As the nation reels from last week’s horrific school shooting in Minnesota, authorities in Florida seem to be doing everything in their power to re-traumatize a community victimized by a different mass attack. That now includes arresting one protester, ap
As the nation reels from last week’s horrific school shooting in Minnesota, authorities in Florida seem to be doing everything in their power to re-traumatize a community victimized by a different mass attack. That now includes arresting one protester, apparently for leaving temporary chalk footprints in a crosswalk that has become a flashpoint in Republican efforts to expunge pro-LGBTQ messaging from the public square.
Earlier this month, the Florida Department of Transportation removed rainbow markings from a crosswalk in Orlando. There are rainbow-colored crosswalks across the country showing communities’ commitment to equality, but this one had special significance—it was painted as a memorial to the 2016 massacre at the nearby Pulse nightclub, an LGBTQ bar where 49 people were slaughtered by a gunman who expressed support for ISIS. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
The removal of the Orlando crosswalk was, supposedly, part of an effort by federal and state transportation officials to eliminate roadway “distractions.” And while it’s true that officials are now removing all sorts of colorful street art—both political and apolitical—the overriding motive seems to be a GOP attempt to use “safety” concerns as a pretext for cracking down on speech.
“Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declared in July. He demanded that the nation’s governors crack down “especially” on political content in “intersections and crosswalks.” Florida’s transportation secretary, meanwhile, described the initiative as an effort to “ensure we keep our transportation facilities free & clear of political ideologies,” and his department released guidance barring “pavement surface art that is associated with social, political, or ideological messages.” Amid an uproar over the state’s actions in Orlando, Gov. Ron DeSantis was even more explicit:
We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes. t.co/AXY1qxsZNW
The removal of the Pulse rainbow has, unsurprisingly, sparked particular outrage. The crosswalk is “a symbol not only of LBGTQ people, but also our city’s own history, and the way our community came together in the wake of that tragedy,” Carlos Guillermo-Smith, a state lawmaker from Orlando, told the Washington Post. “Targeting rainbows is about erasing the LGBTQ community.”
Activists have fought back, using chalk to replace the paint that had been removed from the crosswalk. Authorities countered by washing away that chalk—and threatening to prosecute anyone engaged in “defacing” the street. But the anti-woke crackdown reached the absurd Friday night, after protesters began putting chalk on their shoes and leaving colorful footprints in the crosswalk. That’s when state highway patrol officers arrested Orestes Sebastian Suarez, a Georgia resident who was visiting Orlando for his birthday.
Suarez was taken into custody on felony charges “after troopers said they saw him coloring the bottom of his shoes with chalk and then walking in the crosswalk,” according to local news station WESH2. “We put some chalk down on the ground, and before we knew it, an officer was approaching us, saying, we wanna talk to you,” Suarez later told the outlet. “I identified myself, tried to do everything the correct way, and before I knew it, I was in the back of a squad car.”
A judge, apparently, was unconvinced by the allegations, declaring Saturday that there had been no probable cause for the arrest and releasing Suarez without bail as prosecutors decide whether to pursue formal charges.
“To come here and do something like this, and to be threatened with something so extreme as a felony charge for protesting and showing love to your fellow human, it’s just insane in my opinion,” Suarez told WESH2.
This is the interim CDC Director. He is accusing pre-Trump CDC staff of “manipulating health data to support a political narrative”. This man and his boss Kennedy are the ones who are manipulating data for a political narrative. This is an existential threat to the United States of America.
Of course I think that Whitley Strieber is a complete fraud and grifter, but I can't help but think he has a really great #radio voice, the only person in that sphere who even approaches Art Bell's own. It has been the most enjoyable part of listening to Communion via #audiobook
Warday was such a good book imo, i still read it at least once a year all like 300000 years after it came out lol communion and the following grift made me 🙁
Apple's new Clean Up tool can be accessed via the Edit menu in the Photos app. Once selected, you can circle objects that you want to remove from a photo.
Das wird echt spannend, der #Kipppunkt zur Abschwächung der #AMOC soll schon in den nächsten Jahren erreicht werden, ab da geht es dann los mit dem #Klimawandel. Ich bin Anfang 40 und könnte doch noch #Dürre in Europa, sinkende Temperatur und stärkere Stürme erleben.
Es scheint wir haben uns als Gesellschaften nun darauf geeinigt, dass wir diesen Klimawandel jetzt nicht mehr abwenden wollen, auch weil Mobilität mit #Strom nicht geht, genau wie heizen oder auch die Stromerzeugung aus regenerativen Quellen einfach nicht möglich ist oder wenn dann können wir damit einfach nicht genügend #Energje erzeugen.
The stats on crime show it's down and decreasing, but the media is effectively telling us it's bad and maybe getting worse. Because Fox News is popular and wants to push that message, getting people scared is good for the algos and coverage of crime gives local news something to report. Dems arguing for the facts thus comes off as lying or being out of touch.
