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Happy Valentine's Day

Let's defeat fascism again

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Couples kissing and hugging on a confetti-strewn street in front of the Baker Hotel in celebrartion of V-J Day
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Couples kissing and hugging on a confetti-strewn street in front of the Baker Hotel in celebrartion of V-J Day

Date: Sept. 2, 1945. | Collection: Hayes Collection | Accession Number: PA76-1/30004 | Read the full record details for Image: Couples kissing and hugging on a confetti-strewn street in front of the Baker Hotel in celebrartion of V-J Day

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Dallas Public Library is still awesome. Their emails make it feel like everything is great, we're all still loving neighbors doing interesting things together. They just launched this big digital archive.

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LOL I have yet to hear anyone who rolled out an ERP system say anything about it better than "nightmare"

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So I watched "Molli and Max in the Future" over the last two nights and it is pretty brilliant. There's a scene where the ruler of the universe is determined through a game show and given it was written and filmed years ago it is frighteningly prophetic.

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"it's a soap opera which understands that while its central character can never be seen to fail, he can also never be seen to decisively win. The enemies are the thing that keeps those readers coming back; anyone fluent in the American style of political brain damage would know this."

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Confused Brits Cause Severe Damage At The Donald Trump Propaganda Factory | Defector
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Confused Brits Cause Severe Damage At The Donald Trump Propaganda Factory | Defector

There are reasons to envy people who work in conservative media and reasons to pity them, but there’s an element of abstraction to that ecosystem and its native bog critters that makes either response seem insufficient. For those stuck working at outlets supported by subscribers or advertisements, and not by the rounding-error subsidies of half-literate…

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> People are "content creators" and not artists, filmmakers, comedians, or photographers. They may call themselves that, but if social media is their primary platform and the source of their audience, they too call it "creating content." All in service of the algorithmic machine that needs to be constantly fed by humans until the machine itself feeds itself in an ouroboros of bullshit

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Less Precious
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Less Precious

Social media is a trap.