If only there was a phrase for a state in which the police openly and aggressively flaunt their powers to surveil and detain. 🤔
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The closest thing I’ve seen to STALKER’s “The Zone” in real life.
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Hot Take: but this is one of the more awe inducing drives in America to me. Driving on this highway really gives you a full elevated vista of the sheer scale of industrial America. It’s eerie and an environmental nightmare, but it’s really a fascinating visual experience.
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Oh I would absolutely never tell urbanists to describe themselves as degrowthers, but one of the great things about urbanism is it allows us to live socially and materially richer lives while consuming fewer resources.
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So, do Zoomers hail Adam Curtis as the progenitor of corecore, and if not, who?
Meta should buy Match group and create a fully-integrated vertical thirst stack
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If you're going to turn videogames into prestige TV, then please consider Spec Ops: The Line, I beg you. I'm ready and willing to die on the hill that this is the greatest artistic legacy of the Global War on Terror™.
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When the internal security forces arbitrarily dismiss laws passed by the legislature and executive branches, you already have a crisis of democracy on your hands, whether or not it’s too scary to admit it.
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Dozens of Illinois sheriff's departments say they will not enforce a new state law banning assault weapons. The sheriffs say they believe the ban is unconstitutional.
Here's a thread of their statements. Adams, Bond, Brown and Bureau Counties first:
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Path dependency is a helluva drug
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It's crazy that Chicago Midway is actually in a neighborhood.
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Lula gets it.
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Says the Brazilian people can no longer trust certain police forces. Calls for examples to be made so that this never happens again.
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Welp, so much for sleep tonight.
Where's the GoFundMe for shotgun mics for CSPAN?
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It is no longer time to build.
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None of this is ever going to happen. twitter.com/noahpinion/sta…
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House of Memes
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Here's a C-SPAN clip of Rep Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) voting for Hakeem Jeffries in the style of Leroy Jenkins c-span.org/video/?c504921
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Meanwhile in Canada—
Ontario (pop. 15M) had a net international migration of +327,000 … which is California, Florida, and New York **combined** (pop. 81M).
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The immigration comeback, broken down by state. Not a lot of surprises here. Almost half of the increase was captured by 5 states: CA, FL, TX, NYC, MA.
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2023 might be a good year to start thinking about moving to higher ground.
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Global sea level rise is due to a combination of thermal expansion (increasing ocean heat content causing water to take up more space) and melting land ice. The recent IPCC report shows how Greenland and Antarctica have both become large contributors over the past few decades:
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Tell me you're The Blob without telling me you're The Blob, in two words
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It’s 2023 and this is the only killer app for the Internet of Things.
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I’d just like everyone to know that @united has lost track of my bag and is lying about it. My apple AirTag shows that it has been sitting in a residential apartment complex for over a day. Out back by the dumpsters, I have found other emptied United Airlines bags.
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My faith is Argentinian Jesuits carrying Kalashnikovs
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I went to Church this morning
The most Trad Catholic you can get
Rural (you pass cows on the way in)
100% White Irish
The Priest did a speech during the service celebrating the Christian virtue of taking in Refugees
He praised a nearby town that is now 60% immigrants
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Coming to realize that the "Man at Bar" character - played by Roger Kirby, Esq - was perhaps Metropolitan's true protagonist.
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The best #ChristmasMovie ever, Gen X or otherwise.
Get thee to @hbomax for "Metropolitan."
And thank you, @WhitStillman.
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More prophetic than ever.
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The Princeton University School of Architecture is an underground coal mine fire that burns forever
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... I suggest you withdraw your accusations and apologize publicly before you are told to do so. Or else, -and here is your try- put the evidence in a link and post it here for everybody to see. Lesson #1: free ride is over, from now on white males answer back.
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Maybe I'm just too woke for my own good, but who thought it was a good idea to do luxury takes on the Hudson Bay blanket? Because nothing says IG bait like smallpox-induced genocide. , am I a snowflake?
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I see the leopards are now eating VC faces
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Craziest catalog copy I've ever seen.
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"The megastorms are coming... So we’ve started working on clothing designed for a world of ultraviolent weather – a world where the sky starts acting more like the ocean, and atmospheric rivers dump tidal waves of water down on towns, cities and villages."
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"As we face life on Earth with new categories of weather, we’re going to need new categories of clothing. With extreme weather events on the rise for the last 40 years, and floods and fires sweeping across cities and states, “waterproof” is not enough."
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RIP Mike Leach. He died at 61 after suffering a massive attack and "had told ESPN after the regular season concluded that he struggled with pneumonia during the season but was feeling better." 👀
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Uber seeks chaos. We seek dignity. We are confident we will prevail.
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TIL the Heinrichs of Reuss are literally 's Tessier-Ashpool clan, and once again I am living through the cyberpunk novels of my youth and it's awful twitter.com/JeffSharlet/st
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Sincere thanks to and for their smart interview about “Who is the City For?” It was a pleasure to discuss the issues that this Chicago-centric book raises for the podcast Unfrozen’s global audience.
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Who’s designing the countermeasure for detecting prompt engineering? It’s all adversarial games atop adversarial games from here on out…
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I wonder how ai is going to change online dating
What's to stop people from prompt engineering their outgoing tinder messages
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