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Actual news is too hard to listen to sometimes. Democracy Now has become Democracy Nostalgia.

If you enjoy the wholesome, heartwarming tales of Little House on the Prairie, you'll love the epic true story set in roughly the same era, Roots (1977) and Roots: The Next Generations (1979).

??? IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS DUMBO WILLIAMSBURG

His grandfather was stripped of Bavarian citizenship for evading mandatory military service. On the one hand, no shame on anyone evading the draft at any point. OTOH, the racist rapist president is stealing valor for himself and his ancestors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...

I've watched a few episodes of it and liked it but it's hard to get into some grim, cynical stories when all the characters are too mean to sympathize with.

Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices https://theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-facebook-completely-out-of-touch-1819579007/

Then again, it wasn't a unionized workplace. Maybe they thought of it as just excerpts of content we delivered, not as principles to promote.

"End this infernal institution. Abolish slavery." "Woman Suffrage. Give the women a square deal." "Union Workers On Strike." "FREEDOM...does not include Segregation." ☮️ "SOLIDARNOSC" I wonder if they'd feel these sentiments are too controversial today, instead of universal.

I have this foam can cooler, a giveaway from a certain microfilm company I worked for in the late 90s that was evolving into IT. They wanted to emphasize all the historical content on our film & CD-roms & databases, so the cooler says SIGNS OF THE TIMES & shows a series of protest signs:

the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons

"AI" steals what humans have made, reconfigures it to make it as generic as possible, then another human takes credit for the output as if their prompt was a new angle on creativity. Taking a painting out of a gallery and saying it's yours is not creativity or democratization.

Is the argument coming from the kind of people who say, "We live in a republic not a democracy?" (Translation: someone who hates democracy and aspires to be dictator or on Team Oligarch.)

What will be the audience reaction to anyone trying to make Carrie where the mom is too nice? "They're all gonna laugh at you."

I hope I'm thinking of the same lady you're talking about. There are a lot of them in Michigan.

It's a win-win. We'd still get to hear her sound bites, and she wouldn't be voting for genocide based on people paying her to vote for genocide.

Maybe I can write a radio drama so good, she'll want to do that instead of being the Senator from Genocide.

All right. One last job but then I'm outta the game.

They really act like public opinion can't be shaped or influenced by candidates. As if voters have all chosen one side or the other and candidates have to fit into their pre-existing slots. The most exciting and popular Democratic candidates have not been doing it that way.

She has a little goblin energy but she's not using it for good.

Conservatism is an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect. 💯%. It's how we get Nancy Reagan supporting stem cell research when it benefits Ronnie, Dick Cheney supporting gay rights bc of his daughter. Many such cases.