To the editor of the LA Times, in regard to this article,
To quote David Beckham, please be honest about the “effects” of the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strikes. Those strikes did not cause the current slowdown in productions.
Tag: <span>Social contract</span>
Published May 29, 2024 by CZ Edwards
Published April 17, 2024 by CZ Edwards
Opening monologue:
This is Free City.
Look at this guy. He’s one of the sunglasses people.
And the people who wear sunglasses? Are heroes.
They have a devil-may-care attitude and they run this town.
Bombshell:You are so hot.
Revenjamin Buttons, dropping into driver’s seat: Oh, I know.
See? That’s not even his car. Or his wife.
For the sunglasses people, they get to do anything they want.
They go on all sorts of missions, they got cool hair, cool clothes.
I mean, laws aren’t really laws to them.They’re more like mild suggestions.
Like, I don’t think he’s gonna return that car.
Or that nice lady.
See what I mean? Hero.
Published April 24, 2022 by CZ Edwards
Was 1918 better equipped for a pandemic? Quite possibly yes, despite having almost no medical interventions once people did get sick. They barely had oxygen, no antibiotics, steroids or bronchodilators. What they did have, we haven’t been able to rebuild.
This is a partner piece with Luxuries Bought With Others’ Lives.
Published November 27, 2021 by CZ Edwards
Originally a Twitter thread.
From Slate: Elena Kagan warns the Supreme Court’s new California COVID decision may kill people.
This is why we lack time for a 180 day thinking period on the USSC. 5 members are radical hard right Catholics. They are extremist activists far outside of mainstream.
Published September 14, 2020 by CZ Edwards
Twitter thread/ minor grammatical fixes included for clarity. The twitter thread was an off-the-cuff first draft, not polished.
Trafficking?
1) It applies WAY more to the guys at Home Depot you hire for $30/day to tear out the weeds, not children.
2) And the women who sew all the cheap crap you wear.
3) And the people who pick your vegetables.
4) And teens thrown out of their parents’ home & forced into sex work to eat.
Published September 13, 2020 by CZ Edwards
Originally a Twitter thread.
The single class of people most likely to sexually abuse a child: their step-parent.
The call is coming from inside the house, not the elected official 10 states away.
The person your kid didn’t trust but you married anyway?
About that…
Published June 15, 2020 by CZ Edwards
This was originally a Twitter thread, posted on Sunday, June 14.
Did you know that your local police probably has a publicly accessible blotter or call log?
Yes, you can see exactly what your police do with your tax money.
Published March 25, 2020 by CZ Edwards
Originally a Twitter thread, posted on March 25, 2020 (minor edits for clarity)
It’s no secret that I orbit Ursula LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. I read it first when I was 11 or 12. It started my relationship with ethics, utilitarianism, pro-social responsibility, …everything. I love it & hate it. (It’s short.)
Published July 18, 2018 by CZ Edwards
Rien’s world exists because of a vague idea I once had. When Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it only destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. But Mt Vesuvius has the potential to be a much worse eruption, then and now. It’s 150 miles/242km from Pompeii to Rome. Ash fell from Mount St Helens over 7 states. What if, instead of destroying two cities, Vesuvius destroyed Rome as an empire? What if Vesuvius went worst case scenario – a Mt Tambora or a Yellowstone caldera? When Yellowstone goes, there’s a good chance that Salt Lake City, Boise and Spokane will cease to exist, and Seattle, Denver and Portland may not be far behind. It’s 500 miles/800km from Denver to Yellowstone.
Published July 10, 2018 by CZ Edwards
This was originally a Twitter thread, but with the death of Twitter and its slow zombification into an Ayn Rand Hellscape, the thread no longer exists. I wrote it in July of 2018 (and have lightly edited it for clarity in 2024).
Usually when people write connections like that, we’re talking conspiracy theories. But nope, this is just corporate evil and exploitation in the name of profit.