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@Davidtoddmccarty @mathlover Sinema & now the dude that lied in New York indicate why I see dealing with corruption & money is a way to get more people a seat at the table who will work in a real way to make things better for marginalized group, rather than just obscuring the issue and damaging the cause, follow the money deal with systemic issues that stack the deck against those with means & that will also help support those social issues that put people at risk do both!

💥 Via Steve Vladeck:

#BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote (with Justice Gorsuch joining the more liberal Justices in dissent), #SCOTUS keeps Title 42 immigration policy *in effect*; agrees to decide later this Term whether 19 red states should be allowed to intervene in defense of the policy in the lower courts. #Title42 #news

@mmasnick if anyone knows how to get in touch with Tom Lehrer, the link to "The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1)" on the albums page (https://tomlehrersongs.com/albums/) is broken.

The link is correct from the specific album streaming page (https://tomlehrersongs.com/albums/the-remains-of-tom-lehrer/).

The problem is a typo. The filename on the albums page is `trotll.rar`, when it should be `trotl1.rar`

Mathematician John Conway was born #OTD in 1937. He made broad and profound contributions across all of mathematics, but he is maybe best known by the general public for his "game of life" cellular automaton. Conway passed away in 2020, from COVID-19.

Pay attention to who they’re giving a platform to over at Fox News. Listen to their hateful, dehumanizing rhetoric. Then speak out against it forcefully.

There’s an absolutely astonishing story brewing in the medieval manuscripts world of a Potemkin Village scholarly institute built out of plagiarism and stock photos. I can scarcely do it justice except to link to Peter Kidd’s thorough deconstruction of #receptio #receptiogate

Part 1: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

Part 2: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html

Part 3: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iii-my.html

Part 4: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iv-my.html

Part 5: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-v.html

Bill Watterson's 1990 Kenyon College commencement address. Impossible to excerpt but I tried:

"I've wanted to be a cartoonist since I was old enough to read cartoons, and I never really thought about cartoons as being a business. It never occurred to me that a comic strip I created would be at the mercy of a bloodsucking corporate parasite called a syndicate, and that I'd be faced with countless ethical decisions masquerading as simple business decisions."

Read it all
https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

In the richest nation on earth, a man died in the freezing cold Mississippi woods on Christmas Day while trying to walk home to his family.

They had been unable to wire money to him or help him get a bus ticket because he didn’t have a current ID.
https://www.sunherald.com/news/weather-news/article270464302.html

Short rant.

Southwest Air has cancelled ~70% of its flights in an epic meltdown this holiday season.

Remember, Southwest took $3.7B in federal aid from 2020-21.

It’s CEO got a pay raise to a $9.1M package in 2022.

Yet Southwest employees are working 16 hour shifts & threatened w/termination if they refuse overtime or call in sick.

Socialism for the wealthy. Capitalism for workers.

Stop trusting billionaires. Start holding them accountable. And start protecting workers.

End Rant.

Mastodon is our opportunity to create the community and forge the connections that we want - and, indeed - need.

We don't need to get caught up in the outrage, hatred, bitterness, and bigotry being posted elsewhere.

We have the power to curate, to consider, to control what we see and respond to on this platform.

So, take that power - use it - create a better social experience for yourself today. Follow awesome people, start great conversations, enjoy this.

It's down to us.

#mastodon

Instead of blabbing about how tribes don’t have common sense during a freaking bomb cyclone, and that’s how they found themselves in a horrible predicament, maybe you should use some of that common sense you think you have and spare a few dollars to help others. 
You can have all the common sense in the world but still lack resources and still need help. 
You can also have all the common sense in the world and still be ignorant and arrogant. Keep that crap on Twitter. #block