Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Mass protest in Hungary over child-abuse case

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68323361?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

#stem #Science #engineering #geology #spiffy #Minnesota

*high squeaky voice* Top of the 48 states trying to tap helium deposit

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/babbitt-minnesota-helium/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Mexico saw a huge increase in migrants from Africa and Venezuela in 2023, authorities say

Mexican authorities say they saw a huge increase in the number of migrants from Africa and Venezuela entering the country in 2023 #press

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/mexico-ap-venezuela-africa-central-america-b2497796.html?utm_source=press.coop

Go-Saga, 88th Emperor of #Japan, abdicated the throne to his son OTD in 1246, becoming a cloistered Emperor https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/empress-jingu.html?s=mb #travel #history

Dissident directors hold up 'mirror' to Iranian women's desire

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240216-dissident-directors-hold-up-mirror-to-iranian-women-s-desire

Biden calls train crash ‘act of greed’ in visit to East Palestine  | The Hill

https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/4473664-biden-calls-train-crash-act-of-greed-in-visit-to-east-palestine/

Maybe an unpopular opinion but linking masks so intensely to covid specifically and not larger disease control in general was, and continues to be, a huge mistake. Obviously masking became much more common with the rise of covid in the U.S. and other places, but it's been a known - and used, form of disease prevention elsewhere for 100 years.

Tying masking to covid freaks out the people who are too in denial about covid to actually do anything about it - a wall immediately goes up before an interaction has even happened. It also misses the point that they're useful for other things - it raises the level of diseases in general that are going around. And maybe most importantly, it creates an entire culture of masks as symbols rather than as actually useful tools. When people see masks as a symbol of fear, a reminder of death or a difficult time in their life, or a sign that someone must be sick to be wearing one and so should be avoided, it creates a much more difficult terrain to build solidarity or even just effectively communicate. The practical use case has been replaced with concepts for many people - and that shift has a high body count.

The things you see when you aren't looking, eh?

#Trump #GoFundMe

Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404364
#hackernews #tech

Lately when I download from apt I've been getting speeds in the vicinity of 50k/s to 100k/s, on fiber. I don't seem to have this kind of speed issue with any internet service other than apt. Any idea what could be happening?

Labour’s Gen Kitchen overturns 19,000 Tory majority to win Wellingborough by-election

Labour figures believe the win puts Sir Keir Starmer on course for a 1997-style general election landslide #press

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-wellingborough-byelection-gen-kitchen-b2497064.html?utm_source=press.coop

here''s the net map made by AE5ZA

#hamradio #feldhell

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Source: #EUMETSAT

Rongorongo, the Easter Island Language, May Be Unique and Older Than Previously Thought - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/easter-island-rongorongo-discovery

#History #Culture #Languages #Rongorongo #EasterIsland #RapaNui

Matt Taibbi Posts Unhinged Messages from Elon Musk

https://www.mediaite.com/tech/you-are-dead-to-me-twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-posts-unhinged-messages-from-elon-musk/

I used to run a site called rss-extensions.org

Thankfully, the internet archive exists: https://web.archive.org/web/20060831071420/http://rss-extensions.org/wiki/Main_Page

There were so many!

Ask Mr. Peabody to run you to the store for milk and eggs.

#AnnoyAFictionalCharacter #HashTagGames

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn't think they would have more than 3 contestants)

Missing Woman in Shawnigan Lake, BC - Jessie Jeffrey, 35 - #BC #ShawniganLake
https://missingpeople.ca/missing-woman-in-shawnigan-lake-bc-jessie-jeffrey-35/?feed_id=28789&_unique_id=65cedf03dcd86