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recent bookmarks from brennenWikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years - Wikinews, the free news source2026-05-06T18:37:23+00:00
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_closes_Wikinews_after_21_years
brennenwiki wikimedia wmf journalism 2026https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:9cea09954503/AWS Plot2026-05-06T18:31:55+00:00
https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/site-plots/POR/WTEQ/CO/University%20Camp.html
brennendata water colorado ag visualization via-heatherhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:619fdb89e89e/How an Alleged Predator Remade the Southern Baptist Convention2026-05-04T18:02:46+00:00
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/quiet-collapse-southern-baptist-convention/
brennenreligion politics texas american-right american-south abuse via-fediverse history 1950s 1960s southern-strategy baptistshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:9afc1999335f/Colorado leads the nation in lost public lands jobs2026-05-01T17:27:31+00:00
https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/01/colorado-lost-public-lands-jobs/
brennencolorado labor public-lands government politics environmenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:b0b911f9b326/Sunny War: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube2026-04-30T23:16:49+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhxIBgJTOVI&list=RDKhxIBgJTOVI&start_radio=1
brennenyoutube music guitar sunny-war via-carolann video songshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ae2dad8f42ce/Doom & Gloom From The Tomb — Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Fox Theater,...2026-04-30T18:12:05+00:00
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/815331829079048192/gillian-welch-david-rawlings-fox-theater
brennengrateful-dead gillian-welch music archive.org for-tonihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:5ced2b036660/The Fallen of World War II - YouTube2026-04-30T17:53:18+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU&t=66s
brennenwar death wwii violence visualization youtube video for-tonihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:dbfa0a69b43f/buy field desk - teenage engineering2026-04-23T19:50:58+00:00
https://teenage.engineering/store/field-desk
brennenteenage-engineering warelogginghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:3ac0e73809f0/Front Range passenger rail district will likely be scaled back to major cities ahead of 2026 sales tax vote - The Colorado Sun2026-04-23T18:58:33+00:00
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/22/front-range-rail-district-boundary-change/
brennenrail transit colorado taxes politics colorado-sunhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:0e04b386b7bb/AI as a Fascist Artifact2026-04-22T03:06:49+00:00
https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
brennenai politics fascism essays talks via-fediversehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:56f74ffb250e/South St. Vrain Creek won't get a big dam2026-04-21T14:38:01+00:00
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/21/south-st-vrain-creek-no-dam-agreement/
brennen“This is something we and our communities have contemplated for decades,” said water district board president Christopher Smith, in a statement announcing the agreement. “The Coffintop project, as envisioned more than 50 years ago, no longer fits today’s needs or values.”]]>lyons-colorado water rivers st-vrain-river dams american-west water-law colorado environment boulder-countyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:7f8c88e0706f/Text - H.J.Res.140 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federa2026-04-15T20:00:41+00:00
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/140/text
brennenlaw environment congress boundary-watershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:eeb487fd8005/Study says millions more are exposed to rising seas than thought | AP News2026-04-15T19:39:39+00:00
https://apnews.com/article/sea-level-rise-climate-change-flooding-warming-59bb59d2fe839224a10bd28d604b5d95
brennenassociated-press climate water flooding via-fediversehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ec8ac8e7802d/DAVIS: Coachella & Complicity2026-04-14T18:57:47+00:00
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/04/davis-coachella-complicity/78149/
brennenmusic festivals culture politics colorado california money american-righthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ad8cc3476575/Monsterdon - neuromatch2026-04-13T00:55:03+00:00
https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon#Respectful_Posting
brennenwiki movies mastodon fediverse monsterdonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:434d2470c5c1/Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure you – The Forward2026-04-09T17:14:17+00:00
https://forward.com/news/817276/mahmoud-khalil-hamas-zionism-antisemitism-israel/
brennenanti-semitism judaism religion israel palestine the-forward interviewshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:61024ab4acb1/Cardiac Amyloidosis | Johns Hopkins Medicine2026-04-07T17:00:43+00:00
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/cardiac-amyloidosis
brennenmedical health cardiac-health johns-hopkins via-chathttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:d6a57b7ce92c/ACIS Climate Maps2026-04-01T18:42:18+00:00
https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?map=ACISClimateMaps
brennendrought maps climate water data visualizationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:f38501fbdd73/linux - Tell Composer to use Different PHP Version - Stack Overflow2026-04-01T05:51:15+00:00
