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@nic.babarskis.blog Listen here, if you want a succinct summary of how incredibly wrong the sentiment on display in that example is start with this engrossing little animation about Chaos Dragons (no, really): youtu.be/JN1thcowKXw?…

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🎥🍎✈️ Final approach at the cider mill today:

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Adding this article blurb to the mental corkboard I maintain dedicated to antecedents of a tech-inflected neofeudalism.

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From 16,000 to 185 to 0:

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On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.

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“As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens,” Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. “You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise.”

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Propaganda. Claims about systemic voter fraud is a form of anti-democratic propaganda.

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@waketosleep.bsky.social “Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack” Rule of Acquisition #109

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@actingthefulemin.bsky.social Mine harumphed that Brave New Worlds (BNW?) was a bit too “preachy“ and in my head I’m like “you watched TOS and TNG when they originally aired”

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@actingthefulemin.bsky.social my parents are also in the Star Trek to Paramount+ westerns pipeline.

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Not sure I could stomach the sustained depravity but considering a Barbenheimer-esque double feature of Alex Gibney’s The Innovator followed by You Can See Everything.

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@matthewlang I use Zotero notes and Zettlr for some of my writing, primarily because I got sick of all the feature creep in Word and want to present some token resistance to going all in on Apple or Google so I too think there will always be some sort of market for plaintext. I just think about how long TeX has been around given less clunky alternatives so never underestimate a user base’s loyalty to a favored tool.

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Michigan State University had a campus wide power outage from Saturday afternoon through the remainder of the weekend. Electricity has been restored but the steam system that handles hot water and HVAC for much of campus remains disabled. It’s a bracing reminder that we take a lot of (literally) submerged infrastructure for granted till it fails.

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From the university webpage with info on the restoration work:

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The T.B. Simon Power Plant converts energy from natural gas into steam and electricity, which is used for building functions such as heating and cooling. Steam for use in HVAC and electric power...

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Worth noting briefly that it’s PFAS awareness week here in Michigan.

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📷 It’s gettin wet out there.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social I guess Erick’s opinion on Pinochet went through an Obama style evolution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_E…

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Due to a @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social post I have to once again update my incredibly niche meme.

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Guide to wildflowers from the Historical Book Images site:

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I made an extremely niche meme about The Christian Post publishing an opinion piece condemning Christian Nationalism. Worth noting this was the default position of the politics editor they cancelled half a decade ago.

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@elizabethbitmeehan.com @mcsweeneys.net is already compiling the annotated bibliography: www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest…

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social What is “the institution” though? The publishing fermament, the political organizing and aid organizations? The postsecondary institutions?

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Not sure this is a fair encapsulation of the argument (as you’ve encountered it) but what I find frustrating is that it comes across as both “the political elite’s don’t define the movement you should look to the pews” AND “pay not attention to the pew’s collective voting behavior.”

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social I agree with you, but I think that someone who adopts your framing for how bodies of knowledge evolve has already self-selected into a number of presuppositions about reality and human agency that make KKdM’s analysis intellectually palatable.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social I can only speak from my own experience of those sorts of events (and the lifelong impression they can leave) and a very limited sample of people who engaged with the book with a negative outlook. I would bet the P.K. chapter alone gives a permission structure for dismissing the whole thing.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Yeah, but if one’s worldview is predicated on a preference for understanding phenomenon through a culturally defined (and not really interrogated) “common-sense” I don’t think it matters how sincerely you try to explain the difference.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social OR, maybe shortened a bit: KKdM’s argument has to surmount the warm feelings one has from attending Promise Keepers events with their dad.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social IMHO its a bit of an extension on the point @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social made about compartmentalizing systemic and personal ethics. You may be able to point to a figure like Oliver North as a movement proxy but there’s a worldview that firewalls them from a local pastor/congregation member.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social The criticism I’ve encountered from people I respect: they sincerely believe what she’s focused on in the historical record is elaborate nut-picking cloaked as critical historical analysis. In other words, a type of presentism. This is especially lodged against the Promise Keepers chapter.

