Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

I saw the original "Star Wars" the day after it premiered. A colleague of mine at the UCLA ARPANET lab and I walked over to Westwood to see it. As far as I'm concerned, the single best scene in the ENTIRE Star Wars franchise to date was the opening sequence of the star destroyer coming into frame overhead, that just went on and on and on ...

We’ve analyzed the House version of KOSA, and unsurprisingly, it is just as dangerous as the Senate version. It’s crucial everyone who cares about digital rights continue to oppose it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill

#meme

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
-- Bertrand Russell

#anarchism #quote #bot

Who knew all these college campuses had oil under them.

This is my yearly reminder that while many celebrate today as a Star Wars holiday, for me May the 4th is first and foremost the anniversary of the day that National Guardsmen shot and killed four college students protesting at Kent State University.

This year it seems particularly important to remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc

Once again, I am asking for Canada to have enough trains that we can have novelty trains, as opposed to where we are now, that trains are a novelty.

https://mastodon.social/@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com/112380466710892122

This narrative is the same for every violent clash at protests in the past ~seven years (maybe longer, idk): a leftist group is peacefully protesting, a right-wing group shows up and openly assaults the protesters for *hours*, and police watch and do nothing. At this point it’s a playbook being run by the violent right and police in implicit coordination. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU0.AUdX.RBfy685XvxHg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

If build messages were 100% honest:

"Generating locales you will never, ever use. This may take a while."

While accurate data is hard to assemble, it now looks like around 8-10% of people who are 'self-paying' for private medical treatment are borrowing the money.

As the Tory defunding strategy has pushed more people into the arms of private healthcare so their chums in financial services are also starting to garner some more business.

That desperate people are being forced into indebtedness to pay for treatment is a sad confirmation of the Tory's strategy of wrecking the NHS.

#health #debt

Trump can't stay awake at trial, which is far less demanding than being president https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-cant-stay-awake/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

800 DAYS OF WAR!

Ukraine, a sovereign and democratic country, has had to endure 800 days of death, destruction, and despair.

All in the name of FREEDOM and the chance of a better life for their children.

Please repost this message and support their struggle against Putin's murderous regime!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews

@SnoopJ shoutout to the adobe sales guy who kept trying to convince me that PDF was an archival format in 2004 as I showed him example after example of legacy PDF files that newer Acrobat couldn’t open.

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is now selling over the counter sleep aids on TV commercials. Yep.

Same news, two different stories.
The New-York-Times
plays the game well of twisting a positive into a negative.