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32750250/tell-composer-to-use-different-php-version
brennenphp packaging versioning language-revisions stackoverflow for-wikimediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:03bd717cdb36/free trade and the left, quater: witches — wingolog2026-03-27T05:22:41+00:00
https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/03/26/free-trade-and-the-left-quater-witches
brennenNow friends, this is Starhawk’s list, not mine, and a quarter-century-old list at that. I’m not here to judge it, though I think it’s not bad; what I find interesting is its multifaceted nature, that when contrasted with the cybernetic awe of late neoliberalism, that actually it’s the Witch who has the more down-to-earth concerns: a planet to live on, a Rawlsian concern with justice, and a control of the economic by the people.]]>economics politics blogs via-fediverse religion idealogging trade neoliberalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:47c31290f4da/This unbelievable investigation confirms Trump has a bullseye on everyday Americans - Raw Story2026-03-24T22:54:42+00:00
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-first-amendment-2676612513/
brennendonald-trump surveillance immigration-and-customs-enforcement fascism politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:272a0660cc86/WMF hiring in the US and globally - Wikimedia-l - lists.wikimedia.org2026-03-20T16:33:20+00:00
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YNLAAF6F6NBULLOBZAQDWJTDZHBTNCEY/
brennenwmf wmf-hiring wikimedia wikimedia-l mailing-list employmenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:d43f387bc655/Southwestern North American megadrought - Wikipedia2026-03-20T16:30:51+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_megadrought
brennenwikipedia drought climate water history american-west 2000s californiahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:7a8e72cf1aed/Wiki Workers United | We are Wiki Workers United, a global union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation. We are the people who do the work to provide a platform, services, and funds to support the Wikimedia movement.2026-03-16T21:58:38+00:00
https://wikiworkersunited.org/
brennenunions wikimedia wmf wiki laborhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:8879eabc55f8/File:Wiki Workers United logo.svg - Wikimedia Commons2026-03-16T21:57:55+00:00
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Workers_United_logo.svg
brennenimages wikimedia unionization unions designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:f14db14a0799/Mandala (political model) - Wikipedia2026-03-13T15:37:42+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala_(political_model)
brennenidealogging politics power history wikipedia via-earthtopus via-fediverse geographyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:a77ee6a112a5/CHAOSS · GitHub2026-03-11T21:25:26+00:00
https://github.com/chaoss
brennenwarelogging analytics github repo via-thciprianihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:14ce86a194b7/debian-vote Feb 2026 by thread - GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions2026-03-11T04:50:07+00:00
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/threads.html#00060
brennenai debian large-language-models policy mailing-listhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:d54e798df1dc/Re: GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions2026-03-11T02:00:35+00:00
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/msg00060.html
brennenAt its best, Debian is a group of people who come together to make the world a better place through free software. I think we should be centering the appalling behaviour of the organisations who are pushing genAI on everyone, and the real harms they are causing; and we should be pushing back on the idea that genAI is either a social good or inevitable.]]>ai large-language-models debian distributions linux operating-systems software mailing-list via-fediverse ethicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ea17d28ae456/Art Bits from HyperCard | mariteaux2026-03-07T07:42:04+00:00
https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v2/junk/hypercard/
brennenhypercard apple icons art design images archiveshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:15e6eaa5176d/Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? - Michael Stapelberg2026-03-06T23:04:06+00:00
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/
brennenFor the first time, an on-par Wayland experience seems within reach, but realistically it will require weeks or even months of work still. In my experience, debugging sessions quickly take hours as I need to switch graphics cards and rewire monitors to narrow down bugs. I don’t have the time to contribute much to fixing these numerous issues unfortunately, so I’ll keep using X11/i3 for now.]]>x1ll wayland graphics desktop linux blogs via-thcipriani via-irchttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:e650cc9f6432/Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry2026-03-04T16:17:18+00:00
https://acoup.blog/2026/02/13/collections-against-the-state-a-primer-on-terrorism-insurgency-and-protest/
brennenThis week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to offer a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed against the state itself, both violent approaches (what we might call ‘terroristic insurgency’) and non-violent approaches (protest). It may seem strange to treat violent insurgency and non-violent protest together but while they employ very different methods, as we’ll see, they share a similar theoretical framework, attempting to achieve some of the similar effects by different means, both working within the state, against the state (or its policies), focused on the changing minds rather than battlefields.]]>war protest politics government history blogs via-blueskyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:e432e2746420/Nebraska Farm Real Estate Report | Center for Agricultural Profitability | Nebraska2026-02-27T17:35:43+00:00
