I'm not sure how cynical to be about this. Probably it'll suck, because almost everything sucks, but jeez if it's done right a counterculture reminder could be a marvel.
It's from the same guy who runs the Beat Museum in North Beach, which opened some years after I moved away from San Francisco, so I've never seen it. Any bay area locals want to chime in, and tell me whether the Beat Museum is worthwhile?
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The last-minute report threatens to "cancel" votes for an amendment to restore abortion rights in the state
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‘I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics,’ Republican candidate tells Fox’s Maria Bartiromo
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Plus, In-N-Out hacks, Estrano returns, and more
• Destruction of global forests increases in 140 countries that promised to halt deforestation
• Double punch of hurricanes could become common due to climate crisis
• UN warns world's water cycle becoming ever more erratic (archived link)
• Large French ski resort to close — not enough snow (archived link)
• Helene was supercharged by ultra-warm water made up to 500 times more likely by global warming, study finds (archived link)
• Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather
• 'Irreversible' environmental disasters loom as global temperatures rise, new study finds
• Climate change is drying up the world's rivers at an alarming rate (archived link)
• Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years, global stocktake finds
• Unprecedented Niger floods displace 1.1 million as devastation grows (archived link)
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Ultra-conservative politicians often use the risk of health care fraud to stoke fears about investing in public health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The funny thing is, their own judges…
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).
There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
• Jervin Jonas Ajpuac Cos forgotten person
• Wesley Coleman activist (archived link)
• Joe Willie Davis in county jail (archived link)
• Jvoine Elow Jr shot and killed (archived link)
• Aaron Esters Jr shot and killed (archived link)
• Rashad Ewing shot and killed (archived link)
• Gerard forgotten person (archived link)
• Jose Goevava in county jail (archived link)
• Timmothy Green shot and killed (archived link)
• Cissy Houston singer, mother (archived link)
• Ethel Kennedy Kennedy
• Johnny Neel rock'n'roller, the Allman Brothers (archived link)
• Jack Ponti songwriter, "Hey Stoopid" (archived link)
• Garrett Stroman shot and killed (archived link)
• Luis Tiant baseballer, Boston Red Sox (archived link)
Previously dead
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this.
Even though a federal jury found him not guilty of murder, he was sentenced to life in prison. Virginia prosecutors want to keep it that way.
PROVO, Utah (KSL.com) — Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard is accusing six additional women of defamation in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, weeks after he brought a similar civil case against a former Miss Utah pageant winner. The women had accused Ballard — an anti-trafficking activist wh...
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(InvestigateWest) — As soon as her husband hung up the phone, Paula Riley called the Canyon County Jail and begged a deputy to put him on suicide watch. Riley’s husband, Tim, was arrested last year on a warrant for failing to show up to court on year-old charges. He called home often to talk to […]
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“Why is my movie not being shown on NBC prior to the election?” Morris wrote on X. “It’s about a policy that was disgusting and should not be allowed to happen again. Make your own inferences.”
A documentary about the Trump administration's family separation policy will not air before Election Day because MSNBC is concerned about offending the Republican presidential nominee, according to new reports. Journalist Oliver Darcy, a former critic for CNN, revealed Tuesday that the Errol Morris ...
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Call a right “enshrined” all you want, but if a judge decides it’s better to protect law enforcement officers from their own actions than to allow the public to view killings perf…
FCC chair condemns state health department for sending cease-and-desists over spot supporting abortion rights
Global trade records show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20241010073637/https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-china-32a80611605d4052d8238064bbcace4c))
Murders like those of 80-year-old dog-walker Ruth Dalton are unacceptable. They’re also preventable. To achieve lasting public safety, we need much larger investments in public health.
> Like so many unprovoked stranger homicides and assaults, this one was clearly rooted in severe, untreated mental illness...
• Texas church leader arrested for continuous violence, has extensive criminal history
• Tulsa Police arrest local pastor on first degree rape, child sexual abuse and incest charges (archived link)
• Pope offers "all the help we can" to aid clergy sexual abuse victims, and can you hear my eyes rolling? (archived link)
• Divinity school professor arrested for child porn possession (archived link)
• Argentine prosecutors accuse Opus Dei leaders in South America of trafficking and labor exploitation (archived link)
• Arizona jury convicts 2 brothers of aiding extra-wingnutty Mormon prophet's "child brides" scheme (archived link)
• Pastor released on bond while awaiting trial for murder of man he believed was boinking his wife (archived link)
Super-small urban vehicles have found a place in European and Asian cities. But in the US, federal and state rulemakers seem determined to keep minicars at bay.
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① Republicans target the lowest-info and dumbest people, which is apparently about 47% of America ② ... tell them the biggest whoppers ③ And never stop lying, because the media barely and only belatedly factchecks, and anyway, their top lie is that you can't trust the media.
I don't know, but NASA's going to CLAP BACK!
It's the link that says "archived link."
Sorry and it's nothing personal, @silence7, but after years of Trump and tens of thousands of his lies, the answer seems so obvious it's not worth a click. He lies because he lies because he lies.
It's an old, old story, certainly, but every time it's re-told I can at least imagine a few of the mental-sleepwalkers might wake up.
Trump isn't a boomer, he's a pre-boomer.
Doing this in all restrooms, as a response to vandalism or the dreaded smoking, arguably makes sense. Doing it only for the kids officially hated and required to use a segregated restroom that's only for them, is not security, only cruelty.
Well, then I should probably have more sympathy for the late Dr Towers Parry. I'll work on it, seriously... but it won't be easy...
Yeah, I try not to judge, but probably I don't try hard enough.
Thing is, I have known two people with multiple sclerosis, known them quite well, including my now-dead best friend. Neither of them went bonkers like this. My snap judgment says to blame Tamara Towers Parry for what Tamara Towers Parry did, not some medical condition.
Exactly right. The right-wing wants trans kids to stop existing... by any means necessary. Policies such as this, aimed at adolescents, are an invitation to bullying, misery, and suicide.
And they feel the same about trans or gay adults, the poors, the blacks, the immigrants, and more (it's a long list) ...
It's a sadness, but I also have occasional issues with Firefox. It's still the best browser by far, but its share is so small, more and more developers aren't testing their pages in Firefox any more.
Doesn't make no never mind to me. If a page doesn't work in Firefox, I can do without.
It's so startling to hear this, yawn.
Always good to see a crook toppling, and Adams has smelled crooked since he was a cop. Probably before he was a cop.
Doug Holland @lemmy.world Old, large, cranky. Gotta go to the bathroom. Also, that picture isn't me. www.itsdougholland.com