Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Missouri's transgender snitch form would have been right at home in the most evil days of the old East German regime:

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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-->>> A newspaper in McCurtain County, Oklahoma has released audio of county leaders discussing plans to kill one of their reporters and lynch Black people.

"Investigators are looking in to see if the recording was made legally according to Oklahoma statute. "

ARE YOU FOCHIN' KIDDIN' ME?

You imbeciles were discussing the murder of a reporter and the murders of several Black folks by lynching! #blackmastodon https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2023/04/17/mccurtain-county-sheriffs-office-responds-to-allegations-investigation-ongoing/70124523007/

Scientific American talks about #StochasticTerrorism which I believe is the tool being used by the right to generate a plausibly deniable #AntiTrans #Genocide

How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence

Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it’s affecting our humanity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/#

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NBC Knoxville asked Sexton why he didn't pay his property bills and why he took tens of thousands of dollars in per diems intended for members who live more than 50 miles from Nashville when he has a house 6 miles away.

@CSexton25@twitter.com declined to comment.

Outfuckingstanding

When they tell us who they are - believe them.

Rep. Paul Gosar promotes pro-Hitler and Holocaust-denying site after it praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers”

https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/rep-paul-gosar-promotes-pro-hitler-and-holocaust-denying-site-after-it

I'm at 9 months without a job.
Built the DFIR program at 1password, we got to a 6.8 billion USD valuation during my time there.

Built security at Moogsoft from scratch.

You name it, I've done it.

I'm on the market either for permanent hire or to consult.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/17/majority-americans-mass-shootings-stop

85 years ago.

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years.

He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming.

85 years ago.

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/qj.49706427503

Public Service Announcement for #wx warnings and alerts. If you are afraid of missing #weather warnings and alerts for your area due to the fiasco over on the birdsite, follow the "IEMBOT" bots we have put up here on the #Fediverse - THESE ARE NOT DEPENDENT ON TWITTER. You need to look up your Weather Service office (for example, mine is Los Angeles, LOX) and find the bot, ie @iembot_lox -- or say Boston, @iembot_box #NWS #NationalWeatherService

In Texas, the Republicans won't rest until enough Democratic voters are disqualified from voting, or their votes nullified, to ensure absolute control for Republicans for decades to come.

This is happening nationwide where Republicans control things. It's a national issue.

Yet Big Journalism, apart from sporadic coverage that consistently misses the forest for the trees, continues to miss the emergency represented by that this accelerating attack on democracy.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/texas-senate-passes-bill-to-seize-control-of-elections-from-local-authorities/

That time - when you're in the zone - and...