Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

This is why they’re banning books and censoring educational curriculums that present any challenge to white, Christian identity as the default and normative power.

Physicist and astronaut Sally Ride was born #OTD in 1951. She was the first American woman and the youngest American in space. After NASA she worked on arms control and physics, investigated the Columbia and Challenger disasters, and promoted STEM through Sally Ride Science.

Image: NASA

@zleap as I try to explain it, when the big bang happened, space expanded in all directions, so 25 billion light years is us on this side looking at the space in the opposite direction? I think.. Shares an aspirin with you.

@zleap even if they’re armed. They’re kids. There’s non lethal solutions.

#Jazz genius Miles Davis was born OTD in 1926. You might think his celebrity status would have shielded him from the institutionalized #racism of his era. You'd be wrong. Here's Miles, beaten bloody by a NYC cop in 1959 outside a club, after recording "Kind of Blue."

Aderrien Murry is 11

He called the police at 4am when his mom heard intruders

2 officers responded

One offcier kicked the door. His mom answered and told them the intruder was gone–she then told them her 3 kids were home

Officers demanded anyone in the house show themselves, hands up

That’s when an officer shot Aderrien

He was hospitalized for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs

This isn’t a bad apple

It’s an entire bad system.

'We don't know what we don't know!'

A supermassive black hole discovered at the heart of an ancient galaxy is five times larger than expected for the number of stars it contains, astronomers say.

Researchers spotted the immense black hole in a galaxy known as GS-9209 that lies 25bn light-years from Earth, making it one of the most distant to have been observed and recorded.
#News #JWST #Space #Astronomy #NASA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/26/supermassive-black-hole-galaxy-gs9209-larger-expected?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Dear US citizenry,
Memorial Day is to honor the fallen.
Veterans Day is to honor the living.

Please don’t thank me for my service this weekend, I’m not dead.

AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users

A biased "assistant" was able to influence the arguments made in essays.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-writing-assistants-can-cause-biased-thinking-in-their-users/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Publishers sounding the alarm about the dangers of A.I.
#News

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1685067632018d3a8cabc93b6/raw?utm_term=1685067632018d3a8cabc93b6

NASA launches final pair of storm tracker satellite quartet https://phys.org/news/2023-05-nasa-pair-storm-tracker-satellite.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Anthropocene 'sixth mass extinction' event predicted to be worse than previously thought"
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-anthropocene-sixth-mass-extinction-event.html

The paper: "More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends" by Finn, Grattarola and Pincheira-Donoso 2023 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12974

Causes: not really #GlobalWarming/#ClimateChange but rather from #EcosystemCollapse and #Ecocide–the sistematic dismantling of Earth's ecosystems–, and primarily from our present approach to food production and consumption.

Meanwhile, most of us continue to commute by car, consume red meat, fly for holidays and work, and in other words, pretend this `problem` clearly somebody else must be solving, or there isn't a problem at all because this very minute we aren't inconvenienced by it.

‘It’s new territory’: why is Betelgeuse glowing so brightly and behaving so strangely?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/26/its-new-territory-why-is-betelgeuse-is-glowing-so-brightly-and-behaving-so-strangely?utm_source=DamnInteresting

6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, no tsunami https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/05/26/Japan-earthquake-tsunami/1851685108636/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news

How cool is this? The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found polka-dot sand dunes on Mars. What's next? A plaid volcano? :P

https://www.limfic.com/2023/05/26/writer-fuel-mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-finds-polka-dot-sand-dunes/

#WriterFuel #Mars #SandDunes #MRO #NASA #Space #Astronomy

Happy Birthday, #Fediverse15 !

And congrats to @titi on publishing their book about Fedi https://barcelona.social/objects/6cac63d6-c622-4877-8f31-e03a0f393705

Is it the second, or third book dedicated to this unique online space?
Here's to many more books and years! 🍾

@GottaLaff I’m a veteran. The GOP has only ever used veterans as a prop.

Sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes🤧

Yes, allergy season is back as plants release pollen🌳🌾

But #DYK climate change is driving longer pollen seasons and higher concentrations of allergens in the air?

Climate action is #ForOurPlanet and our health💝
➡: https://europa.eu/!N9mYmf

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1662071079941070849