Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Holy shit, my wife just found this on the top of a container of collagen that we just bought from #Costco:
“By opening and using this product, you agree to be bound by our terms and conditions fully set forth at vitalproteins.com/tc, which include a mandatory arbitration agreement. If you do not agree to be bound, please return this product immediately.”

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

@mhoye The subsidy for free or almost free parking on two lanes of almost every publically funded road dwarfs everything given to public transit.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works, huh?

A good friend of mine notes that while nobody ever _declares_ a Sev0 incident, one of the most notable signals you're in a Sev0 incident is when lawyers who have no reason to be there and nothing to add start joining incident calls so that whatever is said in those calls is now sheltered by attorney-client privilege.

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/heres-22-examples-of-google-employees

@brouhaha Wait a month, lose something unimportant on your desk, and when you search for it you might find the USB drive.

"Moms for Liberty" is one of the most vicious of the far-right extremist groups.

Trump, seeing kindred souls, gave his usual litany of lies and rancid threats in an appearance at their meeting.

Journalism noted a couple of the most outrageous statements.

And that was that.

The real outrage was that this is now considered somewhat normal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/31/donald-trump-at-moms-for-liberty-says-ivanka-hired-millions-of-people

Yeah, there’s a problem. These are just the U.S. beaches reported in the past week. Sorry, no, that’s not quite right. These are just the breaches reported in the US in the past week *that impacted more than 100k individuals*. #databreach

If women really could "sleep their way to the top," there’d be a hell of a lot more of us up there...

Why are Trumpers at war with public education?

Because they want to DESTROY it.

They want to PRIVATIZE education and turn it into a for-profit industry they control.

They want to turn American education into one big Trump University.

That’s why.

Tim Walz was cheered by firefighters.

JD Vance was booed by firefighters.

The same firefighters.

One day apart.

GOP officials in Nebraska shutter voting registration for people with past felony convictions and attempt to reimpose lifetime disenfranchisement. “There’s just so many ways in which the criminal legal system dehumanizes people." https://boltsmag.org/nebraska-voting-rights-restoration/

People are being enslaved in U.S. prisons. Read their letters. Explore this new online archive. This is a testament to the courageous resilience of the 800,000 incarcerated workers forced to labor and a record of the continuation of slavery in the U.S. https://letters.endtheexception.com/

Isaac Hayes Estate Confirms Trump Committed Hundreds Of Copyright Violations https://www.politicususa.com/2024/08/29/isaac-hayes-estate-confirms-trump-committed-hundreds-of-copyright-violations.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Arkansas bans nearly all abortions, calling itself a "pro-life" state.

It has the nation’s highest maternal mortality rate.

One of the highest infant mortality rates.

It's one of two states that cut off Medicaid to mothers 60 days after giving birth.

How is this "pro-life"?

The lost art of feature film intermissions notwithstanding, the foundational length of a theatrically released film is limited by the capacity of the human bladder.

I have 45 years experience doing tech support on computers and the answer is always “have you tried turning it off and on again?” Never fails.

Refusing to Certify Elections Isn’t About Fairness. It’s Aimed at Sowing Doubt. https://truthout.org/articles/refusing-to-certify-elections-isnt-about-fairness-its-aimed-at-sowing-doubt/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@SteveBellovin @mattblaze
If you want me to talk and never shut up, ask me about how a piano works! (The problem: finger pressure powers a hammer so it strikes strings, but the hammer must be free-pivoting (not coupled to finger) at the moment of the strike, and must then stop on the recoil without bouncing and not strike again until the finger releases from the key, at which point the hammer must be ready to strike again ASAP. No electricity allowed.)