Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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@uanews I was about to purchase a couple of products on Amazon tonight, but then noticed they were made in Belarus. Nope.
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Just to be clear, when the New York Times reported that the FBI saw “no link between Trump and Russia” — a week before the 2016 election — the FBI agent who was just arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was heading up the investigation.
@scrumm It creeps into your heart. ;-)
@waoac Lemme guess. This has something to do with a homeowners association.
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In a week with its share of stories on Brett Kavanaugh and Ron DeSantis, a fact that does not get discussed often is how they were members of the same frat -- Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Considering #Kavanaugh and #DeSantis's war on women, people of color, and democracy itself... a question demands to be answered:
Do elite institutions bear any responsibility for admitting, nurturing, and providing connections to those who would become -- or already were -- monsters?
@ValkyrieKerry It's hard to beat Catch-22. High on the list for me also are Heart of Darkness and The Things They Carried.
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Childhood Trauma Linked to Civic Environmental Engagement and Green Behavior
https://neurosciencenews.com/green-behavior-child-trauma-22339/
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Why the HELL do all the maga websites have more informative headlines on this story than the soporific that the so-called liberal media can muster up?
Musk's fortune soars $11 billion in two days.
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If you feel pain, you're alive.
If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.
Leo Tolstoy
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I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?
Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.
Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.
Leavitt’s work is still used today. So next time you hear about famous men in #science share her remarkable story.
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RT @PaulaChertok
Comey named McGonigal head of Counterintelligence of the NY FBI Field Office on October 4, 2016. Within weeks, Giuliani was dropping leak bombs on Fox from the NY FBI field office—which turned out to be disinformation—but reopened the Clinton probe & tanked her shoe-in election.
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No one it going to see this, but I'm trying out my first Toot. (hah!)
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Both parties have held the debt ceiling hostage as a political tool. For example, in 2011, the Republicans did it. But in 2013, the Republicans did it. On the other hand, this year it is the Republicans who are doing it.
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Just to be clear, when the New York Times reported that the FBI saw “no link between Trump and Russia” — a week before the 2016 election — the FBI agent who was just arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was heading up the investigation.
Just an absolute scandal.
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Honestly? Give the dumb AI model it's MBA degree, let it run businesses, it can't do any worse than the dickhead humans doing it.
@EdSanders @AnarchoNinaWrites My grandmother was Estonian, educated in St. Petersburg, and lived through both WW1 and WW2 in Hamburg. She told me that most people didn't believe that Hitler meant what he said. "Oh, he's just rabble rousing."
I assume that nice people are especially unwilling to accept that someone can be that terrible. They've probably never known anyone like that.
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This is ultimately why fact checking and debunking cannot stop a fascist creep or fascist propaganda in general.
It's very hard for folks to accept that the people around them do not believe the things they're saying, and are indeed actively lying to generate power - but this is more or less the entire history of fascism. They're playing to win; over your dead body. It's that simple. Doesn't matter if they're in your family, if you work together, if you had BBQ at the cottage together one time.
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
