Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

More messy sketches.

#TDSB With blowing snow, damaging winds, poor visibility & flash freezing in the forecast, we have made the decision, together with @TCDSB, to close all schools, administrative buildings & sites to students & staff for Friday, December 23, 2022. Read our letter: bit.ly/3FO5t71

Major win in Arizona, where Doug Ducey has agreed to tear down his ridiculous shipping container "wall."

"Ducey agreed to remove the barrier after the Biden administration sued, accusing the state of trespassing on federal land and damaging the environment" (which did and was doing).

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/us/arizona-border-shipping-containers.html

Which actually lines up with what I've said repeatedly for years about how people use AI or even just algorithms to MAKE decisions instead of just informing them.

You let the biases and glitches in those tools take over and things can go off the rails. Using these tools to help a human work faster and have more informed judgement works far better in most cases.

OMG! My assistant just collapsed!

"A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work"

#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Quote
#HardWork #HardWorkingCats

Check out Ghost Clan website http://ghostclan.org SaudiExile BTC Wallet an support a cyber activist who is exiled from Saudi Arabia.

Wanted by Saudi Arabia for being a #HumanActivist #Activist and a #Hacktivist
@saudiexile

https://twitter.com/SaudiExile

‘Long Shadows, Back Road’
Jack McLaren - Goderich, Ontario

#CanadianArtist #CanadianPainting

McLaren was born in 1895. While overseas, during the First World War, he helped found the comedy troupe, The Dumbells. After the war, he settled in Toronto and painted alongside Tom Thomson & The Group of Seven. He died in 1988 in Goderich, Ontario.

It’s all about your point of view.

Funny holiday card I found here:

https://www.nobleworkscards.com/c4535xsg-eating-noses-funny-christmas-paper-card-tim-whyatt.html

#funny #card #snowman #JoinIn #holiday

This is the reason the members of the GOP refuse to cooperate with investigators, and even threaten to defund federal law enforcement.
They can only spill the truth under oath.

Fox News' Sean Hannity admits he knew Trump lost 2020 election - https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1144926308/fox-news-sean-hannity-dominion-lawsuit-trump
#gopcult
#gopcrimesyndicate

Worth mentioning that one of the paramilitary groups that comes up here, Texas Freedom Force, provided security to the British terf Posie Parker during her US tour

https://www.texasobserver.org/christmas-drag-protest-san-antonio-grand-prairie-texas/

NASA is ready to begin construction on NEO Surveyor, the first purpose-built space telescope that will advance #PlanetaryDefense efforts by finding and tracking hazardous near-Earth objects. https://go.nasa.gov/3GavmPS
#NASASolarSystem

Judge Hector LaSalle was nominated by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday to lead New York's top court and oversee its sprawling court system.

If confirmed by the Democratic-led state Senate, LaSalle would be the first Latino judge to lead the Court of Appeals
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2022/12/22/hochul-nominates-hector-lasalle-to-be-top-new-york-judge

It’s. Not. Over.

#China Is Likely Seeing 1 Million #Covid Cases, 5,000 Deaths a Day

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/china-is-likely-seeing-1-million-covid-cases-5-000-deaths-a-day

I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

paypal is bullshit

The almost daily vacillating is a wild ride.

HEY NORTHERN HEMISPHERE!
Can you feel it?
The days are getting longer again.
And we'll be as close to the sun next week as we will be all year.
#solstice #winter #perihelion