“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
- James Baldwin.
I’ve been following tech girlies on TikTok. Not software tech, the one who build with hardware and I have so much to learn
One girl is building her own mp3 and this one built a communication device. She’s also converting a 1970s Yamaha bike to electric, incredible
California is a great example of what happens when you push toothless, liberal centrism to its extremes. Working people suffer, living conditions degrade, and far right extremism thrives.
“Y’all mfs care about Palestine but not black ppl!” Whole time Nypd got an office in Israel and they training cops on the tactics they learn in Gaza. IDF soldiers with dual citizenship patrolling your neighborhood in cop cars. Getting data from drones with components from Oracle
We are now in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.
True story:
When Belgians visited what would later be known as The Congo for the first time, they heard the beautiful, complicated polyrhythms of the African drummers and one of them wrote in their report:
"The Africans have no rhythm".
If you are not a native New Yorker & you move here YOU NEED TO RESPECT THE CULTURE THAT MADE YOUR PUNK ASS WANT TO MOVE HERE.
This is the city that never sleeps & you are calling the cops for loud noise and block parties? Take your raggedy ass back to Iowa.
“What I knew that my critical elders didn’t…was that hip-hop mattered from the get-go. That once again, the African American working class…had created another vernacular, improvisational form of addressing their condition and the condition of the world.”
— Greg Tate
Os ricos colocam seus filhos na arte, na literatura, nos idiomas e nos esportes.
E convencem os pobres de que o melhor pros filhos deles é trabalhar desde cedo.
Indeed, unprecedented apology. The Catholic Church was the LARGEST single owner of enslaved people in the Americas. Made its wealth from slavery. John Paul II rehearsed a rambling apology when he visited Gorée Island back in the 1990s. #slaveryarchive
If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.
They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.
This is the entire point of them trying to defund USPS. They will make you all reliant on capitalism instead of a government funded mailing system so that they can choose how to punish you when you don't meet their demands.