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i secretly find melania really funny aside from how she’s someone’s mom…because she’s basically the real life version of katyas character and i deeply believe when i see her face that im looking at the devil and that she has security against her husband in the form of recordings of him incriminating himself

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Martin Rees: ‘Can we prevent the end of the world?’

A post-apocalyptic Earth, emptied of humans, seems like the stuff of science fiction TV and movies. But in this short, surprising talk, Lord Martin Rees asks us to think about our real existential risks — natural and human-made threats that could wipe out humanity. As a concerned member of the human race, he asks: What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen?

Source:  @ted

Stay curious… also watch Sir Martin Rees: ‘Earth in its final century?’

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i just got word that i'll definitely have 24 electricity for march which i was sure wouldn't happen. ive been mainly couch surfing or at anchor for the past year, and just got into a marina in november, and it's supposed to be rough weather thru march so i was gearing up to be pretty miserable and figuring out what to do was really bringing me down. i feel so blessed now, i think i'll close this blog cycle

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cops really tried "by acting like im doing something wrong you cause me to do something wrong to you and that's your fault"

Roth said a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision handed down in February 2017 that arose from a Fort Worth case, Turner v. Driver, supported his actions. The court ruled that filming the police in public is legal and protected by the Constitution.

“Filming the police contributes to the public’s ability to hold the police accountable, ensure that police officers are not abusing their power, and make informed decisions about police policy,” Justice Jacques Wiener wrote. “Protecting the right to film the police promotes First Amendment principles.”

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Sculptor of flowers Vladimir Kanevsky

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I feel like this is the realest most exposing moment of the 21st century

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Yes! Thank you for this great vid. Please pay attention people!!!

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i’m honestly so tired of apocalypse stories that involve people killing each other and betraying one another for supplies or “survival” or whatever. unless it’s a social commentary on the damage done by the societal ideal of total singular self-reliance, i’m not interested in that hobbesian thesis on humanity anymore.

humans live in groups for a reason. it’s so much easier and more rewarding to survive in a group than it is to survive alone. we have different skills and inabilities, and nature has almost designed us specifically to encourage us to depend on others for physical, mental, and emotional support. i’m tired of people insisting that that scientifically-supported notion of humanity is lame and for idiots.

i’m gonna write a post-apoc story where the biggest theme is friendship and support and the biggest threat is losing group cohesion, just out of spite.

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Like the rest of the world, Portland doesn’t have enough affordable housing. We have enough housing, there are empty houses and empty apartments and places being used as temporary vacation rentals that could be returned to the market but aren’t—but not enough housing that is priced affordably. I’m a sex worker specifically so I don’t have to feel money stress, and I feel the crunch as well. The number of people experiencing houselessness in our community keeps growing, and so does the number of people in housing that costs more than 1/3 of our income. It’s not that we’re stupid or greedy or want luxury we can’t pay for, it’s that we don’t have better options and even moving out of the city to a cheaper place costs money (and comes with its own problems like transit, employment, &c).

Houseless people take care of themselves the best they can after society and the government abandon them. With help from some housed community members and from each other, they try to create spaces they can safely sleep and leave their stuff while they try to keep going with their lives and move forward. And the government, which should be protecting people—making sure shelter is affordable, making sure health care and food and education and clothing are all accessible—instead sends law enforcement out to take their possessions their tents, the things keeping them alive, and forces them to move to a different location, without any of their stuff. Where does the stuff that’s taken go? Can anyone get it back? That’s literally still being explored by people who are better off, who have cars and the time to keep searching. In residential neighborhoods like Sunnyside and Irvington, housed people talk about letting the air out of the tires of cars that people live in, of setting vans on fire to force people to move on, of patrolling with weapons to make sure no houseless people get comfortable or safe. 80 people DIED last year, including an infant whose mother had no shelter.

This is our business. Like the sign says, it could easily happen to us. Bad luck, an accident, a lingering illness, or an employer going out of business—we’re all walking that fine edge. Photos by Ibrahim Mubarak of the aftermath of a sweep that happened today

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Moomin Begins a New Life # 25

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#1yrago Congress reintroduces YODA, a bipartisan bill that protects your right to treat devices as your property

The You Own Devices Act (YODA) was first introduced by Reps Blake Farenthold (R-TX) and Jared “Happy Mutant” Polis (D-CO) in 2014: it’s a bill that limits the enforceability of abusive EULA terms, preserving your right to sell, lease, donate, and access security fixes on devices you buy, even when they have copyrighted software within them.

The issue is that copyrighted works are typically licensed, not sold, to their users, and the license agreement has been a source of enormous mischief, allowing corporations to convert the sale of goods into a limited license, placing restrictions on your customary property rights with non-negotiated “agreements.”

Polis and Farenthold have reintroduced their bill, and I’m glad to see it. It’s an important step in the right direction, with lots more work to do, like reforming Section 1201 of the DMCA, which allows manufacturers to take away the same rights using DRM, because it bans removing DRM even for legal purposes. So manufacturers can simply design their products so that treating them as your property (say, by getting them independently repaired, installing apps from the store of your choosing, or using third-party ink cartridges and other consumables) requires breaking the DRM. Since breaking the DRM is illegal, then so is treating your stuff as though you owned it.

https://boingboing.net/2017/02/08/congress-reintroduces-yoda-a.html

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being perfect, by contrast, i was raised by two people who think they're smarter than i am, and that im crazy

the most difficult ego to deal with belongs to someone who (in their mind), really was smarter than everyone they knew at some point. theyre difficult (or impossible ime) to deal with because they never seem to stop existing in that moment of certainty. even if they “admit” that you’re smarter, or better informed, they don’t feel that you are. they’ll say you’re right and treat you like you’re wrong, because theyre wrong but they can’t be; subconsciously they think they’re right, always.

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