Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

Mastodon will appreciate this display case in our physics building.

#Biden: This is a moment for the United States to come together, to grieve with those who are mourning. Let's be real clear. There is no place for hate in America. Not against Jews, not against Muslims, not against anybody. We reject terrorism.

Monogram Meat Snacks pays $140,000 in penalties after the US Labor Department found the company employed at least 11 children – nine of whom operated hazardous machinery – at its meatpacking and food processing facility in Chandler, #Minnesota.

A single high-rise building in Chicago killed 1000+ birds in one night.

Wind turbines don't kill birds like this, but we haven't stopped building high-rises.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/8/23906514/bird-deaths-windowa-mccormick-place-lakeside-center-chicago-editorial

Boost if you are tired

“We’ll let history judge today’s monsters,” say people who also say “you can’t judge people yesterday by the standards of today.”

Pleasantly surprised at the social-media traffic around #Gaza:
- Not seeing anyone trying to justify Hamas’ theofascist thuggery
- A *little* bit of pro-Bibi kill-all-the-Gazans snarling
- A whole lot of realism - Hamas are assholes, but let’s not pile another war crime on top of theirs, and Gaza is prison with abusive jailers, and the current Israeli govt is full of genocide-curious stone racists

@mattblaze Yeah, it's really really bad. Anyone still posting there is inadvertently radicalizing their followers.

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Successive Israeli governments insist on round after round of violence as if any of it will make a difference. They talk about “security”, “deterrence”, “changing the equation”.
All of these are code words for bombing the Gaza Strip to a pulp, always justified as targeting terrorists, yet always with heavy civilian casualties. In between these rounds of violence we make life impossible for Gazans, and then act surprised when it all boils over.

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Ex-president, now twice indicted, was openly disdainful of US intelligence community, and careless with info he learned in briefings, including intel from Israel divulged to Russia

Donald Trump's troubled history with secrets, including Israel's | The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/donald-trumps-troubled-history-with-secrets/

“The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts,” writes @brewsterkahle founder of @internetarchive.
“The traditional practice of libraries is to buy or acquire published materials, preserve and catalog them, and lend them widely and confidentially. (…) But now, in the digital age, every one of these functions has been denied to libraries, or recently even declared illegal in the United States.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing
#Libraries #books @bookstodon

I said some things to @Forbes about the new wave of #disinformation swarming social media in the wake of the Hamas attack on #Israel.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/10/09/misinformation-spreading-online-as-war-erupts-in-the-middle-east/

I often joke about “Big Cran” in #Wisconsin because we have a huge cranberry industry, but it’s not really a joke!

They even get a tax exemption for their research and educational facilities, which is something I didn’t know cranberries had!

Wis. Stat. 70.11(47): a unique property tax exemption for the 130.5 acre “Cranberry Research and Education Station” in Jackson County.

#BigCran #tax #taxlaw #law #lawfedi #lawyer #WI

GOP sure picked a hell of a time for this mccarthy/tuberville shit, huh?

#uspol #uspolitics #politics

Two war crimes don't make a right...

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-war-crimes-palestinians/

#Israel #Hamas #Palestine

@TruthSandwich Wait, are you claiming all anti-zionists are always anti-semites?