A combination of two factors led to my having forgotten, today, that Pattern Recognition mentions the Curta calculator having been designed in Buchenwald: (1) I haven’t fully reread PR since writing it, (2) septuagenarian CRS. (Can’t Remember Shit, alas.)

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Wonder why Mayor Frey hasn’t spoke at these rallies like St. Paul Mayors Her & Carter, Former Mpls Mayor Rybak, Bernie Sanders, Jane Fonda, MN Senate Majority Leader Murphy, Senators Klobuchar and Tina Smith, AG Ellison, Rep Omar, Bruce Springsteen, Gov Tim Walz and Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan have?

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Istg I thought “so a janitor deserves a living wage? Oh so someone who works at McDonald’s deserves to feed themselves?” Was only some shit libertarians and Nazissaid 26 years ago

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Hey, all bickering can be ended with “every job deserves a living wage regardless of your power rankings of who doesn’t deserve it and servile fantasies of tech replacing people which only serves invisiblizing devaluing and deskilling labor”

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the news about modern times closing has me feeling so, so sad. truly my mpls home.

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