herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

News orgs like the CBC should remove the Twitter share button from their sites and articles. #CBC #Canada #birdsite #News #Media

Democrats should make the GOP own this every second between now and the election.

I'm fascinated by Eskimo-Aleut languages in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. There are many of these languages; they ring much of the Arctic Ocean. I just learned that they use a base 20 system for numbers, with a 'sub-base' of 5. That is, quantities are counted in 'scores' (twenties) with intermediate numerals for 5, 10, and 15. This makes a lot of sense if you look at your fingers and toes.

But the Inuit didn't have a written form of their number system until the early 1990s, when nine high school students in a small northern Alaskan school invented one!

They used 5 principles:

• Visual simplicity: The symbols should be easy to remember.
• Iconicity: There should be a clear relationship between the symbols and their meanings.
• Efficiency: It should be easy to write the symbols without lifting the pencil from the paper.
• Distinctiveness: There should be no confusion between this system and Arabic numerals.
• Aesthetics: They should be pleasing to look at.

They decided that the Kaktovik digit 0 should look like crossed arms, meaning that nothing was being counted.

This was the start of quite a tale!

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Poilievre and Gov't funding? $26.4 million tax subsidized donations to CPC in 2021. For donations up to $1275, $650 can be claimed as tax credit. Averaging, that's 20,705 donations or $13.4 million in federal support the CPC recieved. Is the CPC going to pay it back, or will Pierre eat his words? https://globalnews.ca/news/8966765/conservatives-liberals-2021-donations/ #cdnpoli

⚡️Ombudsman says his office has received 'dozens' of videos with alleged executions of Ukrainian POWs.

"This is cutting off the head, the genitals, the ears, nose, limbs, phalanges on the hands," Dmytro Lubinets told Ukrainska Pravda news outlet. https://t.co/OsW4yNTSOT

Life-Giving but Lethal: The Culprit Behind Dead Zones and the Threat to Our Water Supply
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The unchecked flow of phosphorus into our waterways — often from farm runoff — contributes to “dead zones” and toxic algae blooms.

At the same time, as an essential ingredient in fertilizer, phosphorus turns vast swaths of land green, nourishing crops and animals. It makes life possible for billions of people.

#Water #GreatLakes #Farming #Agriculture #Algae #Fertilizer

https://www.propublica.org/article/phosphorus-the-culprit-behind-dead-zones-threat-to-water-supply?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

⚠️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldier in “fight-or-die” situation and should not surrender as the Ombudsman's Office has dozens of videos showing execution of Ukrainian POWs by Russians (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3696971-the-ombudsmans-office-has-dozens-of-videos-showing-execution-of-ukrainian-soldiers-by-russians.html #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

⚠️🇺🇦Ombudsman: 86% of Ukrainian soldiers suffer physical torture in Russian captivity giving another reason to never surrender and fight-or-die (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3696998-ombudsman-86-of-ukrainian-soldiers-suffer-physical-torture-in-russian-captivity.html #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

Forgot what it’s like to live somewhere where you can watch seasons fight with each other.

The judge who sentenced @vkaramurza to 25 years in prison today, Sergey Podoprigorov, is the same one who jailed Sergey Magnitsky in November 2008. Podoprigorov is one of the first corrupt Russian officials added to the Magnitsky List, which Kara-Murza lobbied into existence.

1/ A Russian warehouse manager has been jailed for stealing and reselling over 20,000 items of military clothing from a warehouse in Chechnya. The case highlights how corruption in Russia's military logistics system has hampered its war effort in Ukraine. ⬇️

1/ Female Russian soldiers are reportedly being subjected to sexual abuse and violence, and are being pressured into becoming the "field wives" of officers, according to an account published by Radio Free Europe (RFE). ⬇️

#FollowFriday to these accounts from #PBS and #NPR, we are very glad you are here!

(and if i missed anyone add them in the comments and I'll add them!)

Local PBS stations:

@gbhnews
@kcts9

NPR folks here:
@timkmak
@nellgreenfieldboyce
@casey
@eric
@shannonpareil
@steveinskeep

And PBS folks here:
@laurasanthanam
@philmeyer
@skrishna
@petertubbs
@Trailanderror

And in Germany, we welcome public broadcaster @NDR

& from Canada: cbcworld@botsin.space

⚠️🇷🇺Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza Set To Hear Verdict In Treason Trial Condemned By Rights Groups (more) http://www.rferl.org/a/32366209.html #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

For those who missed Kickstarter: my book, Shift Happens, is now available for preorder in the new online store, to be delivered in October!

No future reprints are planned and the number of books is limited: https://shifthappens.site/store

I’m an Atheist, but that doesn’t mean I don’t go to church every once in awhile to see if there have been any new developments.

Pro-Kremlin podcaster ‘Donbass Devushka’ is Washington-state-based former US enlisted aviation electronics technician Sarah Bils, reports WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-account-overseen-by-former-navy-noncommissioned-officer-helped-spread-secrets-a4b5643b

Them: I haven't gotten sick yet so Covid must be over or I must be like... Immune to it.

Me: If you wait until you are disabled or dead to act, well that'd be a shame. Many people are asymptomatic when they are infected-- nearly half-- but they still spread to others, they still are at risk for long covid. Mild cases are causing later heart and brain damage. #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver