I just met up at noon at the Anacortes Post Office with 25 or so people all dressed in mourning black to talk about politics, MLK, and solidarity. Ended holding hands with a hymn (not my thing, but appropriate for the moment) and a moment of silence.
Definitely pushed my introvert limits extremely hard on that one. Not to mention being out and about and looking very genderqueer. But it was worth it.
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Thank you Siri.
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I'd given up on Biden doing this. I'm glad he did. Although I'm disappointed that it's a commutation and not a pardon.
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/us/leonard-peltier-indigenous-activist-sentence-biden/index.html
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From 2020, but more relevant than ever.
❝ Hoffmann observed that many of those who became ideological collaborators were landowners and aristocrats, “the cream of the top of the civil service, of the armed forces, of the business community,” people who perceived themselves as part of a natural ruling class that had been unfairly deprived of power under the left-wing governments of France in the 1930s. Equally motivated to collaborate were their polar opposites, the “social misfits and political deviants” who would, in the normal course of events, never have made successful careers of any kind. What brought these groups together was a common conclusion that, whatever they had thought about Germany before June 1940, their political and personal futures would now be improved by aligning themselves with the occupiers. ❞
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/
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It used to be politicians earned money with bribes. Now they use lawsuits. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113845634149875771
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Could we please stop developing technology whose sole goal is advertising, rather than say, improving customer experiences. The latter increases sales. The former drives people away after temporarily enriching some third party.
❝ These “smart doors” obscured shoppers’ view of the fridges’ actual contents, replacing them with virtual rows of the Gatorades, Bagel Bites and other goods it promised were inside. The digital displays had a distinct advantage over regular glass, at least for the retailer: ads. When proximity sensors detected passersby, the fridge doors started playing short videos hawking Doritos or urging customers to check out with Apple Pay. If this sounds disruptive—in the ordinary sense of the word, not Silicon Valley’s—that might have seemed a generous description in December 2023, when all the screens went blank. ❞
(They went blank because the vendor deliberately turned them off in order to blackmail Walgreens.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-16/walgreens-fridge-fight-bodes-poorly-for-future-of-retail?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews
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Happy sun dog. #DogsOfMastodon
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It's nice to know, given my obsessive picture taking, that I come from a long line of obsessive picture takers.
This week I found an album that contains nothing but photos of the inside of my grandparents first house in 1929. Complete with type written explanations of the layout of the house.
My father took quite a few pictures. But my grandfather took all kinds of photos. Including playing around with 3-D photography in the 70s. And then his father-in-law also took tons of pictures. I have everything from cheap paper prints to tintypes, to incredibly fragile glass images.
Right now this is scattered. I have some with me in Washington, and the rest is in eight plastic bins in Maine. My main project this week was transferring them to those from the cardboard boxes where they've been sitting in a damp dirt floor basement. The mice ran rampant, but they didn't eat too much. Although they did really like the leather postcard. But there's also things like one of the tintypes rusted onto a print. So there's a lot of cleanup. I'm glad to have them now sealed into something. The mice won't get into and that will protect them a little bit from the damp. Next summer, my daughter and I may go out and do a serious catalog and storage project while my mother is still with us.
Last fall, when I was going through all of my aunt's stuff in Hawaii, I scanned (with my phone) over 1000 prints that she had I wish the phone scanning software (Photomyne) was a little better, but realistically, except for particularly exceptional pieces, I'm not going to use a flatbed scanner for all these photos.
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❝ But what happens in the Industrial Revolution is that human effort gets embedded in a set of institutions — legal institutions, market institutions — that commodify it so that every hour of wage labor is equal to every other hour of wage labor and then sold on a market for a price.
And that’s an enormous transformation in the human experience — a total transformation in all social relations, political relations, economic relations and also, crucially, the subjective experience of being alive in the world.
I think something similar is happening with attention. And it started a while ago — the same way that the industrial revolution actually started earlier than we think. But we’re reaching a crescendo where attention is now this market commodity that’s extracted and sold. ❞
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-chris-hayes.html
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-chris-hayes.html
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Last photo for a while. Plane about to take off. Note the bottom left from WWI
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Here's my father's mother and on back. Interesting that the female line is better documented.
I need to verify the names though. Sometimes it's just the maiden and sometimes the married as well.
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I have photos of my great great great great grandmother. But this is the first I've found of any of the men that far. This is my great great great grandfather, Joseph Niyes. He was born in 1809 and died in 1890.
[#]genealogy
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Does anyone recognize this lighthouse?
My grandfather (on the left) was a traveling Swedenborgian minister in the US. Based on what I know this could be anywhere from Ohio to Nova Scotia. He went to Florida as well, but that seems less likely.
Given the ferry and distance, something inland seems likely.
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I keep telling myself that cars were lighter then, but...
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I'd love to believe that American use of Rednote could overwhelm Chinese censors. But I doubt there are the numbers. Unless there aren't enough English speaking censors.
But hey. Good opportunity for Americans to up their censorship avoidance skills. Might come in handy.
❝ Lindsay Gorman, managing director and senior fellow of GMF's Technology Program, previously told Newsweek:
"TikTok itself is banned in China like most social media platforms that allow users to speak freely on topics China doesn't like. That means that an influx in Western users—a sizable fraction of whom hold progressive views—will have to contend directly with censorship on RedNote that's made in China for China. The flip side of this if RedNote's U.S. user base does expand rapidly is that the censors may have a hard time keeping up and keeping the political content off the platform." ❞
https://www.newsweek.com/rednote-censorship-concerns-emerge-tiktok-users-china-news-2016016
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Here's one for the film #camera and movie buffs.
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My father and my aunt Marjorie. This has got to be the cutest picture I have ever seen of them.
[#]filmphoto #photography
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Marking myself safe from molasses.
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Digging through that I see it's actually a mix of my father's and his father's. I have my father's going back to at least the early 40's, when he was was in his early teens.
I just found the page where I was born.
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Here's what he generally dressed like then.
I have that bolo tie. It's a woven grass Papago bird design (same technique used on their baskets).
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