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| 1:18a |
New pun: the poet diversifies
New pun:
Q: Why did the poet start writing elegies?
A: Because he was given advice to die-versify.
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| 1:18a |
Protesting fossil-fueling, NY
Public pressure convinced Governor Hochul to drop her plan to change
New York law to permit
greater amounts of methane
emissions.
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| 1:18a |
Biggest public financing for fossil fuels
The OECD, an organization mostly of developed countries which
administers economic aid, has agreed on criteria for
"climate-friendly" projects which are
vulnerable to distortion.
For instance, hydrogen for intermediate storage of energy avoids
greenhouse gas emissions if the hydrogen is made by electrolysis of
water using 100% renewable electricity. If "clean hydrogen or
ammonia" is strictly defined that way, it would be a reasonable
policy. But planet roasters' playbook is to try to stretch that
policy
to include hydrogen made from fossil fuels.
Unless the policy is made firm and robust enough to prevent that,
they will twist it so that it speeds destruction.
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| 1:18a |
TikTok aggression
TikTok's algorithm recognizes a
user's points of vulnerability
as opportunities to get per hooked.
The article focuses on people of age 13, on the border between
childhood and adolescence. But I doubt that that algorithm treats
older users any better. Why would it?
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| 1:18a |
Urgent: Nursing homes and private equity
US citizens: call on the US Dept of Health to demand additional
financial disclosure about
nursing homes owned by private equity.
Here is an idea: make all fines for failure to follow standards of
care proportional to the total gross sales of the company responsible?
These private equity giants would split themselves up on the double to
avoid such big fines.
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| 12:17p |
Reacting to the bully's arrest
*[Right-wingers] see the law as a weapon, to be held by the in-group,
pointed at the out-group, which is to say they are tribalists
passionately committed to inequality. They find the idea of the
out-group pointing the law at the in-group outrageous and
upsetting. Thus their meltdown over an alleged criminal being
charged
with and arrested for his alleged crimes.*
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| 12:17p |
Putin's personal behavior
A defector says that Putin meets hardly anyone in person, does not use
the internet, and doesn't even have an assistant who uses it, so his
information about
reality is quite limited and filtered.
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| 12:17p |
Ice sheets, potential collapse rate
*Ice sheets can
collapse at 600 metres a day.*
This occurred in Antarctica at the end of the last ice age.
This means that sea level could rise catastrophically in mere decades.
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| 12:17p |
Memory's unreliable perceptions
Humans can develop erroneous memories
in a few seconds.
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| 12:17p |
Violent restrictions, al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem
Israeli thugs attacked Muslims in al-Aqsa mosque again. This time the
only violence came from the thugs. They hit dozens with sticks, then arrested hundreds, with
no visible excuse.
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| 12:17p |
Daycare child-play turned serious
*Two Colorado
child care workers will go on trial
this June for presiding over a day care center where a 5-year-old pulled down a 3-year-old's pants. Twice.*
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| 12:47p |
Urgent: This Julian Assange rally, Boston
This Julian Assange rally will be April 17, 11:30-1:00 at the
Government Center in front of the JFK Building, where our
senators have their offices.
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