szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

🇬🇧#Pirates decide even before the #EuropeanElections2024 which rules and values our MEPs will work by. Whis other party is as transparent as this?
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/cps-2024-final-version-full-text/519

Give whoever wrote this headline a medal

@rysiek I’ve noticed how the Norwegians are spending more time retiring to their caves and becoming more troll-like due to the vast amounts of renewable electricity and electric cars in the country.

Good job, UN, having COP28 in the UAE was a stroke of genius. Perfection. No notes.

> Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

> Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

For fuck's sake. 🤦‍♀️

Leaving the USA at SFO, I tested out "Opting out of facial recognition scans before boarding" procedure to see if it indeed exists and will be followed.

It didn't go very well.

The gate agent argued saying I couldn't opt out. I insisted that I'm allowed to, and they pointed to a sign on the wall explaining the "Biometric verification privacy policy". The sign says "Customers wishing to opt out may speak to a gate agent or CBP officer for a manual verification" clearly at the bottom.

The agent then told me I have to opt-out *in advance with CBP*. I pointed out that the sign says "or gate agent" and asked if she was a gate agent. She insisted again that I can't opt-out but by that point another agent heard the discussion, came over, and showed the first agent how to place my passport on the scanner and sent me through. I overheard her telling the first agent as I walked away, "If it's a US passport, it's OK."

A flight of probably 300 people, I'm definitely the only one who opted-out today and by the gate agent's confusion, I suspect I'm the only one who has opted out in a long time.

I'm in every system there is (and China already has my entire SF-86) so it's not that I'm some off-the-grid paranoid who doesn't want to be in "the system" - but for privacy rights to exist at all, it's important to use them when you don't need to and keep them available for people who DO need privacy.

Still ticked that my grocery chain got rid of their unsweetened iced tea and replaced it with decaffeinated unsweetened iced tea. Decaffeinated unsweetened iced tea is just dirty water.

I would like to ask for your help.

As part of my dissertation project, I'm aiming to collect a large research sample to help construct a validated measure on Teacher Attitudes towards Multilingual Learners.

If you are a teacher (primary, secondary, tertiary education), and you teach multilingual students, could I please ask for 10 minutes of your time?

The survey is available here:

https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tZfFXjn5SD2PtA

Please boost—thank you so much!

@edutooters @academicchatter

"Baikal-Zen": Felsen, die auf das Eis des Baikalsees gefallen sind, werden durch das Sonnenlicht erhitzt und senden Infrarotstrahlen aus, die das Eis darunter schmelzen. Sobald die Sonne weg ist, wird das Eis wieder fest und bildet eine kleine Stütze für den Felsen darüber.
Mehr über das Naturphänomen: https://www.europeanscientist.com/de/wissenschaft/natur-phaenomen-forscher-lueften-das-geheimnis-der-zen-steine/

Please, no joking about the billionaires.

In the US moral panics tend to be linked to a sincere belief in Satan and/or demons. Some Christian practices lean into the existence of The Devil(tm) very heavily.

This is, frankly, terrifying. If you believe that there are evil beings working non-stop to corrupt your family you will look for those forces. Anything "different" or superficially gothic could be a threat.

Why don't they ever decide The Devil is payday lenders, insurance companies, war profiteers and IDK FDA deregulators? 3/3

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While we were figuring out the approach we could take to present their research, we realized there is a parallel between astrocytes and dementia caregivers, and between neurons and patients themselves.

Both astrocytes and caregivers (especially family members) are diligent, quiet, relentless workers that are not directly affected by the disease but eventually too succumb to it, losing their energy, identity, role, and relationships.

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Now, if you’re like me and you barely understand half of the words in the previous message but you’re still rooting for the scientists and genuinely want to understand more, we made a website that explains the subject in a more accessible manner.

This year I finished one of the most fascinating projects I ever worked on.

Together with a team of researchers from the molecular neurodegeneration department at Amsterdam UMC we came up with a visual and interactive way to present their latest paper on tau protein aggregation and its effect on astrocytes.

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#neuroscience #dementia #alzheimers #science #scicomm #design #UI #gamedev #ScienceMastodon #visualStorytelling #astrocytes