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Organizing in Michigan, once a union stronghold, has symbolic significance. […] Votes for the other Michigan locations are expected to be collected in the first week of June.

[Full article: Archive.today, 12ft Ladder]

This is a tragic moment in the history of America’s Finest News Source. Our reporters are deeply troubled by this unfounded attack on their principles, and many of them say they no longer recognize the website they live in.

Today I’m getting a lot of FetchError or 404 error messages when browsing midwest.social via the web. I get them on every other page load. Here’s a sample:

404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site

404: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'person')

404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site? reason: Unexpected end of JSON input

No idea if it’s the same in other Lemmy clients.

Is it just me or does anyone else see it too?

This investigative series offers an unprecedented look at the way local and federal law enforcement employed advanced technology tools to create a surveillance system for monitoring protests in the Minneapolis metro area in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. The system spread far beyond the confines of its publicly declared mission and it’s not going anywhere: by all indications, the system is built to last.

“He invented GIF all by himself — he actually did that at home and brought it into work after he perfected it,” his wife Kathaleen said. “He would figure out everything privately in his head and then go to town programming it on the computer.”

I hear Michiganders who say this is our thing, but I have a strong feeling that this isn’t exclusive to us.

Back in the early nineties, hardcore and jungle dominated the UK dance music scene. These massive tracks were created on limited hardware and computers you’d usually associate with playing games. Pete Cannon recreates an authentic jungle sound by combining modern technology with the original hardware used to create these tracks.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/75784