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gAlienLifeform,
  1. Property and income tax funded high speed internet available to all persons and businesses in city limits free of charge. Also, power, water, waste management, and any licensing and registration fees are all eliminated and they get funded by property and income taxes instead (also fees for public copiers at court houses, libraries, etc).
  2. Sleeping in public is legal, sleeping in parked cars is legal, cars can’t be towed from the parking lots of businesses outside of the businesses’ operating hours, and no person can be denied use of a public bathroom (regardless of whether or not they purchased anything).
  3. All businesses and public buildings will be made handicap accessible through city funded grants and fines for non compliant property owners, and rental property owners will be required to make any accessibility modifications a tenant might require.

What's your favorite compilation album?

I’ve been really enjoying the Red Hot Organization’s “No Alternative” and “Dark was the Night” recently, both because they raised a lot of money for AIDS research and because they do a great job of capturing the 90s alternative sound and 00s indie sound respectively, and it’s got me thinking how much I love...

Officials are investigating a man’s death after he suffered a head injury during pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in California (www.cnn.com)

A 69-year-old man died after suffering a head injury during an altercation at demonstrations for Palestinians and Israelis in Thousand Oaks, California, Sunday, and his death has been ruled a homicide, authorities said....

gAlienLifeform,

I wonder if this will turn out the same way it did for those two cops in Buffalo NY who assaulted a 75 year old in 2020

gAlienLifeform,

Well, props to Yahtz for not being a scab and quitting when Nick got fired, good solidarity there

It would be amazing if his team could somehow join the Outside Xbox, then I could get all of my British accented videogame snark in one place

gAlienLifeform,

Man has consistently been putting out five minutes of good to pretty good content once a week for over fifteen years, it was an incredible run tbh

gAlienLifeform,

If that was their reasoning it would be another matter, but, as the article discusses, that was not why they did it.

Staff at Frick Pittsburgh believed pressing ahead with its Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art exhibition, which had been scheduled to open Saturday, would be “insensitive” to the Jewish community and others, according to the museum’s director and internal emails reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

…

Elizabeth Barker, director of Frick Pittsburgh, attempted to explain the rescheduling in comments to the Tribune. “When war broke out in the Middle East, we were as heartbroken as everyone, and we realized that we were about to open an exhibition that a forgiving person would call insensitive, but for many people, especially in our community, would be traumatic,” she said.

Internal discussions at the museum also referenced the conflict as a basis for delaying the exhibition. The Tribune said it reviewed an email Barker sent to staff on 11 October, four days after the Hamas attacks on Israel, fearing it would be “perceived differently”.

The problem with this reasoning was nicely summarized by two other people in this article,

Christine Mohamed, executive director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), said the museum had effectively devalued the work of artists across an entire region.

“The decision to postpone the exhibition under the pretext of potential harm to the Jewish community perpetuates the harmful stereotype that Muslims or Islamic art are synonymous with terrorism or antisemitism,” she said in a statement.

“This false perspective not only disregards the vast and diverse Islamic world that extends far beyond the Middle East but also undermines the essence of cultural diversity and appreciation that art represents.

“It’s disheartening to witness such insensitivity when blanket statements are made about an entire religion, particularly when they have the potential to incite harm in the Pittsburgh Muslim community.”

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Adam Hertzman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh said the museum should not have linked its wrangling over the art show to events in Gaza.

“As with any community, some people will go see the exhibit and some people won’t. But I don’t think anyone connects it even remotely to what’s going on in the Middle East,” he told the Washington Post. “Just in general, we know that blaming any religious group for the actions of a terrorist organization or a foreign government is an incident of bias.”

Hertzman said the Jewish community would welcome the exhibition, adding: “It’s great to see celebrations of religious culture of all kinds.”

gAlienLifeform,

That’s only good if you look exclusively at what they said, which in a politically charged environment, could be considered tactful.