Good civics and honest politics can't win if the media has bad incentives. That must be fixed also, if not first.
This is not a defense of some of the worst things about Dubai, Singapore (exploitation of migrant workers etc), but Momtaza Mehri articulates something I agree with:
Many in the ‘west’ do not believe that other places have more than ‘one story’, but allow or demand nuance for themselves. I was especially annoyed when someone here was like ‘Dubai chocolate sucks, Dubai sucks’. All of those things can suck (like when you get a bad Dubai chocolate and say all of it is bad; and Dubai does suck) but then that person doubled down and say they couldn’t support anything with that name, everyone who lives there sucks.
Many of my friends who live there fled from wars that you started, denied visas by your countries.
Usciva esattamente 2 anni fa e da 3 giorni è disponibile in streaming. Un'occasione per vedere #ValentinaLodovini in un ruolo che finalmente la valorizza, grazie alla trasposizione del testo teatrale che l'esordiente regista ha reso un orologio. La vidi dal vivo in "Tutta casa, letto e chiesa" e un po' mi vergognai di ciò che le offre il #cinema italiano. Conversazioni con altre donne - RaiPlay raiplay.it/programmi/conversaz…
Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes joins ABC News Live to discuss the debut of an AI-enhanced version of “The Wizard of Oz,” which premiered on Thursday at the Sphere.
These same masked men no doubt want to ban the burqa and blame asylum seekers for crime in Britain. There is no other phrase for it. They are racist thugs. news.sky.com/story/police-offi…
I was convinced this had to be fake but he really posted this. I was wondering why he would post this then realized it continues his grand tradition of stiffing contractors.
USA: un’estate di detenzione di immigrati e di resistenza pressenza.com/it/2025/08/usa-u… Quest’estate è stata caratterizzata tanto dalla detenzione e dalla deportazione di immigrati quanto dalla resistenza. Mentre l’amministrazione Trump incoraggia gli immigrati in tutto il Paese ad “auto-deportarsi”, gli arresti dell’ICE* (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) sono aumentati vertiginosamente in… Pressenza New York
@AbandonedAmerica Yea I wasn't too happy either, ended up losing 20% of my followers and follows over night. Oh well, onwards and rebuilding and I am glad I just left. Server was photog.social
I'm so sorry to hear that. I have been kind of worried about that sort of thing with the fediverse, as it really does affect people who create artwork. The collateral damage between inter-instance spats can be a huge setback - and after setbacks on other platforms because of algorithm changes, that's really disheartening.
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(1) the increasingly authoritarian US government demanded that Google suppress videos serving the public interest because those videos are embarrassing to government officials, and
(2) Google readily over-complied with that request, deleting not just the videos but the entire channel.
Spelling out the point of the snark there: the the post is not about what platform he’s using; it’s about the behavior of the US government and Google.
@cockneylaurie I mean…we should not be surprised, but we should still be outraged. It’s important not to skip that crucial step; assuming outrage and immediately moving past it is how complacency and acceptance set in.
And yes, there are ample alternate hosting options for the Streisand Effect to kick in. But we have to be sure to give Google and the Trump admin that black eye, every time.
Genuine question from my pragmatic autistic point of view: and how that will change anything to give them the black eye?
Saying that, I’m going to look online for a way to contact the author of the video and to mention him the existence of Peertube that he has probably no idea about.
@adelinej “Give them the black eye” means “discuss this with in our various social circles and express outrage so as to damage their reputation and keep attention on it.” It is easy to underestimate just how real and how impactful that kind of social shift can be.
i've never seen anything like that creature she is beautiful beyond words and hey, c',mon, you give yourself too little credit; you have an eye and you have a skill 😀
(my work gave me a new phone last week and i just noticed the camera has a macro mode...oh the fooools, putting a Distraction Machine like that in my hands 🤣 )
Can newsrooms become social platforms themselves? Should they?
The future belongs to organizations that understand their communities, not just their analytics. In this post, I dig into a reader question that speaks to the future of social, newsrooms, and AI.
This is a great post on the good news, bad news dynamic of the AI boom.
The good news is demand is exploding. Nvidia can’t make GPUs fast enough nor can Microsoft & Google bring data centers online fast enough to meet demand.
The bad news is demand is exploding. New features like Deep Research or Agehts use 10x - 100x the resources of vanilla chatbot queries from a year ago. AI companies simply can’t raise prices high enough to match usage. $200/month it isn’t enough.
the goal with this is to generalize what happened with claude code & windsurf to the fatal flaw in the idea that “models getting cheaper” will bail out consumer ai margins
"You not believing it doesn't make it true. You not understanding it doesn't mean it isn't understood. Your ignorance give you no authority. Your skepticism doesn't make you wise."
