Don Pavlish
donpavlish.bsky.social
Don Pavlish
@donpavlish.bsky.social
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"Our technological power has outpaced our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

-MLK
May 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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People want to consume media that flatters them instead of challenging them, and there’s now a way to do that at scale, and that incentivizes the production of it. This synergizes well with something @opinionhaver.bsky.social said that has really stuck with me:
April 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.
This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...
February 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Ubuweb is restarting its archive to help “prevent the annihilation of the memory of the world” www.ubu.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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when things are happening faster than we can comprehend, think about this sewer that was built under Cleveland in 1873 and still being used today.
February 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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People told me that as I got older I’d get more right wing. I waited for it but it hasn’t happened

What has happened and is maybe the real journey for my generation is that the enthusiastic tech-utopianism of my 20s has been replaced by dead-eyed horror and the need to scream warnings however I can
*head desk*

*endless screaming*

*Gen X face*
February 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Carl Stokes was the first Black mayor of a major city when elected in 1967.

after the Cuyahoga River fire in 1969, his media blitz raised public awareness, advocacy that would be considered an early example of environmental justice. #BlackHistoryMonth

his story: neorsd.medium.com/sparking-cha...
February 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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1984 / 2025
January 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 8:29 PM