Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Nobody should need a credential of their personhood, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @cnet. “Your personhood is an innate feature of your being. It can't be granted to you by anyone else."
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/personhood-credentials-everything-to-know-about-the-proposed-id-for-the-internet/

Very sad to share that the three year battle to enact the #MandelaAct to severely restrct solitary confinement in CA prisons has failed in the face of repeated veto threats by Governor Gavin Newsom. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-solitary-confinement-19665403.php?

My enthusiasm for Fediverse remains massively constrained for one very simple reason: when I click on someone's post I don't see all the replies unless I click a different button, and if I click that one it becomes much more difficult for me to reply to any of the replies, and I am *not* going to reply to anything without checking that I'm not repeating something someone has already said so I simply don't reply

Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Remains Unchanged Over 75 Years https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/03/israeli-treatment-of-palestinians-remains-unchanged-over-75-years/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

In California prisons, forced labor lives on. This summer, lawmakers voted against a proposal to remove the remnant of slavery from the state constitution. And most states still have this vestige of slavery written into their state constitutions. https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2022/08/05/california-prisons-forced-labor-lives-on

Trump Gets Pissed Off at Melania and Barron for Speaking Slovenian Around Him: ‘He Has No Idea What They’re Saying’ https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/09/trump-gets-pissed-off-at-melania-and-barron-for-speaking-slovenian-around-him-he-has-no-idea-what-theyre-saying/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It's been so long since I used stamps that postage has exactly doubled and I can use two of my old 34¢ ones without wasting a penny!

Severely high rates of #COVID19 in much of #canada as children and educators return to school. We don’t have access yet to vaccine boosters. Most people don’t mask or even bother staying home when sick.

This is going to be a difficult autumn.

With long-term health consequences.

#MaskUp

Shoutout to the people on this platform who are only just now learning that sometimes I even oppose things that governments do which are legal.

@lauren @ai6yr @historianess @jbaggs @vfrmedia

Especially when one had to include UUCP routing information in your sig like

...!ucbvax!intelca!cem

All that bangity bangity stuff was fun.

Jim Crow was about using the law and the threat of violence to suppress the vote. Texas (and other states) have reinstated legal vigilantism in the criminalization of voting.

#Vote #democracy #uspol

https://wapo.st/3Xbyh1N

“I can't believe I got #COVID19 again.”

Why? Didn't you post a photo from a giant concert last week?

“Well, yes, but...”

Did you wear a mask?

“Well, no but...”

Did you get vaccinated last year?

“I didn't think I needed...”

So, why are you surprised you got COVID again?

“I thought the pandemic was over.”

🤦 🤦 🤦

Yet another story of "build a safe cycle lane, and people will use it." It's time to ditch paint-only "bike lanes" and start using real protection for people cycling.

#BikeTooter #SafeStreets #VisionZero

https://www.cambridgebikesafety.org/2024/03/06/bicycle-use-in-cambridge-soars-following-installation-of-separated-bike-lanes-according-to-new-study/

Scaramucci: I've Only Met One Person Who Hates Trump More Than Melania https://hillreporter.com/scaramucci-i-ve-only-met-one-person-who-hates-trump-more-than-melania?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

In the original novel ("Monkey Planet") by Pierre Boulle, from which the entire "Planet of the Apes" franchise sprung, an astronaut near the end escapes the technologically reasonably advanced planet of apes and returns to Earth, where he finds apes similarly in charge after the very long stretch of time.

For the first film, they simplified both the apes' cultural level and the overall situation, by inexplicably having them land back on Earth in the first place, instead of a planet around a distant star.

This created a logical problem, since astronauts would be certain to recognize Earth's moon in the sky. So they basically just ignored the issue, and had an astronaut mumble something about there not being any moon. Uh huh.

Interestingly, in an episode of the TV series "Space: 1999", the main characters realize they are on Earth (albeit centuries in the past) rather than another planet, when they do recognize the moon.