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sherrylephotography · 2 years

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Bridge of the Gods in Cascade Locks Oregon

The bridge road is this grate so you can see the river under you as you walk over the bridge.

No side walks on this bridge, watch out for the vehicles that you share the bridge with,

We walked over the bridge on May 16, 2022

Sherrylephotography May 16, 2022

Cascade Locks Oregon. Views from the Bridge of the Gods.

Legend of Bridge of the Gods

Long before recorded history began, the Native American legend of the Bridge of the Gods says the Great Spirit built a bridge of stone that was a gift of great magnitude. The Great Spirit, named Manito, placed a wise old woman named Loo-Wit, on the bridge as its guardian. He then sent to earth his three sons, Multnomah, the warrior; Klickitat (Mount Adams), the totem-maker; and Wyeast (Mount Hood), the singer. Peace lived in the valley until beautiful Squaw Mountain moved in between Klickitat and Wyeast. The beautiful woman mountain grew to love Wyeast, but also thought it fun to flirt with his big brother, Klickitat. Soon the brothers began to quarrel over everything, stomping their feet and throwing fire and rocks at each other. Finally, they threw so many rocks onto the Bridge of the Gods and shook the earth so hard that the bridge broke in the middle and fell in to the river.

Klickitat, who was the larger of the two mountains, won the fight, and Wyeast admitted defeat, giving over all claim to beautiful Squaw Mountain. In a short time, Squaw Mountain became very heartbroken for she truly loved Wyeast. One day she fell at Klickitat’s feet and sank into a deep sleep from which she never awakened. She is now known as the Sleeping Beauty and lies where she fell, just west of Mount Adams.

During the war between Wyeast and Klickitat, Loo-Wit, the guardian of the bridge, tried to stop the fight. When she failed, she stayed at her post and did her best to save the bridge from destruction, although she was badly burned and battered by hot rocks.

When the bridge fell, she fell with it. The Great Spirit placed her among the great snow mountains, but being old in spirit, she did not desire companionship and so withdrew from the main range to settle by herself far to the west. Today you will find her as Mount St. Helens, the youngest mountain in the Cascades.

Scientists say that about 1,000 years ago, the mountain on the Washington side of the Columbia River, near what is now the town of Stevenson, caved off, blocking the river. The natural dam was high enough to cause a great inland sea covering the prairies as far away as Idaho. For many years, natural erosion weakened the dam and finally washed it out. These waters of the inland sea rushed out, tearing away more of the earth and rocks until a great tunnel was formed under the mountain range leaving a natural bridge over the water. The bridge was called “The Great Cross Over” and is now named “The Bridge of the Gods.”

LEGEND: an unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical

Material for this article provided by the Port of Cascade Locks, Oregon

Click here for more information on the bridge and the Legend of the Bridge of the Gods

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fortheloveofaussiegrit · 1 year

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#GetCreativeWithPorsche: Keeping fit

Porsche ambassador, former WEC champion and nine times Formula One Grands Prix winner, Mark Webber, shares his tips for getting fit while on lockdown.

#i .. uh yeah #29/04/20 #.2020 #legs!!#thighs #on the floor #hands on thighs #i will never be normal about his legs

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tomorrowusa · 5 months

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Republicans try to restrict voting with the excuse that they are combating election fraud. Yet most of the recent high profile cases of election tampering feature Republican perpetrators. And they are quite open about it. Trump's phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is available here.

A GOP woman in Iowa faces up to five years in prison for each of the 52 counts of election fraud she was just convicted of.

The wife of a Republican politician in Iowa has been convicted of dozens of criminal charges related to a 2020 voter fraud scheme aimed at getting her husband into office.

Department of Justice officials announced the verdict against Kim Phuong Taylor in a statement released on Tuesday, explaining that she had submitted absentee ballots on behalf of voters who had not given her permission to do so. She was convicted of 52 counts in total, including 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, 23 counts of voter fraud, and three counts of fraudulently registering to vote. She could face up to five years in prison for each charge. According to the DoJ, Ms Taylor “perpetrated a scheme to fraudulently generate votes for her husband in the primary election for Iowa’s 4th US Congressional District in June 2020”. She’s then accused of doing the same thing after his defeat when he would go on to launch a campaign for Woodbury County supervisor. Mr Taylor won that second race. Her husband Jeremy, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case whose campaigns were the intended beneficiary of her fraudulent actions, said in a statement to a local news affiliate, KCAU, that he and his wife had hoped for a verdict of not guilty but added that they respected the verdict.

CNN describes how blatant this scheme was.

Prosecutors say Kim Taylor visited households in the Vietnamese community, encouraging residents to fill out voter registration forms and absentee ballot request forms. Some of the residents couldn’t read or understand English, according to prosecutors, and she offered to help. Kim Taylor “submitted or caused others to submit dozens of voter registrations, absentee ballot request forms, and absentee ballots containing false information,” the Justice Department said in a statement. She also “completed and signed voter forms without voters’ permission and told others that they could sign on behalf of relatives who were not present,” the DOJ said.

