Rowley @Rowley@social.cleverlibre.org

descriptively, the grammatical distinction between count-nouns and mass-nouns is eroding, as can be seen from the indiscriminate use of "less" in place of "fewer"

i know this happens & i am not a prescriptivist. language changes.

just ignore the twitching nerve under my right eye every time i see it.

You folks were super enthusiastic about my posting more on Mastodon, so let's try this.

RT/boost and let's see if there's interest in a regular #Ukraine thread!

Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

For the last year, I've been tracking a notorious Russian unit known for its role in killing 100s of civilians.

This past month we published how we found them.

Speaking as an anesthesiologist that's spent more time in labor and delivery than most non-obstetricians will spend in their lifetimes, I cannot stress this enough: innocent people will die if mifepristone is outlawed. And it won't be in a few weeks or months— it will happen within hours. Judges should not be practicing medicine. Full stop.

listen, if i knew how to play the ukulele you ALL would know

I saw Lesley Stahl's 60 Minutes interview with Marjorie Trailer Greene and it was exactly the nightmare I expected: the "Nazis! They're just like us!" school of "journalism" writ large on the boob tube.

Adulatory saunters through her home, sifting through family photos, fawning coverage of silent lemmings (curiously not interviewed) worshipping her on the streets, Leni Riefenstahlesque images of Marjorie at the gym.

In short, a repugnant normalization of a fascist and a hateful extremist, complete with an occasional "Wow!' or "Golly!" from Stahl to get the undiscerning viewer to believe that they weren't watching corporate propaganda do its nasty mercenary work. Con Artistry 101.

Going forward, I shall be referring to this putative member of the Fourth Estate as Lesley Riefenstahl.

#journalism #corporatemedia #lesleystahl #60minutes #marjorietaylorgreene

The New York Times is in a newsroom panic over the Trump charges -- "Democracy is Tested" !!! and other such bullshit.

There's a test happening at the Times and the rest of Big Journalism, all right: whether "news" organizations can bring themselves to do their jobs properly, which includes taking a stand to help save democracy.

The Times' panic is reflection of its ongoing failure -- going back decades in the case of Trump, long an obvious crook -- to meet that test.

America, however, is not a functioning democracy, as severe anti-majoritarian distortions and a deeply unhealthy political culture conspire to give disproportional power to a radicalizing minority devoted to a reactionary cause. Until that changes, nothing changes. 18/

I wish elon had bought LinkedIn

even better idea:
modding a CGA card so that it can provide line21 captions when used in composite mode

new cryptid: exhausted woman at starbucks

Meanwhile, in battery news...

Researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have developed an oxygen-ion battery with a storage capacity that doesn't decrease over time, leading to an extremely long lifespan compared to other batteries.

This battery can be produced without rare metals and could be used for in large energy storage systems, e.g., to store electrical energy from renewable sources.

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-oxygen-ion-battery.html

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#energy #batteries #sustainability #technology

Dog whistle to English dictionary:

Soros - Jews
Coastal elites - Jews
New York values - Jews
Hollywood liberals - Jews
Globalists - Jews
International bankers - Jews
American Jews - Jews who dare question Israel’s government

I hope you enjoyed this week’s Jews Clues

In a world where a bit of math can pass as human on the internet, we are obliged to be more unpredictable, more chaotic.

Be the language model failure mode you want to see in the taco.

I'm still baffled by the fact that working class conservatives exist. How do you look at a system where you have to basically be a millionaire to retire, can't afford a home, can't build wealth because interest rates don't keep up with inflation and people blow up the economy every couple of years, then be like "yes, this is it".

#PrivatisedProfitsSocialisedLosses

They obviously must be stopped.

Hilarious to me that the same people who think they are going to "disrupt" our economy with incredible new tech advances can't run something as basic as a bank, which is an ancient business where people literally just hand you money lol

#SVB

The fact that the NYT thought we needed yet another “wokeism running amok on college campuses” piece, completely indistinguishable from all the other ones, is more interesting to me than the essay itself, which has absolutely nothing new or substantive to add.

Some thoughts: 1/