Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher...died hours after Los Angeles police repeatedly used a Taser on him and restrained him in the middle of the street following a traffic accident, according to body-camera footage released by authorities"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/12/keenan-anderson-police-taser-death-los-angeles/

"Video of the 1/3 incident in Venice, CA, shows Anderson being detained by multiple officers as he begs for his life shortly after a traffic collision. Body-cam footage shows an officer appearing to have his elbow on Anderson’s neck as he is detained in the middle of the road."

Fed Chair Powell’s solution to inflation is to clobber workers: “The labor market continues to be out of balance, with demand substantially exceeding the supply of available workers,” he says. But if the demand for workers exceeds the supply, isn’t the answer to pay workers more?

We've learned this lesson before: Absent strict protections, any sensors that collect data and footage about people will eventually become a tool of police surveillance--even self-driving cars. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras

I was tooting about scoop this a few days before the new year, hoping maybe Experian would see the wisdom or providing an on the record response. They never did.

Today's story includes a great quote from Sen. Ron Wyden, who told me Experian never responded to him either, in respond to his questions to them about my last scoop in re Experian (where they were letting ID thieves hijack existing Experian.com accounts by simply signing up as the target consumer using a different email address).

Here's the lede:

"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian's website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer's report. All that was needed was the person's name, address, birthday and Social Security number."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/

@NatureMC In my opinion, the obsession by some groups to define the #anthropocene in a pseudo-rigorous #stratigraphic sense completely misses the point Paul Crutzen was trying to make.
The real issue is to properly recognize the multiple and far-reaching impacts human activity has on our #planet - and then to start dealing with them coherently. Whether things got really bad in year X or year Y is a matter of curiosity but of limited relevance for the need to radically change trajectory.

ℹ️ DID YOU KNOW? A poorly ventilated classroom has similar effects on a child’s ability to concentrate as skipping breakfast.

Clean indoor air doesn’t just limit the spread of COVID-19, it’s good for growing brains.

🔗 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652ab722df11fcb2ba5d/t/60a3d1251fcec67243e91119/1621348646314/Safe+Work+TF+Desigining+infectious+disease+resilience+April+2021.pdf
#COVID19 #COVID

How COVID actively suppresses and evades your immune system [Part 2]

Part 2 looks at how mild and moderate #COVID infection reprograms white #blood cells (#monocytes) to reduce #innate #immune functions and how it evades the mucus layer in our #nose 🧵 1/

The one page web view is also available here: https://pingthread.com/thread/1612066649934290946

Never mind you can't ski in the Alps this winter. Think about the empty rivers in spring and all the failed harvests this summer all over Europe.

Hi folks! I'm a Guatemalan-American professor at Cornell who does community science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. 🧵

If you are interested in the CS and social science of digital social environments, algorithms, digital inclusion, virtue/ethics, & tech accountability, CAT Lab is your team!

(new instance, new #introduction)

From the dismal history of women's health care comes this 1949 paper on pain in labour.

Investigators burned the skin on participants' hands to try to get to the bottom of the question: how real are labour pains? 🧵

This will become a mega-thread. I will introduce one arctic-alpine plant species every day this year (or until my private photo archive runs out…).

These species are small and beautiful, fragile but hardy. Many are already endangered, and many will be losers in a warming world. Each one has earned our attention.

#ArcticAlpinePlants #Arctic #Alpine #Tundra #Wildflowers #Plants #biodiversity

Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, TX. She is the 1st African Am/Native Am aviator to receive a pilot's license. https://tinyl.io/7dok

She attended flight school in France & thrilled fans in the States while standing up to segregation.

Coleman inspired generations of African American aviators, incl. Tuskegee Airmen.

In 1992, Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison carried Coleman’s picture with her on her first mission in the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #History #Aviation

In his New Year Address at the end of what was likely the hottest year on record in France, with more than 10400 additional deaths during the summer's #heatwave, the #French president Emmanuel #Macron asks his people, without blinking, "Who could have predicted the climate crisis?" https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2023/01/03/emmanuel-macron-et-le-climat-un-discours-qui-rate-sa-cible_6156389_823448.html #ClimateCrisis

"The homes or offices of five elected Democratic officials in #NewMexico, including the new attorney general, have been hit by #gunfire over the past month, and authorities are working to determine if the attacks are connected."#news

https://apnews.com/article/politics-albuquerque-new-mexico-state-government-831e1d985a1795eea69ac6489f0698ed

Since Jan. 6, 2021, Fortune 500 companies — some of whom pledged to withdraw support from candidates who denied the results of the 2020 election — have given nearly $15.8 million to election deniers.

Look up how much they've given and to whom:

https://projects.propublica.org/fortune-500-company-election-deniers-jan-6/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"We must pass a federal voting rights bill...that fight must continue in the new Congress — and if we have to scrap the filibuster to get it done, we absolutely should do that. No Senate rule is more important than our democracy." -Sen. @JohnFetterman@twitter.com
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/taking-every-county-every-vote-to-the-u-s-senate/