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Geeking Out 0
The QMMP media player on Magiea v. 8 with the Fluxbox window manager. The wallpaper and the QMMP skin are from my collections.
One reason I like QMMP is that I can use my extensive library of Winamp (remember Winamp?) skins with it. Nevertheless, the skin in the screenshot is a QMMP skin.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Thom runs the numbers, then finds a straw at which to grasp.
Freedom of Screech . . . 0
. . . for me, but not for thee.
Freedom of Screech 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bruce L. Wilder argues that, contrary to the recent ruling of the Supreme Supremacist Court, freedom of speech and freedom to discriminate are not the same thing.
Unreal Estate 0
A reporter for a local television station tells her story of dealing with internet scammers who tried to rent her rental property out from under her (and of some honest people she met along the way).
It’s a fascinating read, and again reminds us that, just because you see it on a computer device screen, it ain’t necessarily so.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As one who trained as an historian (with a focus of U. S. Southern) and as the descendant of persons who, as the saying goes, “held” slaves, I hold DeSantis’s and his tools’ hypocritical denial of the reality of chattel slavery, quite frankly, beneath contempt and disgusting beyond words.
I would add this: A point seldom mentioned is that, as far as slaveholders were concerned, slaves were not persons; they were, to put it bluntly, livestock.
The reason behind racism as it developed during the period of European expansion–the belief that white persons were somehow superior to persons of other skin colors–was to justify treating those persons differently. It was literally whitewashing cruelty.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . but only if you can get to the boarding gate.
This New Gilded Age 0
One of the things that often escapes us is this: most of the persons working in the entertainment industry are not stars and don’t make big bucks (for an additional perspective on this, listen to the first part of this podcast).
Sam and the crew shed some light on what’s behind the current SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood writers strike.