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ttpphd

@ttpphd@mastodon.social

Applied and translational sensory scientist. Advocate for bodily autonomy. Nonbinary feminist killjoy.

https://ttpphd.com

Alt-text: me, a chubby faced white person with long dark brown curly hair, giving side eye behind some glasses.

Banner: a person in a denim jacket on a bike with a life sized plastic skeleton attached to the rear carrier.

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mekkaokereke, to random
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4 years to the day after George Floyd was murdered, here's where we are:

  • Racist people are just as racist as the day before George Floyd was murdered.

  • Black people are still asking for the exact same things.

  • "Liberal" and "Centrist" white Americans are more racist, and less supportive of DEI than they were the day before George Floyd.

  • Police budgets have grown faster than they did the day before George Floyd.

  • Biden has undone any of the gains made during the protests.

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mekkaokereke,
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  • progressive DAs have been recalled, and NYC has 1000s of more cops than it had before.

  • Entire DEI programs have been shut down at major universities.

  • The FBI basically rebooted COINTELPRO, labelling and surveilling young black people who participated in the BLM protests as "Black identity extremists."

  • There has been no meaningful legislation passed to identify cops like Chauvin before they commit murder, and remove them from service. There's been no meaningful change in accountability

heidilifeldman, to random
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Here’s an excellent article about important lawsuits just filed on behalf of Uvalde families who lost loved ones to a mass shooting there. The families, represented by the same attorney who represented the Sandy Hook families, are suing Daniel Defense, the maker of the AR-15 used by the shooter, as well as the publisher of Call of Duty video games and Meta. (I am quoted in the story.) https://wapo.st/3R1Y9LA

heidilifeldman,
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“On May 16, 2022, the day the [Uvalde] Shooter purchased his Daniel Defense DDM4v7, Daniel Defense posted a social media advertisement showing a toddler holding a Daniel Defense AR-15 and a quote from Proverbs 22:6, “[t]rain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 🙏” 12/

jackiegardina, to Ethics
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Imagine the response if Justice Jackson had this flag flying outside her home.

inthehands, to random
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The author’s direct observations at USC, backed up by national study: “With few exceptions, the encampments have been overwhelmingly peaceful, well-organized microsocieties.” “The image of a lawless, violent, antisemitic pro-Palestinian mob stands completely at odds with the reality.”

But people •were• violence at USC. Who?

ttpphd, to music
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Welcome to a Saturday Morning #FediListen

It's where I go to the #music tag and I find the first three songs, listen to them, and give the songs a collective tarot reading.

The criteria:

-must use the music tag
-must include some way to listen to the music
-must include the title and artist
-must include some description of the music in the body of the post. Literally any attempt at description will do.
-must be only one song (not an album)

It is time! Let us commune with the Fediverse!

ttpphd,
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Open the third ear and receive the wisdom of the spirits.

The Reading!

Set name: Emotional Rebel

Pairs:
Hair / Bald
Metal Guitar / Vibraphone
Carefree / Troubled

Themes:
Rumors
Propaganda
Rebellion
Change
Abandonment
Insight
Intention
Reputation

Toward:
Trust in your intentions and resist being swayed by rumors. Reinterpretation is rebellion.

Away:
Deliver harsh messages softly. Those who are not ready, might not stay.

Toastie, to portland
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As extractive “wildcrafting” has become popular, supposedly treaty-protected access to ancestral gathering sites has diminished, says Michelle Week (Sinixt, Arrow Lakes), who runs x̌ast sq̓it, an Indigenous foods farm near .

“You have the privilege to go out and gather these things without fear of harassment, but my community, who’s native to this place, we just don’t have that luxury.”

https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-wildflower-is-teaching-the-non-native-public-about-food-sovereignty/

Toastie,
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Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk), author of the cookbook Chími Nu’am, says Native foods have a stigma---unless of course they’re on the menu at a #BayArea Michelin-starred French restaurant.

“They have rabbit, and quail, and deer meat, and our mushrooms, and our fish, and our shellfish, and all of that, that they are serving as the height of what you could eat as a human being. But they’re unavailable to the people who originally cultivated these foods into existence,” Olson says.

augieray, to random
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I am concerned that even the most -cautious experts are losing their focus. Everything from them is becoming H5N1 all the time. They're moving on.

TWO AMERICANS have bird flu. It does NOT transmit human-to-human. This could change, but that isn't today's risk.

10 MILLION Americans will get another COVID infection this month--during our "low" point--and 1 million or more of them will develop .