We remember another major case of vote fraud a few years ago by a Republican operative in North Carolina.

North Carolina GOP Operative Faces New Felony Charges That Allege Ballot Fraud

Republicans don't care about rules any more. Their goal simply is to seize and hold on to power at all costs.

And this is nothing new. A segment of NPR's "This American Life" examined election-related fraud in the US back in 2004. You can listen to the segment at the link below. The allegations against Democrats in the segment, supplied by Republican Scott Hogenson, were mostly unverified or borderline comical. The allegations against Republicans were substantial and ultimately led to several convictions.

276: Swing Set: Act Two Cold-cock The Vote

From the viewpoint of a Republican candidate nowadays, these are the only possible results of an election:

"I won."

"The election was stolen!"

Never mind that they are the ones out to steal elections.

#republican election fraud #voter suppression #republicans #iowa #ia-04 #election 2020 #kim phuong taylor #jeremy taylor #donald trump #election stealing #leslie mccrae dowless #north carolina #jack hitt #this american life #election 2004

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iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast · 1 year

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#y'all don't have to vote lol #but I finally got polls #and it seemed like a good place to break these down #there's a lot of overlap and uh... resurgences in these too #i had a second poto phase in '04 #my last les mis one before this one was '12-'13 #my strongest garber phase overlapped with me starting my tumblr in 2010 #she loves me came back with a vengeance in 2020 #I had a *massive* FTA resurgence in 2018 with Prom #etc etc #...ignore me

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izzyizumi · 11 months

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ME: Everyone shut up "Be The Winners" from "Digimon Adventure:" (2020 reboot) is playing!!!

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vanosslirious · 1 year

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SMii7y: I don't know what these devs are doing, but, you know, hopefully they knock it off soon, or I'm gonna write a really mean letter to them. *giggles*

#smii7y - teardown but i just want to go home #time stamp: 19:04 #banana bus squad #bbs #smii7y #g: teardown (2020)#text #words

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almahiphop · 1 year

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Nach - Yo No

Escrito por Nach Dirigido y editado por LSDAVID Producción y mezcla por Tron Dosh y Dani Catalá Violines por Dante Bertolino Masterizado por Javier Roldón en Vacuum Mastering 2023/04 Rap / Apr 2023 Hip Hop

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#04/28 #2020&039;s Hip-Hop #2023 #Alma Hip Hop #Hip Hop Playlists #Hip Hop Videos #Nach #Rap Videos #Videos de Rap

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dc0martnic · 1 year

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Hasta el último hombre

Hasta el último hombre es una película de Mel Gibson que muestra la vida de Desmond Doss, un soldado estadounidense que fue el primer objetor de conciencia en obtener la Medalla de Honor.

El filme protagonizado por Andrew Garfield, quien interpreta al soldado Doss, narra como este se enlistó en el ejército negándose por completo a tomar un rifle y ser un soldado médico en el frente de la batalla de Okinawa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Desmond tiene un sentido muy maduro sobre el valor de la vida, pues vivió con un padre maltratador que perdió a sus tres mejores amigos en la guerra. De ahí nace el deseo de Desmond de ir a la guerra a salvar vidas, no a terminarlas.

Muestra que una persona debe ser fiel a sus principios y convicciones cuando estas están dispuestas para ayudar a los demás. Durante todo el entrenamiento para la guerra Desmond se negó a hacer prácticas de tiro, lo cual hizo que casi fuera expulsado de su batallón e incluso ir a la corte marcial.

Hasta el último hombre nos enseña que, aunque todo vaya en nuestra contra y la sociedad pueda llegar a despreciarnos, siempre podemos elegir ser mejores y decidir ayudar a una persona más.

#Fuente. TusbuenasNoticias obtenido de https://www.tusbuenasnoticias.com/noticias/2020/04/25/6448-pelicula-hasta-el-ultimo-hombre #:~:text=Hasta%20el%20%C3%BAltimo%20hombre%20nos #ayudar%20a%20una%20persona%20m%C3%A1s.

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digbysflesh · 5 months

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#04/2020 #2020

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lowresxisuma · 1 year

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#xisuma #pov: Xisuma #hermitcraft season 7 #16/04/2020 #beesuma

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zef-zef · 3 months

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Heejin Jang - Faithful from: Heejin Jang - Consistency (dingn_dents, 2023)

#2020s #South Korea #Heejin Jang #Electronic #Electroacoustic #Noise #Field Recording #Sound Art #Experimental #women in electronic music #dingn_dents #2023 #week 04 2024 #Bandcamp

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 months

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“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:

https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html

I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. Wired was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.

This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:

https://mamot.fr/@[email protected]/111528162905209453

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.

But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to external actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who can know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe chose to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its customers paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is Adobe's fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.

This keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money cancelling completed movies and TV shows and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:

https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership

Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.

The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this today? Absolute flaming garbage.

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Image: Alan Levine (modified) https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

#pluralistic #playstation #sony #copyright #copyfight #drm #monopoly #enshittification #batgirl #road runner #financiazation #the end of ownership #ip

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