We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.
Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
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Omg. I gotta see if my mom would want that lamp. She’s always having blood sugar issues in the middle of the night.
A progressive nonprofit in Ohio is warning that data centers are “dramatically increasing” electricity demand at taxpayers’ expense. Data centers receive over $140 million per year of subsidies around the Buckeye State, according to a report from Innovation Ohio released March 11. Despite some upgrades to the electrical grid, higher demand pushes up costs on residents. The report said that the average Ohio family could be paying $70 more per month by 2028.
Hey, that may be bad, but at least they're creating 16 or 18 low-paying jobs out of all of this. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Weirdly all his social media and his web site are offline at the moment
U.S. District Judge Dale Ho found “there is no duty to warn a consumer of the spice-associated risks that come with consuming salsa.”
Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
“We at the Office of the Solicitor put the American worker first by shoring up the social contract that affirms work as service to God, to family, to community and to the nation.”
Tough luck if you aren’t a white Christian man or want to make it through the workday without losing a limb, though
If you can’t think for yourself you can’t rebel. If you become reliant on an external brain to think for you, you will soon need it desperately. If you do not find art important, no art can move you to action. A docile, listless, addicted population is the dream of an authoritarian.
It's too late for this person, but if any of you are longing for the frisson of transgression, can I suggest participating in ICE watch outside your local ICE facility?
I'm telling you if you have a small animal that eats hay, get on Craigslist or find a local feed store that will sell you small square bales - they're 50 or 100lbs depending on where you live, and will save you enormous amounts of money.
i'll add: needs to be renter friendly, too. anything portable and/or not built in would be ideal!
anyone have recs for bar carts and/or drink + glass storage that they really like? although I am cutting back on alcohol for life reasons, i am not getting rid of it completely and want a better place to store wine + things than "random kitchen counter spot."
"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought:
You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another though. The process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
I love both ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and SINNERS. I am simply built different
This sounds like someone who would interrupt Conan and Andy
If you've never seen a Chick Tract in your trick-or-treat bag or left in the bathroom of a highway rest stop, you can read JC's entire tract oeuvre online: www.chick.com
Scare yourself: Shitloads of dumb Americans believe in this cockamamie bastardization of Christianity... and they vote.
Imagine how many meetings they had to develop this feature and yet nobody at Grammarly made either a moral case (ha) or a legal case for why stealing people's identities and lying about it might be a bad thing.
The Amazing Race took off 25 years ago this week, and I have some amazing behind-the-scenes stories for you! #AmazingRace #RealityTV
people make fun of lawyers for lots of things, and they're probably right to do so, but one thing a lawyer might have told you is not to appropriate people's identities in California.
target paid a bunch of money to people who claim they speak for everyone but have no actual influence over those of us boycotting to tell everyone the boycott is over?
they will do anything but apologize and fix their policy.
i will continue to boycott.
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
Turns out Grok didn't include a lot of stuff in the war plans that it drafted for Hegseth and Rubio.
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
I have worked my entire life to learn how to write well, trying to get better all the time. I love sharing my work with the world. I'm proud of my work & myself. Tech industry: "We're just going to TAKE all that at will & not even tell you, gonna put it into our dummy LLMs, cry more u dumb poor lol"
I feel some kind of way about people saying that we are docile cowards when we are being shot in the streets and teargassed on the regular and the response so many have is to figure out where they can go to add their bodies to the list of those willing to die to try to stop fascism from taking over.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
For the tech world, education *is* a chore, you want to get the bare minimum as fast as possible before jumping in and making big bank at a start up, or as an entrepreneur yourself. Everything in the path of wealth or power or validation *through* these things must be discarded.
