DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org
Nature lover in Decatur, GA, USA. Interested in the sciences and science education. Science is a practical philosophy to be shared with all, not a commodity to be owned and sold.
Joined Aug 2018
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The redoubtable Ben Collins -- one of the best in the business - just came aboard Mastodon. You should follow him immediately. @oneunderscore__
(I'll put together a list of tech reporters and post it soon.)
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It never was the time to stop.
It’s Time to Wear a Mask Again, Health Experts Say https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/well/covid-flu-rsv-masks-tripledemic.html?smid=tw-share
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"Parents of students with disabilities in Virginia public schools have won a major legal dispute, winning the right to require mask-wearing by teachers and students to help protect their children against COVID-19."
Yes! 👏👏👏
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Three episodes of our "On Auschwitz" podcast explain the history of development of the Auschwitz system. Listen to head of our Research Center Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz talking about:
🔹 Beginnigs of the Auschwitz concentration camp
🔹 Construction of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and development of mass extermination in gas chambers
🔹 Auschwitz III-Monowitz
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-9-Auschwitz-III-Monowitz-camp-e17o9si
#Auschwitz #history #podcast #education #ww2 #Holocaust @histodons
Here is the US DOE statement about fusion achievement at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achieving-fusion-ignition
#fusion #science #energy
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Kiddo went back to school today after 7 class days out. *This* is why there is "learning loss": kids (and teachers) out sick. Ventilation & universal masking can significantly reduce illness, but one-way masking alone doesn't cut it.
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"Out of 100 avatars I generated, 16 were topless, and in another 14 it had put me in extremely skimpy clothes... I have Asian heritage...My white female colleague got significantly fewer sexualized images. Another colleague with Chinese heritage got results similar to mine."
Incredibly important story from Melissa Heikkilä about how the viral AI avatar app Lensa repeatedly undressed her without her consent, and its grotesque fetish for Asian women.
"Why Conservatives invented a 'right to post'". By Adam Sewver at the Atlantic.
immigration rhetoric
@austinkocher Ironically, I came across this story because I looked at trending topics on 'Twitter' and clicked on 'invasion'. These pictures of the Fox news 'invasion' were placed right next to the pictures from the real invasion of Ukraine.
immigration rhetoric
@austinkocher I watched a Fox News story about the border today -- they were using words like "invasion", "overwhelmed" and "hammered" while showing pictures of people calmly getting in and out of vehicles or standing in lines to enter a building. What are the 'facts' there -- the pictures, or the narrative. How many people actually care about facts?
#immigration #invasion #Fox #progpaganda
@Flatulenator I never said that QAnon = Republican. I said that Musk pointed the QAnon people at Roth by dishonestly suggesting that Roth is a groomer. Either way, both QAnon and Republican voters are just tools for people like Musk and Trump.
@Flatulenator Musk did not simply accuse Roth of doing a bad job, he suggested that Roth approved of sexual relationships between teenagers and adults.
@Flatulenator Trump lied to gather an angry mob in front of Congress, telling them that he could stay in power if Congress/VP decided to ignore the election results. This was the same crowd that had rioted in DC in December 2020 (organized by the same people).
@collectedoverspread Why are you planning to use CW more? Is it to fit in better with the wider Mastodon world? I haven't seen them used much in my experience (but I think wrapping the above essay was appropriate, due to its length and it being a public post.).
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Liao Yiwu: "a female student dressed in black wearing a black mask held up a piece of blank white paper in front of her chest and stood silently before the steps of the Drum Tower at the center of the Nanjing Communication University campus. A cold wind was blowing, but she remained motionless as a statue. After a while, a political counselor ran over and took the blank paper from her hands. A passer-by asked, "Blank paper is no threat. Why take it away?"
The student remained motionless, holding the superfluous "blank paper" in both her hands."
@Flatulenator I'm talking about literal mobs attacking congress (Trump) and Q-anon freaks driving a former Twitter employee into hiding with threats (Musk). Not idiots having a hard time finding someone to publish their BS.
Trump and Musk think they can sic their dogs on people without any consequences for themselves.
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I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.
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ICYMI: Trailblazing Black feminist organizer, advocate, and social entrepreneur (before there was such a thing) Dorothy Pittman Hughes who among her many accomplishments co-founded Ms Magazine has died at age 84. May she Rest in Power with the ancestors #blackmastodon #feminism #progressivepolitics #advocacy https://www.essence.com/culture/dorothy-pitman-hughes-obituary/
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Birdsite- QElanon Musk- Yoel Roth forced to flee home. 🧵
1/ DESPICABLE, PREDICTABLE AND INTENTIONAL: CNN. Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him, culminating in Melon appearing to endorse a baseless accusation that Roth was sympathetic to paedophilia.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html
Nature lover in Decatur, GA, USA. Interested in the sciences and science education. Science is a practical philosophy to be shared with all, not a commodity to be owned and sold.
Joined Aug 2018
