"Cadillac Ranch at 50 exhibit shows evolution of original installation"
Given that my home D&D game players are currently on a roadtrip to the Cadillac Ranch (by way of being detained trying to infiltrate Area 51) I found this article a fun read.
"To me, it's not the Cadillac Ranch; that was what it was when we completed it in 1974," Lord said. "When we completed this, it was so important that know every detail of each of the 10 cars was visible as you stood right next to them. Now, the paint is so thick that these cars have become abstract objects. The idea of painting on cars obviously drives most visitors. To me, that was never the original idea."
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Slam Dunk
Pulled from this post on Bluesky.
But the real treasure is this picture in the replies, with poorly photoshopped John Maynard Keynes dunking on Robert Lucas.
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FBI responds to false election security videos
As shared on the FBI X account for posterity. Just the beginning of these sort of things.
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"Kamala Harris Is Not Our Savior. But a Donald Trump Win Would Be Catastrophic."
It continues to be one of the weirder parts of this timeline that TeenVogue remains an important journalistic political voice. The linked is a letter from their Editor in Chief, Versha Sharma.
As the head of this publication, dedicated to young readers, I have been closely following younger generations' collective disbelief at the Biden administration's support of the Israeli government during its all-out assault on Gaza, following the brutal terror attack from Hamas last Oct. 7 — including the horrific killing of civilians in Gaza, the targeting of journalists and aid workers, and the reports of children being shot in the head.
The Democrats' policy on Israel has been disastrous. What is also true: Trump would, somehow, be even worse.
"To stop crises like genocides, climate change, and pandemics, we need strong mass movements," writes Dr. Lucky Tran, a science communicator based in New York City. "But when more people are vulnerable to deportation, sickness, poverty, discrimination etc, it's much harder to build strong movements. The living conditions under which we organize matter.
"Allowing far-right governments to hold power harms people and greatly weakens social movements. Voting alone is insufficient to win justice, but ignoring its importance makes it much harder to achieve. To win, we need to use all the tools available, including strategic voting."
Dr. Tran is elucidating a conclusion many progressive activists and organizers have come to: that we must view voting as a chess move to get us closer to the outcome we all want.
This point is extremely salient and important for understanding another part of the shadow reality of our capitalist society and conservative power brokers' motivations. "Trickle down economics" necessitates that that money passes through the hands of bosses, furthering an employee's reliance on the employer financially. I don't wholeheartedly believe it's meant as a power for bosses, I do believe originally there was an earnest belief that that money would naturally disseminate, but time has clearly shown that is not the case.
Later in the article Sharma transitions to directly discussing the effort required to maintain a democracy and further political goals even beyond winning this election. The emphasis at the end is my own:
I feel pretty confident that a majority of Americans do not support Trump. He's lost the popular vote twice now; it's why he's set the stage for baselessly claiming election fraud or encouraging political violence as a means to hold onto power.
But that majority will only make a difference if we turn out to vote and organize.
It's not enough to beat a fascist with razor-thin margins; ideally, we need to run up the margin of victory so high it becomes that much harder for Trump and his cronies to claim they represent the will of the American people. It's why voting even in "safely blue" or "safely red" states matters. To achieve a more equitable America, we need to pay attention to the democratic popular vote — and if Harris wins, we'll have Vice President Tim Walz, who believes, as so many of us do, that "the Electoral College needs to go."
I know we've all compartmentalized in various ways to even make it this close to Election Day. We've avoided the news or ignored headlines and stories because we need to get on with our lives. But democracy is not guaranteed. It is a group effort that requires we all be involved.
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Mastodon Change
I officially moved from @trick@hachyderm.io to @trick@kind.social as my Mastodon social account. Driven largely because I was feeling hachyderm's community was less relevant to me regularly. So, giving a new instance a try and we'll see how it goes.
Shout out to the kind.social admin, Texan_Reverand for an excellent set of instructions for migrating between instances.
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On Gremlins as well as Bugs and Daemons
An interesting peek at the history of the 'gremlin' that also delves into the history of the use of 'bug' and 'daemon.' Apparently Thomas Edison is cited as referring to issues with his inventions as bugs:
Thomas Edison invoked the term to describe sudden difficulties in his inventions; "bugs," he wrote, "show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached."
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Kamala on SNL
Maya and Kamala on SNL's cold open really should have been on my radar, but it wasn't. Quite the surprise.
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"Coincidence takes on a different hue when you are someone who can see the future." -- Something I wrote tonight that I really like.
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14. Ng3#
My opponent walked into this completely, don't think I've ever seen this checkmate before.
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Automated Archives for November, 2nd 2024
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Writing Log
Trick wrote 1,600 words over 45 min. with an average writing speed of 35.56 words per minute.
Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Can Harris energise rural voters in the final stretch of the US election?
- How Americans came to hate each other
- Would Either Candidate Fundamentally Change the U.S. Economy?
- The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: -1
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- 1 year ago (4 posts)
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