Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com), page 5

"If we are to diminish this movement’s forever-war on democracy, it is important to know something about its organization, psychology, and the ways in which it mobilizes millions."
https://therevealer.org/dismantling-democracy-christian-nationalisms-threat-to-americas-future/

"American Christianity is in deep decline, and will remain so. And now it’s young women who, with very good reasons, are leading the way out of the church."
https://www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/the-remarkable-religious-disaffiliation

"Museum visitors were allowed to wander through the car that once bore workers, but the door to the luxury carriage was locked. We settled for gazing in through the window."
https://theamericanscholar.org/good-intentions/

Morning Walk Report: Actually chilly, and frost was trying mightily to form in some sheltered spots. Many other dogs out walking their humans, and Boxnoggin quite proud to be strutting alongside his. A bank of ivy with the bees just waking up, an orb weaver in the clematis on the garden gate.

Today's run went well, not quite so heavy as last week's. Crows on open rubbish bins, utility work slowing traffic, sunshine not quite strong enough to warm me until I turned for home.

Today's jam is Matthew Wilder, because ain't nothin' gonna slow me down, oh no, I've got to keep on movin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4c_SkROzzo

"Now, in a twist that is sure to rankle conspiracy theorists, CNN reports that the yacht, known as the Bayesian, may contain watertight safes that hold “super-encrypted hard drives.”"
https://gizmodo.com/the-saga-of-a-tech-execs-sunken-yacht-just-got-a-lot-more-interesting-2000503336

Me: "Today it's been nothing but Cheerios, cake, and coffee."

My son: "Ah, a regular, balanced breakfast!"

Me: "And lunch, and...wait, who's doing dinner today? Is it--"

My son: *with a pitying look* "Me. Go back to your office, it's a release day and you're not rational."

🤣 🤣 🤣

"That illustrates the dramatic shift in attitudes about what the news media thinks the public should know, and the role the mainstream plays in steadily ceding that territory to the national security threat machine." https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/twitter-banned-me

"Its suit comes on the heels of courts in Oklahoma and Arkansas finding market manipulation by pipeline companies during Winter Storm Uri — as well as a wave of other suits that allege manipulation in Texas."
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4896585-texas-gas-manipulation-lawsuit-uri/

It's that time again--the weekly subscription drop has landed! This one's a real doozy, my friends.
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/subscriptions/

This week in THE HIGHLANDS WAR, the armies contend before Marroden...and something stirs in the mist. https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/the-books/steelflower/

"Why is it the responsibility of women to remove ourselves from public space, in order to be safe from threats and violence?"
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/musk-block-function-twitter-online-abuse/

So Google Search Console is telling me the robots.txt on my site is blocking their crawl.

What my robots.txt blocks/says "don't touch” is simply and literally known “AI” theft scraping.

How very odd.

I've got news for you plagiarising slurry-swilling bastards, if you don't like what my robots.txt says, wait until you see my firewall user agent blocks.

"In many ways, public schools are now operating like private schools historically have, easily beholden to their greatest donors. One of the most striking comparisons between the two is how similarly disenfranchised faculty can feel in both." https://slate.com/life/2024/09/banned-books-week-schools-censorship.html

No, Giant Cell Phone Company, I will not take a "free upgrade" phone if it's infested with "AI" nonsense. I'll be sticking with my old brick until the bubble pops, so quit asking.

I feel like the rate of advertising on this particular front shows a certain desperation.

"Cloudflare reportedly agreed to isolate X's traffic so that ISPs could resume blocking the platform without affecting other websites used by Cloudflare. The change apparently came after Cloudflare was contacted by Anatel, Brazil's telecom regulatory agency." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/elon-musks-x-briefly-evaded-brazil-ban-by-routing-traffic-through-cloudflare/

"On what type of timeframe were you imagining that the shoebox of lichen you send to Mars was going to transform Frozen Airless Radioactive Desert Hell into a place where people could grow wheat?" https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

If nothing else from the monster thread I just did, please, fellow writers, engrave this upon your hearts.

YOU ARE THE ONES DOING THE WORK. The rest of the industry has absolutely nothing, nada, zip, ZILCH without you!