CharlieMcHenry

mathowie, 12 hours ago to random

The 2nd place GOP candidate for president out there celebrating the genocide of civilians.

She was always as bad as Trump.

andrewstroehlein, 22 hours ago to random

Beware of politicians who blame vulnerable groups for your problems - they’re the ones not talking about making your life better but about making someone else’s life worse.

Their target may be refugees or a religious group or an ethnic group or trans folks. But whoever the vulnerable minority is, the message is basically the same: you’re supposed to believe that denying these people their rights will somehow help you and your family. It won’t, of course. Don’t buy it.

https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/05/22?story=paragraph-8357

VeroniqueB99, 13 hours ago to random

michaelsteeber, 1 day ago to random

A few times a month I get real nervous thinking about how the Internet Archive is the web’s Library of Alexandria
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149

ayoub, 2 days ago to Israel

#Israel bombed a displaced persons camp after designating it a humanitarian area in #Gaza. Reports of dozens of civilians killed.

Why UC grad students are going out on strike (calmatters.org)

More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month....

erictopol, 8 days ago to random

The highly pro-inflammatory and pervasive microplastics and nanoplastics: previously found in arteries and associated with increased in heart attacks and strokes, now in all human testes that were assessed.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/theres-plastic-in-my-plaque

https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/toxsci/kfae060/7673133?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false#no-access-

Daojoan, 8 days ago to random

Social Darwinism twists the biological theory of natural selection into a blunt club to batter the less fortunate.

It ignores the complex environmental, social, and economic factors that shape outcomes in the modern world.

Most of all, it absolves us of any responsibility to help our fellow humans.

It’s the philosophy that drove the financial crisis. The same philosophy that drove the NSDAP.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-brain-rot-of-social-darwinism

gknauss, 8 days ago to random

In any given situation, you can be sure that Sam Altman will carefully think through any potential societal, legal, and moral outcomes.

And then ignore them to see what he can get away with.

gerrymcgovern, 8 days ago to random

"More than 70 human rights defenders in Ecuador, including indigenous leaders, were criminally charged for opposing these projects and criticizing the way consultations are held. In recent weeks, environmental activists and residents in communities affected by mining have staged days of resistance against the La Plata project, run by Atico Mining."
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2024/05/20/ecuadorian-indigenous-people-to-mobilize-against-mining-violence/

A classic tactic of the mining oligarchs is to work with the courts to criminalize the environmental protectors.

sundogplanets, 9 days ago to random

https://www.wonkette.com/p/spacex-drops-a-load-on-saskatchewan

This is a great article, and I am 100% delighted by their description of me!! "Lawler has been an academic Chicken Little for years about the danger of freefalling space shit, especially in a time when space travel has been privatized and so many bored billionaires would rather spend their money playing Spaceman Spiff than, say, solving world hunger or the climate crisis"

Noupside, 9 days ago to random

🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal

SteveSilent, 9 days ago to Palestine French

Jimmy Carter’s Unflinching Criticism Of Israel’s Apartheid State #StandWithGaza #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #ICJ #TheHague #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow #apartheid #racism #BDS #UNRWA #Biden #media https://youtu.be/K2YKPJAcMQc?si=iGCJHmXIKvC_B4ap

kaitlinsundling, 10 days ago to climate

As a physician, I can attest that masks protect against many threats to our health, including pollution, wildfire smoke, infectious diseases, and allergens. All of us, and especially disabled and immunocompromised folks, need to be able to wear masks freely in public spaces. Please sign and share this petition against the North Carolina mask ban. #COVID #MaskUp #ClimateChange #disability https://chng.it/C7XNnpx9gL

dangillmor, 11 days ago to random

Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to write phony apologies.

This is right out of the authoritarian playbook -- and it craps on every notion of freedom of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/nyu-protests-apology-letters.html

You don't have to agree with the protestors' politics. But you should damn well understand that America is in wave of McCarthyism right now.

lolgop, 11 days ago to random

Johnson serves at Democrats' pleasure. Johnson's statements at Trump's trial were despicable. More than anything, this was a statement from the Speaker that he’s willing to steal the election for Trump, and Democrats should say, “Then you’re out.”
https://www.signorile.com/p/mike-johnson-should-be-threatened

katzenberger, 11 days ago to DadBin

3-year-old #RitalDweck survived the bombs on #Gaza, so far.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (#PRCS) assumes that by now, at least 15,103 #children did not.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240517-red-crescent-15000-children-have-been-killed-in-gaza/

sushubh, 11 days ago to random

Thailand: State-backed digital violence used to silence women

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/thailand-state-backed-digital-violence-silence-women-lgbti-activists/

pvonhellermannn, 12 days ago to random

#ClimateDiary Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law

😆😭😡🤣
(went for emojis as lost for words!)

https://newrepublic.com/post/181622/ron-desantis-climate-change-florida-law

metin, 12 days ago to Facebook

Who would have ever guessed that…?

𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-14/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-few-weeks-reduces-belief-in-fake-news.html

#facebook #social #media #SocialMedia #fake #news #FakeNews #disinformation #meta

theunderfold, 12 days ago to random

The Good Guys

gutenberg_org, 19 days ago to books

Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of.

Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.

By Debbie Passey. via @ConversationUK

https://theconversation.com/why-are-algorithms-called-algorithms-a-brief-history-of-the-persian-polymath-youve-likely-never-heard-of-229286

#books #mathematics #algorithm

tusk81, 19 days ago to random

This week marked six years since Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III stepped in front of cameras to announce that it would be the official US policy to tear children, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of asylum-seeking parents: https://americasvoice.org/blog/the-cruelty-was-the-point-of-trumps-family-separation-horror-show/ #FamiliesBelongTogether

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

#FollowTheMoney

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other