Time for a group buy

The evolution of the Nuremberg defense

circular economy!

There is nothing important in Oklahoma

Hot on the heels of Air Canada’s AI chat bot making up policies, NYC is following suit, giving illegal advice in response to questions:

The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law.

Five months after launch, it’s clear that while the bot appears authoritative, the information it provides on housing policy, worker rights, and rules for entrepreneurs is often incomplete and in worst-case scenarios “dangerously inaccurate,” as one local housing policy expert told The Markup.

https://archive.is/n9XF3

Critical support to… the White House Press Corp for apparently nonstop theft from Air Force One:

Everyone, it appears, is pilfering from Air Force One. And it’s gotten so bad that last month, NBC correspondent KELLY O’DONNELL, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, included a terse reminder to colleagues that taking items off the plane was not allowed and reflected poorly on the press corps as a whole, several individuals who saw the off-the-record email confirmed.

https://archive.is/dboCM

I always imagine that first picture is two handfuls of gummy worms

Thank you for leading this! I haven’t done a book club before… I thought this was really cool and having the weekly accountability helps too. And of course your notes will be a great resource to future readers. Great job @[email protected]

Yumm crunchy layer

I will have to try the marinade, that sounds good

I had some initial success on my quest to replace buffalo chicken wings with tofu. super double extra ultra firm tofu + some basic breading in the air fryer is a pretty solid buffalo sauce delivery vehicle. Area for improvement is the breading… more surface area would be better but must be balanced against my laziness and desire for minimal dirty dishes. Further experiments to follow.

I don’t think marriage necessarily stops things like that… it just means you wait until your spouse is out of town or something

I wound up finishing the book this morning, I found this book to be hard to put down once I got rolling. I haven’t read Jakarta Method yet but I will have to check it out.

I think the other thing here – this whole time, the right wing MBL has been organizing, simmering, and keeping the energy going, and use the protests that had started as left-wing to enact their right-wing impeachment agenda. I think this really shows how protest isn’t just a “left-wing” or even “populist” thing - and perhaps we need to valorize it less?

I agree, I have been thinking about the Tea Party and then the COVID pandemic “lockdown” as right wing protests. I think we should be value-neutral about protests because they aren’t always for a good cause, however we could also say that these two examples aren’t legitimate protests either. I have been trying to come up with an objective line between a spontaneous protest like Bevins examines, and astroturfed media campaigns like these two examples. On one hand, given the role of mass media in amplifying protest movements, all mass movements rely on external support. On the other hand, despite the media attention the tea party and COVID protests didn’t broaden outside the chud community. I think once again we are back to looking at outcomes since even organic movements can be coopted.

I do like reading this in 2024, as Trump is coming for America again. It’s funny, since you’d think at this point more could be done in opposition, but there’s a steady crawl towards a Marxian “first as tragedy, then as farce” sense of this year.

Looking back to chapter 15, the US and Brazil are both in kind of a bizarro-world parallel:

• the US is straight up replaying 2016, I don’t see how Trump loses this election
• both US and Brazil are prosecuting Trump/Bolsonaro for failed coups. The US seems ineffective…maybe Brazil will actually do something about it.
• the only missing piece here seems to be a bus fare increase in Brazil to fully restart the cycle

One of the points Bevins makes is that sometimes protests are successful in generating a change, but the spontaneous protest movement itself is not capable of capitalizing on it. Those groups that are organized already when the change / power vacuum is created are able to fill the gap. So in the conclusion he sort of makes the case that if you don’t have an organized party that is capable of negotiating/representing the protest movement it might be better to spend your time organizing so you are ready for the next step. Otherwise your effort can be coopted, sort of like you’re saying.

If you’re interested, I recommend checking out the book. I think it’s well written and the style of interviewing participants from various 2010-2020 protests is very approachable.

Many people are saying it

I think because it’s mentioned in the state of the union speech it won’t happen. Stuff like closing Guantanamo Bay, whatever GWB was saying about going to Mars… All state of the union bullshit

I was trying to find turnout numbers and the DC Republican Party is all in on Haley 😂

Real Meal Team 6 energy here