https://cap.unl.edu/realestate/
brennennebraska real-estate land-usehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:118fa7236a3f/A Complete Failure of Winter Across the West — And What It Means for the Rest of 2026 – BoulderCAST2026-02-26T17:19:17+00:00
https://bouldercast.com/a-complete-failure-of-winter-across-the-west-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-2026/
brennenThis winter — and the autumn that fed into it — will go down as one of the most anomalous cold‑season patterns ever observed across the western United States. What we’ve lived through isn’t just “warm.” It’s a structural failure of winter itself, driven by a relentless atmospheric setup that refused to budge for months. A stubborn North American dipole pattern locked into place: a deep, frigid trough dominating the eastern U.S. while a warm, bloated ridge camped over the West or just offshore. La Niña helped tilt the scales, but the dipole did the heavy lifting. The result was astonishing, historic, and frankly unsettling. Entire western states logged their warmest winter on record. Meanwhile, the East endured weeks‑long cold snaps not seen in decades, with snow and ice reaching the Gulf Coast and Deep South. Coastal North Carolina has seen more snow than Denver. Parts of Florida have out‑snowed Salt Lake City. That’s how upside‑down this season has been.]]>colorado mountains snow winter weather climate american-west water firehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:88f1ccdae8c2/Steven Spielberg Courted Controversy with 'Munich' in 2005. Two Decades Later, It Feels More Timely Than Ever | GQ2026-02-25T20:27:11+00:00
https://www.gq.com/story/tony-kushner-warned-steven-spielberg-about-making-munich
brenneninterviews film tony-kushner gaza israel judaism violence history movies war religion culture new-york-city theaterhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:7fcd7d10ac8c/Kingfisher - Wikipedia2026-02-24T05:58:01+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher
brennenbirds wikipedia animalshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:7962bc9573c5/What exactly is a ‘concentration camp’?2026-02-22T20:02:25+00:00
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=129&emc=edit_jbo_20260221&instance_id=171444&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=jamelle-bouie&productCode=JBO®i_id=161556492&segment_id=215624&sendId=215624&uri=nyt://newsletter/bf42252b-e24d-5c98-821b-f975951ff5f6&user_id=775a5858a9eff1adcdd60e2d06083e04
brennenWhat Trump is doing that is new is he is externalizing that violence, right? That stuff that was kind of hidden before. Trump is seizing the tools that he’s been left. And he and his allies are working together to do the purging of people of color. The purging of anyone that’s deemed the outsider or the foreigner. It has been weaponized into this much, much more dangerous state. And with the number of detention beds in terms of expansions and the warehousing, the potential for this, we’re really looking at stuff on the scale of the concentration camp systems that most people have heard of. The earlier years, pre-death camp, it’s important to say, Nazi concentration camp system, we are very much mimicking that. And if they get all the beds that they have funding for, we’ll be starting to approach the Soviet gulag as well.]]>new-york-times jamelle-bouie andrea-pitzer immigration-and-customs-enforcement carceral-state violence concentration-camps genocide holocaust history war america politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:0a21ae30804f/No Reservations: Narnia - Edonohana - Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis [Archive of Our Own]2026-02-22T05:32:52+00:00
https://archiveofourown.org/works/137185
brennenfanfic anthony-bourdain cs-lewis narnia food writinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:198e4a408eaa/Live word count in vim airline | vivi.sh2026-02-22T00:23:46+00:00
https://vivi.sh/blog/technical/live-wordcount-vim-airline/index
brennenvim vimscript blogs via-search vim-airlinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:5427dad91fe2/Long overlooked, Soviet Jewish stories written after the Holocaust emerge in new translation - Jewish Telegraphic Agency2026-02-20T23:10:09+00:00
https://www.jta.org/2026/02/20/ideas/long-overlooked-soviet-jewish-stories-written-after-the-holocaust-emerge-in-new-translation
brennengenocide history soviet-union russia judaism language yiddish translation interviews violence culturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:724a3a8fe3ba/Sizing chaos2026-02-19T16:34:56+00:00
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
brennenfashion industrial-complexen clothing data visualization via-everyonehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:9c0d43310fac/Notes on clarifying man pages2026-02-18T20:41:54+00:00
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/
brennenman documentation manuals linux unix via-fediversehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:eeb715418288/Pushback grows nationwide over proposed ICE facility sites2026-02-18T17:00:02+00:00
https://www.wmur.com/article/merrimack-nh-ice-facility-site-pushback-02162026/70383741
brennenimmigration-and-customs-enforcement politics via-bluesky carceral-statehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:d0660eb9142c/Is Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’ White?2026-02-13T23:24:18+00:00
