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• Post #4197618

  Edit to add: I have it this aft via PCOB that OIM now has what they sought (I've no new info about Wed refusal) I've heard Willy Street Co-op has video that the Office of the Independent Monitor has requested for its investigation into today's killing, and that the co-op refused...saying they were "cooperating with the City" The OIPM is part of the City, so this implies my co-op is cooperating with police (killers) and not with independent oversight (not killers). Such a...

• Post #3893715

  » “If the Republican Governors Association wants to spend $2 million introducing Wisconsin voters to our platform of permanent affordability, standing up to the Trump administration and doing the right thing for our immigrant neighbors, all we can say is ‘thank you,’” [Francesca Hong spokesperson Allison Geyer] said « Republicans think Francesca Hong is not the very strong and highly electable candidate she is, and it's a popular folly to agree, or deniably pretend to 😏 https://urbanmilwau...

• Post #3844217

  I fairly clearly remember government cheese that was wrapped in foil inside that sort of shoebox box each ginormous loaf of wrapped cheesestuff came in, and yet I'm not sure that packaging ever actually existed (or at least I can't find a photo of it where it's not some kind of plastic or similar wrapper) How strange 🧀

• Post #2661542

  “The future sucks. The car doesn't fly and there are tornadoes all the time 😕”

• Post #2661541

  “It's almost as though linking comforts and necessities to market labor makes all three scarce”

• Post #2084304

  “What if in a decade or a century people remember this as the point when the world really turned away from this filthy, corrupting, unreliable, destructive resource?” “What if two petro-states, by demonstrating the unreliable, manipulable nature of the supply, sped the change...” “Earlier oil crises, notably the two in the 1970s, unfolded when there was no real alternative to fossil fuel to run our machines. Now there is” https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/truth-consequences-climate-and...

• Post #1981718

  It's good to understand how price escalation destroys demand under scarcity, and it's bad to think that price is a morally sound way to limit demand If 12 people need a sandwich, and Big Sandwich has ten so sells at whatever price 2 people can't pay — say twice the usual price — they not only guarantee it's the hungriest folks who go hungrier, they're rewarded for doing so It's not just capricious. It's structurally slanted away from just...

• Post #1933797

  Francesca Hong frames her "AI" platform around worker power “Silicon Valley marketers and data center landlords hype AI as the most significant economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Whether that’s true or not, CEOs and corporations are acting like it is — and we’re seeing the consequences in how they treat their workers” “workers are being surveilled, scheduled, and judged by tools they had no say in” “Wisconsinites deserve some [tools] of their own” https...

• Post #1809260

  “Look at all the roads we have to repair.” 🙄 * sigh * https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/27/wisconsin-data-center-tax-break-will-cost-taxpayers-more-than-2-billion/

• Post #1236196

  Should (or does) Mastodon have a way to define one's reply expectations and ground rules within the reply interface flow? A way I envision such a thing could work is that on one's first mention/reply/dm to an account, if it has a post designated as its first-interaction-notice, one sees that in a dialog. It can be dismissed once or permanently for this version of the notice Thus accounts may choose to set expectations in the user experience flow rather than in profile, pinned p...

• Post #1082789

  “Wear full safety gear and an N95 or better respirator when cutting or grinding the leaked source code. If your exposed skin comes in contact with the leaked source code, immediately wash thoroughly with soap and water. If leaked source code gets in the eyes, irrigate thoroughly with water for no less than five minutes, and seek medical attention. If the leaked source code was ingested, do not induce vomiting, take activated charcoal if available and contact a poison control center immediately.”

• Post #1082788

  “Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber?” That was a question with a familiar timbre. So I reflect. And yes, there is an echo I detect. It sounds like a man frustrated with "politically correct" Resistance from those who won't conform? Boundaries to useful harm elsewhere the norm? That's always met with privileged frustration of this generic form I suppose one could ask of folk, who want this omelet also free of yolk, if they know who they echo, and why it rhy...

• Post #798872

  “oh yeah, bugs”

• Post #798865

  “How will they enforce it?” bone dust 🦴 booster bros are really the cream of the cream of the LLM brodeo

• Post #559731

  “Dorothea Salo [ the awesome @dsalo here en la fedi ] a cybersecurity expert and UW-Madison professor, says Dane County’s data sharing agreements add another layer of concern” » “They can’t promise that [data won’t be used for immigration enforcement] if they’re sharing the data with anyone, unless there’s a contract with every single organization they’re sharing with” « 👉🏻 “You can’t stop that third party doing whatever the heck they want, including sharing with ICE” 👈🏻 https://isthmus.com/new...

• Post #494091

  "HR 7661 isn’t fundamentally about protecting kids. It’s about giving politicians broad authority to restrict whose stories are allowed” "Rather than targeting librarians and teachers, Congress should invest in them. The Right to Read Act offers a better path, supporting well-staffed and well-resourced school libraries, strengthening evidence-based literacy instruction, and protecting the dedicated professionals who help young people discover books that open doors” https://www.ala.or...

• Post #209664

  Republicans don't need to find a backbone. Republicans found a backbone. Republicans aren't being cowards. Republicans are being bold. Republicans didn't get captured by a fascist movement. Republicans captured a fascist moment. Republicans aren't failing to do what their conscience is telling them must be done. Republicans are doing what their conscience is telling them must be done. Republicans aren't little white children who've been lied to. Republican are lying t...