Eva didn't particularly like the last school we visited

[conuly]

which is a pity, as I think it'd be great for her. But it's not an entire loss! They had a flyer up on a bulletin board about the Cooper Union Saturday program, which I didn't know about, and she's very interested in doing that next year.

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Comments

[chelseagirl]

I used to teach at Cooper Union, as an adjunct. I've only heard about the Saturday program in passing, but it was supposed to have been *amazing.*

[conuly]

Noted :)

[wpadmirer]

I like the mountaineering guide article! COOL! And the guy trying to cook in Antarctica were hysterical.

[conuly]

I know, those pics!

[siderea]

How the GOP Gave Up on Porn

This is fascinating, not least because of how utterly at odds it is with the facts I know about DHS's war on porn, under the cover of the war on terrorism. The federal government has been trying vigorously and largely in secret to shut down as much of the adult industry as they can get away with, by indirect means - they pressure the payment processors and banks, so they, in turn, refuse to do business with anybody the feds disapprove of.

Which nailed DW, itself, at one point. If nobody with process credit card payments for you because you have "adult content", then you can't stay in business. And there was a point at which DW had a lot of trouble finding a cc processor because of its no-censorship policy about fan fic.

ETA: And this was going on under Obama. This is not at all recent.

[redsixwing]

>>they, in turn, refuse to do business with anybody the feds disapprove of.<<

I work for a financial company; can corroborate.

There's been many a business whose processing was abruptly ceased after they were found to be selling items (or content) the processor didn't like. Industries usually glossed as selling "novelties" are at extreme risk every time they get a chargeback - and they're also more at risk of getting chargebacks, for instance because their DBA name is something bland and generic, like Fascinations operating as "Star Video."

>>This is not at all recent.<<

The first cases I can think of were under GW Bush only because that's when I started working in card processing, but it was a well-established practice well before that, and people treated it with the sort of unfortunate mundanity that accompanies things like unexpected hardware failures: a pain, but really, what do you expect?

The thought that this is a chosen thing, not an absolute, and the system doesn't have to work like that seems to be stifled wherever it might sneak into the light.

[wendelah1]

That dog video! ♥

[conuly]

I know! I just want to hug her and love her!