https://www.vulture.com/article/heathcliff-wuthering-heights-white-jacob-elordi-casting.html
brennenwuthering-heights books movies novels history race england irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:b32193edf3b7/Prostitution would be fully legal in Colorado under bill2026-02-13T19:48:23+00:00
https://coloradosun.com/2026/02/13/colorado-bill-legalizing-prostitution/
brennencolorado law politics sex sex-work colorado-sunhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:9c8fa1a0cf47/Federal Agents Stopped EMT From Giving Alex Pretti First Aid2026-02-13T19:40:13+00:00
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/
brennenOne of the women involved in the confrontation, who was the closest civilian to Pretti when he was killed, said that in the immediate aftermath of the shooting she identified herself as an emergency medical technician and moved to perform CPR. Federal agents restrained her, said the woman, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution by the government.]]>immigration-and-customs-enforcement violence murder the-intercepthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ee9855c4acab/My Grandma Was a Fed - Lessons from Digitizing Hundreds of Hours of Childhood - Sam Patterson2026-02-13T00:46:22+00:00
https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-12-13-my-grandma-was-a-fed-lessons-from-digitizing-hundreds-of-hours-of-childhood/
brennenarchives video blogs via-hackernews howtohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:13716c434e5f/In occupied Minneapolis, citizen barricades rightly slow injustice2026-02-11T21:52:05+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2026/02/in-occupied-minneapolis-neighborhood-barricades-rightly-slow-injustice/
brennenimmigration-and-customs-enforcement politics minneapolis-minnesota historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:91856a5bd0af/ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next | WIRED2026-02-10T17:13:20+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/
brennenRecords reviewed by WIRED show that the ICE surge team has successfully found spaces for ICE across the country. In addition to expanding previously held ICE offices, it has moved or is moving ICE into new buildings, or into space the government controlled under the terms of existing leases, in almost every US state and major city.]]>immigration-and-customs-enforcement donald-trump wired real-estate government federal-agencieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:8c706f017f9c/Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2023 - PMC2026-02-10T16:56:33+00:00
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11576049/
brennenDuring 2000–2023, measles vaccination saved an estimated 60 million lives. From 2022 to 2023, coverage with the first dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV) remained at 83%, estimated measles cases increased 20%, and the number of countries affected by large or disruptive outbreaks increased from 36 to 57. Coverage was lower and measles incidence was higher in low-income countries and countries with fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable settings.]]>measles viruses disease epidemiology death vaccines papers via-searchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:0f4f4a9d23f5/Politics is breaking down — and so is our language for it | The Verge2026-02-10T06:38:16+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/policy/849609/charlie-kirk-shooting-ideology-literacy-politics
brennenpolitics language via-fediverse the-verge writing charlie-kirk donald-trump violencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:a5a89b6b359c/Immigrant whose skull was broken during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked | AP News2026-02-07T20:55:23+00:00
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospital-ice-beating-assault-4e77742e0629fc7f127c0aa38b3d2a70#
brennenOnce he was taken to an ICE holding facility at Ft. Snelling in suburban Minneapolis, Castañeda Mondragón said officers resumed beating him. Recognizing that he was seriously hurt, he said, he pleaded with them to stop but they just “laughed at me and hit me again.”]]>immigration-and-customs-enforcement immigration violence associated-press minneapolis-minnesota minnesotahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:38a64fbd39b7/Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers2026-02-06T23:03:36+00:00
https://earlychristianwritings.com/
brennentext christianity history gnosticism churches bible referencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:11549dde24aa/How ICE is watching you • Minnesota Reformer2026-02-06T19:47:34+00:00
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/03/how-ice-is-watching-you/
brennenminneapolis-minnesota immigration-and-customs-enforcement surveillance minnesota effhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:f7c16ae1b168/You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform2026-02-06T18:15:22+00:00
https://qntm.org/calendar
brennentime timekeeping date-math calendars formats via-fediversehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:c7ff7113f628/ICE warehouse plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Opinion2026-02-05T23:56:48+00:00
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-warehouse-schuylkill-county-20260205.html
brennenBut then Beissel — a Schuylkill County native who sees himself as a not very political preacher, in a county that Donald Trump won in 2024 with nearly 71% of the vote — pivoted to his moral dismay over a citizenship-seeking restaurant owner and father of a 2-year-old he knows from nearby Danville who was arrested by ICE and agreed to return to Mexico. “The Bible is pretty darn clear,” he said, “that we welcome the stranger.”]]>immigration-and-customs-enforcement politics pennsylvania philadelphia-pennsylvania religion via-blueskyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:d70a1c509ae5/Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs | WIRED2026-02-04T16:37:11+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-ice-forum-where-agents-complain-about-their-jobs/
