Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The problem isn't we need more people to produce more Einsteins or Mozart's.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

As Stephen Jay Gould wrote in The Panda's Thumb: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

@jemmesedi @Npars01 Home Depot has had unacceptable management political philosophy for far too long. Unfortunately they’ve not suffered enough consequences. Partially due to brand exclusivity among box stores. Oligopoly control hurts employees & consumers.

Unfortunately there are many more - Amazon, etc

Free Markets are not Fair Markets without regulation.

17 December 1943 | A Polish woman, Łucja Charewiczowa (b. 1897, no. 64373), perished in Auschwitz.

A historian of Lwów (Lviv) & researcher on the history of women.

During world war 2 she moved to Warsaw. In July 1943, for the resistance activity & participation in underground education, the Germans incarcerated her in Pawiak prison & later deported to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus.

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Online lesson dedicated to the fate of women in Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en

this study updated the one i was apart of in the early 90's that is referenced in the subtitle
#CapitalismIsKillingYOU https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-economists-and-colleagues

Geminids over China's Nianhu Lake https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231217.html #APOD

@petergleick 100% Just as an example of not nurturing the people we have, if Stephen Hawking had been born disabled instead of becoming disabled once already ensconced in university, higher ed would have done all it could to make it impossible for him to enter research. Higher ed is preventing disabled people from being admitted and driving out those that managed to get in.

And it's that much harder for those who are marginalized in ways in addition to disability. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #UCAccessNow #Ableism

16 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Max Henri van Son, was born in Rotterdam.

He arrived at Auschwitz on 3 October 1942 in a transport of 1,014 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Putin will not stop unless he dies or is made to stop. That is a fact. This article from a normally "conservative" member of USA media warns of that. We and our allies MUST stand with Ukraine because if it falls, it will just be even more expensive and time consuming not to mention bloody to beat him back. He will not stop. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-15/vladimir-putin-is-all-in-on-ukraine-and-it-s-cheaper-to-stop-him-than-lose?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy #Ukraine #Putin #supportUkraine #USA #allies

Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot Copilot gives wrong election information | Mashable

https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-bing-ai-chatbot-copilot-election-misinformation-study

"2023 proved that climate change isn't coming — it's here" by Matthew Rozsa for Salon

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/15/2023-was-the-year-it/

So you have a Rolex to tell the time. My watch can also tell the time.

Can your Rolex do this?

I was autistic when I was a kid and everyone called me “quirky”

I was autistic when I was an “awkward” teen

I was autistic when a psychiatrist misdiagnosed me and said I wasn’t autistic

I was autistic when I got a second opinion that confirmed I’m autistic

Self diagnosis is valid 💜

Picks for the Week 15 matchup.

#KCvsNE pro predictions: http://bit.ly/4aePD3E

If there are SQL databases, it stands to reason that there can also be PreQL databases—also Reboot databases and Remake databases. 🤔

#PunsAreGreat #FunWithPronunciations