"Die Gangster Gang 2" - Wenn man 14 Monster Energy getrunken und ne Adrenalinspritze ins Herz gejagt bekommen hat läuft dieser Film in völlig normaler Geschwindigkeit. Für alle anderen ist die Frequenz absurd hoch und langweilt dadurch - aus Angst davor, zu langweilen. Keiner im Saal lachte. 6/10 (Animation: 💯)
Ok, oggi ho iniziato a settare #orgmode in #emacs . Prima reazione : maremma che caos. Dopo tre o quattro tutorial invece ora penso: sarà anche un po’ rognoso da settare , ma è una figata ! son solo agli inizi ma…. Trovo sia decisamente meglio di logseq e obsidian sommati insieme, se vinci la diffidenza. E c’è anche #roam-mode e sia benedetto il cielo evil mode (shortcuts di vim , che faccio fatica a tenere a mente sia quelli di eMacs che quello di vin!)
@gisgeek ho letto in un tutorial, devo guardare bene cosa si sovrappone e valutare cosa fare ! Pare sia semplice riconfigurare alcune scorciatoie ma …. Vediamo ! Il dramma è che fatico a memorizzarne tante ….
Non ho mai avuto bisogno di configurare nulla per Org... apro il file e scrivo, il markup lo uso solo quando davvero ho bisogno che il testo sia speciale. Magari il modo con cui prendo note è troppo "semplicistico", ma ha certamente tenuto a bada il caos che è parte della natura stessa di Emacs. E non ho neanche dovuto seguire tutorial. ;)
Agenda no, per i TODO solo a volte e per questo non ho proprio bisogno di tutto quello che offre. Principalmente lo uso per scrivere note o documenti più o meno strutturati, anche che vengono letti da altri oltre a me e il markup base è più che sufficiente. Visto che non sempre mi ricordo tutte le funzionalità o le combinazioni di tasti, di solito quando non ho tempo di leggere il manuale se mi sono segnato qualcosa da fare e lo porto a termine, o lo cancello o lo sposto in una sezione (creata da una intestazione con un solo asterisco) con titolo "Fatto" o simile. Non è il massimo ma funziona. 😛
@vanni ahhh ok 👍🏻 per ora voglio provare a vedere cosa sa fare quindi sto smanettando con files di configurazione, pacchetti aggiuntivi ecc . È un delirio, ma anche parecchio istruttivo ! Tra l’altro è quasi infinito, c’è un pacchetto per ogni cosa , tutto configurabile ovviamente ! 🤣
Ah beh, se l'obbiettivo è proprio quello di provare tutto quello che trovi allora divertiti! 😀 Comunque, se mai deciderai di usare Emacs "seriamente" ti consiglio lo stesso di limitare pacchetti e configurazioni solo per quello a cui proprio non puoi fare a meno... all'inizio anche io mi affidavo a "preset" scritti da altri, tipo copiando init.el da blog vari, e con il senno di poi questa cosa mi ha fatto più male che bene. Ho veramente iniziato a usare il potenziale del programma quando ho abbandonato tutto e sono ripartito da zero.
@vanni beh provare tutto magari no, sto guardando un botto di tutorial e preparando una scelta di pacchetti e configurazioni che mi paiono congeniali, ma è pazzesco vedere quanta roba c’è e quando puoi configurare (ah per ora sto smanettando su un eMacs in una VM 😉, si sa mai….)
La défiance face à Microsoft ne semble pas vouloir se calmer, en témoigne notamment une décision ambitieuse de la Ville de Lyon. Interview de Jean-Marie Séguret, son directeur du système d'information et de la transformation numérique.
Gavin Newsom is "finally doing what Democrats should have been doing for a decade. [Donald Trump has] defined American politics since 2015. And what we have seen, especially since Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, is that Democrats have been afraid to talk about it directly." trib.al/vupZHNT
As Newsom escalates his warnings about Trump, a critic of Democratic Party failures explains how Newsom is offering a new approach to the info-wars—and why it hints at an answer to MAGA authoritarianism.
Immaginate una storia che si ripete da secoli, un'epica italiana di sogni grandiosi e fallimenti seriali, dove ogni governo promette di unire Sicilia e Calabria con un'opera titanica, solo per lasciare il progetto a marcire nei cassetti ministeriali.
I catalani salutano con entusiasmo la Global Sumud Flotilla alla sua partenza da Barcellona pressenza.com/it/2025/08/i-cat… Durante il fine settimana dal 29 al 31 agosto, il porto di Barcellona è stato teatro di intense giornate di sostegno alla Palestina, organizzate per salutare la Global Sumud Flotilla. Domenica alle 15:35, le imbarcazioni sono salpate verso la loro… Pilar Paricio
Indonesien will nach Protesten Zulagen für Abgeordnete streichen
Es sind die heftigsten Unruhen seit dem Amtsantritt von Indonesiens Präsident Prabowo: Mindestens fünf Menschen sind bei den Protesten gegen Luxus-Zulagen für Abgeordnete bereits gestorben. Nun will Prabowo einlenken.
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