sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

https://cdm.link/2018/07/watch-kraftwerk-jam-with-the-iss-and-esa-astronaut-alexander-gerst/

how did i not know about this?!!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQEzgtWv-E

https://om.co/2020/06/02/leave-facebook/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/forget-dragon-the-falcon-9-rocket-is-the-secret-sauce-of-spacexs-success/

startups do not address other systemic societal issues (such as using platforms like AWS or Google that participate in PRISM and shred your staff and users' human rights), presumably because being a startup is hard/risky enough without also being on a societal-improvement-mission, so i'm not sure why people assume they will behave differently for d&i or systemic racism/sexism.

The police are only acting as boldly as they are because the protests are nonviolent and unarmed. The vast majority of protestors are not attacking police, not throwing molotovs, not shooting back. The police are behaving to scare and intimidate, because they know their targets are nonviolent.

Things would be *totally* different if the police were actually under attack. They are not.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11

The president could have made a special new human rights enforcement branch to rein in the BATFE, DEA, CBP/ICE, FBI, et al, and close the concentration camps, end parallel construction, fix the torture culture in prisons, and address pig violence and abuse.

Instead he made a new branch of the military to better militarize space, which has, so far, been entirely peaceful throughout its history (notwithstanding any antisatellite warfare that has occurred before).

"rules for the other guy because he's an idiot who will kill us all" is a basic human conceit, and lots of smart people are falling for it presently when they call for facebook and other platforms to censor people's communications.