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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In Minnesota, at least, COVID disinformation has a political cost.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/24/we-came-this-close-to-electing-a-bozo-governor/
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blitzcitydiy ("Liz [BlitzCityDIY]") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
surprise!
“Israel's outpost approvals boost settlers, deepen conflict”
(I think that was the whole idea, Captain Obvious)
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- A small pile of colourful dragons. On top is a teal and pink dragon with its back to us and head to the side, blowing a puff of smoke int he air. Under him is a purple dragon with his eyes closed, under the purple dragon is a green dragon, also asleep, on top of a blue dragon with his head snuggled up in the dragon above him, then a red and orange dragon at the bottom. All of them have stripe type markings on their bodies. They all look very relaxed and happy. (remote)
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Advocating for reparations is “the right thing to do,” said Iwataki, a resident of South Pasadena, California who is in her 70s. She cited cross-cultural solidarity that has built up over decades.
Black lawmakers such as the late California congressmen Mervyn Dymally and Ron Dellums played critical roles in winning the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which formalized the government’s apology and redress payments’ to Japanese-Americans interred during WW2.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Libraries should be places where everyone is welcomed, no matter who they are, and where everyone can find themselves reflected in the stories on the shelves. Laws like these make that a lot less likely.”
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“What Mr. Smith wants to know about are Mr. Pence’s communications and interactions with Mr. Trump before, and perhaps during, the vote count, which are entirely fair game for a grand jury investigating possible crimes against the United States.”
Judge Luttig, formerly on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, provided advice to then-Vice President Pence during the run-up to the Electoral College Certification on 6 JAN 2021.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Scott Adams demonstrating that white people think it's worse to be accused of racism than to be the victim of racism.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/24/cancel-scott-adams/
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Inasmuch as Mr. Pence’s claim is novel and an unsettled question in constitutional law, it is only novel and unsettled because there has never been a time in our country’s history where it was thought imperative for someone in a vice president’s position, or his lawyer, to conjure the argument. In other words, Mr. Pence’s claim is the proverbial invention of the mother of necessity if ever there was one.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/mike-pence-grand-jury.html
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Atarashii Gakko! with "Free Your Mind":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIIOnXJVrw
I showed Atarashii Gakko! to the kiddo, and I have since become much more familiar with their oeuvre than you'd expect from a middle aged man who doesn't speak Japanese. (On the other hand, it's not like I know the lyrics to all the songs in English I like.) The one thing I can say definitively is they work hard at what they do. Thanks to Captain Disillusion for introducing them to me:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
with the advent of cheap storage, ubiquitous connectivity, the web of text messages, and tiny video cameras, we are entering a Golden Age of Documentation. Tuchman taught us how critical these records of ordinary lives really are, if we are to learn anything from #history
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Mastodon FeedKaum was über die Hippocratic License (https://firstdonoharm.dev/) gelesen und schon nen Song im Kopf.. :blobcatrainbow:
Systemabsturz - Archbombe
https://song.link/s/4a2Zdp3douOh5Ld8Oh7edU
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Got a wedding date 😎
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Next time you use your PC, think about [Dr] Mark Dean and all the other scientists, inventors and engineers who have had a hand in the amazing technology we can now hold in our hands so easily.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“National power in the modern world rests mainly on economic strength and technological capacity, not military prowess… it turned out that Putin’s not-woke, unemasculated Russia isn’t even very good at waging war.
Why has Russia’s military failed so spectacularly? Because modern wars aren’t won by strutting guys flexing their biceps. They’re won mainly through logistics, technology and intelligence (in both the military and the ordinary senses)”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/opinion/putin-ukraine-toughness.html
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Some 54 percent of Israel’s exports are high-tech products and services, according to the Israel Innovation Authority, a support arm of the government. Israelis have created more than 90 so-called unicorns — privately held companies valued at more than $1 billion…
Losing top-level earners and the corporations they run would have a devastating impact in a country where 81 percent of tax revenue comes from just 20 percent of the population.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘as Mr. Margalit prepares a new venture of his own, one focused on combating climate change, he has reluctantly concluded that Israel is the wrong place to launch.
“Given the atmosphere now, it’s almost irresponsible to start a company here,” the 60-year-old said, “and that is heartbreaking.”
The luminaries of Start-Up Nation, as Israel has been known for decades, are eyeing the exits. Several have already announced that they are relocating or moving money…’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/tech-startups-israel.html
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poor child
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Jones Emberson 1
Planetary nebula Jones-Emberson 1 is the death shroud of a dying Sun-like star. It lies some 1,600 light-years from Earth toward the sharp-eyed constellation Lynx. About 4 light-years across, the expanding remnant of the dying star's atmosphere was shrugged off into interstellar space, as the star's central supply of hydrogen and then helium for fusion was finally depleted after billions of years.”
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin likely continues to suffer from confirmation bias… The Financial Times (FT) cited unnamed officials close to the Kremlin stating that Putin assesses that “Russia is more committed to the war than the West is to Ukraine and [is] resilient enough to see out the economic pain.” Unnamed Kremlin sources also told FT that Putin’s demands for loyalty over competence among elites is forcing them to refrain from being honest with him about the progress of the war”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ISW email:
“The Kremlin appears to be setting conditions for false flag operations on the Chernihiv Oblast international border and in Moldova ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine… Such a false flag operation could also aim to fix Ukrainian forces at the northern border in an effort to weaken Ukrainian defenses in eastern Ukraine and preparations for counter-offensive operations.”