AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

SOURCE: sacurrent.com

The policy prevents the NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic research, from awarding new research grants and from supplying allotted funds for existing grants, such as those that receive yearly increments of money. The email does not provide a reason for the freeze and says that it will last “until further notice”.

SOURCE: wired.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel_(website)

SOURCE: lithub.com

SOURCE: seattletimes.com

SOURCE: metrotimes.com

Edit: Added source link I should've included in the first place, thanks everyone. Also swapped the image (wrong gulag).

This is ancient, and it is honestly just some random blog post. I generally agree with it though. It came up because Code Pink is very upset that the "Hands Off" protests are in favor of NATO:

A jury has ordered Blue Cross of Louisiana to pay $421m to a hospital specializing in a much sought-after type of breast reconstruction, primarily for cancer survivors. The insurer "preapproved" surgeries for thousands of patients, but then held back 92% of the payments it owed, with CEO Steven Udvarhelyi insisting that "authorization never says we’re going to pay you":

This was a 90’s Japan only console that only saw 11 games released. (Main claim to fame is that a FF developer worked on a game that was kinda sorta Animal Crossing-like)

From Robert Hubbell's Substack

At any moment, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration admits itdeported to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison due to “administrative error.” The ruling could pose a make or break moment, not just for the life of Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.

Sorry I don't know who the artist is. The painting was on a sign carried in yesterday's protests, and published in the media without credit.

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

... The majority of the women were from Latin American countries, but some were from India, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Gaza. “Most of them were asylum seekers, but there was this handful of new people who had come in recently who did not know why they were here.” Lewelyn joined the dorm a few days after Becky. She had just returned from visiting her family in the Philippines; she had been living in the US since 1976, working as a lab technician at the University of Washington hospital’s cancer centre. “She’d had a visa issue that had been resolved many years ago, but now it was flagging on the system again.” Kseniia, a Russian woman who had been working for two years in a California nail salon, had permission to work in the US but was handcuffed while waiting for her husband to come out of an Ice interview. “She was so confused. She kept saying to me, ‘I’ve got a work permit.’”

Notably absent: The Democratic Party, and ActBlue.

The entire right-wing agenda boils down to: Making rich people richer, and shitting on poor people.

• You’re his property’: Embattled Mississippi sheriff used inmates and county resources for personal gain, former inmates and deputy say

• Years of climate action demolished in days: A timeline

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

Back then, this was published, in print, in a computer magazine where I first read it. Klein likens the - then emerging - internet to a labyrinth. I wonder how much of this assessment still holds true nowadays. Some quotes: - 1998 is still a dangerously nascent stage in the Internet, while a trillion dollar nest of dragons sets up shop. - Simulating revolt is more fun, and a better investment. This is true in casinos, malls, games, the Web. But consider what sim-revolt implies as a broader model for public life? We pretend that the labyrinth of the Web makes us free of the global corporate program that builds and owns it. - Recently, there is talk of voting on the Web. Is a cross between ergonomic fascism and the shopping mall the best frame of mind for making political decisions? - Just because we can subvert the Web by saying nasty things or engaging in cyber-sex in the margins, or downloading information cheaply, does not mean that we are subverting any core reality.

• Pastor accused of embezzling more than $30,000 from St. Adalbert Church in Milwaukee

Katsu Kokichi was a samurai who died in 1850. (Musui is his “retirement name.”)

SOURCE: thenation.com

SOURCE: sfchronicle.com

• Fired Pennsylvania cop, awaiting trial for allegedly stealing firearms and nearly $100,000, faces new burglary charge

• Earth’s 10 hottest years have been the last 10

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

SOURCE: time.com

• Police officer who made his daughter hold a degrading sign in freezing conditions may lose his job

• Trump'ϟ FBI moves to criminally charge major climate groups