Notices by G. Paul Randall (mushroot@universeodon.com)

"The DOJ's Antitrust Division has fewer people enforcing anti-monopoly laws in a $24 trillion economy than the Smithsonian Museum has security guards."

—Matt Stoller (via @pluralistic )

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/08/permanent-overlords/#republicans-want-to-defund-the-police

I wonder how much energy we burn through each day just doing this.

#energy #tech

S.W.A.T. (2003)

I don't know why I decided to sample this movie (free with ads on YouTube) but Colin Ferrell and Sam Jackson are in it and Jeremy Renner before he was big enough to be included on a movie poster, and I lost interest about 20 minutes in, but YouTube recommendation algorithm has not lost interest in suggesting it to me and I think I may be looking at this movie poster for the rest of my online life. #film

There should be a standard for digital image formats that includes an AltText field that you could set once and then where ever that image appears online the AltText is automatically made available to screen readers and curious people. Set it and forget it kind of a thing.

Exif already has an ImageDescription tag that could serve this purpose. I edit most my stuff in Gimp and it would be nice to compose that text while I am most involved in thinking about the image.

#AltText #Idea #Ideas

Western Box Turtle

"It is not turtle upon turtle
All the way down
It is rabbit hole within rabbit hole
All the way in every direction"

—Old Saying I Just Made Up

#Nature #photography #turtles #wildlife

@georgetakei #altText

Screenshot of a social media post by Nate Raymond that reads:

Justice Alito tells the Wall Street Journal that Congress has no business policing SCOTUS. "l know this is a controversial view, but I’'m willing to say it... No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court —period."

@georgetakei why?

@georgetakei I wonder if Abbott is spoiling for a Bundy-style standoff with the feds, for his campaign bona fides check list. Would not put it past him.

Red Chanterelle
(Cantharellus cinnabarinus)
Memorial Park, Houston in May
#fungi #mushrooms #Texas #nature

Ganoderma curtisii (probably)
A toddler and a newborn, same location.
#fungi #mushrooms #Texas #nature