Notices by Reginald (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)

It is summer in the 20th century. My friend Lincoln and I don't have much to do, so we spend a lot of time... Singing rhythm and blues, like Earth, Wind, and Fire. Lincoln has a fine falsetto, so he sings Philip Bailey's parts. I don't have a bass, so I sing Verdine White's bass lines along with bass vocal harmony, and we are very funky.

We do a bunch of tunes, but this was our favourite. I wonder if Lincoln has grandchildren by now, and likes to sing them to sleep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f-jQxceV6o

“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”

🎓 @ilovecomputers

if you're old enough to remember when a quote like this would have described the genuflecting sycophants in Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, or Kim Jong Un’s court... Raise your hand.

“They have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/207666/trump-iran-blunders-suddenly-look-darker-damning-new-leaks-hit

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Every morning, programmers, authors, and executives in late-stage capitalism placed a sign in their windows: Progress makes everything better. They didn't believe it. No one does. But they placed it anyway—to avoid trouble, to get along on LinkedIn.

This is "living within a lie." The system's power comes not from its truth but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true.

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“C.A.R. Hoare is survived by his fraternal twin brother, C.D.R. Hoare"

@cdegroot

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@thisismyglasgow/116136496733263919

When my siblings and I were very young, my mother took us to the library several times a week. We learned to read long before we saw the inside of a school or kindergarten.

As an adult, I have used libraries my entire life. Books and libraries have made me what I am today.

Thank you to all who work in, support, and use libraries.

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Like Trevor Noah, I was born a crime. I take NOTHING for granted. I never have, and I never will. Note that it wasn't until 2000(!) that Alabama repealed its racist miscegenation laws.

Leonard Austin Braithwaite (1923 - 2012). He and the rest of his Bomber Wing fought fascism in Europe. He returned to become the first Black Canadian elected to a Provincial Legislature in 1963.

https://raganwald.com/assets/media/leonard-braithwaite-obituary-globe-and-mail.pdf

#blackhistoryMonth #blackmastodon

The cruelty is the point.

Not about to write 10,000 words on how iOS 26 marks the death of Apple's human interface leadership or whatever. But this just happened and it made me laugh. Did anyone try iOS 26 on an iPad Mini? How do I use this? I can't see the word it wants me to correct!

“I cannot trust them as a reliable partner, no."
—The Honourable Marjorie Michel, Canada’s Minister of Health

In an interview, Ms Michel said that the issues with misinformation in the U.S. are "a big preoccupation," and a reason that Canada needs to look to other like-minded countries.

This schism is not good for citizens on either side of the 49th parallel. And it’s not our fault in any way, shape, or form.

In the 1960s, my mother took my sister and me to Africa for the first time. For reasons, I was not vaccinated against Smallpox, so my mother had to collect a lot of documentation and special letters to permit me to enter countries that were trying to eradicate it worldwide.

Every time we crossed a border, we went through special screening: America, my past is your near future.

@jacob "When you're a CEO holding an AI hammer, every problem looks like your wedding tackle."

Ironically, Elon Musk has figured out how to sell AI.

He’s telling everyone who will listen—plus everyone on that human centipede simulator he calls 𝕏—that for a monthly subscription, you get 72 virgin digital mail-order brides you can design yourself.

Once again, despite all our lofty ideals, sex is the thing that sells, and it doesn’t need buzzwordification to sell itself.

“They're only principles if they make you say no to things that you would like to do. Otherwise, they are just sparkling theatre.”
—@PavelASamsonov

I formulate this as, “Values are measured by whether you value them more than other things you value.”

I dunno about you, but when I put my Bible Literalist hat on, I read that the rainbow was a deliberate act of God after the flood, and it symbolizes God's mercy and the end of His judgment upon the earth.

Now if you start getting judgy and removing rainbow crosswalks, seems to me you're working for the other guy.

@pluralistic One evening I went into the Jazz department of Sam the Record Man in Toronto. I asked for an obscure album from a long-disbanded fusion group. The clerk, who was also a musician and part-time public radio DJ, shook his head: "I've sold you enough Dead Jazz. Go out, listen to some live musicians, and come back for their albums."

You'd think this kind of thing only happens in movies, but yes, there are people who get that Art requires supporting artists.

@dgar

Once again I call on Dr. Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania, to explain today's headline. When accused of running "a democracy in name only," he replied:

> The US is also a one-party state. But with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrat-socialist

Nice people live here.