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Jail erodes every aspect of a person s agency. Lindsey Krinks I recently watched all the Charlie Chan movies Chekhov had in his collection. The low-budget Monogram Chan pictures of the 1940s weren t as good as the 20th Century Fox ones of the 1930s, but though Mantan Moreland, who played Chan s chauffeur in the 40s [ ]
Body-worn cameras are used to present the police to the public in the most favorable way possible. Christopher Schneider Shame, Shame (#1455) I ve been skeptical of the notion of body cameras as a police reform for well over a decade: ICE [goons] will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month but the [boss [ ]
Ignorant people are panicking over a BBC article from August 6th: Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people The technology works similarly to large language models which predict sequences [ ]
The freedom to read is fundamental to a free society. John Adams* To Molest and Rape When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators? An Illinois [cop named] Douglas Lee was stripped of his [magic] powers and [arrested for] drugging a woman while she was out with friends, taking her to a hotel [rap]ing her [then dump]ing [ ]
Chekhov and Yellowbird gave me this cool egg rack last Christmas. Typically, I use it to hold regular large size eggs (and put the extra-large and jumbo ones in the basket at the bottom). But right from the start I realized that it would be an excellent way to hold undersized pullet eggs once the [ ]
A classicist recently pointed out on social media that the ancient Greek notion of heroism is so different from the modern idea that mythological heroes like Odysseus must either be adapted for modern audiences, or else they end up looking at least somewhat villainous. It s especially apparent when moderns try to adapt Hercules into what [ ]
I ve always believed that music, like space, is about exploration. William Shatner Though this Irving Berlin song (provided by Rick Horowitz) is about Hitler, it has taken on a new meaning in our day. The links above it were provided by Anarres Ansible, Jesse Walker, Ryan Marino, Kevin Wilson, Mike Stabile, Nun Ya, and [ ]
This technology is not safe to be deployed in communities. Max Isaacs Policing for Profit Cops usually make up some pretext, however flimsy, for their robbery schemes: The Massachusetts police oversight board suspended a state trooper’s certification after he [stole] a Bobcat bucket-loader from a contractor he hired to remove fallen trees from his property Joseph W. Franklin [claimed] he [ ]
Early last week I reached 8200 followers on Bluesky. I set that number as a goal because it s half of what my follower number on Twitter has eroded down to after years of shadowbanning, follower capping, and other sleazy tactics intended to surreptitiously reduce the reach of dissidents. And even at half, Bluesky is so [ ]