wrath-sedan @ wrath-sedan @kbin.social

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Just a note that all Guardian articles are free, and on the sign in/support pop up you can just click “I’ll do it later” or I think just the “X” on mobile. Don’t need a 12ft link, but good thought!

EDIT: skipped over the “soft” paywall bit in my head so advice is probably redundant

The big picture: 29 states and Washington, D.C., have enacted a total of 70 laws expanding voting rights this year, while 16 states have enacted 29 laws to restrict voting, according to data and analysis by the nonprofit Voting Rights Lab (VRL).

Yes, but the point is that there have been more expansions of voting rights than restrictions nationwide in part due to the blowback against restrictions largely in red states. This is all state level stuff so its just highly dependent on where you live as to whether you are seeing expansions or restrictions personally.

No worries, just trying to make sense of it. Have worked for plenty of non-profits in the past so I know it’s not a cure all. Their structure as a non-incorporated coop though, I think is more telling than non-profit status. The only news I could find about recent leadership changes is them getting a new president and CEO in 2022.

I’m confused by this comment as AP is a not-for-profit cooperative, and I can’t find anything online related to a buyout. Have a source?

Awesome, yeah I'd say Sigur Rós is the most similar to Mogwai on that list (especially Kveikur which is a pretty dark album). The other two usually do more shimmery, pretty guitar tracks rather than the more hard rock/metal/noise influence you get with Mogwai. But check them all out, hope you enjoy!

A lot of post-rock bands might be good for you. Usually atmospheric/instrumental music played with typical rock instruments and little to no vocals.

Some of my favorites are Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, El Ten Eleven, and Sigur Rós.

(although Sigur Rós technically features vocals but it’s a language of nonsense sounds the lead singer Jónsi made up called Hopelandic, so it’s instrumental-voice I guess??)

Tweet was definitely normalized over time, but it also isn’t a synonym for fart so there’s that.

Thanks, this was the impression I got as well. It doesn’t make anything public that wasn’t already public, it just makes it easier and more likely for Meta to ingest the data more directly.

I think they officially changed the name to posts, rather than toots. But I always did feel like that held back the platform from being taken seriously. Like, can you imagine a news reporter saying, “Responding to the rise in reported domestic terrorism, President Biden tooted to the nation…”

The shortest concert I’ve ever been to was Monsters & Men right after they dropped their first album. They came on stage, played literally every song, and then said “thanks that’s all of them guys” and left. To be fair, it was all of them.

There’s been two albums since. Strangers to Ourselves has some gems but I think a lot of people found to be a weaker release. The most recent one, The Golden Casket, I liked quite a bit better.

Tragically, Jeremiah Green, the drummer and one of the founding members of MM, passed away in Dec 2022. They haven’t disbanded or anything but their output might change pretty significantly from here on out.

If you like MM, Built to Spill will be right up your alley. Two of my favorite bands. The first two albums especially Keep It Like a Secret and Perfect from Now On, are classics of PNW indie rock.

Genuine question here, it looks like most of the info they’re collecting here could also be collected via scraping that info from any publicly available instance (profile pic, username, etc.)

What added info would they get from federation that isn’t already something we are giving away ourselves by participating in a public protocol like ActivityPub?

I binged as much Murderbot as I could about two years ago. Super fun reads. Plus I think the loosely connected novella format is interesting and makes them all that much bingier.

Wow that's really cool. The hybrid physical/virtual is a great touch, and the ability to customize what's in those top two rows would be amazing. So cool what you can do with modular open design!

Wow, crazy. I was looking up some context and found this Reuters article which says it’s the 8th West/Central African coup in three years.

Same thing happened to my friend, Shrek2 ThePassionoftheChrist in 2004.

Nice

Came to say exactly this. Especially given the wave of anti-LGBTQ legal attacks sweeping states like Mississippi electing their first openly gay rep is a big deal.

That’s probably fair, I read them back to back so they kind of blur together for me haha.