Brent Williams @hbw@social.cleverlibre.org

Rule-of-law means you do not get to choose whether or not to participate in a criminal investigation against you.

An American Bar Association panel has voted to drop a requirement that law school applicants take the LSAT or another standardized admissions test https://breaking.iavian.net/article/322452

Please boost: I'm looking for literature on legal requirements for instances (moderation, data protection, liability etc.).

Especially for larger organizations/companies that want to run their own instance.

Focus on EU/Germany. Please help.

#mastodon #legal #GDPR

Men's facial hair styles in college yearbooks from 1998-2008
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/64q73v/comment/dg44iay/

So I guess it wasn't a hoax.

GOP operative Jesse Benton found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump's campaign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/

LITTLE GIRL: A boy in class keeps hitting me

ME: Aw, that just means he likes...the status quo of the patriarchy. You've gotta take him down

A small group of macro photographs of fractured wet shale. Weathering and force/pressure fractures shale relatively easily, that's why it's great for fossil hunters. I boosted the colour and contrast while processing these images to bring out the astonishing colour spectrum inherent within a seemingly drab grey rock.

#Photography #Fotografie #Art #Geology

#紅葉回廊 #tokyocameraclub

Evolution of tree roots in the Devonian allowed phosphorous to be more easily transferred from land to oceans, triggering algal blooms, anoxia, and mass extinctions. Evolutionary innovations do seem to have a unique capacity to unbalance the Earth system. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-evolution-tree-roots-driven-mass.html

#China faces a crucial choice: become a more creative, dynamic economy, or prioritize security and stability. Unfortunately for #Beijing, it can’t have both—and unfortunately for the world, #XiJinping appears to have chosen the latter.

#Economics #ChinesePolitics #NationalSecurity #CCP

From Scott Moore: https://www.lawfareblog.com/can-china-escape-innovation-trap

"The controlled expression of one cellular feature -- the cilium -- was likely critical during early animal evolution. Two key transcription factors, RFX and FoxJ1, coordinate ciliogenesis in animals but are absent from the genomes of most other ciliated eukaryotes, raising the question of how the transcriptional regulation of ciliogenesis has evolved."

#CellBiology #CIlia #evolution #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.11.515474v1

One of my favourite recent historical political economy papers is "Democracy by Mistake" by Daniel Treisman from UCLA.

He has studied all cases of democratisation since year 1800 and argues that in 2/3 of them a transition to democracy happened because autocratic rulers were kinda clueless and let the genie out of the bottle by mistake, trying to achieve something else entirely.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23944

A rare photo of Schrödinger's Cat...

Dems flipped both the Minnesota and Michigan legislatures.

They should join the National Popular Vote Compact, which — when activated — awards electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Each state that joins brings us closer to making the Electoral College moot.

Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via #StreetsblogUSA, read their article. #bikelanes #bikes #cities #transportation #mobility #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanplanning
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/

Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.

Pollsters can’t reach Gen Z and can’t reach the 55 and under crowd who barely answer their phones. Pollsters are mostly men. We need to rethink polling - and how beholden candidates need to be to polls. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/12/23453798/midterms-election-whitmer-fetterman-democrats-red-wave-polling-discord-facebook-youtube