Photographer Photos of Border Patrol Whipping Migrants Misconstrued

The photographer says he did not witness any whipping.

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Cleaning out my closet and I stumbled upon these from the early ?s

Spider-man – Far From Home

Straczynski rebooting Babylon 5

J Michael Straczynski is returning to Babylon 5, with news that a reboot of the 1990s SF show is being produced for the CW. The show will be a reboot “from the ground up”, following John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner’s role from the second season of the original), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who…

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Stranger Things 4 Creel House Netflix

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“The United States Army Builds Men” 1919

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The Sandman

The Sandman: Created by Neil Gaiman, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg. With Vivienne Acheampong, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry, Gwendoline Christie. Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.

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Arizona Dems promise to disavow Kyrsten Sinema if she doesnt support filibuster reform

If Sinema is hoping to be reelected as a senator representing Arizona, the Arizona Democratic Party wants her to vote like she is one…

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R&B superstar R Kelly convicted in sex trafficking trial

NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly, the R&B superstar known for his anthem “I Believe I Can Fly,” was convicted Monday in a sex trafficking trial after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children.

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Alina Kabayeva of Russia performs her silver medal rope routine during the rhythmic gymnastic individual exercise final competition at the 1998 Goodwill Games 24 July at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Kabayeva won three gold medals during the competition. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO Timothy A. Clary

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Before all the moments go asunder

So, here we are. The eve of the official release date for Moments Asunder, the first book in the Star Trek: Coda trilogy.

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Biden declines to shield Trump WH records from 16 committee invoke executive privilege

The Biden White House will share the records despite Trump’s objections—and likely enter new legal territory regarding the treatment of ex-presidents.

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Essay The digital death of collecting

How platforms mess with our tastes. –Kyle Chayka

I have often bemoaned when a service I use changes their interface, as it’s often an indicator that their changing focus from one aspect of the service to another. Looking at the software that I use most often, I found that the ones that haven’t changed very much since I started using them are the most used, and I distinctly remember when Facebook changed their desktop layout it completely killed the site for me and I only stop by from time to time to check in on some fish tank groups or LEGO groups that I might be interested in. Somewhere along the line both instagram and Facebook changed what they were about and whatever their new goals might be, they’re outside of what I’m interested in.

Kyle Chayka makes some great points using examples that drive home the need to collect things yourself, using software that you’re in control of. I still have the installation files for Winamp, and have purchased all my music so it’s completely mine and that interface will likely never change, at least until I find something else that works better and what could? For music all I need is something to randomly play tracks that I’ve personally rated. I don’t need to see what the global rating is, or get suggestions from my music app, I get those throughout my day from a thousand other sources, from family and friends.

This same issue is happening with WordPress too, just in a negative way. This time last year the dev team was absolutely adamant that the post creation UI for WP was going to change drastically, something they’ve been trying to get done for several years now (first pushed out just a couple weeks before Christmas, so thanks for that guys), but since it’s open source software, I’ll never truly be forced into the change.

My digital book and comic books collections for the most part are all through Amazon, either Kindle or Comixology.  The books, I generally usually do not go back and re-read ebooks, if I like it that much I’ll buy a physical copy, and for the comics I’ve found that I absolutely hate reading them on a digital device with the locked in reader, the unstable experience, and the absolute dumpster fire of the economics of it all.  I can’t even find the emotional effort to read the digital comics I have downloaded locally from purchases on Humble Bundle, too busy with the physical books I get every week and I haven’t been able to find a reading system to catalogue them that syncs across PC/Android/Web.

Another example is movies, but here I have to admit that I’m enamored by digitally collecting movies, it’s so much more space efficient and easy to consume than physical media.  Again though, if I like something enough to watch it several times, I’m going to buy the physical media so I don’t get the experience ruined by either a bad connection, a changing interface, or the service just straight up changing the content somehow like they’ve done with The Office or Babylon 5.  Why I’m ok with 20 long boxes of comics that i look at once very 10 years but  not 20 bankers boxes of dvds, I’ll never know.

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American Office of Price Administration poster on wartime rationing 1943

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Unemployment benefits is expiring while new budgets for war aid is approved

you wouldn’t believe what the chems in the water did to these country frogs

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