Rand McNally: Dist-O-Map, The Automatic Mileage Dialer (1989?) Highway map book of USA that lets you turn a dial to select a city (top, San Francisco in this case) and distance to other cities are shown on the map. Still cute.

Found out I can have a Mothman milkshake on my birthday trip, being very normal about it

There has been a lot of misleading information shared about what is happening in our city. Aurora is a safe community. Media have conflated and considerably exaggerated incidents that are isolated to a handful of problem properties alone. Yes, we are concerned that there is a

Próspera is funded by Pronomos Capital, which is advised, among others, by Balaji S. Srinivasan, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who wants to partner with the police to take over San Francisco (some people might call this impulse fascistic). newrepublic.com/article/180487…...

So Silicon Valley billionaires are backing a project that is trying to bankrupt a poor country for reneging on a deal struck with people who have been indicted on corruption, drug trafficking, and weapons charges. These same billionaires want to build superhuman AI ASAP...

and are vigorously resisting regulation of such technology. If you'd like to see how they'd govern the world with a superintelligent AI, it might be instructive to see how they act now. thenation.com/article/societ…

It's easy to imagine the Internet Archive is taking away sales from individual authors, but that's not really how it works.

You know what I am worried about though? Streaming audiobooks!!!!! They won't even show us the contracts! We don't know what counts as a "listen"!

And fucking Spotify gets paid, unlike the Internet Archive. And Spotify intentionally manipulates user behavior, unlike the Internet Archive.

The publisher line is that all those streams are additive, that they don't take away from audiobook sales. Not sure why it's good for the Spotify goose but not the Internet Archive/Libgen/SciHub gander.

2 San Diego CBP agents accused of working with cartel, allowing drugs through inspection lanes sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/09/05/2-s…

I feel like if people are unable to solve the mystery of “why am I getting paid six figures per YouTube video” then they may not be equipped to provide useful analysis on more complex political and cultural issues.

Excellent read

Look, I may have been on Russia's payroll, but they never TOLD me what to say. They specifically approached me because they thought my particular brand of reactionary brain-rot was already perfectly sculpted to destroy America. Wait, no, don't write that down

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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) They didn't say anything about drowning.... vice.com/en/article/two…

Cory Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) on marshmallows, conservative myths, coal barons, and climate change — locusmag.com/2024/09/cory-d…