https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFP8TvV65Uo

https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

"What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!" - -Robert Heinlein

I was at the Museum and I saw an ex-girlfriend all the way on the other side of the room. I was going to say hi but there was just too much history between us.

Ayn Rand seems to have forgotten that Atlas declared war on the gods of Mount Olympus and was severely punished. Rand's version of Atlas colludes with the oppressors. Perhaps that is why her writings are so popular among Republicans.

Saw a Tesla covered in dents. Probably heil damage.

https://imgur.com/gallery/nazi-was-requested-to-leave-concert-Qcinlbm

I just want to remind you, that before there were spicy kitties (skunks), danger noodles (snakes) and even "if not friend, why friend shaped?" (bears), even before the internet itself was a gleam in Al Gore's appropriations bill -

There were always mud puppies.

(salamanders, particularly the big ones in a creek, bonus points for gills).

Your great, great grandmother knew what was up.

And nobody ate or tried to make them mud puppies do anything.

And yet, as so often happens when the contributions of Black Americans intersect with the making of national memory, the record was altered. The act of founding—the first Memorial Day—was obscured, reattributed, covered over by another version.

8/21

Image: General John A. Logan, Commander and Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Given official credit for establishing the first Memorial Day, May 30, 1868.

For the Black citizens of Charleston—newly freed, barely weeks into their emancipation—had laid claim not just to the bodies in those graves, but to the memory of the war itself. They had buried the Union dead with honor. And in so doing, they had given birth to what would one day be called Memorial Day.
7/21

Image: Black American laborer between 1861-1865, known as contraband. These men worked as teamsters for the Union army.

They gathered not to celebrate a battle or to protest an injustice, but to bury the dead. In the waning weeks of the war, 257 Union prisoners had died there—of disease, of neglect, of despair—and been cast into a mass grave behind the grandstand. Now, the people who had once been enslaved came to raise them up.
3/21

Image: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Students Saluting the Flag at the Whittier Primary School, circa 1899-1900.

This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

#health #science #climate #environment

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5 years ago today. George Floyd was murdered by a racist cop who knelt on his neck and choked him for over 9 minutes.
I was only a kid back in 2020 but I remember seeing this on TV and it shocked tf out of me and knew it was cops v us.
Remember George today but also all the other black men murdered by cops.
Preciate if yall could boost this🙏🏿
#GeorgeFloyd #blacklivesmatter

Why would you buy insurance from a lizard or a maid? There's a local guy who can help.

Only Seven months till christmas. Start shopping now while you can.

"Cultivated people live only by justice. If they lose justice, they lose their reason for existing. Uncultivated people live only for material desires. If they lose their desires, they lose their reason for existing. Cultivated people fear loss of justice; uncultivated people fear loss of posessions. By observing what they fear, you can tell the difference."
- The Masters Of Huainan

First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

Happy Towel Day to all the froods who celebrate!

Treat yourselves to something almost, but not entirely unlike tea. 🤖