Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

The US legal system is responsible for a great many preventable #COVID19 deaths and illnesses.

Millions of defendants and jurors have been forced to appear in court for cases that should have been dismissed or at least delayed due to the pandemic. Revenue-generating traffic cases shouldn't cost people their lives or health, but they have.

Finally, note that courthouses bring together people who would otherwise never interact, which is the worst thing to do during a #pandemic. #law

A powerful lesson - source unknown.
A teacher tells her students, "I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade."
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought guilty.
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Landed in Providence, Rhode Island, US.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade taught us that there is no such thing as “settled law” if the wrong people make it their life’s mission to take away your rights.

No one’s rights are safe.

Radio Shack™: You've got questions, we've got... [checks notes] ...cellphones. Oh wait, now we're out of business. Never mind.

Intrusive contact between the sedimentary, Eocene Claron Formation below and the quartz-monzonite Pine Valley Mountains laccolith above. The Pine Valley laccolith is the world's largest example of such a pluton. Around 21 million years ago, magma intruded within the Claron Formation at a depth of about 200 m, shallower than is typical for a laccolith, allowing the magma to spread far laterally and dome up higher than normal. #geology #geoscience #igneous #Utah #pluton #laccolith #naturalhistory

This is pretty near:

Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!

TL;DR;

Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!

1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html

One of the most blissful moments of my life was when #DavidCrosby played "Tamalpais High," from his masterpiece "If I Could Only Remember My Name," live for only the third time in history, and dedicated it to me. ("This is for you, Steve," he says at the beginning.) Video by Patria Jacobs. https://youtu.be/n-3nA4hGbK8

Republicans want you to pay their rich donors, likely your bosses, taxes for them at the counter with your groceries

#facts #Truth #news #politics

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/taxes-verify/house-gop-bill-create-national-sales-tax-abolish-irs-fact-check/536-f74c49e3-04ca-4214-9f12-68c443fd123b

@alanferrier Meanwhile in the US: "People still get pensions?"

Two million French folk take to the streets in a wave of strikes and protests against a proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.

Meanwhile in the UK: "Mustn't grumble. When's 'Strictly' on?"

Hannah Arendt observed of the Nazis that they didn't lie because they believed it, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They lied to say what would have to be true to justify what they intended to do.

It’s been a while since I threw a boomerang, but after a few tries, it came back to me.

This is genius Albert Einstein who refused to speak at white colleges and at the end of his life spoke exclusively at black universities
"The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

#Einstein #Racism #Integrity #Equality

Our culture constantly pushes the lie that your value as a human being comes from what you do or produce or offer to others.

That's garbage.

You matter no matter what.

You are sacred just for being.

❤️

Shabbat Shalom.

@lauren There's a dental expert on TikTok going through tooth by tooth - they're all the same.

Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr, pilot of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and the second person to set foot on the Moon, was born #OTD in 1930.

Happy 93rd birthday, Buzz. You walked all over that Moon’s face.

Image credit: NASA

Most Internet users are totally oblivious to the fact that a case before the U.S. Supreme Court right now, other cases to come, and an array of politically-inspired regulatory efforts, stand a good chance of decimating UGC (User Generated Content) on the Web. This will be true even if the current Supreme Court case doesn't end badly.

Politicians and governments around the world, including in the U.S., are rushing to turn the Internet into a politically controlled, uber-censored version of China's Internet, complete with forcing everyone to be fully identified with government ID for access to most sites (using "protecting children" as the talking point).

It's coming boys and girls, and what's even scarier is Big Tech like Google seems to not fully understand what's at risk and how best to push back. Timid approaches won't suffice -- this is a war, with government pushing to turn the Internet into a tool for total control of their populations.