Keep your eyes more on the risks we face today than what we MAY face tomorrow.

chrisgeidner, to random
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BREAKING: Sens. Durbin, Whitehouse request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over Alito ethics scandal, call for Alito’s recusal in Jan. 6 cases. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-05-23-Letter-to-CJ-Roberts.pdf

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grimalkina, to random
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So I think this is a cool point too for those who are already trying to create good culture. Lots of people are interpersonally WARM, but not in a way that validates contributions and skills. In fact sometimes you can accidentally diminish contributions with warmth if the only way you've learned to say supportive things is very deprecating ("oh gosh we all make mistakes" is fine sometimes but if it's all someone hears?! Try "actually I saw that x was really good...")

https://blog.auengun.net/@gregdosh/statuses/01HYNKMHG0GCAP7NRFTN6JCX6Z

grimalkina,
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This relates in my mind to well documented other diffs like some people getting "support" but not sponsorship at work. If you are systematically ONLY receiving "warm feedback" you are actually being disadvantaged because what is being foregrounded about your work is always "feelings." But we need both, and recognition and reinterpretation of work in a strengths-based way isn't just about being "nice" it's about validating that we will choose to treat someone as a peer or even expert

assbach, to music German
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Wurde eben nochmal nach den "Call Of Fartage" Songs gefragt . Nichts für euch glaub ich, weil eher HipHop https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAv9OFugoggLDtNqcFcW5cLTRYjnOz42u

philipncohen, to random
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Trend update. Cohabitation displacing marriage.
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/cohabitation-displacing-marriage/

carithlee, to random
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WHO is in charge of this messaging

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/

squaregoldfish, to Facebook
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I got a notification on that plans to use my posts etc. for training and said they were using the Legitimate Interest justification for doing it.

I sent in an objection stating that using data for training AI doesn't fall within the remit of what a user might reasonably expect the company to do with my data on the basis of the service being provided: https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimate-interest/

They have upheld my objection and will not use my data. So you can do it too!

StillIRise1963, to random
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No one is joking with your asses when they say expand the court and fucking impeach these traitors.

cyrilpedia, to random
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"Normally, I celebrate when my papers are accepted, but not this time. This paper frustrated me because my article was accepted only after I reluctantly changed my writing from first person (“I”) to third person (“the author”). This change introduced false modesty, took away my agency, and made many sentences difficult to read and imprecise (which author—me, or one of the 77 authors I cited?). The third-person voice also inserted unnecessary barriers between me and readers."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316966121

evangreer, to random
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Alright, it's official. The dangerous & misguided Kids Online Safety Act () will go to a "mark up" vote in the House Energy & Commerce Committee this morning, Thursday, May 23. THIS IS JUST A SUBCOMMITTEE VOTE. WE CAN STILL STOP OR FIX THIS BILL! https://www.stopkosa.com

evangreer,
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Some important things: First,
has not been fixed. There have been several rounds of changes to the bill, some of which have convinced large DC-based NGOs to drop their opposition, but there is still a large coalition of LGBTQ, human rights, racial justice groups opposed.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Y'know...I really used to think that the weight of being wrong in light of bulletproof evidence would change people's minds about pretty much anything.

It doesn't. It really doesn't.

And I think that's because on some level people identify so deeply with the things that they belive that to change their mind in light of new evidence feels like some sort of betrayal instead of a logical step.

itsmeholland,
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@tkinias @ttpphd @Adam_Cadmon1 a lot of people's "beliefs," even the ones they consider scientific or logical, serve to support their system of values. When evidence presented contradicts our values, we tend to reject it. The adage about "getting more conservative as you age" is supposed to reflect on the changes in values that happen over a lifetime, not just political decisions.

People need to be shown not just that their knowledge is wrong, but that their values are wrong, which is harder.

zackwhittaker, to random
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NEW, by me: The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a consumer-grade spyware app called pcTattletale.

pcTattletale was seen stealthily and continually capturing screenshots of the hotel booking systems, which contained guest information and reservation details.

This was discovered because a security researcher found a flaw in the spyware is exposing these screenshots to the internet, not just the spyware's intended users.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spyware-found-on-hotel-check-in-computers/

hrefna, to random
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Converging on perfect, non-problematic language:

  1. Isn't possible.

  2. Erases a lot of identity in the margins.

  3. Will not fix oppression. Especially when your target audience are the group that uses that label.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

thj, to random
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We have created a society in which only a narrow sliver of the human experience is considered normal.

smitten, to random

"What tech issue radicalized you?"

Aaron Swartz downloaded PDFs from JSTOR so they hit him with a 13-count indictment and MIT didn't even step in to help him

black_intellect, to random
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Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering | https://boltsmag.org/minnesota-ends-prison-gerrymandering/

BenjaminHCCarr, to renewableenergy
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The One Thing That’s Holding Back the
One recent study found that if everyone in got a heat pump, it’d slash emissions in building sector by 36 to 64%, and cut overall national by 5-9%. (Because they’re fully electric, run on a grid increasingly loaded with .)
It’s not the technology itself. It’s that we don’t yet have enough trained workers to install heat pumps for full-tilt .
https://www.wired.com/story/heat-pump-worker-shortage/
https://archive.ph/dA2mV

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