Primaries are coming up! Time to do your homework!

Between Enilda here and Josh Rosenberg’s recent decision to do something similar, I feel that I have a lot to learn from and think about.

I have long supported Joseph-Beth, but this is giving me ideas for other bookstores to try!

Disappointing that G.O.P. leaders so quickly did an about face. January 6th was a terrible event, and it’s cynical and irresponsible to pretend anything otherwise.

The only way to make emotion detection tech worse is, of course, to make it ed tech.

Most of this budget sounds great, but why are we budgeting for 75 more ALPRs when we haven’t even finished the trial of the current ones yet? Not to mention that the trial is unlikely to evaluate ethics, only “effectiveness.”

Never thought to connect Gab back to net neutrality; interesting reflection here.

There are a few yellow flags in this article for me. Quick and efficient sounds good, but are those the most important values in policing? What values do they stand in tension with? It’s great that there are policies against using a ALPR database for personal reasons, but these policies regularly get violated. No, these aren’t videosurveillance cameras, but that doesn’t make them harmless.

Hooray for additional bike infrastructure!

Great news for a tough Monday! This is one of my favorite comics, I love podcasts, and North is writing scripts. Perfect combination.

Admire what Josh is doing here. I’ve been rethinking my own social media presence recently and want to take some cues here.

Grumpy about this this morning.

Very interesting read. I have never been a Republican, but I frequently voted GOP prior to 2016. Because my personal political views have shifted since then, it’s hard to say whether I would vote for a GOP that throws off the Trump baggage, but I do hope such a party one day re-emerges. I may not agree with it, but we certainly need it.

Bad faith edits were the main reason why I’ve never jumped on the “edit button” train, so I think this is a good way to handle this.

Interesting read on potential stakes of France’s presidential election.

Good article on our past optimism for Putin.

Fascinated by this article for so many reasons. First, it’s a great example of meaningful practices in online spaces; second, it brings it back to the need for more, smaller platforms.

I have only been reading Techdirt for a short amount of time, but I increasingly appreciate Masnick’s perspectives on issues like this.

Worrying stuff out of Utah.

Content moderation is a necessity, and Musk’s take here is wildly irresponsible.

Losing dumb TVs is not an acceptable option.

This story just keeps getting worse.

Seems to me that folks truly concerned about the integrity of women’s sports would have more to say about this.

This matches rhetoric I’m reading while doing research on Gab. We need respectable conservative movements in the U.S., but our contemporary mainstream right is flirting with these ideas instead of denouncing them. It’s troubling

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