brennenwired immigration-and-customs-enforcement immigration policing forumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:a1d5fa9e91da/First Loves and Bad Fantasy: Re-reading David Eddings - The Rambling2026-02-03T21:11:40+00:00
https://the-rambling.com/2021/09/17/issue12-polansky/
brennenI loved it, was subsumed by it, read it until the spine broke and the pages fell out and then purchased another copy from my exceedingly modest allowance. It was a gateway drug to decades of genre reading and unquestionably played some role in my career as a writer of speculative fiction. It is also, and there is no real way around this, irredeemable dreck—and Eddings was, as it would turn out, something of a monster.]]>books essays sfnal david-eddings writers abuse violencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:c97aeaa7a546/GROUNDHOG-DAY.com — The leading Groundhog Day data source2026-02-03T00:33:23+00:00
https://groundhog-day.com/
brennenweather winter for-tonihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:635d0a8d2224/Democratic lawmakers move to restrict ICE in Colorado - The Colorado Sun2026-02-03T00:16:23+00:00
https://coloradosun.com/2026/02/02/democratic-lawmakers-bills-regulate-federal-immigration-enforcement-colorado/
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https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez
brennenpropublica immigration-and-customs-enforcement murder violence protest politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:a0feb1edc487/After the Minnesota killings, what is your role and how can you help? | Vox2026-02-02T18:00:41+00:00
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/476702/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-ethics-how-to-help
brennenBut Fraenkel’s book is called The Dual State for a reason. This first state, the business-as-usual one, actually exists to lull you into a sense of complacency such that you don’t realize that another state is also operating in parallel with it. That second state, which Fraenkel calls “the prerogative state,” only becomes visible to you when you do something that the powers that be don’t like. Then suddenly you’re in a realm where the rule of law does not exist, where citizens can be killed with impunity, where you — even you, who thought you were invulnerable — can become a target.]]>authoritarianism politics immigration-and-customs-enforcement minneapolis-minnesota ernst-fraenkel idealogginghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ddea4b804301/Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency2026-02-01T16:46:37+00:00
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in
brennenIt’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel. You can’t just measure the value of something in terms of “whether or not it makes everything worse for everyone.” The world is much more complicated than that.]]>ai tech via-fediversehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:298a2b27aa2c/Don't die lil thing2026-01-30T22:52:24+00:00
https://feralresearch.org/newsletter/dont-die-lil-thing/
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https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
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https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/27/colorado-next-minnesota-ice-violence-alex-pretti/?member=true&tier=Basic%2520Plus&vgo_ee=EjNHgpq99VsTuiu4yY4M%252FHyIRTwsrJx%252BpWqiWgplq1v315jbJbxV0saz%253AzLoD8b3fxLbTv4GX1pBM66qzeWQdWTNO
brennencolorado politics immigration-and-customs-enforcement colorado-sunhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:ded4ea51aae9/ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed | WIRED2026-01-29T19:45:19+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-pretends-its-a-military-force-its-tactics-would-get-real-soldiers-killed/
brennenThis theory, which is commonly seen in authoritarian states like the People’s Republic of China or Russia, encompasses many realms of irregular conflict: media warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare (sometimes called “lawfare”), to name a few. While strategies of control can be used against external enemies, they can also be used internally. A strategy of control uses terror tactics to create a violent resistance to justify its brutal subjugation and as an excuse to change laws enlarging the definition of terrorism and treason. Regimes then use the surrounding chaos and noise to continue its other initiatives. It is, roughly speaking, conducting policy by crisis.]]>wired military immigration-and-customs-enforcement politics protest authoritarianism violencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:e23c8e262932/2026 United States intervention in Venezuela - Wikipedia2026-01-29T19:21:53+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_intervention_in_Venezuela
brennenwikipedia 2026 history donald-trump venezuela politics american-right america war crimehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:brennen/b:85c5bdc82359/Colorado water officials plan for "grim" drought forecasts2026-01-28T16:02:21+00:00
https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/28/colorado-water-officials-grim-drought-forecasts-reservoir/
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https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
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