Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Sweeping layoffs across Big Tech over the past two years have left a permanent impression on leaders and workers.

The experience is likely to reset expectations for many in the industry that haven't experienced prior down cycles. https://t.co/qXyRFQvuB9

"In the great days of the Arab navigators, Arab dhows covered the Eastern sea: now it was half a century since one had rounded the southern tip of Ceylon. Ancient methods, the old instruments, the old mathematics—in which the Arabs had so long excelled—all these were lost and nothing had come to take their places, nothing but discarded steamship compasses bought in a junk yard in Bombay, and uncorrected out-of-date Admiralty charts."

"Ibn Majid, according to Nejdi, was an Arab from the Persian Gulf, possibly from somewhere on the Hasa coast. He had been a famous pilot, and his safe conduct of Vasco da Gama from Africa to Calicut was the only crime against him. The Portuguese, however, had made him do that: Nejdi said he was a hostage delivered by the Sheikh of Malindi, when da Gama had so harassed the town that only an offer of safe pilotage to India would induce him to leave."

"The man they honored was not da Gama or any other Portuguese, but the famous Arab pilot Ibn Majid who had, they said, shown him the way from Malindi to Calicut. They would have honored Ibn Majid more if he had thrown da Gama’s fleet on the shoals of the Laccadive Islands. Why indeed he did not tdo this they could not understand, for he could have done it easily enough."

"According to Nejdi, the man was not even a sailor, and as for the voyage, it was merely an overpublicized piece of carefully exploited good fortune. The success of the voyage to India, he said, had been made possible by the use of Arab pilots who were compelled to show the Portuguese the way, for they came in their well-armed ships and forced the Arabs to pilot them. Nejdi and the others spoke about da Gama’s voyage as if it were a comparatively recent event."

“[Talking about how Vasco da Gama was forced to abandon and burn one of his vessels] According to Nejdi, who like most Arab nakhodas had a wide, if not very accurate, knowledge of the history of the Indian Ocean, it would have been a better world if the Portuguese had burned all his ships …, and himself with them. Nejdi saw nothing remarkable in Vasco da Gama’s voyage, and a great deal to be regretted.”

I'm reading a book about traditional Arab sailing ships in the 1930's

“… the total number of persons officially onboard… [was] 131. Actually there may have been 150. [Captain] Nejdi and all the Arabs hated these official accountings. Even if he had tried to have them all correct, they would still have been wrong. He did not try at all, and the more wrong they were the better he was pleased."

How 2024 will bring a reckoning between Trump perception and reality https://www.rawstory.com/trump-reality/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mandiant’s account on X hacked to push cryptocurrency scam - The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hij... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mandiants-account-on-x-hacked-to-push-cryptocurrency-scam/ #cryptocurrency #security

LOL. #NeverNikki
Nikki Haley Is So Unhinged She Renamed Her Husband https://newrepublic.com/post/177857/nikki-haley-unhinged-renamed-husband

TIL that Bisons were in millions up until the beginning of 20th century, the reason was because European settlers and US governments were systematically working on slaughtering them, as a strategy of displacement to enforce native americans to leave.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/american-buffalo-spirit-of-a-nation-introduction/2183/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18xxwyt/til_that_bisons_were_in_millions_up_until_the/

Molecular #jackhammers’ ‘good vibrations’ eradicate #cancer cells https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/molecular-jackhammers-good-vibrations-eradicate-cancer-cells “found that the atoms of a small dye molecule used for medical imaging can vibrate in unison ⎯ forming what is known as a #plasmon ⎯ when stimulated by #NearInfrared light, causing the cell membrane of cancerous cells to rupture….the method had a 99 percent efficiency against lab cultures of human melanoma cells, and half of the mice with melanoma tumors became cancer-free after treatment.”

This is a powerful statement worth reading in full

Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me

#Harvard #ClaudineGay #PresidentGay

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/claudine-gay-harvard-president.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K00.ZRex.1VDSbiKXUv0m&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share

Does anyone happen to know if / where a pregnant person can get ABRYSVO™, the RSV vaccine, in Canada? (And specifically, Alberta?)

This federal government site says it's been authorized for use "from 32 through 36 weeks gestational age" but I've seen little other info about it:

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/canadian-immunization-guide-part-4-active-vaccines/respiratory-syncytial-virus.html

#canada #alberta #vaccines #vaccine #rsv #health #publichealth

You don't ever really buy a laundry basket for your laundry, do you?

#cats #catsofMastodon #feliverse #CCR #scifiacat

"It appears that the New York Times manipulated a working-class Mizrahi family in the service of Israeli hasbara in order to score a journalistic achievement, which in reality is nothing more than a repetition of fake news and government propaganda."

#Mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/family-of-key-case-in-new-york-times-october-7-sexual-violence-report-renounces-story-says-reporters-manipulated-them/ @israel

#NYT #hasbara #scoop #fakeNews #propaganda #postFactual #lies #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #October7 #GalAbdush #systematicRape #sexualViolence #warRape #Mizrahi #ethnicity #Jewry #israel #Gettleman

Jan 3 EWE: Emissions — https://metalink.media/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fplayer%2Fplay%2F2296472643508&fbclid=IwAR3yw8pd9pYdCgQ8M8CzfnfEfAq96V4M5mfgGxw3c2a1B_zdZISstTuQ71E #ClimateCrisis

confusion levels are holding at 84%

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The only holiday you don't know is a holiday till it's already over is a mass shooting holiday.

Pfizer said on Wednesday that Canada's health regulator approved its gene therapy for the treatment of a rare inherited bleeding disorder called hemophilia B ahead of a U.S. decision. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pfizer-gene-therapy-hemophilia-1.7073294 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/CBCNews/status/1742667305358696775#m