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kcarruthers mastodon (AP)
Stephen Miller's Law Firm Has Paid >$1M to Anti-Abortion Lawyer Jonathan Mitchell

Stephen Miller will be Trump's dep chief of staff for policy starting in Jan

https://www.susanrinkunas.com/far-right-legal-groups-have-paid-more-than-800-000-dollars-to-anti-abortion-lawyer-jonathan-mitchell/

Book dedications bot mastodon (AP)
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff by Calvin Trillin
#books #literature #dedication
My wife, Alice, appears as a character in many of these pieces. Before her death, in 2001, even the pieces that didn't mention her were written in the hope of making her giggle. This book is dedicated to her memory.

Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
If he had kept his big flapping ignorant mouth shut, perhaps we could have avoided this BS about a shutdown completely.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/senate-elon-musk-trump-spending-b2668067.html

"Senators lament Elon Musk’s influence and say shutdown would have been avoided if he ‘kept his mouth shut’
‘That’s the kind of s*** you run into when you started listening to people who aren’t elected,’ one Democratic senator tells The Independent"
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The Turtle mastodon (AP)
he is not immune to lead poisoning.

UC Access Now mastodon (AP)
Check your email as grad students at UC Davis just received a copy of a letter sent by UC President Michael Drake in response to student worries about immigration, freedom of movement given the coming administration and what they've signaled.

(This is not the letter, but text from an email from UC Davis Graduate Studies. that accompanied the letter.)

#Immigration #LaMigra #UniversityOfCalifornia
Travel Guidance for International Students, Scholars, and Employees
UCOP recommends that each campus adapt and distribute the following systemwide travel guidance for international students, scholars, and employees at their location, and continue to advise international students, scholars, and employees as appropriate.
 
The systemwide travel guidance is as follows:
The University of California has received questions from community members concerned about potential changes to U.S. immigration and visa processes following the results of the recent election. We want to assure you that the University is monitoring immigration-related developments and will inform you of any that may impact you. At this time, no changes have been announced.
 
Winter Travel Planning: We do not anticipate any formal changes to immigration and visa rules before January 20, 2025. However, we recommend international students and scholars take the following precautions to encourage safe travel during the winter break and the month of January and encourage you to consider completing your travel and returning before January 20.
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Kevin C 🎬 mastodon (AP)
#FridayThrillerClub Why does Hans take off silencer anyway?
#DieHard
ManWithPez mastodon (AP)
My guess is that they had the building at that point, and didn't need it anymore, had it been there for precautions.
otheorange_tag mastodon (AP)
maybe that's why they call him HANDS?! --dad #FridayThrillerClub
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Bytes Europe mastodon (AP)
Poland Says It Will Arrest Bibi If Israeli PM Attends Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary https://www.byteseu.com/579124/ #BenjaminNetanyahu #Gaza #InternationalCriminalCourt #Israel #Nazis #Poland
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

M. Ní Sídach mastodon (AP)
I'll take the win, but celebration is extremely premature.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY):
"This is a victory for the American people."
C-SPAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy1grN3RmH4

NDisruptivo mastodon (AP)
Hola banda solo Paso a decir que si escuchan musica en su cel descarguen

RiMusic en F-droid , utiliza youtube músic pero bueno va mas rápido que el spot tube

#foss
#FOSS

Ashe Dryden ActivityPub
Cryptocurrencies are just MLM’s for creepy men.

So here's the question: is Elon Musk about to use his obscene fortune to buy governments and create fascist states worldwide? And if so, what are we going to do to prevent it?

Okay, those were two questions.
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Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
In their 30 years as a band, the Grateful Dead scored just one Top 40 hit with "Touch of Grey," and not a single Grammy nomination.

"We've had people come up to us, say, 'You guys are never gonna make it. You play too long. You play too loud,'" Kreutzmann recalled.

But through their decades together, they built a legion of followers -- "Deadheads," who started recording and sharing their concerts.

"You'd look from the stage and it looked like a forest of trees of microphones," Kreutzmann said of their fans recording their concerts.

Their record company advised against allowing fans to record, but the band refused, saying they weren't worried about piracy.

"It was the smartest thing we ever did," Kreutzmann said.

The Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 concerts and fans recorded most of them.

"Those cassettes went out all over the world," Hart said. "They were our archivists as well."

