SteveThompson

SteveThompson, 19 hours ago to ukteachers

Congrats, Dorothy Jean Tillman II, and welcome!

"A Chicago teen entered college at 10. At 17, she earned a doctorate from Arizona State"

https://apnews.com/article/teen-phd-doctorate-arizona-faabf1ca930f141f6a9690419d7a2b47

"In between came associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

When Tillman successfully defended her dissertation in December, she became the youngest person — at age 17 — to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at Arizona State...

Most of her classwork was done remotely and online."

#education #Tillman #PhD #ASU

SteveThompson, 19 hours ago to random

"Judge overseeing Giuliani bankruptcy castigates former mayor’s ‘troubling attitude vis-à-vis the law,’ rejects bid to appeal $148 million defamation judgment"

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/i-am-disturbed-judge-overseeing-giuliani-bankruptcy-castigates-former-mayors-troubling-attitude-vis-a-vis-the-law-rejects-bid-to-appeal-148-million-defamation-judgment/

#GOP #Giuliani #defamation #bankruptcy

SteveThompson, 23 hours ago to Futurology

"Dreams Dull the Distress of Emotional Memories"

https://neurosciencenews.com/dreaming-emotional-memory-26099/

"Dreaming helps prioritize and diminish the severity of emotionally charged memories. Participants who reported dreaming had better recall and were less reactive to negative images.

The research suggests that dreams actively transform emotional responses by reducing next-day emotional reactivity. This could lead to interventions that enhance dreaming to aid emotional processing."

#brain #dreams #emotions #distress

SteveThompson, 1 day ago to nyc

“Stop this from getting out"

https://www.wjcl.com/article/michael-cohen-testimony-trump-trial/60778463

"Star witness Michael Cohen directly implicates Trump in testimony at hush money trial.

Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his celebrity client tasked him on several occasions to stifle stories about sex that he feared could torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign."

#GOP #Trump #hushmoney #Cohen #MichaelCohen #NYC #StormyDaniels

SteveThompson, 1 day ago to jazz

RIP "David Sanborn, Renowned Jazz Saxophonist and David Bowie Collaborator, Dies at 78"

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/david-sanborn-jazz-saxophonist-dead-1236001258/

"Renowned jazz saxophonist David Sanborn, who collaborated with David Bowie and Stevie Wonder, died at 78 from prostate cancer."

#jazz #davidsanborn

SteveThompson, 2 days ago to random

"Macron party candidate says she was tricked into ‘neo-Nazi’ group photo"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/macron-party-candidate-says-she-was-tricked-into-neo-nazi-group-photo/

"Valerie Hayer, vying for European Parliament role, says she didn’t notice racist slogans on clothing of men she took a photo with"

SteveThompson, 2 days ago to random

"Welcome to the Laser Wars"

https://www.wired.com/story/laser-wars-us-military-laser-weapons/

"The United States Army has officially sent a pair of high-energy laser weapons overseas to defend American troops and US allies against enemy drones, the service recently revealed, marking the first publicly known deployment of a directed-energy system for air defense in military history. And, according to a top official, those weapons are actively blasting threats out of the sky."

SteveThompson, 2 days ago to random

"Actor Steve Buscemi randomly punched in Manhattan"

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/actor-steve-buscemi-randomly-punched-in-manhattan/

SteveThompson, 3 days ago to random

Never forget. Tonight was the night Nemo beat Baby Lasagna.

SteveThompson, 3 days ago to Palestine

"Hillary Clinton: Anti-Israel protesters ‘don’t know very much’ about the Middle East"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hillary-clinton-anti-israel-protesters-dont-know-very-much-about-the-middle-east/

"'Propaganda is not education,' says ex US secretary of state, slamming campus activists for ignorance of Palestinians' rejection of husband Bill Clinton's 2000 peace initiative.'

#Hamas #protest #Palestine #Hillary #Clinton #Israel #propaganda

SteveThompson, 3 days ago to Eurovision

Good for her. Beautiful, talented, and courageous.

"Eden Golan gives a flawless performance in Eurovision final despite boos"

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-800825

"Eden Golan faces mixed reactions performing 'Hurricane' at Eurovision, referencing the October 7 massacre, amid cheers and boos, she remains composed."

#Eurovision #EdenGolan #Israel

SteveThompson, 3 days ago to CreditCards

Good news for voters who like high credit card fees and Donald Trump.

"Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap"

https://thehill.com/business/4658227-trump-appointed-judge-halts-biden-administration-credit-card-late-fee-cap/

#GOP #Trump #republicans #Biden #creditcards

SteveThompson, 4 days ago to random

People dead due to this awful act.

"4 years ago this week: Trump claims that COVID-19 would just ‘go away’"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/11/2239949/-4-years-ago-this-week-Trump-claims-that-COVID-19-would-just-go-away

"Four years ago this week, Donald Trump claimed that the U.S. had 'met the moment and … prevailed,' not over COVID-19, but over the test shortage that had hobbled the nation's response for over four months as the virus spread around the world and across the country. As with most things Trump said about the pandemic, that was a lie."

#covid #pandemic #trump

SteveThompson, 4 days ago to random

"Recent research introduces ‘anendophasia’ as a term for the absence of inner speech, revealing that not everyone experiences internal dialogue. The study compared adults with low and high levels of inner speech, finding significant differences in their cognitive abilities."

https://neurosciencenews.com/anendophasia-inner-speech-26087/

"Those with minimal inner speech struggled more with verbal working memory and rhyme judgments, although their task-switching abilities were unaffected."

SteveThompson, 4 days ago to Ethics

This SCOTUS is corrupted.

Toxic partisan politics is corrupting every segment of society, bit by bit, from civilian life to government to church to media to education and everything in-between, eating away at it all, like a cancer.

"Clarence Thomas Complains About ‘Awful’ People After His Ethics Scandals"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clarence-thomas-complains-awful-people-ethics-scandals-1235019035/

"The Supreme Court Justice faced criticism following revelations that he had accepted a slew of lavish gifts from a billionaire"

#scotus #ethics #politics #Thomas

SteveThompson, 4 days ago to random

"FBI arrest South Dakota man for Jan. 6 assault at U.S. Capitol"

https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/fbi-arrest-south-dakota-man-for-jan-6-assault-at-u-s-capitol/

"Darrell Goins, of Newell, S.D. is charged with six felony offenses. According to U.S. Department of Justice Goins’ actions and others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress while they counted and assured the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election."

#GOP #Trump #Jan6 #insurrectionists #SD #Capitol
#SouthDakota

SteveThompson, 4 days ago to random

You may find Ann Coulter (Coultergeist) brings little of value to the table, but her vitriolic rhetoric on Fox is what first woke me up to the hate of the Other that was infiltrating the GOP about 20 years ago.

I left the GOP then, mostly because of Coulter, and because George Bush failed humanity with his lack of requisite compassion during Katrina.

So thanks, Ann. Carry on your ugliness, and may God keep exposing it to the light as more Republicans run away from you.

https://www.thewrap.com/ann-coulter-wouldnt-vote-for-vivek-ramaswamy-indian/

SteveThompson, 5 days ago to tesla

"Eight hundred protesters attempt to storm German Tesla factory"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/10/tesla-protest-germany-factory

"Demonstrators opposed to expansion of factory near Berlin claim it would damage environment"

#Tesla #Berlin #Germany #Musk

SteveThompson, 5 days ago to random

"A cyberattack on a big US health system diverts ambulances and takes records offline"

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/cyberattack-big-us-health-system-diverts-ambulances-takes-110111791

"A cyberattack on the Ascension health system across the U.S. diverted ambulances, caused patients to miss medical visits and blocked online access to their records"

#cyberattack #Ascension #data #breach

SteveThompson, 5 days ago to humanrights

"Trump vows to reverse transgender student protections ‘on day one’"

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4656405-donald-trump-transgender-students-athletes-title-ix-lgbtq/

#GOP #Trump #Republicans #humanrights #transrights #trans #LGBTQ #education

SteveThompson, 5 days ago to random

"The Nasty Problem of Cleaning Up Space Junk at 17,500 Miles Per Hour"

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-space-junk-problem/ #paywall

"To fix Earth’s tricky orbital debris problem, startups and governments are testing everything from kamikaze satellites to robotic grappling arms."

SteveThompson, 6 days ago to Columbia

"Jewish Columbia Students Release Letter Calling Out Antisemitism On Campus"

https://meidasnews.com/news/jewish-columbia-students-release-letter-calling-out-antisemitism-on-campus

"More than 250 students have signed onto the open letter"

#Hamas #Columbia #Jews #antisemitism

SteveThompson, 7 days ago to ai

By 'responsibly' they likely mean 'profitably' as online porn is where the big bucks are and they are in it for profit.

"OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn"

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-exploring-how-to-responsibly-generate-ai-porn/

"OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #porn #press