#Rob Beschizza

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6th cop suspended from Memphis force over Tyre Nichols killing It turns out a sixth cop participated in the beating and murder of Tyre Nichols. According to KSDK News, he pulled Nichols from the car, tased him, and is the voice you hear saying "I hope they stomp his ass." — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/30/6th-cop-suspended-from-memphis-force-over-tyre-nichols-killing.html

#Post #Video #bad cops #crime #law #police #quidni bacchor #tyre nichols #Rob Beschizza #Boing Boing

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"Unity isn't a game engine. It's a advertising and malware network that merged with a popular game engine as a delivery channel and now wears its corpse as its skin"

-Rob Beschizza

#unity #rent seeking #games #enshittification

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(SNORT)

#Jorge Luis Borges #ish

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By Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing

May 28, 2023

A More Perfect Union, "Media that builds power for working people," released this video, narrated by Andrew Rivera, investigating the people and organizations behind the Super-PAC No Labels. Arizona Senator Kirsten Sinema is one of the primary recipients to benefit from these fundraising efforts. In December 2022, Sinema announced leaving the Democratic party to run as an Independent. No Labels, "a guilded cabal of dark money," appears to be her sugar-PAC even as polls indicate her bid would be a non-entity.

"A group calling themselves "No Labels" has suddenly emerged as a huge financial backer of Kyrsten Sinema. They're also floating the idea of running Joe Manchin for President. We dug into them and found a whole lot of billionaires with a history of opposing democracy."

No Labels is not a new organization. Founded in 2009, "No Labels has worked tirelessly to give a voice to America's commonsense majority. We've made a notable impact in Congress by creating the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus and connecting them with an allied Senate group through regular bicameral meetings." Innocuous enough if you believe that elites have any other interest in mind except reproducing the conditions of their success and dominance.

According to Rivera, the money trail of No Labels runs from "Aspen to luxury resorts, jaunts to Europe, and undisclosed locations in Washington, D.C., to discover a deeper story of who is really behind No Labels and what is in it for them." The villainous characters involved include owners of the private equity firms like Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Louis Bacon of Moore Capital Management, Trump backer Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners, and James Rupert Murdoch, heir to the FOX fortune. Other No Labels contributors include the Consumer Technology Association, Chambers of Commerce, Nazi-memorabilia hoarder Harlon Crow, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's GOP sugar daddy.

When Sinema was first elected to Congress in 2012, she was available to constituents at open town hall-type meetings. Now, it seems the entry fee to talk to this elected public official is in the millions as she has broken up with the constituencies that put her in office in the first place.

"If Sinema plays spoiler for Democrats, handing the race and maybe the Senate to Republicans, it would guarantee that their tax breaks continue. Considering their net worth, cutting some checks to Kirsten Sinema is probably the safest bet in D.C."

The remainder of the video explores Sinema's recent voting record and how it dovetails with the interest of billionaires and their ilk, i.e., people who aspire to be wealthy. That is the rub of capitalism: you do not have to be rich to believe in and support policies and ideologies that reinforce the class position of elites, a desire groomed by the bootstrap narrative of meritocratic order and effort – you know, the Little Engine that Could – trickle down on others.

CA Knowledge recently reported Senator Sinema's worth is $11 million, while Newsweek has debunked that claim. Power is not only money. According to the New York Times, Sinema is a party of one.

#no labels #kyrsten sinema

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Google shows off AI “news article” writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting boingboing.net/2023/07/2…

Rob Beschizza: Google is “pitching a tool to _rewrite _news that’s _already _been published” and the target market is the publishers who originally paid for creating that news.

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MicropolisJS:

original Sim City clone in the browser

original Sim City clone in the browser ROB BESCHIZZA  9:37 AM MON MAR 7, 2022 MicropolisJS (itself based on the C# Micropolis) is a free, browser-based clone of the original 2D, top-down city planning propaganda game Sim City. I immediately got sucked in; my screenshot represents the point of snapping out of it and getting back to work! [via Hacker News] SOURCE:…

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#browser #fun #gaming #internet #javascript #js #lightweight #sim city #Video Games

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#IFTTT #Pocket

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Here’s a photoshopped version of public domain NASA concept artwork by Rick Guidice, made by Rob Beschizza to illustrate a 2015 Boing Boing essay by Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Our Generation Ships Will Sink’

#rick guidice #nasa #photoshopped #Rob Beschizza

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Hide! Sing the song in your hearts—but quietly, lest humanity harm once again the spirit that guides it."

Rob Beschizza in a forward to The Complete Elfquest Vol 1

#Rob Beschizza #quotes #Elfquest #comics 2021 #comics

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https://boingboing.net/2019/07/30/100-millions-playstation-4-con.html

#ps4 #Playstation #Playstation 4 #Sony #Photoshop #Boing Boing #Technology #Retro #Video Games #Gaming #Beschizza #Rob Beschizza

[biglisbonnews]

Great article about the "ill-fated" Apple Lisa, 40 years later Apple's Lisa computer introduced many of the desktop UI conventions we're still working with decades later, but as a single-user machine with an inflation-adjusted $30,000 price tag, it was doomed to colleges and the fanciest graphic design shops. At Ars Technica, Jeremy Reimer reviews a computer that was forgotten within years but which deserves to be more widely remembered. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/20/great-article-about-the-ill-fated-apple-lisa-40-years-later.html

#Post #apple #apple lisa #computers #GUIs #Rob Beschizza #Boing Boing

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"Their brains are basically a shredded heap of Gor novels and Dark Enlightenment memes, topped with Amazon Basics prepper nutrient mix." -Rob Beschizza

#preppers

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#this really is the ultimate are you fucking kidding me image #dreamcatcher #wtf #navajo independent #facebook #rob beschizza #beschizza #tumblingtumbleleaves

[mitchipedia]

Florida woman who waved gun at McDonald’s was still angry after they gave her the free cookie she wanted | Boing Boing (Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing)

“Even after being given the free cookie, she remained irate…. ”

[verycleverboy]

Rush Limbaugh dead at 70

Choose your own path through this story. Option A (the closest thing you’ll get to an even-handed version, via CNN):

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative media icon who for decades used his perch as the king of talk-radio to shape the politics of both the Republican Party and nation, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.

Option B (the “tell us how you really feel” version, via Boing Boing):

Rush Limbaugh, the sex tourist and drug addict whose four marriages, mockery of people after their deaths and overt racism and misogyny made him a beloved icon of American conservatism, is dead at 70.[...]

Limbaugh, whose last notable act was to call for more political violence after the Jan. 6 sacking of the U.S. Capitol, also had a radio show and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

(I mean, that’s literally everything Rob Beschizza has to say, but if you’re curious, here’s the link anyway.)

Option B (part 2):

I have done my best to ignore the deceased in recent years, but it’s worth noting that Rush Limbaugh comes from a long line of mass media-era demagogues, only a handful of which most people can name once their days and times have passed. 

Very rarely, one of them takes the step to elected office after making a media footprint, graduating from being noisemakers into policy makers. Those guys might get a school or a highway named after them. But the rest of them are content to make money selling their audience’s nightmares back to them...with a suitable markup, of course. That’s how I choose to remember Rush.

Eventually, he will be forgotten, as will we all.

Huh. Dry eyes. Imagine that.

#Rush Limbaugh #hatemonger