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"If much of contemporary life is wrapped up in plastic, and the result of this is that we are poisoning our kids, ourselves, and our ecosystems, then contemporary life may need to be rethought."

How Plastics Are Poisoning Us - The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/book-reviews-plastic-waste

Thousands of flowers
Single sunflower blossom.
Every one a seed.

#dailyhaikuprompt

Judges Block Transgender Care Bans for Minors in Kentucky and Tennessee: The rulings extend a winning streak in court for transgender-rights advocates, who are trying to block new state laws that ban gender-transition care.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/kentucky-tennessee-transgender-bans-blocked.html

@mikebrew @Jayslacks I was thinking, #Thor was able to pick up #Mjolnir after killing #Thanos when he did in #Endgame. So Thor shouldn’t feel guilty about killing him (outside of battle). Right?

As I keep saying, liberals have to give up the idea that they are combatting Republicans. They are at war with Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and the plutocratic elite they want to protect and enlarge. When we start aiming at them, and not the noisy nonsense they generate, we’ll start winning.

From: @shoq
https://mastodon.social/@shoq/110627651044553414

The U.S. already spends more than twice Russia and China's combined military budget. Cut the bloated US military budget. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ro-khanna-house-military-defense-bill-rcna90653?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=649cc29d25570b0001164e2a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Boston Skyline from Fan Pier

The Boston skyline at night is breathtaking to see. The view from Fan Pier captures the city's beauty perfectly.

https://jordanhillphotography.com/featured/boston-massachusetts-skyline-harborwalk-jordan-hill.html

#boston #fanpier #bostonmassachusetts #massachusetts #skyline #nightlife #pic #photography #photoart #nightphotography #photo #bostonharbor #bostonma #city #art #cityscape #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #travel #outdoors #travelphotography #travelgram #landscapephotography #wallart #walldecor #homedecor #nightlights #architecture

@Huntn00 We’ll find out soon enough

Water dripped from the gumshoe’s fedora and raincoat as he plodded up the familiar stairs to see his name on the privacy glass on his second-floor office window. He could hear it again as he approached – the sound always there at his arrival. The skeleton key opened the creaky door. And there was the tenor saxophone player. #MiniDetectiveStories

If you want to make your own Fediverse server, you don't need to be a techy person and you don't need to be wealthy.

A Fediverse server with 1 to 5 users costs about $8 a month, and that includes a managed hosting service which does all the technical stuff for you.

I've written a tutorial about starting your own Mastodon server, but most of this applies to any kind of Fedi server:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps/

You can find links to managed hosting services at https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

#Fediverse

Another example of #PPEE at work. Once upon a time I could find a 1/16" router bit at any hardware store. Now I have one local (very expensive) supplier as my only alternative to ordering online. Since I need it right now, that's not an option anyway. I'm off to that supplier. BBL

FASCISM IN FLORIDA
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/06/27/take-heed-florida-heres-how-democracies-slide-into-authoritarianism-column/

Outlines are useful, but craft them with flexibility in mind. You often have no real idea what you need to say until you've started saying it.

#Writing #WritingCommunity

While I think a lot of Biden’s policies could go further, it is good to see the nation investing in itself again: “Rather than scaring off private investment, as the trickle-down theory argued, that public investment has attracted more than $490 billion of private money into new industries. Manufacturing is booming. Together, infrastructure and manufacturing have created new jobs that pay well.”

#History #Politics #PublicInvestment #Economics #Bidenomics

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2023

'Pathetic' Trump wanted classified docs to prove he wasn't a 'laughingstock': columnist https://www.alternet.org/pathetic-trump-wanted-classified-docs-to-prove-he-wasn-t-a-laughingstock-columnist-2662031832/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Via Roger Parloff:

Today is Day 21 of #Trump codefendant Walt #Nauta's quest to find local FL counsel. Or Day 36, if you count from the date of his target letter, May 24, when some people might have started looking. #legal 1/…🪡

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Goodhart's Law is the idea that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Once people are exposed to this idea, they often come up with analogous phenomena. But no one had yet unified all the similar phenomena in a single theoretical framework.

So one of our goals was to create a consistent set of terms that highlight the structural commonalities across different examples of "Goodhart-like" phenomena. Our key terms are: "regulator", "goal", "agent", and "proxy".

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Zum #SchmetterlingsMontag eine Raupe des Schwalbenschwanzes.
#nature #photography