The greatest creatives California has ever seen were all pushed out of San Francisco by landlords who cared more about raising rents than protecting the scene that made S.F. desirable in the first place. Techies have yet to suitably replace bands like the Oh Sees or the artists that created the Chicano Art movement.
Nostalgia is a tool of fascism, a warm, idealized version of a past that never truly existed. Do not catch yourself longing for The Corporate Wire Mother. There was no Golden Age; only advertisements for products that you were too young to defend yourself against.
Hollywood, 11:48pm:
LAPD cop smoking unknown substance. They then took me on a low speed chase.
45 mins later I filmed LAPD cops handcuffing and searching four Black guys for *smoking a vape* in a parked car.
Video from Pasadena Councilmember Rick Cole who was out there all last night and into the early morning documenting this US military “training exercise”
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
Footage from an Israeli aircraft shows thousands of starving Palestinians running towards an aid truck, before it bombs and kills them all.
A video that the world must never forget.
And this is why buying less has to be part of the sustainability answer. People want to continue to make their current volume of purchases, just in natural fibers, and believe it’s more sustainable. There is no sustainability in overconsumption. Not even when it’s natural fibers
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Pope Leo XIV on AI:
“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”
Once you become an air conditioning society, you don’t go back. You stop rolling down car windows. Houses become sealed boxes. People move from cooled home to cooled car to cooled office to cooled store. Society goes indoors. Outdoor life becomes diminished.
It changes more than temperature.