Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Black renters face a disproportionate share of evictions. Less than one in every five renters in America is Black (18.8%), but over half of all eviction filings are against Black renters (51.1%)."

While it is now illegal not to rent to someone based on race, it is widely acceptable to discriminate based on past evictions--who are disproportionately Black women.

Securing fair housing for all is essential for social justice.

https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/#:~:text=Black%20renters%20face%20a%20disproportionate%20share%20of%20evictions.,eviction%20than%20any%20other%20group.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Animal of the day (141)

This tiny disco ball with a face is called a Hummingbird Bobtail Squid, and it doesn't get bigger than a couple of inches in length. Widespread throughout the tropical waters of the central Indo-Pacific area, it prefers sandy or fine sediment seafloors where it can easily bury itself in case of danger. It rests under the sand during the day and comes out at night to feed on small benthic crustaceans primarily. Its glowing abilities, which help hide its profile from being silhouetted by the moonlight, come from a bioluminescent bacteria with which it shares a symbiotic relationship.

#Wahnimals #animals #nature #ocean
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What must the inside of a lab be like for people to recycle images from antibody catalogues (amongst many other sources)?

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/1/harvard-neuroscientist-research-misconduct/

https://pubpeer.com/publications/FF5706E8826CB8D45481E942A679EE

Of course, the institution “is committed to preserving the highest standards of biomedical research and fostering scientific innovation.”

Satire is officially dead. It has to be noted that both senators and members of congress are allowed to trade stocks — many of them criticize foreign social media and push for antitrust legislation against them simply to better their portfolio made up of American big tech companies.

Measles: The Most Infectious Disease Known to Science – Why Adults Need an MMR Vaccine Booster https://scitechdaily.com/measles-the-most-infectious-disease-known-to-science-why-adults-need-an-mmr-vaccine-booster/ #science

Tom Gauld, spot on as usual. It's like when people ask me to recommend them cameras "that take good #photos" 🤷‍♂️

https://www.tomgauld.com/

#humour #comic #books

New neuron watercolors inspired by the drawings of pioneering neuroscientists Golgi and Cajal #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #neuroscience https://artologica.etsy.com

"The most interesting debate about leadership, then, is between those (like Machiavelli) who believe that leaders make (and overcome) history, and those (like Marx, and like the author of King David’s story) who believe that history makes (and constrains) leaders."

https://aeon.co/essays/who-are-the-leaders-in-our-heads-and-how-did-they-get-there

Ceci n'est pas un spreadsheet.

"A restaurant would not serve you a photo of the meal you ordered. If you have a spreadsheet, why would you save it as an image file? Not being able to copy and paste data or to clearly read it decreases the possibility of curation. Again, this can be solved simply by paying attention to proper formatting."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002477

Holy crap.

"Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In The Omelas Hole."

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

over 88 percent of top-ranked news outlets in the US now block web crawlers used by artificial intelligence

One sector of the news business is a glaring outlier, though: Right-wing media lags far behind their liberal counterparts when it comes to bot-blocking.

#news #media #bias #rightwing #leftwing #artificialintelligence #AI #GenAI #LLM #internet #webcrawler

https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/

Party of personal freedom strikes again!

The Florida Republican House passed HB1 which bans kids from social media
…though it’s intent is to make everyone register in order to track dissent

Don’t want kids posting about having to work a double shift while pregnant?

What’s more: The CDC reports 12 million people had suicidal ideation last year
3,351 Floridians ended their lives in 2021
LGBTQIA+? Higher risk
This bill removes their support network

Fascism

🇺🇸

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/e1/PDF

"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road."

- Rebecca Solnit

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

"This nightmare illness doesn’t yet exist. But for inspiration, Napper needs to look only at the very real contagion in his own lab: chronic wasting disease (CWD), a highly lethal, highly contagious #NeurodegenerativeDisease that is devastating North America’s deer, elk, and other cervids."
#Prions

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/deer-chronic-wasting-disease-prions-spillover-people/677307/

Most species have two sexes. The protist Tetrahymena thermophila has seven.

This “fundamental” #ReviewedPreprint reveals how it recognises self and non-self mating-types with a novel protein complex. https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/93770?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

AI powered disinformation has consequences for our country.
#Canada #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ai-deepfake-election-canada-1.7084398