‘Light And Electricity’ by John Tyndall was published by D. Appleton and Company 1871. In the opening pages he talks of the rectilinear propagation of light, and shadows. READ it here @internetarchive https://t.co/gNsQuhqIkP -30-
The cop who was caught at the end of last month trying to force this moped on the interstate to crash has been suspended without pay, while there is an "internal investigation" (original post below)
https://t.co/igS6SOT3Tp
DOJ just released the report from its two-year investigation of the Minneapolis police department.
Here's a thread of notable excerpts.
This first one happened *while a DOJ investigator was on a ride-along.*
But here we are: the Biden admin is sabotaging the Biden admin, because the Biden admin isn't an administration, it's a system for ensuring proportional representation of different parts of the Democratic Party coalition.
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The press likes to frame American politics as "narrowly divided," but the reality is that Republicans' electoral victories are due to voter suppression and antimajoritarian institutions (the Senate and #ElectoralCollege, etc), not popularity.
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🎯 “The case has highlighted the ongoing tension between copyright law and the need for access to information in an increasingly digital world.” @ramneet_bhullar ➡️ https://t.co/rF7yAxFWsI
We're about 15 minutes out from the debut of the second episode of Dark Mistresses' Midnight Movie, Catgirls in Space (or whatever it's called) on the New Ellijay Television Live Stream.
Watch it here: https://t.co/ueJsxwIJgf
Jesus christ. They are so desperate to subjugate workers and manufacture consent for a return to office the propa up commercial real estate and actually helps Noone.
It's pathetic. The people writing this swill should be ashamed.
But they were wrong! Today, the European Commission announced plans to force Google and Meta to sell off their conflict-of-interest ad-tech lines of business, mirroring the provisions of the US AMERICA Act:
https://t.co/uc87cxC7Mx
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* preventing Amazon from giving top billing in search results to its own products or sellers that have acquired extra Amazon services (Article 6.5)
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But the EU's enforcement approach is about to change significantly. The EU just passed the #DigitalMarketsAct (#DMA), which imposes a bunch of obligations on Amazon:
* allowing sellers to offer their products on other marketplaces at different prices (Article 5.3),
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Welp, this is another thread that was definitely shadowbanned. Two days in a row with <5% of normal views. Thinking that my Twitter exodus is coming. No point in putting in the work if it just gets suppressed.
In the war between capital and labor, the goal of Cop City is to side with capital to destroy labor.
It would be a literal training ground for violent union busting. The labor movement can't allow it to be built.
Join me and fellow unionists to #StopCopCity ⤵️
The ideas (lying around) I develop with EFF are designed to prevent tech from reaping its illegitimate profits, making it *weaker* and making the press *stronger*.
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This series lays out four "ideas lying around" for fixing the *real* problem with Big Tech's relationship to the news: stealing *money* by rigging ads, payments and social media, so that 51% of every ad dollar and 30% of every app-based subscription goes to a tech giant.
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