When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the band broke up. They weren't sure they could find a way to carry on without their frontman.

The surviving members went off to start other projects and bands, but the Grateful Dead's spirit would always live on.
Weir said Garcia visits him in dreams from time to time, including recently.
"In the dream, Jerry comes to me and he says, 'Listen, I'm gonna invite a song in to meet you.
I want you to meet this song.' …
What that dream did was, it solidified in me the notion that, yes when we play the songs, they're living things," Weir said.
"They come and visit our world and they come through us."
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/grateful-dead-kennedy-center-honores-2024/?intcid=CNR-02-0623

QuirkyFilms mastodon (AP)
#AfricanFilmPoster #GhanaFilmPoster
In Ghana 🇬🇭 when posters can't be imported, local artists will bootleg them to the best of their abilities. Some often are more imaginative than the official studio releases.

#TomorrowNeverDies (1997)
#JamesBond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce a war between China and the United Kingdom.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704270/ House Democrat Says, “I’ll Just Sit Back and Watch Republicans Fight”(Video) #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews
House Democrat Says, “I’ll Just Sit Back and Watch Republicans Fight”(Video)

Julia Evans mastodon (AP)
really enjoyed this paper by Kendall Makai and Philip Guo on the process of building an unofficial guide for undergrads by undergrads https://pg.ucsd.edu/publications/hidden-curriculum-undergrad-mentoring_ICER-2023.pdf

more here: https://kendallnakai.com/portfolio/hidden-curriculum.html

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704268/ U.S. to lift $10 million bounty on de facto Syrian leader’s head #GeopoliticalAnalysis #GeopoliticalNews #geopolitics #Politics
U.S. to lift $10 million bounty on de facto Syrian leader's head


Paxton Orglot mastodon (AP)
Reflections on IGD Mexico, Anarchist Media, and International Solidarity

https://itsgoingdown.org/reflections-on-igd-mexico-anarchist-media-and-international-solidarity/

#AnarchistMedia #Mexico #InternationalSolidarity

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704262/ Phone snatch victim runs 2km to get it back – and finds six more stashed in hedge #News #UK #UkNews #uknews #UnitedKingdom
Phone snatch victim runs 2km to get it back – and finds six more stashed in hedge

Scott Campbell mastodon (AP)
"A Genocidal Special Relationship" by Carlota McAllister

"Israel used Guatemala’s genocide not only as a platform for asserting itself as a minor imperial power and a profit center for its military and associated industries but also as a proving ground for anti-Indigenous counterinsurgency. In return, Guatemala has numbered among Israel’s most loyal international allies. Not only did Guatemala move its embassy to Jerusalem in 2017, but it also voted alongside a tiny number of nations to protect Israel from condemnation in the early stages of the latest bombardment of Gaza."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2024.2427974#d1e114

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Guatemala

mvario mastodon (AP)
In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle

The Arizona senator's prodigious campaign spending in global wine hotspots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.

https://theintercept.com/2024/12/20/kyrsten-sinema-campaign-spending-castle-france/


Rocketman mastodon (AP)
I found myself nodding along furiously while reading Ed Zitron's "Never Forgive Them". An instant classic of critical technology appreciation:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

The only criticism I have is that he's merely highlighting one small part of the enshittified technology experience: That of the adult USian consumer.

That's a valid perspective of course, but there are SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE, for whom tech is infinitely worse still. (Type "facebook rohingya" into your search engine of choice.)

McNadoMD mastodon (AP)
For anyone not aware, AfD is Germany’s far-right party, and is riddled with actual nazis.

You know, in case this were to be in the news for some reason today.
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cpkimber mastodon (AP)
Vekllei/MillMint is such a fun mixed media project showing an alternative history 21st century. It is #solarpunk as hell, but I never see it discussed anywhere

https://millmint.net/stories/antigua/
The Ferridge mastodon (AP)
Wow, that is fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

GayDeceiver mastodon (AP)
“You’re under arrest. 4 wives in 8 years. Each new wife during the Christmas Season. We found their bodies in the back 40 of your ranch.”

