CharlieMcHenry

sundogplanets, 21 hours 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, 22 hours 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

kaitlinsundling, 1 day 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, 3 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, 3 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, 2 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, 2 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, 3 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, 4 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, 4 days ago to random

The Good Guys

anirvan, 11 days ago to random

"The music industry has been silent on Palestine. Star athletes, so central to the Black Lives Matter movement, have largely been too scared to speak. Most of Hollywood has kept quiet. I know artists and athletes who want to speak up for Palestine but are correctly concerned that they would be putting their careers in danger."

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/macklemore-hinds-hall-palestine/

gutenberg_org, 10 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

pluralistic, 11 days ago to random

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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nelsonakis, 11 days ago to Eurovision

Protests against Israel's participation in Eurovision are happening right now in Malmö, Sweden 🇵🇸

#BoycottEurovision #Eurovision #Israel #Palestine

tusk81, 10 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

QasimRashid, 13 days ago to random

12 MAGA GOP Senators threaten the ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, as well as the ICC, as well as Khan's family. They call prosecution of Israel for war crimes an attack on US sovereignty. What?

Btw threatening the ICC is also a violation of int'l law.
https://t.co/pVvXi4IB6C

RickiTarr, 15 days ago to random

No one is more irrationally angry than a politician being accused of something they actually did.

aBirdieOnaWire, 15 days ago to newhampshire

#USPol
In #NewHampshire a bill was passed to end child marriage and raise the min. age to marry to 18.

The bill passed the Senate unanimously and in the House it passed 192 to 174.

ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR!!! voted to sustain child marriage! WTF? And they say they need to protect kids from trans people!

One GOP representative argued this would restrict the freedom of those who are of “a ripe and fertile age”.
This is the modern day republican party folks.

https://shorturl.at/qAFWZ

mike, 15 days ago to random

Well, I got my first white supremacist reply from the fediverse after posting an article about Elon from Flipboard.

I reported and blocked the account. I also looked at the instance admin's account and it's clear he's also a white supremacist. So that instance will be blocked on flipboard.com and flipboard.social as well as shared with other instance admins as a problematic instance for them to take action if they also deem appropriate. Took all of 2 minutes to help make the fediverse a bit better for everyone.

And the best thing is that anyone in the fediverse can do this too. Decentralized moderation FTW.

AmishSuperModel, 15 days ago to random

Great article about how religion became part of American Law (and NOT by it’s Founders as some like to claim).

“The National Day of Prayer kicked off a profusion of official endorsements of religion: the National Prayer Breakfast (1953); “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance (1954); a Congressional Prayer Room in the U.S. Capitol (1955); “In God We Trust” as the U.S. motto (1956), on our money (1957) and inscribed on the rostrum of the speaker of the House (1962).”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/abolish-national-prayer-day/

mostaurelius, 15 days ago to Columbia

NYC Mayor Smears Grandmother as Columbia “Outside Agitator”

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/03/nyc-eric-adams-columbia-outside-agitator-al-arian/

#USnews #NewYork #protest #Columbia #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ceasefire #police

sy, 19 days ago to climate

'“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.

“It’s a graveyard out there.”

#climatechange #climatediary

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis

SmudgeTheInsultCat, 19 days ago to random

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