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Heard on the Manatee County EMS/Sheriff feed just now, responding to a house fire: We're just going to let the automobile consume...

Heard on the Manatee County EMS/Sheriff feed just now, responding to a house fire: We're just going to let the automobile consume itself, being an electric vehicle.

The economy is not an ecosystem. It has no self-correcting elements.The media is not an ecosystem. See above.Heck, we've messed up the...

The economy is not an ecosystem. It has no self-correcting elements.

The media is not an ecosystem. See above.

Heck, we've messed up the actual ecosystem, it is barely an effing ecosystem.

Please stop using "ecosystem" when you mean something entirely in human hands.

What is it called when we're told by a $5M not-for-profit with a slick-ish website & lots of posters for classroom walls that,...

What is it called when we're told by a $5M not-for-profit with a slick-ish website & lots of posters for classroom walls that, "We can solve [huge, systemic barely comprehensible problem]," when in fact, a single person's action, even multiplied by millions, has little effect, probably not even for that one person.

It looks to me that the News Literacy Project is one of those, telling teachers and students that if we fall for disinfo, it's our fault.

I worry that the real goal is to greenwash the shift away from public classroom education into programmatic, computer-led, teacher-less 7-12 education.

If the project is so devoted to protecting us from disinfo, why is the last mention of Russia's campaign to pervert our elections dated February 2022?
#teaching #disinfo #medialiteracy #election2024 #2024election #ukraine #putin

https://newslit.org/newsroom/press-release/experts-available-to-discuss-how-to-detect-disinformation-in-russias-war-against-ukraine/

The Mupu Landslide extends by 110 minutes the RT commute for farmworkers and domestic helpers living in the largely Latino town of Santa...

The Mupu Landslide extends by 110 minutes the RT commute for farmworkers and domestic helpers living in the largely Latino town of Santa Paula who work in the tony Bezos/Musk-riven town of #Ojai.

A 2018 landslide in #Montecito, home of Harry and Meghan, Oprah et al, disappeared, at least for cars, in about two months.

Why is Mupu still fully blocked after five months?

Caltrans threatened this week to close the single pedestrian work-around because it's been vandalized. I wonder whether there should be more oversight, or actual progress to keep those willing to risk their criminal records from wreaking havoc.

#VenturaCounty #Ojai #SantaPaula #Ventucky #ScenicCalifornia #CA150 #MupuLandslide #privatization #FreeMarketMagic #CalTrans #Montecito

I'm sure the underpaid, or unpaid, intern who wrote this funny typo on a terribly painful story will be embarrassed.

I'm sure the underpaid, or unpaid, intern who wrote this funny typo on a terribly painful story will be embarrassed.

My vote would mean more today if California had ranked choice voting. #SuperTuesday

My vote would mean more today if California had ranked choice voting.

#SuperTuesday

It's #Wedsneigh fellow #Pleistocene fans. Did you know that equids use their backwards shovel-shaped hooves to dig through ice and snow...

It's #Wedsneigh fellow #Pleistocene fans.

Did you know that equids use their backwards shovel-shaped hooves to dig through ice and snow for grasses and other fodder? Most bovids (cows) will stand in a hayfield covered by six inches of snow and starve.

Without horses, I'm not sure we'd have made it through the last couple ice ages. Their nomadic foraging allowed other ungulates to follow and survive, and our ancestors to follow and hunt.

Meet the late great Freedom, a 17.1 hh Irish Draught.
#Horses #HorsesOfMastodon #PeopleOfTheHorse #Mutualism

P.S.ing to say, apparently this section has been closed for months in recent, say the last 20-ish years. Not looking forward to shopping at...

P.S.ing to say, apparently this section has been closed for months in recent, say the last 20-ish years.
Not looking forward to shopping at the terrible Ojai Vons or missing out on Santa Paula's Garden Market tamales.

What? Masks and improved air quality saves lives? Why would the CDC promote such...

What? Masks and improved air quality saves lives? Why would the CDC promote such madness?

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/cdc-hides-replies-referencing-the

Old enough to remember when companies trained their workers.

Old enough to remember when companies trained their workers.

I don't know why I cannot reply directly to you, @MattFerrel. Anyhoo...Yes, I know this. I fully understand the kooks and their Article...

I don't know why I cannot reply directly to you, @MattFerrel.
Anyhoo...
Yes, I know this. I fully understand the kooks and their Article V froth. RWNJ notions of the Constitution are the opposite of what I am talking about, thanks.

I've donated to Common Cause off and on since 1980.

Because two things share a trait or two does not make them equivalent.

The fact remains, our Constitution is old and ineffective. Are you actually arguing that it is worth conserving in its present form?

Scalia started this train of so-called Originalism. It's now headed for a Bronze Age brick wall. I want a new Constitution. Stat!...

Scalia started this train of so-called Originalism. It's now headed for a Bronze Age brick wall. I want a new Constitution. Stat! #NewUSConstitution #Bruen #NRA #Parliament
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-us-needs-a-new-constitution-heres-how-to-write-it/281090/

In honor of today's little quake and our recent Santa Anas, here's a link to an excerpt from Joan Didion's "LA...

In honor of today's little quake and our recent Santa Anas, here's a link to an excerpt from Joan Didion's "LA Notebook."
https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01000508/Centricity/Domain/1538/The%20Santa%20Anas.pdf

Nothing like a 4.0 earthquake to make me think I have things to do outside. #Ojai #OjaiEarthquake #VenturaCounty #California

Nothing like a 4.0 earthquake to make me think I have things to do outside. #Ojai #OjaiEarthquake #VenturaCounty #California

The livestream and and poignant story can be found here:...

The livestream and and poignant story can be found here: https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-10-27/three-mass-shooting-deaths-ripple-through-small-lakeside-town-of-winthrop

Shout out to #Maine Public Radio and Television's #IrwinGratz as he vamps on MPBN, waiting for a press conference announcing alleged...

Shout out to #Maine Public Radio and Television's #IrwinGratz as he vamps on MPBN, waiting for a press conference announcing alleged murderer's Robert Card's death.

This story has undone me. I have a photo of my now mostly grown son with this same goofy tween energy. I cannot begin to imagine how his...

This story has undone me.
I have a photo of my now mostly grown son with this same goofy tween energy. I cannot begin to imagine how his family will heal.

https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-10-27/three-mass-shooting-deaths-ripple-through-small-lakeside-town-of-winthrop

Freak structure failure on the schooner Grace Bailey minutes from her home port. A local doctor was killed by the 75 ft. mast's crash to...

Freak structure failure on the schooner Grace Bailey minutes from her home port. A local doctor was killed by the 75 ft. mast's crash to the deck.

My sister's friend Charlie, an EMT and all around capable dude on land and sea, was the first on the scene. Super sad.

#Schooner #PenobscotBay #RocklandBreakwater #Maine #Sailing #TallShip

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/10/09/one-killed-3-injured-in-accident-aboard-the-schooner-grace-bailey/

@SteveInVentura @ai6yr VUSD is strictly MS, replete w/ persistent outages, phishing, & security warnings. Forgive my cynicism, but...

@SteveInVentura @ai6yr VUSD is strictly MS, replete w/ persistent outages, phishing, & security warnings. Forgive my cynicism, but it's definitely job security for the always overworked tech department.

Though the district supplies Acer laptops, lots of teachers use their phones for Outlook email and the Google ed suite, including student-teacher email comms. No, thanks.

I'm an outlier in that I will never use my 2013 beast of a MacBook for school work. Ever.