Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Shoutout to this school for celebrating mediocrity!

Mastodon! I came for the social interaction, but I stayed anyway.

“In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.” -- Ken Starr, 1998

For US trans folks, ProPublica is looking at barriers to gender affirming care. (These are the investigative big guns, so people with good documentation this goes double for you.)

https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/have-you-faced-barriers-gender-affirming-care

For years, the hypothesis that COVID had entirely natural roots has been missing a key piece of proof: evidence that the virus had infected wild animals at a wet market in Wuhan, China.

Researchers may have finally found that crucial data: http://on.theatln.tc/MAZJdbS

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1637636917477924866

I took hundreds of photos of tree swallows in flight. These four are the best 😬

#TreeSwallows #Swallows #Birds #Birding #Photography #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdsOfTexas #BirdsInFlight

Meanwhile, let's check in on the revised FL school history books...

Reflecting on the start of the Iraq War 20 years later. I cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was in the US during the buildup to the invasion.

EXTREMISM
Mike Flynn and MAGA Activists Wage War Against a Florida Hospital

“You wonder if there is a different agenda than how we treated the particular patient.”

KIERA BUTLER
21 HOURS AGO

Before last year, the public monthly meetings of the board of Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, were sleepy affairs, typically drawing just a handful of attendees. The hospital, a 98-year-old public healthcare system that serves more than a million patients a year, was considered a crown jewel of the community: A highly rated public safety net institution composed of two hospital buildings and several clinics, its core mission is to serve people who are uninsured or underinsured. At a typical board meeting, members would discuss the hospital’s priorities, from finding healthcare providers who practiced in specialties that the community lacked to building a new cancer center.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/mike-flynn-and-maga-activists-wage-war-against-a-florida-hospital/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Don't be distracted. The big story isn't "woke capitalism." It's crony capitalism that allows the wealthy and corporations to roll back laws to line their own pockets.

Not satisfied having claimed my work desk, Fishy has decided to conquer my work chair as well.

Holy shit this is so bad

"Musk was unconvinced and overruled his engineers. In May 2021 Tesla announced it was eliminating radar on new cars. Soon after, the company began disabling radar in cars already on the road. The result...was an uptick in crashes, near misses and other embarrassing mistakes by Tesla vehicles suddenly deprived of a critical sensor."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/how-elon-musk-knocked-tesla-s-full-self-driving-17848095.php

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ronald-reagan-allies-jimmy-carter-sabotage-delayed-u-s-hostages-release-1234699688/

@alaric

#SVB #SVBFail

This, by, @molly0xfff is brilliant 👇🏾

She calls out the massive 💩stains S&cks & C&l&c&nis for their blatant hypocrisy

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma

I get the most new followers on Sundays and I don’t want to compare myself to Jesus, but we’re pretty much the same.

Stanford has created an AI model called Stanford Alpaca.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslW5sQOkC8

It's capable of doing what ChatGPT does and more, except at a fraction of the cost: $600. They were allowed to do this because Alpaca didn't have to be trained same as GPT was, it only had to learn all of GPT's tricks watching GPT play.

Microsoft placed a $2 billion bet on OpenAI, so that makes them look $2 billion less smart than last week.
https://the-decoder.com/stanfords-alpaca-shows-that-openai-may-have-a-problem/

#OpenAI #AGI #gpt #chatgpt #StanfordAlpaca

An 8-year-old snuck his handwritten book onto a library shelf. Now it has a 56-person waiting list. - Upworthy
https://www.upworthy.com/8-year-old-handwritten-book-waiting-list-rp2

‼️🇺🇦All children evacuated from Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3684567-all-children-evacuated-from-chasiv-yar-in-donetsk-region.html #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

https://t.me/liveukraine_media/7222 ‼️🇺🇦Even puppies meet Ukrainian soldiers in liberated areas with great enthusiasm 🐶(VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

I have to remember that, because #Mastodon doesn't have #algorithm curated feeds, I have to #boost / reblog interesting people more often. Liking their posts doesn't make them more visible.

Also, if you want to find new people, I use the #Welcome hashtag whenever I say hi to a new person who posted an #Introduction. I try to greet interesting people pretty frequently.

Love y'all! Keep being kind! 💜