisoning and deporting anarchists and union activists, including Emma Goldman. Other targets included J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #terrorism #bomb #union #RedScare #dynamite #AMitchellPalmer #emmagoldman #rockefeller #JPMorgan

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: this thing called an economy, long game, abide a chicken, nocturnal gelato, embarrassing about it, overdetermined, 100%

Should I pivot to working in oil and gas next because it seems like by the time I show up to an industry it starts getting murdered

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Me in 2020: well, seems like journalism is not panning out for me maybe I'll go lie low in academia for a little while to figure out next moves

Me in 2024: lol, lmao

Admin life 

So annoyed that I had to get on a group check in call today that I had to low key help coordinate at someone else's request and then that person didn't even come to the call??? It at least was brief and efficient but what the heck

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in (nice) sentences: an insult to serpents, tongue-bathe the boots, a salad so fancy, a lonely branch somewhere, telexes with one hand, deranged pirouettes, rabid fan bases

Watching a nonprofit media grifter frame a pretty worrying move as great news before they move into their next grift, you hate to see it

Uspol shitpost 

Prestige media: it's fine to withhold consequential info about the Trump admin for a year so it can be a scoop in a reporter's big deal book

Also prestige media: how dare you not let us publish detailed information about jurors in a politically volatile trial in real time as the trial unfolds

"These tradcore breeders engage in roleplay based on major fandom media, calling one another 'the Jim to my Pam'"

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pitching an article profiling a heterosexual marriage as a novel "monocule"

explained what Occupy Wall Street was to a room full of undergrad art students, off to let my wizened elderly form disintegrate into nothingness

trying to not just write "do not cite the deep magic to me, child I was there when it was written" in the margins of my students draft term papers when they talk about how online apparently used to be

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: infelicitous, health and busyness, bad writers, as great a gulf, 'sexy' ghoul, antique, deciduous, contraption or gizmo

Names of some real bills written by actual congresspeople, on our dime:

Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
Liberty in Laundry Act
Clothes Dryers Reliability Act
Refrigerator Freedom Act
Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act

Again, I did not name these. These came from the brain trust of Very Serious Men and Women of the Grand Old Party.

*youth pastor voice* you could say that the holy trinity is a kind of three body problem

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.