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Arts, writing | Exploded View artist | MFA Poetry UMassAmherst | Grants Developer in Higher Ed | farmer | former ME newspapers

 Massachusetts, USA
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The Shoestring@the_shoestring1 May 2023
"There is mounting evidence that Lorna McMurrey’s death could be part of a systemic problem with working conditions for many in the cannabis industry." Here's our feature by @dustyc123 on working in the weed industry co-published with @thenation. theshoestring.org/2023/05/01…

Growing Danger: The Dark Side of Working in the Weed Industry

A Holyoke cannabis worker's jobsite death points to safety issues in the booming industry.

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Holy shit, this story.
charley burlock@Charley_Burlock21 Dec 2022
“Grief is built into the infrastructure of our lives," @Charley_Burlock writes. "We may cross it every day, but we never get over it" theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv… 280 characters are nowhere near enough to thank everyone I need to. In the meantime, thanks to @TheAtlantic for the trust

Why Is It So Easy to Jump Off a Bridge?

Better design could prevent so many suicides.

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I am glad to see this piece.
Kerri Arsenault@KerriArsenault22 Dec 2022
.@Sarah_Smarsh on undervalued lives, for the @nytimes xoxox nytimes.com/2022/12/21/opini…

Opinion | What Growing Up on a Farm Taught Me About Humility (Published 2022)

Growing up on a farm in rural Kansas, I learned to see through the many false narratives of supremacy that govern our society.

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Thank you to @EthanZ and @prospect_uk for this thoughtful piece on AI and art. The notion that AI could somehow replace art is baffling to me, because the human experience of art is at least as much in the making as in the taking, 1/2 prospectmagazine.co.uk/scien…
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even if more people take in art than make it. I don't imagine a perfect future where life is boiled down to doing nothing because a machine has learned to do it for me. The pleasures these tools are giving people are in new ways to play & make, not bc they replace anything. 2/2
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Andrew Varnon@SachemHead16 Oct 2022
“A Final Brooklyn,” by Brion DuLac. jstor.org/stable/41104255 – at Greenfield, MA

A Final Brooklyn | JSTOR

BRION DULAC, A Final Brooklyn, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 52, No. 1, SPRING 2011

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The Associated Press
@AP14 Oct 2022
The trial of two brothers charged in the car-bomb assassination of a Maltese journalist who investigated corruption in the tiny island nation began Friday, nearly five years after the slaying that sent shockwaves across Europe. apnews.com/article/journalis…

2 men get 40 years each for Malta reporter's car-bomb murder

A judge in Malta has sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison each after they pleaded guilty to the car-bomb murder of an anti-corruption journalist.

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Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 16 years ago today. From her book "A Small Corner of Hell":
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GaslitNation@gaslitnation5 Oct 2022
This week we interview author/lawyer @DavidPepper. Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy—a trend across the US. He explains how we got here and what can still be done about it, and offers reasons and strategies to fight like hell: patreon.com/posts/laboratori…

Laboratories of Autocracy: The David Pepper Interview | Gaslit Nation

David Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy where extreme Republican gerrymandering ensures that the results of the

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Shoutout to Room Project in Detroit, to Kiley Reid, Rochelle Marrett, & @racheldewoskin for the #BookTheVote reading in celebration of #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! #VoteReady @NatlVoterRegDay
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If your cycling infrastructure isn’t good enough for them, it isn’t good enough. – at Delft, Nederland
Two young girls ride on bicycles with pink backpacks inside wicker front baskets on a red brick street in Delft.

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Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at least 8 have been killed. Last night, I planned to ask President Raisi about all this and much more. 1/7
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Spotted on 95S: some Orange Line cars headed to a farm upstate (a scrapyard in Middleborough to get torn apart)
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Happy birthday to electronic music pioneer @LaurieSpiegel. Here she is in 1977 performing “Improvisation on a ‘Concerto Generator,’” which she described as "one of the earliest examples of purely digital realtime audio synthesis.”
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On this day in 2011, Occupy Wall Street began in New York City's Zuccotti Park. The movement shaped over a decade of dramatic protests and radical politics. inthesetimes.com/article/occ…

Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War

How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course.

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"It is very bad in America to be right too early." vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/…
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📢We're excited to announce our new #BookTheVote partner: @MilwaukeePubLib! Check out their National Voter Registration Day Mini Carnival, where @jackilyden will be representing WDA at Central Library. Come celebrate democracy, and bring friends and family!
L: smiling people stand in front of chalkboard with "VOTE!" on it R: National Voter Registration Day Mini Carnival Tuesday, September 20 2-4 p.m. Milwaukee Public Library Central Library 814 W. Wisconsin Ave. Good Hope Branch 7715 W. Good Hope Rd. Mitchell Street Branch 906 W. Historic Mitchell St. Washington Park Branch 2121 N. Sherman Blvd. Celebrate democracy with Milwaukee Public Library! Everyone is an eligible voter in our mock election. Exercise your right to choose your favorite Wisconsin food and sports team, then test your knowledge of voting, Wisconsin’s electoral process and its history, and take a turn at our prize wheel! Volunteers from League of Women Voters will be on hand to answer questions about voting, eligibility, and access to the polls. Exercise your rights and help inform your community this National Voter Registration Day. Special thanks to The Kroger Company. Visit www.mpl.org/ada for information on ADA program accommodation requests. 2022

ALT L: smiling people stand in front of chalkboard with "VOTE!" on it R: National Voter Registration Day Mini Carnival Tuesday, September 20 2-4 p.m. Milwaukee Public Library Central Library 814 W. Wisconsin Ave. Good Hope Branch 7715 W. Good Hope Rd. Mitchell Street Branch 906 W. Historic Mitchell St. Washington Park Branch 2121 N. Sherman Blvd. Celebrate democracy with Milwaukee Public Library! Everyone is an eligible voter in our mock election. Exercise your right to choose your favorite Wisconsin food and sports team, then test your knowledge of voting, Wisconsin’s electoral process and its history, and take a turn at our prize wheel! Volunteers from League of Women Voters will be on hand to answer questions about voting, eligibility, and access to the polls. Exercise your rights and help inform your community this National Voter Registration Day. Special thanks to The Kroger Company. Visit www.mpl.org/ada for information on ADA program accommodation requests. 2022

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The Associated Press
@AP12 Sep 2022
A spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence claims that Russian troops are surrendering en masse as Ukraine reclaim a wide swath of territory. Ukraine is running out of space to accommodate the POWs, a presidential adviser said. apnews.com/article/russia-uk…

Ukraine reclaims more territory, reports capturing many POWs

Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains by pushing all the way back to the country’s northeastern border in places.

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The Associated Press
@AP12 Sep 2022
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Yet even amid Ukraine’s ebullience, the casualties kept mounting. Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday that at least four civilians were killed and 11 others were wounded in a series of Russian attacks.
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Wendy Wason@Wendy_Wason9 Sep 2022
This should cheer you up @Faybe1989. My friend went to Wales and checked into her Air BnB and look who was waiting for her….
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