Nassau County, NY just passed a mask ban and now residents say they are going to take pictures of anyone wearing a mask and send them to police. This is why we need to stop any kind of mask ban legislation. They empower vigilantes to harass and surveil people wearing masks.
My new book, FLUID FUTURES. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761931...
How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science...
Sickening to see people on the other site revel in getting the FBI to harass Eman Abdelhadi, claiming that Eman's statement that "Kamala is NOT ready for Chicago, but don't worry; we're ready for her" came across as a threat to Harris rather than an activist talking about protest. They know better.
Strippers unionized at Magic Tavern in Portland, but owner Ben Donohue has ignored every court order to bargain with his workers. Now the US 9th Circuit Court might find him in contempt. nwlaborpress.org/2024/08/nlrb...
The owners of Magic Tavern are thumbing their noses at U.S. labor law. Strippers, and the NLRB, are not amused.
Offal joke.
"In one example, researchers fed an AI a benign paragraph about church architecture only to have it rapidly degrade over generations. The final, most “advanced” model simply repeated the phrase “black@tailed jackrabbits” continuously." www.popsci.com/technology/a...
Eventually, it collapses—'poisoned with its own projection of reality.’
Good commentary from Samuel Fisher here, esp. on how Mau's book sidesteps questions of gender/race, and seemingly says little about how the wage form ensures the silence of the workers through a violent separation between the waged and unwaged.
Samuel Fisher probes the limits of Søren Mau's recent book Mute Compulsion.
somewhere the “kamala is a cop” and “trump is a felon” discourses are absolutely duking it out, without us