If you want to understand why Trump and his henchmen are attacking the independence of federal agencies, especially the Office of Special Counsel, you may find this, by me, helpful. heidi-says.ghost.io/a-closer-l…
This is a longer post than my usual, due to the significance and intricacy of its topic. On March 1, 2025, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District Court of the District of Columbia issued a critically important opinion.
Oh, no! Director David Lynch has died! He is a major reason for my lifelong love of movies, after I saw Elephant Man as a kid. A decade later, while a film student, I hustled my way into a job as a PA on the New Orleans on-location set of Wild At Heart. There I had the dream job of fetching Mr. Lynch his fruit smoothies and driving Nick Cage from his hotel to the set. Watching Lynch work on set and direct his actors was a huge privilege. He was incredibly improvisational, sometimes shooting the scene multiple times, recruiting odd bystanders and inserting them into the set. I only knew him for a minute, a long time ago, but I am really going to miss knowing David Lynch is in the world.
David Lynch, the surrealist artist who plumbed the darkness lurking underneath American normalcy in the landmark television series "Twin Peaks" and the dreamlike films "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," has died.
I won’t claim to be his biggest fan (and that’s on me) but as a filmmaker who rigidly stuck to his own vision, eschewed popularity and became one of cinema’s greatest auteurs in spite of that and who never seemed to put out anything half-arsed, he’ll always have my respect. The industry has lost one of its most creative minds and his loss will be felt by many. #RIPDavidLynch
it's not humorous, a #cybertruck burning in front of a #trump tower, because it's being investigated as #terrorism- there was an explosion, 1 dead and 7 wounded. no one knows if the explosion was generated by the cyberstuck or by a bomb, as of yet
however, this reaction from a witness: "It was like a boom-boom-boom, and it almost sounded like a rolling garbage dumpster"
the trump dumpster fire made manifest, courtesy of #musk
Another slimeball location-data company sells your doctor visits to the police. Grotesque and dangerous contempt for privacy -- and women in red states will surely become prime targets.
Burn this industry to the ground, I'd say, but Congress would have to act, and Congress is hostile to your privacy.
Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.
it seems though this is how the US government ends up accessing private citizen data. It circumvents all the legal restrictions that were put in place to protect privacy. Any company providing private user data to a 3rd party should be prosecuted - in my country we have a Protection of Private Information Act, and those companies would have been prosecuted already.
@HarriettMB Avoid toll roads. In fact, just don't use your car because GM and others sell the location data, and license plate readers are everywhere. Don't even take the bus unless you can pay with cash. Of course, don't take a ride share. And bring a change of clothes and wear a mask, because Ring cameras are ubiquitous. @Dan Gillmor @404 Media
After every COP I find myself thinking: "maybe now people will realise that the *point* of these things is to keep us hoping - to give us an excuse for our own inaction".
Every economic system should be able to solve a simple collective action problem. Favoritism and lobbyism is what's breaking the climate negotiations. Plus, a political elite that is perhaps too occupied with their election chances to demand from their own citizens emission reductions.
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