Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#books #bookban #libraries + Tip:

“…if you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries” ~ @neilhimself

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/

ONG denunciam influência de consultora dos EUA na Cimeira Africana do Clima: A forte presença da McKinsey na construção da agenda e definição de prioridades da cimeira de Nairobi preocupa 300 organizações não governamentais locais. Denunciam o papel atribuído ao mercado de carbono e a secundarização do fim dos combustíveis fósseis. https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/ong-denunciam-influencia-de-consultora-dos-eua-na-cimeira-africana-do-clima/87388?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

19 August 1942 | A transport of 997 Jews deported from Drancy arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection 897 of them were immediately murdered in gas chambers.

One of them was Fanny Brauch from Paris.
She was 15 years old.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Hacker testifies that Bolsonaro asked him to tamper with voting machines https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/08/19/brazil-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-asked-hacker-to-break-into-voting-machines-testimony/6421692452352/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Another #mythbusted about #covid from Independent SAGE tackling rumours of the vaccine causing miscarriage- good news it is not true find out more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpspzUd3l1g

Not all heroes wear capes.

POST DOC FELLOW

Moffitt Cancer Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/post-doc-fellow/?feed_id=55769

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Tampa #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/post-doc-fellow/?feed_id=55769

It's a breathtaking fraud: #SoCal, America's largest gas company, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby *against our own survival*:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article277266828.html

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

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#OTD 19 August 1839 The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".

There’s a HURRICANE this weekend heading for Baja and Southern California. Folks, that is not in any way normal.

I may not live long enough to see the worst of the impacts of climate change, but I want to use my voice and platform today to urge action.

We can start by ending subsidies and investments into fossil fuels. Full stop.

The Osbick Bird – Edward Gorey's tender and surprising vintage illustrated allegory about the meaning of true love https://t.co/iygB9hjcYQ

San Franciscans: this is Wily. She is loose in San Francisco after escaping her dog sitter. We are not in town. If you see her, please call animal control.

Here’s the story of how a 37-follower Twitter account seeded a propaganda narrative about Hawaii that made headlines around the world, thanks to a network of right-wing influencers — and amplification by both Russian and Chinese state media.

My latest — a very deep dive into a coordinated campaign:
#socialmedia #disinformation #propaganda
https://open.substack.com/pub/weaponizedspaces/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence?r=1aupz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Taxpayers have the right to have free and immediate access to research funded by their taxes.
Sec. 552 of the CJS bill shuts the door on #taxpayeraccess to research!

US taxpayers, call on your representatives to remove Sec. 552.

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/oppose-section-552-that-will-block-taxpayer-access-to-research/

I try synthetic salmon and enter the “uncanny valley” of taste

Synthetic fish isn't quite there yet—and may not be worth the effort.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/08/i-try-synthetic-salmon-and-enter-the-uncanny-valley-of-taste/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A good overview of the current debate over new definitions of a human #embryo
https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/human-embryo-new-definition-proposed/
#DevBio