I would never, ever do that, though. Because I'm not Hegseth-level mess.

a substantial section on the history of Eastman Kodak.

Back in the day, Kodak was a seriously creepy company, because of how ridiculously hypercompetent they were when they set their sights on something. They had to repeatedly be smacked down by government trustbusters.

If you have a little spare time, you might want to check out this amazing 1938 Kodak industrial film, which is creepy, and beautiful, and obviously influenced by Man With a Movie Camera.

Congratulations to Emmett!

I’m at a two hour softball practice with ltc because TCG works late on Tuesdays. I’m thinking of getting myself this [link] for the games this season.

erika, not in any way bothered, in fact, the opposite. I may not have anything that feels useful to say, is what. Which is kind of how I'm feeling about most things these days truthfully.

100% what Jen said!

Though also...

ND, even if we arranged that, right here, right now? Still smarter than that Signal bullshit.

*snerk*

Believe it or not, I didn't say anything before because I didn't know what kind of responses to look for. Dumber than white drug dealers, for serious,

Looks like a student was arrested on campus today.

What I know: there were some obvious rage-baiters there earlier today, with signs like "Women Are Property" and "Muslims Are Terrorists" and "The Jews Killed Jesus." When I went by, and stopped to see what was going on, there was a crowd of students around them (they were up on a sort of porch in front of a campus building), but most of the students were standing well back and watching with "WTF?" looks on their faces. One or two went up on the porch thing to heckle them, but those students looked like they knew what they were doing -- not directly engaging, just standing about ten feet away and shouting their own stuff to the crowd. There were several cops watching the whole scene, but not doing anything.

Several hours later, there's news that a student was arrested. People are saying it's because he was carrying a Palestinian flag -- I wasn't there, so I don't know everything that happened. There's a video of the arrest, and it's in that same location, and one of the sign-carrying guys (not carrying his sign, but definitely the same guy) is standing just a few feet away. People are organizing a protest now at the jail where the student is being held. I don't know what's going on, but this is getting tense.

Got some more info about the student who was arrested. At the time I went by, there were some students from Student for Justice in Palestine having a fundraiser nearby -- they had a table set up and were selling cups of chai to raise money for medical care in Gaza. Apparently one of those guys went up to where the sign guys were and started waving the Palestinian flag in front of them, and allegedly shoved one of them. (I have no idea if he actually did or not.) The police told him to stop, and he didn't, and they arrested him. There's video of like four officers tackling him, while whoever was filming keeps shouting at him, "Stop resisting! Baby, I know it's hard, but you have to stop resisting!"

I'm sorry, Hil. That sounds stressful.

In better news, Elon Musk lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. By a significant margin.

The GOP won the 2 open house seats in Florida, but by much smaller margins than Trump won those districts.

And Cory Booker made an amazing speech.

In sadder news, apparently Val Kilmer died.

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