Notices by PaulDavisTheFirst (pauldavisthefirst@fosstodon.org)

1994: I joined Jeff Bezos and another programmer to start Amazon. I stayed for 14 months until a corporate culture was visible that I wanted nothing to do with (other reasons too).

1996: after moving to Phila., I started shopping at Whole Foods. I've shopped there almost exclusively for 28 years. I continued shopping there even after Amazon bought the company.

Whole Foods refusal to accept a union election and leveraging Trump's gutting of the NLRB is, I think, the final straw. Bye, WFM.

1000 years ago, the people who lived at Chaco Canyon and the area around it knew about the 18.6 year lunar cycle, in which the rise/set position of the moon slowly moves between north and south.

This is a generational project - you need 3+ generations to confirm the pattern, or 56 years of tracking and comparison. Globally, humans might have known this since 2500BC!

Tonight is the END of the lunar cycle - the moon will be at the northern-most position of its cycle - aka the "lunastice".

Summer is Icumen in

Galisteo Basin Preserve, Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

#newmexico #galisteobasin #cactus #TheHilliardEnsemble

The dilemma for responding to the shitfest that Songtradr/Epic have made at Bandcamp is that the vast majority of the revenue that goes to artists, and I don't think anyone wants to see that stop.

This means that boycotts etc. don't make much sense, I think.

Creating a viable alternative will take years (not for the technology, but for the adoption). But .. seems the only sensible course of action.

But who will do that in a way that is resistant to the same forces that are now eating BC?

Let's suppose you downloaded some software for your Apple Mac computer, and saw this dialog, what would you conclude?

It would be fairly reasonable for you to conclude that the app really is damaged, really cannot be opened, and really should be moved to the Trash.

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by white racist assholes in Newbern AL. She has a GoFundMe that has already met goal, but the racist fucks that live around her need a stronger message

The Guardian did a long piece on the full (and harrowing and absurd) story of the black mayor the white residents have illegally rejected.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out

Meanwhile you can still donate anything you feel like to Laquenna Lewis' GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/nonprofit-civil-rights-leader-loses-everything

Guardian comment, revealing great truth. #greattruths #maze #joyandpain