#HallmarkChristmasRedux
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Bok mastodon (AP)
I have music on most of the time, but I don't _listen_ to music. (It's overwhelmingly instrumental, for one thing.) So I'm #listening to _Department Store Christmas_ on #SomaFM, and one of the songs started with what I would swear was the theme from the 1954 TV version of _Sherlock Holmes_ with Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford. It changed after a few seconds, but it was most odd. #ChristmasMusic

Stop That mastodon (AP)
So there’s a reason why that prison barber had Luigi looking so good:
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6FSGDT5/

Camilo mastodon (AP)
If I had like four hundred dollars for every time someone with immigrant parents asked about getting their citizenship with their parent’s country instead of just relying on US citizenship since trump was elected, I could probably buy one of those golden passports

The general vibe would be that this country is Fucking Cooked. That day without an immigrant is not gonna be pretty.

#immigration #uspol
Camilo mastodon (AP)
It’s not overstating that due to #ClimateChange there will be a mass migration the likes humanity has never seen before, and whichever country harnesses this phenomenon will be the world leader for the next few centuries.

Spain is committing to normalizing 300,000 immigrants annually. The US is doing the opposite. We’ll see the dividends this will pay for Spain for decades while oligarchs continue to pillage the US people and scapegoat immigrants.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/21/spain-to-grant-residency-and-work-permits-to-around-300000-undocumented-migrants-per-year

#uspol #immigration

Lake Michigan! Live! mastodon (AP)
Current* conditions near Charlevoix, MI:
Rotating view around Charlevoix Marina in Charlevoix. // Image captured at: 2024-12-21 00:35:58 UTC (about 27 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Charlevoix: 24.64 F | -4.09 C // Precip: light snow // Wind: NNW at 18.410 mph | 29.62 kph // Humidity: 73%

AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/13/1108719/ais-emissions-are-about-to-skyrocket-even-further/
Which is why I've been iffy about the usefulness of AI from the get-go (not to mention a fan of several books and not a few movies that have warned & wrote about the dangers of such - i.e. Aliens)


Ferocious Designs mastodon (AP)
While in a long line of cars trying to exit a train station parking deck in December 2015, I heard a news story about the Starbucks cups not being Christmassy enough. I had this song written in my head before I reached the exit and recorded this demo the next day. https://youtu.be/pnCw3GKAB6k
Ferocious Designs mastodon (AP)
Going to try to record a live-in-studio performance of "Merry War on Christmas" and "It's Christmas Time Again," and post that over the next few days. Stay tuned.

Year Progress mastodon (AP)
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Tengrain mastodon (AP)
Third Time Is The Charm

Happy Hour News Per the AP, With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. So, the 4th Reich did not get what they wanted, and neither did we, but we also kept the government open.

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/12/20/third-time-is-the-charm/

"Dumb" is often better. No need to complicate things more than necessary.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/united-chargers-grizzl-e-classic-review/

Kevin C 🎬 mastodon (AP)
#FridayThrillerClub I like knowing helpful passenger guy in the next seat (Robert Lesser) had a whole nother career before and after this one scene. 😁
#DieHard

Tengrain mastodon (AP)
It’s #Happy Hour and so it’s time to grab a bevvy and join me in watching the #Momocrats!

Where’er you find your pods!

H/T @Karoli @socalmom @AlizaWrites

Nick's world 🌎 mastodon (AP)
I have a feeling that there will be many people using programming to hack into computers toeople straight up steal rich people's cash because they feel justified to do so. Here's my opinion. Actions have consequences, no matter how justified you feel. Do not do this.

Schadenfreude mastodon (AP)
This owl is sad and confused with USPS. I posted a package to my cousin on Mon, she posted one back on Wed.

The one I sent is missing, seems never left my post office, hers already arrived.

And one arrived in L.A. yday, got text to expect today, tracking says it's still in L.A.🦉💧
what looks like a Spotted Owl on top of a stack of 3 packages on what looks like an ethernet port on a shelf
Schadenfreude mastodon (AP)
@Jason844 Oh, no, I hope your deliveries are ok! 🥲

For the most part my packages have arrived just fine whatever the carrier. It figures the one package I send goes AWOL. 🥲

*I've only got one non-local relative I like enough for me to actually make up a package and go to the post office. 😅
Jason844 mastodon (AP)
May the AWOL package arrive on time!

unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
Trump has said any shutdown ‘is a Biden problem to solve’

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
“Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling,” Trump wrote.

Read more: https://t.co/fyOBlOKoUm

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
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