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Queer DJ in Washington DC. #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #catdad #taoism #vegetarian #sober

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Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape During the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back | Open Culture

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/home-taping-is-killing-music-when-the-music-industry-waged-war-on-the-cassette-tape.html

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London Marathon: Runner with Down's syndrome gets youngest record

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68851567

> Lloyd Martin's London Marathon run makes him the youngest in his disability category to finish one.

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Scientists on Twitter head for the exit https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/scientific-community-eyes-doors-twitter
>A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.

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“Trust people, and treat people like adults, and they’ll behave like adults,” Drew Houston says

Dropbox’s CEO on return to office (RTO): Workers aren't 'resources to control’ | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2023/10/15/dropbox-ceo-remote-work-return-to-office/amp/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16975424216377&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data

https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data/

> Nightshade was developed by University of Chicago researchers under computer science professor Ben Zhao and will be added as an option to...

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Biden administration announces largest passenger rail investment since Amtrak creation - CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-administration-passenger-rail-investment/

> President Biden is announcing $8.2 billion in new federal funding for 10 passenger rail projects across the country.

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"The business of social media is ultimately one that involves monetizing free content, but Reddit is also trying to do so atop a system of free labor, and that won’t fly without moderator buy-in."

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-fighting-145400882.html

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A fight for rights and control in a Black Belt town without elections

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al.com/news/2023/07/a-fight-for-rights-and-control-in-a-black-belt-town-without-elections.html%3foutputType=amp

> Newbern, Ala., has never had an election. Now it has two men claiming to be mayor.

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Turning offices into apartments could help save downtowns, but it's complicated : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189403058/downtown-real-estate-housing-offices

> Turning barely used office space into desperately needed urban housing seems like a win-win in the work-from-home era. But even in cities eager to do this, plenty of obstacles remain.

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When the US Government Commissioned 7,497 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World (1886) | Open Culture

https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/when-the-us-government-commissioned-7497-watercolor-paintings-of-every-known-fruit-in-the-world-1886.html

> A picture is worth 1000 words, especially when you are a late-19th or early-20th century horticulturist eager to protect intellectual property rights to newly cultivated varieties of fruit.

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"The investigation by Reuters found that SpaceX has had at least 600 previously unreported worker injuries since 2014, including eight accidents that led to amputations."

Elon Musk told SpaceX workers not to wear safety clothes because he doesn't like bright colors: report

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-told-spacex-workers-181406484.html

> Hundreds of SpaceX employees have been hurt in workplace accidents, including eight incidents that led to amputations, a Reuters investigation found.

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This is fucking exhausting. They got mad when we were quitting. Now they're being dicks because we're not. Can we just seize the means of production now, so they can stop being so mad about us just trying to live?

"Bosses are using tougher performance reviews to cut workforce without layoffs because employees aren’t quitting"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bosses-using-tougher-performance-reviews-123000566.html

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Forever's gonna start tonight.

bonnie Tyler total eclipse of the heart

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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 the recent massive media conglomerate mergers -- including last year's Warner Bros Discovery merger -- have all led to worse content, worse service, and overall more to hate. Just stop it already!

"Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to merge with Paramount"

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/20/warner-bros-paramount-merger-discovery-streaming

> CEOs of each company met yesterday in New York City.

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Happy height day to all us 5'7"s.

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Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2024/02/01/employees-spending-equivalent-months-grocery-bill-return-to-office-resentful-survey/

> The average employee returning to the office spends $561 per month–that's the average two-person household’s grocery bill in the U.S. for the entire month.

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I worked v hard on this video ad and only 2 people have liked it so please go like it and comment so I don't cry thx.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C20ILqPOKuI/?igsh=MXF0a2ZsOHk4M3R2eQ==

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Love it

"D.C. plans to revitalize downtown with new hubs and green spaces - Axios Washington D.C."

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/02/27/downtown-action-plan-hubs-green-space

> The city is mapping out how to look beyond Capital One Arena if the Capitals and Wizards do leave the city.

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In 6 months when everything is country, don't let me get away with being one of the gays who acts like he's ALWAYS been into country shit.

Yes, there was one year in the early oughts where I got really into going to Tractor Supply Company for Western shirts because I saw some really hot dudes wearing Western shirts in Boystown in Chicago. And yes, I've been to The Grand Ole Opry, and seen Loretta Lynn live.

But I never once owned any physical media by any country artist, who wasn't like

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I started a new thing, please subscribe. It's called "Not Everything Sucks." It's simply a WhatsApp Channel regularly updated with a feed of links curated by yours truly of stories that disprove the theory that EVERYTHING about the world today is terrible. I was practicing the collecting of these hopeful stories for myself, and thought I'd share. It's a nice antidote to doom scrolling. And it's free, so why not subscribe?

https://tinyurl.com/NotEverythingSucksWhatsApp

not everything sucks is a new Whatsapp channel for good news!

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After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-months-of-gibberish-voyager-1-is-communicating-well-again/

> NASA scientists spent months coaxing the 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft back into healthy communication

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Supreme Court to review case of a man denied a visa because of his tattoos

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/12/supreme-court-to-review-case-of-a-man-denied-visa-because-of-tattoos/72189225007/

> Asencio-Cordero was denied a visa eight years ago at least in part because of his tattoos. Federal officials concluded they signaled gang involvement.

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High speed for rail? Ground broken.

America's First 'Long Overdue' High Speed Train | OGN Daily

https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/america-s-first-long-overdue-high-speed-train

> Builders have officially broken ground on a new train line that will speed travellers between Las Vegas and LA in just over 2 hours.

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Please follow my new positive news channel! https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaYLJ478qIzpPE4xxX1h

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