Despite my great experiences with Upper Peninsula Michigan Healthcare, I still can't get over how few Black faces I've seen here. And by few, I mean none. zip nada. Not in the airports, nor the supermarkets, or even Burger Kings where I didn't think the flame broilers could even operate without black black employees. It's easy to see why extremists can sucker these people so easily. They don't understand diversity because they've never experienced any.

I'm working on a browser plugin that diverts anything clearly performative to your performative timeline where a bot will auto-LOL stuff you never read. You're welcome.

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Everything You Need To Know About The Ohio Ballot Measure That Could Block Abortion Rights

The campaign over Issue 1 in Ohio has been provocative, to say the least. One ad argues that the ballot measure is necessary to prevent children fr...

Something to consider when you review that living will you keep meaning to get around to one of these days. Source: @npub1tel5...4v4v

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Missing The Point (@MissingThePt@mastodon.social)

When I die, a laptop with my Mastodon account should be frozen along with my head so that we can both be revived together.

It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach By @npub1a24y...dkqm

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It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk

After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach

Call me a wild-eyed dreamer, but I’d like the fediverse to become a global civic accountability, education and remedial action network that could, among many things, be a place to catalogue, propagate and annotate what rules, norms, and ethical standards are (or were) in hundreds of fields… while we still can. Before they are erased by neglect, disuse, and even further political abuse. (For me, this was always a major promise of the Internet.) Source: @npub1lrvm...tth9

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Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)

The fact that the California bar permits John Eastman to retain his law license for even one more day is -- how to put this -- an indictment of the...

Good morning. So many messages to catch up on. I will get right on that after I catch my PCP up on all these medical dramas. I would like to take this moment to remind you youngsters that getting older has a few benefits, but living pain free is not likely to be one of them. Just so you know.

She’s losing whatever is left of whatever had passed for a mind. You used to have to go to places like Italy to find political parties with this many whackaloons. And we have no easy remedy for any of them except “voting,” which gives me no comfort at all. Source: @npub1myuu...623s

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I miss the days when the AC was about the better sailors, not the better technology. Source: @npub10rd7...0rfk

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Dave Levy (@davelevy_eu@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I have posted America’s Cup 2023-24, https://davelevy.info/wiki/americas-cup-2023-24/ to my wiki, The timeline and venue’s h...

Everyone talks about “both sidesism” now. Yet @npub1f7tg...0ml8 and his blog and podcast that spent over 13 years defining and promoting the term still struggles to find a major audience, while hundreds of unremarkable left-of-center podcasts and Substacks flood multiple zones, competing for our limited attention spans. I know it rankles him, but it personally skeeves me as well. A lot. Source: @npub12qzr...efxl

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Bell Canada's finest modem was 1 year and done. Waiting for a new one. "1 to 2 days." Uh huh. Mobile hotspot to the rescue.

All those years interning for Rube Goldberg and he paid off for me.

Greetings from the North Channel of Lake Huron (N. Ontario) where the weather is picturesquely perfect and entirely smoke-free. For now. What have I missed? (Please be as brief as possible, but skip nothing pertinent to any new indictments of Trump, or any co-conspirators named Rudy or Roger.)

I've always said that the counter offensive begins by denying benefits to students from states that want to live in the second century. It's too bad that some have to suffer, but it's that greater good for the greater number thing. Better the children of the zealots, than the children are everyone else. "College Board advises Florida schools to not offer AP Psychology after state says lessons about gender identity and sexuality would violate state law" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/us/florida-ap-psychology-college-board

YouTube is putting these context panels on @AriMelber's clips. I don't mind, but I'd sure like to see it on some less reliable sources too.

Rumors of a slam dunk have passed. I think it's safe to say that the game is now officially on.

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Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users

Two separate data analysis firms say the Twitter killer from Instagram has unraveled even as Meta has rushed to add highly requested features.

I'm in an emergency room in Sault Saint Marie Michigan. They just drained my bladder shortly before it burst, after a rather panicky hour drive from the island. They suspect a blood clot from my bladder cancer surgery 3 weeks ago. Waiting for the ER doctor now. Every time Trump is in the news something bad happens.

I can’t speak for you, but I watch a LOT of the media’s political coverage from multiple venues. In over 3 years of their helping the GOP to fetishize the term, I have yet to see a reporter asking a Republican on National TV if they understand the history and meaning of the word “woke.” We’ve just accepted this media malpractice as the status quo. It’s pathetic. Especially since it’s now so obvious that these power-craving Republican scoundrels are destroying our planet along with democracy.

More journalistic malpractice. @CNN's fascist footstool Manu Raju gives Jim Jordan and 2 other Republicans an opportunity to say "evidence is piling up" for a Biden impeachment. But he never asks "what evidence?" It just floors me that we sit passively for these daily assaults on democracy, decency, and decorum, by an entire political party/cult. And every day I look for single tweet toot, skeet, or stack about WTF we might do about it, besides shouting "just vote" into the void. #crickets

We’ll need super majorities to legally stop these monstrous Republicans from dismantling America even further.. But does legal even mean anything to these people anymore? It wouldn’t seem so. “New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills.”

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New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

The standards, which were blasted by a statewide teachers' union as a "step backward," were approved Wednesday by the State Board of Education.