Wait, what they said when? With their original communication where they lied to everyone and said they had to cancel the show because of a scheduling conflict, or in their internal messages saying “hey, we can’t show art from Muslim people anymore because some assholes who happen to claim the same religion killed and kidnapped a whole bunch of people”?

Because neither is tactful, the first because explicitly lying is wrong and likely to lead to an embarrassing situation where you get caught in your lie, the second because it’s just straight up racism.

My position

Which, again, has nothing to do with anything that actually took place here and is something you just made up for this discussion

implies the local community might be inclined towards bad behavior. Regardless of how true or false that is, it remains potentially insulting, which would be sufficient reason not to publish the position in the local newspaper.

I wouldn’t say that position is potentially insulting, it just is insulting. Plus, that’s the exact kind of cowardice we shouldn’t encourage or tolerate from museum curators (or librarians, publishers, etc. for that matter). When the people who run these institutions allow themselves to be intimidated by what might happen when they feature work from marginalized voices, the bigots succeed in silencing those marginalized voices.

gAlienLifeform,

In general, sure, but a) our campaign finance laws being an utter joke and the prevalence of dark money organizations that spread disinformation doesn’t make for a very fair fight, b) I really have to question the priorities of some of these challengers, i.e.,

St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, a Democrat, dropped his bid against a Republican senator [Josh Hawley] to challenge a House Democrat. ‘I think we have to stand with our allies,’ he said.

gAlienLifeform,

The problem as I see it, is that someone involved with a newspaper should hold any form of elected or appointed position.

Welcome to small town America, where there aren’t enough people to do all the jobs that need doing.

That should tip you off to the type of journalist they are

The arrested journalist in this story doesn’t hold any form of elected or appointed position. The newspaper’s owner is a school board member but she didn’t write the news story that’s gotten them in trouble.

Gotta stay neutral.

I don’t see anybody sending Fox News producers to prison for their failure to do that, just a journalist who published information that embarrassed the local prosecutor and his boss.

gAlienLifeform,

Israel’s repeated attacks on civilians is making it pretty easy for them to

gAlienLifeform,

“successfully [sell] its narrative of resistance.”

gAlienLifeform,

@reversebananimals and @seaj, how’s the Seattle Times as a source?

seattletimes.com/…/seattle-polices-delayed-decept…

gAlienLifeform,

Sure thing!

e; and thank you for reminding people about how much this one sucked, I had forgotten but your comment made me remember this one repeatedly had awful coverage of the 2020 protests

gAlienLifeform,

Happy to do it! And thanks for calling out this source, way too easy for information like that to go down the memory hole

gAlienLifeform,

Ooh, yeah, I don’t live in the Seattle area so I’m not as familiar with their media environment/don’t remember all their papers off the top of my head, but I remember the Stranger being a really solid one now that you mention it

Inside ICE’s Database for Finding ‘Derogatory’ Online Speech (www.404media.co)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used a system called Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST) to help the agency scrutinize social media posts, determine if they are “derogatory” to the U.S., and then use that information as part of immigration enforcement, according to a new cache of documents reviewed by 404 Media....

In Pittsburgh Region, Criminal Justice Reformers Face Off Against Old Guard (boltsmag.org)

After coasting to reelection for decades with barely any opposition, District Attorney Stephen Zappala lost the May Democratic primary against Matt Dugan, the county’s chief public defender. But Zappala is now running as a Republican in a rematch against Dugan....

gAlienLifeform,

The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.

Odd coincidence that this happened to a family that’s put a cop behind bars. How often does stuff like this happen anyway?

gAlienLifeform,

Looking at Umberto Eco’s list, I’m seeing (at least) 4 5 9 & 10

Colorado Department of Corrections halts practice that forced inmate to defecate in bucket for 12 days while restrained (coloradosun.com)

In announcing the settlement Tuesday, attorney David Lane said the prison’s then-warden, Matt Hansen, refused to release Jones until he had produced what the prison called a “substantial amount” of feces under its policy for contraband investigations....

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