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These volunteers want to be infected with disease to aid research — will their altruism help? An advocacy group is pushing for more ‘human challenge’ trials to spur vaccine discovery. Following COVID-19 and Zika studies, hepatitis C could be next. nature.com/articles/d41586-023

The description of what children (children!) endured is heartbreaking. I pray for their healing. But for sure, this trauma which they did nothing to deserve except for being born Jewish will last a lifetime.

Hamas forced hostage kids to watch videos of Oct. 7 atrocities, family member says

timesofisrael.com/hamas-forced

The full video is available now: vod.newellijay.tv/videos/watch

It's still transcoding, so give it a few minutes.

This is a #scifi film serial from 1918 starring Harry Houdini as he solves crimes about Cyborgs.

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Staff make the call when it comes to deciding what's age-appropriate at their libraries. In Idaho, an organization called Parents Against Bad Books claims parents should have a say, while in Washington State, a proposal would require libraries to use a system like the one used by the movie industry, and in Florida, there's a formal challenge process under the "Don't Say Gay" law. NPR breaks down the situation.

flip.it/z-60GL

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Libraries

‘It should never have happened’: death of boy, 16, at sawmill highlights rise of child labour in US

Michael Schuls died after getting trapped in dangerous machinery at a mill in Wisconsin.

But across the US conservative groups are pushing to loosen laws that protect children in the workplace

theguardian.com/global-develop

PLEASE!
"Trump technically did not swear an oath to "support" the Constitution. Instead, during his January 2017 inauguration, Trump swore to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution during his role as president"

Donald Trump Says He Never Swore Oath 'to Support the Constitution'

newsweek.com/donald-trump-oath

“The tool can automatically make changes to source code so developers have less work to do, Selipsky said.”

Wait, what? Malleable, empowered chatbots are arriving long before we have protections in place for them. Also, how do you protect a production system when you don’t know why code changes are happening?

cnbc.com/2023/11/28/amazon-ann

Dr Reed Timmer still watching a Tornado threat Thursday in Southern Texas.
#TXwx
2024 Tornado outlook:
youtu.be/82fNaGA7Mss?feature=s

@keithwilson
And well you should be concerned given the pseudocience that is philosophy in the first place.

Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ warmest on record

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to October

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