Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

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Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Foodie & Gardener

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An article in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, using the conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths in Gaza for every one direct death (in other conflicts it’s been 3-15x), calculates that Israel has killed approximately 186,000 Palestinians. That is 8% of the population of Gaza.

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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How Jane McAlevey Transformed the Labor Movementwww.newyorker.com The renowned organizer and theorist has a terminal-cancer diagnosis. But she has long been fighting the clock.

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If you haven't already done so, please consider becoming a monthly sustainer for as little as $5 a month or making a one time donation. We're less than $600 away from the halfway point for this month: donorbox.org/support-the-...

An update on where we are: $1845 gross donations 65 total donors & about 25 new monthly donors It looks like over $650 will be recurring monthly donors!! This is such a good start! Thank you to everyone who has joined in support! donorbox.org/support-the-... Let's keep it going!

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)donorbox.org Right now, abortion is only legal in South Carolina through 6 weeks of pregnancy, before most people even know they are pregnant.How Much Does an Abortion Cost?A medication abortion in South Carolina ...

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My subscription ends next month. I'm not renewing. So gotta get these gift links out: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/w...

In Rafah, We Saw Destruction and the Limits of Israel’s Gaza Strategywww.nytimes.com Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.

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In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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“The Bear” is the story of a workaday Chicago sandwich joint switching gears to embrace haute cuisine. But restaurant kitchens of all types are an ecosystem where class issues play out. How well — or not — does “The Bear” tackle these themes? Gift link www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/c...

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This figure illustrates how record warm ocean temperatures fueled Hurricane Beryl, causing it to intensify faster, reach greater strength, maintain that strength for longer, and likely dump more rain than it would have otherwise. Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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As people react to the horrible crime of someone getting pushed in front of a BART train, worth noting platform screen doors prevent this and are standard in subways around the world. BART decided against them because $24m was too expensive. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

BART shelves costly plan for barrier to keep people off trackswww.sfchronicle.com The idea was complicated, but the need seemed clear: a see-through wall between the BART...

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Good interview with Grieve Chelwa on the Kenya protests and how IMF loan repayment is at the core of the youth revolt there youtu.be/quYCINP35nQ?...

EXPLAINED: Mass Protests in Kenyayoutu.be Zambian Economist Grieve Chelwa joins Bad Faith to explain how mass protests in Kenya defeated IMF-backed austerity policies, and how the IMF and World Bank use debt as a mechanism of control. Dr. Chelwa charts how the BRICS bank & dedollarization may provide a way out for countries struggling under western debt-control, and the crucial role global solidarity must play. This is one of those big picture episodes you wont want to miss. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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Abuse of power, herd mentality, and outright fraud have protected the scientists pursuing the amyloid hypothesis for decades, at the expense of other researchers… and millions of people with Alzheimer’s who deserve better

“But very few diseases of aging have just one cause. It’s just not logical,” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/o...

Opinion | All the Alzheimer’s Research We Didn’t Dowww.nytimes.com The hyper-focus on one theory for treatment has slowed progress.

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I laughed, a LOT

You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Elon Musk's SpaceX facility is wreaking havoc on fragile ecosystems in South Texas: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/u...

SpaceX’s Assault on a Fragile Habitat: Four Takeaways From Our Investigationwww.nytimes.com The development of Elon Musk’s facility in South Texas did not play out as local officials were originally told it would.

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One of the reasons TA work is sometimes (AND OFTEN NOT) repetitive lower-skilled tasks is bc these are training tasks for early career scholars. If we automate them and eliminate the positions associated with them, we are explicitly gutting the future of these fields.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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This presumes every state has a mechanism for citizen-driven ballot initiatives/referenda. In fact, only 26 states provide for these measures. I didn't know this until I lived and did advocacy in Indiana. ballotpedia.org/States_with_...

Honest question: who is in charge of making sure abortion access is on the ballot in every single state? Who is running point on this?

States with initiative or referendumballotpedia.org Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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"Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.” The war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled peoplewww.motherjones.com “Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.”

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Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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What could possibly go wrong?

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Wow, maybe competence and experience really does matter for public services. Who knew? (Anyone who studies public organizations. Or, really, anyone with an ounce of common sense).

According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."

Texas kids lose up to 4 months of learning with new uncertified teachers, study findswww.dallasnews.com Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math, the Texas Tech study found.

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University presidencies and governing boards increasingly select for all the worst possible qualities. Good at quashing dissent, securing defense funding, upping sports rankings, enhancing exclusivity, attracting strings-attached dirty-money-laundering donations from alums? You're in!

"In her 4 yrs @ StonyBrook, McInnis’s admin repudiated a professor who had criticized the local police. And she created an expanded safety dept" — an office of "enterprise risk management" — "complete with intelligence capabilities," "sweeping authority" + a Sliwa/Giuliani-backed former-NYPD leader

Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook Universitywww.nytimes.com In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

Homophily is the cage you don't know you're in

I have learned that when someone says “no one is talking about X! Why aren’t people outraged about Y!” it says more about the politics and demographics of their networks than anything else

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Well this is grim

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Well this is grim

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Wow. “In April, buyers paid entirely in cash for 64 percent of the homes sold in Manhattan, according to Marketproof, a provider of New York City real estate data. In contrast, cash buyers accounted for 39 percent of April sales in large U.S. metro areas.”

In Manhattan Real Estate, Cash Is Everythingwww.nytimes.com All-cash purchases shot up to 64 percent of home sales in the borough. Here’s who’s buying.

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Trends are for people without style

Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

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2 friends have COVID 2 others continue to deal with the life altering effects of long COVID, which isn’t new but always reminds me of the importance of minimizing risk gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...

NYC COVID cases up 250% in 2 months — and this variant's harder to duckgothamist.com The increases is driven by the new FLiRT variant.

I'm so very tired

It’s just, fuck man, I’m still supposed to break my back to save racists from themselves to spare myself from the other racists? And get spit on while doing it? Cool cool cool. Love the democratic process.

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seems fine

“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”

Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.