Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

A weird freak event happened to me today while #cycling. A #bee got trapped between my eye and my sunglasses. It took me a moment to work out what was going on. Luckily, I was slowing down anyway approaching a minor junction and so was able to stop and take the glasses off and thereby liberating the #insect. It was a strange sensation having a furry buzzing thing rubbing against my eyelid.

#OddEndToTheWeek @mastobikes

So apparently cannabis consumption causes significantly lower serum potassium levels (bad) and slightly lower sodium levels (good but not significant). Very interesting. I'd love to find a better study however that does a before and after to see how long and how much cannabis needs to be consumed before its harmful. I'd also be curious to see this done with the various cannabinoids in isolation, I suspect this is caused predominately by CBD given its antagonism towards CB2 receptors but I could be wrong.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291076372_Effects_of_marijuana_on_sodium_and_potassium_na_p_ions_homeostasis_among_smokers_in_Benin_City-_a_metropolitan_city_in_Nigeria

#science #cannabis #potassium #medical #medicinal #medicine #biology #nature

after my query yesterday about private medical data being sold on the open market, this landed in my inbox today, not sure what the Welsh NHS has in place to protect us but it looks like a free for all over the border? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/legal-threat-sharpens-over-uk-government-plans-harvest-patient-data-gps/

Merthyr Tydfil's new £12 million bus station set to open as first in Wales to allow for charging of electric vehicles. https://nation.cymru/news/merthyr-tydfils-new-12-million-bus-station-set-to-open-as-first-in-wales-to-allow-for-charging-of-electric-vehicles/

#Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero #CorporateTax on £220bn profit last year | #TaxHavens | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year

#Bermuda #Ireland #EU #Tax #TaxAvoidance

UK Government’s attempt to ‘override’ will of the people of Wales turning them against the union, Vaughan Gething says. https://nation.cymru/news/uk-governments-attempt-to-override-will-of-the-people-of-wales-turning-them-against-the-union-vaughan-gething-says/

#GPs warn over plans to share #patient #data with third parties in #England | GPs | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/30/gps-warn-plans-share-patient-data-third-parties-england

To opt out: https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/

#UK #NHS Health #DataProtection #Privacy

I have made a decision. I will publish my PhD thesis as a book with zero books

It is analytic metaphysics and moral philosophy.

The broad argument of my thesis is that humans can perceive moral facts in much the same way as epistemic facts. In the same way that epistemic facts exist regardless of the existence of humans, so do moral facts. While moral facts entail different standards of rationality than epistemic facts in the way humans move through and interrogate the world, they are nonetheless objective in a very similar way. This means they are both binding on the way humans are to be assessed as rational. I understand rationality to be a virtue which applies to both morality and knowledge of the physical world.

If I am correct about my account of facts, then moral realism is true, and it is indeed possible for morality to be objective.

This may look like a #sparrow in the throes of dying but looks can sometimes be deceptive. In actuality, this fellow was thoroughly enjoying a #DustBath. The #photographs are presented in chronological order.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Nature #Wildlife #Birds

Documentary Film about Quincy Jones and American Black Music
Well worth watching
👍🥰
https://www.netflix.com/title/80102952?s=a&trkid=13747225&t=cp

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

-- Sydney J.Harris

A close up of another #bee from today.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Nature #Insects #Pollinator

Petition calls for independent Welsh entry at the Eurovision Song Contest. https://nation.cymru/culture/petition-calls-for-independent-welsh-entry-at-the-eurovision-song-contest/

Today I finally received the long awaited YouTube terms of service where I have to grant YT the right to monetize my videos. I used the channel for my tutorials about FLOSS 3D-CAD software and never felt the need for monetization. Over the years I was able to help a lot of people using FLOSS software. So now I'll either shutdown my channel and loose all these viewers interested in FLOSS or advice them to use NewPipe or Invidious to watch videos on YT. Damn you YT.

#degoogle #youtube