Shocked, shocked I tell you
Who’s spreading misinformation online?
Mostly older Republican white women, per this study
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Governments may have the capacity to flood social media with fake news, but little is known about the use of flooding by ordinary voters. In this work, we identify 2107 registered US voters who accoun...
www.science.orgTelling on how rarely I’ve worn my giant hoop earrings lately, “huh, these are annoying with a mask”
Somehow “stunt” radio format changes have come up twice in the last 24 hours. The last one was someone’s question about a format change in Providence but at the moment we’re talking about “Rumours” and I am remembering this one, in Beaver Falls PA in 1993.
This year commemorates the 70th anniversary of when Beaver County’s first radio station, WBVP, was heard over the airwaves for the the first time on May 25, 1948. To mark the historical event, each w...
beavercountyradio.comA not-exactly-musical based on the story of a band whose members were basically all dating each other, like Buckingham/Nicks era Fleetwood Mac but with the serial numbers filed off? Yeah, I’m here for it.
Wow. These folks biked (with the exception of using a car to cross the vehicle-only bridges over Narragansett Bay) to all 15 Taco Bells in Rhode Island! www.instagram.com/reel/C7ionnW...
Went in a local coffee shop, person beside me turned, reintroduced themselves… they’re trans and out since I last saw them a couple years ago, and now live in NYC.
Can’t blame them for leaving town but ugh, bummer when you run into someone cool who’s just back visiting.
Mayor of Providence stopping barely short of doing that, but any time multiple homeless folks end up congregating he has them chased off.
Worst part is he admits there’s nowhere to go, but says that’s not his problem.
Criminalizing people living in the street doesn’t work
thehill.com/opinion/4686...
The Supreme Court can authorize governments to default to unlimited criminalization, an ineffective, expensive and cruel response. Or it can maintain restrictions on criminalization that encourage …
thehill.comWait I’m older than Miss Piggy?
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She looks great. it’s hard to believe she’s over 50
Miss Piggy made her television debut 50 years ago this week. Since then, she's become beloved for her romance with Kermit the Frog on "The Muppet Show" and h...
youtu.beWell, we now have an operational set of batteries tied to our solar panels, configured so that if the local utility has a demand peak they can pull from us (among others) instead of having a fossil-powered source spin up to meet that demand.
It’s a shame. I would fly this and also despite New Hampshire I would also be happy for the rise of the Dominion of New England again 😅
I'll never forgive the right-wingers for creating a situation where this flag could be construed as anything but unabashed New England pride.
I miss living in a real city, where I could do this.
I can walk out of my place and literally ride 42 miles to and from Stillwater without leaving a bike trail.
Overheard in the movie theater lobby: “I’m glad we got RIPTA, that’s all I can say”
My brain: “tell them to nag their representatives to fund it”
Me: bites tongue
I know which won in Rhode Island
Imagining industrial DJs complaining about work as “another night in the record mines”
Staged reading of a lost work from 1974 of post-WW2 “slum clearance” efforts in Providence that erased an African-American community from the east side of the city.
When I went into the building for the transit agency board of directors meeting, the street outside was flooded. The water receded and this is what it looks like now.
Shared the same on Twitter where it went minor viral, so hopefully at least a few state officials saw it.
Relatedly, I get to see my least favorite state DOT director in a few hours
LOL. The RI DMV doesn't want to be restrained from disallowing registration of small Japanese ("kei") trucks because "the proposed bill would restrain the DMV’s ability to further eliminate unsafe vehicles from the public roadways of the state.”
My brother in christ, you register giant pickups.
Unlike last time, though, Kei car owners have some congressional support against the RI DMV.
www.thedrive.comWhich day in 2024 are you not allowed to use Office 365, or is it staggered across all the users?
Cool maybe we can have some concerts in Providence. As a treat.
NEW: DOJ to announce antitrust action against Live Action–Ticketmaster
The Ticketmaster parent company also owns concert venues and promotes shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
My first guess was “fake listing” but it turns out it’s cafe equipment (and assume the lease if you want) *at* the bus terminal.
But Facebook deciding I wanted a bus terminal would not be the wrongest suggestion
LOL. The RI DMV doesn't want to be restrained from disallowing registration of small Japanese ("kei") trucks because "the proposed bill would restrain the DMV’s ability to further eliminate unsafe vehicles from the public roadways of the state.”
My brother in christ, you register giant pickups.
Unlike last time, though, Kei car owners have some congressional support against the RI DMV.
www.thedrive.comIn a few years we’re going to be trying to find historic web content by just asking AI to spit out the then-gone documents we know it was trained on.
New report from Pew finds 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. This research underscores how critical web archiving efforts are. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
www.pewresearch.orgThe problem with being the person who normally just handles logistics for keeping the house stocked with daily needs is when you space, the house runs out of things. Luckily Kat reminded us last night that we needed milk (and she got it)
Went to cousin-in-law’s baby shower today and it was beautiful, a celebration of her and the line of strong women who got her there.
And thanks to “barren old woman” feelings I can’t just feel that joy unambiguously.
Where did they find the body panel stamping molds for the 1984 Dodge Diplomat
The “take every shot, as often as I can get them” plan looking pretty good now.
People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.
Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies
medicine.wustl.eduKeep hearing a single from the Girl and Girl album on the radio and frankly the fact that they are not coming to New England is lesbophobic.
Suddenly missing living in Pittsburgh
Queer Pittsburgh folks! Your local Dyke March is starting back up again this year, and they could really use some more marshals to help keep the community safe!
Recruit yourself and your friends!
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www.instagram.comThe sudden realization that I’ve been wearing this uh… necklace… longer than either of my previous marriages lasted.
Much like this essay, the design projects I got to see presented today depict a city I wish I got to live in. There is no shortage of vision about how this could be an amazing place.
However, the capitalist-gerontocratic axis that pulls the strings wouldn’t be served by it and so, we don’t get it.
Elsewhere @antoniafarzan.bsky.social posted about reading “What a difference a bay makes”, an essay collection from the Rhode Island Historical Society, and anyway as I head to the RIPTA bus cut hearing today, I gotta say:
Living in the city described in this essay would fix me.
Spent some time this afternoon talking with design undergrads about their final projects for a class, and now I am awash in feelings. Which I guess makes it good timing for me to bike home in the rain and see my therapist
The last two times we had tickets to see Rainbow Kitten Surprise, the tour was cancelled. Third time’s the charm?
Went to local meeting yesterday about rich developer-driven, ill-advised plan to move the state bus hub. Plus: all the RIPTA staff know who I am. “Hi Daria”. Minus: local longtime NIMBY who accosted me on the street recently was there and probably also knows who I am now.
Me: do I want to smell like railroad
@marie.tech: I would prefer you didn’t
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A lot of folks don’t remember when Philadelphia basically firebombed a Black intentional community, but it made big news in Pennsylvania.
30 years ago today.
NPR Codeswitch’s Gene Demby is from Philly and has a great series of pieces on this - will drop them in order here
It’s still be a better use of computing resources than most of the AI stuff being done.
Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.
By accident, I learned about early case law around riparian water rights and how a Pennsylvania court case (Sanderson) allowed mines to destroy watersheds.
My friend’s talk at our railroad historical society explained how a railroad’s water project got contaminated by mines and their suit over it.
THE MELCROFT COAL COMPANY CASE, Journal AWWA, Vol. 13, No. 6 (JUNE, 1925), pp. 675-677
www.jstor.orgStarting shit by posting on the local punk rock listserv about how we failed by not having an actual arthouse cinema and the closest is the small upstairs screen in our theater that’s closing maybe forever in a month.