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A Grain.Social find I like

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@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social Easily the most metal college rivalry. There was an actual civil war massacre where Missourians inflicted death and destruction on KU’s town: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenc…

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Perusing the Library of Congress’s September 11 research guide this morning.

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No Man’s Sky releasing yet another feature rich FREE update. Good god, will it ever end?

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The digital corner of evangelical Protestantism I occupy has been contending with a prominent apologists Trinitarian theological errors and how best to describe the Doctrine’s essence, so far this has been my favorite primer on the topic.

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📷 Enjoying the late summer bloom at the MSU Botanical Gardens.

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@canneddragons I think the MB equivalent to this would be someone arguing that an excerpt from the 1662 Book of Common prayer is superior to the current version foe a pre-BBQ blessing OR someone getting dragged for saying they used Claude for a homemade ranch dressing recipe.

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Maybe there are technical requirements of which I am ignorant, but I find it so annoying that Treasury went this route of paying a private sector vendor for identity and login management when login.gov exists.

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I’m starting to see more think pieces on my feeds about 9/11, public figures are posting outright islamaphobia, I just walked past the Phi Kappa Psi house and they’re hosting some sort of rush activity while blasting Drops of Jupiter by Train. I feel like I time tunneled into 2003.

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Daniel Kolitz:

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I think of a sentence I wrote dozens of variants of in the waning days of my content-writing career, which went something like: “These AI tools aren’t meant to supplant the work of humans—instead, by automating routine busywork, they will free your employees up for the kind of creative thinking that actually drives innovation.” Even then I must have known the truth: that your average call center, say, has no use for a customer service staff that sits around “innovating” for half the business day (what would they be innovating, precisely?); that any time saved for the business would...

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@miamurphy.com

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@kfitz Agreed! My enthusiasm for the software is on par with my loyalty to my local NPR station or the LOC.gov.

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@joshuapsteele I generally find the most intriguing dialogue occurs in the more hardcore Laughing Man Enthusiast chat rooms. (IYKYK, GITS:SAC)

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@matthewlang encountered some season 3 commentary that noted in the book associated with this Season Juliette is mostly absent till the last act, so at a minimum that was rewritten.

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It’s a damp and gloomy September Friday, and sometimes that calls for suburban/Warped Tour style emo music that’s so saccharine it could melt your teeth:

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@outbox.cafe 👏

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@nic.babarskis.blog It’s an admittedly limited sample size, but I don’t hear “huh, maybe we are pursuing policies wildly at odds with the majority of voters, and should put down the culture warring guns.” What I hear is “our way of life is under siege and we must win by any means necessary.”

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RIP Wendell Berry:

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Berry had a way of cutting through to the core.

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This site is the digital equivalent of the junk drawer in your kitchen. An assortment of random items, many of which happen to be incredibly useful in very specific circumstances:

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I somehow managed to stumble on to this site this morning. The dev related tools are pretty handy, but I especially liked the band name generator tool. I think I might give it a go when I form my punk band.

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@jimmitchell This is incredible.

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Engrossing short-form video documentary on the Phoenix fire department’s efforts to implement new heat related life-saving interventions:

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Strong Towns:

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Cities routinely respond to financial stress by pursuing growth even more aggressively. The logic is simple. More homes mean more taxpayers, while more commercial development expands the tax base. If the city is short of money, the obvious response is to grow faster.

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Westlund recognizes the flaw in that logic. When each new increment of development creates more long-term expense than it produces in revenue, more growth doesn’t solve the financial problem. It makes the problem larger.

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McSweeney’s updating their first draft of history:

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We were stuck in line waiting for gas at a Freedom Fuel Station, so this installment is a little late. Apologies! Anyway, you add another 90 atrocities to the list. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors\nbuff.ly/V207e2L

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🍎🍏How some people feel about sports teams is how I feel about apple varieties in harvest season: Michigan apple growers expect strong harvest as crop arrives early.

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