New from 404 Media: “DeFlock” is a project to map the location of Flock systems and other automatic license plate reading cameras all over the world. “I started seeing them all over the place and realized that they were for the police. And I didn’t like that.”
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-98/ this week in sentences: a lifetime of aphorisms, object of huckstering, possum-y heart, love is an acid, terrible and wonderful, the ultimate unity
One reason Ramsey gave for why I should come with this time was to meet his parents dogs and honestly if I'm murdered by an Israeli airstrike because I went to meet some dogs that feels very on brand
Judge extends lithium drilling freeze, a major win for Hualapai Tribe https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/110824_lithium_drilling_freeze/judge-extends-lithium-drilling-freeze-major-win-hualapai-tribe/
A federal judge extended a temporary pause of exploratory drilling as part of a lithium mining project near the Hualapai Tribe’s sacred site after the court found that irreparable harm from drilling is likely.
#Tucson #Arizona
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1999-buda-s-wagon going back to this short but excellent Mike Davis book today
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Spent some time on r/GenZ last night reading all these missives from young men about why they voted for Trump, and the gender gap is extremely real and more concerning than even I had grasped. Even if you think these young men are entitled brats, the rest of us are living with the consequences of their politics, and this seems like something that the left needs to pay very close attention to. The older liberal hopes that the young will save us on many issues seems hopelessly naive to me.
one thing they didn’t teach us in school: in the days of the fugitive slave laws (1840s etc) crowds in places like Philly and Boston would sometimes protect escaped slaves from slave catchers. People would throw rocks and fruit at the slave catchers. Judges and clerks might stall and slow down their work. Many white people just complied with the laws, but some didn’t. Escaped slaves were often armed and so were their allies.
sent an email to my 10th grade social studies teacher today thanking him for making us watch Manufacturing Consent and read Arendt and unfortunately preparing me to understand the last few decades, because I thought it might be a nice thing to tell him on a shitty day
(I did not tell him that I was thinking of pivoting to becoming a high school social studies teacher)
life change thoughts had this morning in wake of election that I can share on the TL
- I guess I'm definitely volunteering for my Muslim city councilwoman's re-election campaign (she's facing a zionist primary challenger)
- maybe I should pivot to getting credentialed to be a high school social studies teacher to try and deal with some root cause shit going on here