If you are an Oregon author who published a book in the past 12 months, now is the time to apply for a 2025 Oregon Book Award! The deadline to submit is Friday 9/6. Head over to our info page to learn more about the awards, guidelines, and eligibility: lit-arts.org/oba25info

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Portland is the LAST major city in the United States where a thriving independent music ecosystem exists WITHOUT a Live Nation-owned venue. We need your help to keep it that way! Take action, donate and learn more: musicportland.org/livenation Thank you for all the support!!

After 41 years we did it congrats everyone

BREAKING: Workers at Portland-area Fred Meyer stores will go on strike starting at 6 a.m. tomorrow, and stay out through Labor Day weekend, UFCW Local 555 has just announced.

For months at Digital Defense Fund we’ve been hard at work on our most requested item, and it’s here! An abortion privacy zine template your org or clinic can give out. It focuses on the top 3 tips that reduce the biggest known privacy risks, even after an abortion is over.

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Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

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🚨UFCW Local 555 is now asking the community to boycott Fred Meyer “until a fair agreement is reached and Fred Meyer’s admitted price gouging has stopped.”

Fun poll from kexp that i didn't overthink: Top 10 best album-opening tracks.

"The only way to lose Gaza is to stop listening to the Palestinians of Gaza." Read this new article from LAP member Mezna Qato on archives, memory, and recognizing Palestinians as authors of their own history: buff.ly/3MviOFd.

As a former sound recordist I can confidently say this is the most unbelievable piece of IMDb trivia I’ve ever seen

This played for three days in Vancouver, WA

The influx of AI bots scraping websites to take their content for model training is essentially causing DDoS attacks on smaller websites -- sending their cloud hosting bills soaring and even crashing the sites.

Portland City Council is currently hearing an appeal on a permit to build a Live Nation music venue in Portland. Yesterday, the city's economic dev commissioner green-lit the property sale, but this appeal could slow things down. Some context/background: opb.org/article/2024/0…

Congrats to XRAY.fm for buying the 107.1 signal! xrayfm.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/107…

A sleep podcast but it’s Michael Imperioli doing this for eight hours

Googling “why does my period make me feel ____” gets you three articles that Are like “while this phenomenon hasn’t been studied…” and 50 Reddit threads of women discussing identical symptoms and timelines who have taught themselves biochemistry