Carol

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So very, very confused by it all. But, heck, that keeps it interesting.

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Here are some nice mushrooms

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If you're a parent who wants to protect your kids from sexual abuse, teach them : 1- The proper names of their body parts 2- The difference between a secret and a surprise 3- To prioritize their safety over notions of politeness 4- Teach them what a safe adult is - in detail

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We're on like the 4th consecutive empty tech cycle - "big data" then "crypto/blockchain" then "metaverse" now "A.I." - while a huge technological revolution that will change our entire economy in the form of solar energy and grid storage happens basically unnoticed in the background.

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Current moment reminds me a lot of the dotcom era, where investor money chased web and telecom companies while the *real* technological revolution was happening quietly in the background in the form of LCD/LED displays and lithium ion batteries (converging dramatically on the iPhone)

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What is the best Simpsons episode to introduce someone to the Simpsons?

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Weird that no one has come up with a tool for evaluating infrastructure systems and identifying at risk elements for targeted intervention. 🤔 Oh wait. There's a whole set of directly relevant tools and tested processes! pievc.ca/protocol/

PIEVC Protocol and Resources – PIEVC Programpievc.ca

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Oh and the other especially delightful bit of this paper: Selectively targeting the right power grid segments to harden is ***15x*** more effective than just choosing at random. Climate adaptation work needs DATA. Not VIBES. So, sciencey types: let's get to work.

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I know I already did a #DailyPaper but I'm re-upping: Compound hurricane/blackout risk in Houston increases over 20x in a high emissions scenario by 2100. BUT Can cut that risk ***nearly in half*** by burying just ***5% of power lines*** Strategic, targeted investments in adaptation matter.

WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

Tropical cyclone-blackout-heatwave compound hazard resilience in a changing climate - Nature Communicationswww.nature.com The study found that long-duration heatwaves are much more likely to follow power-damaging tropical cyclones in the future RCP8.5 climate, with the impact of longer-than-5-day tropical cyclone-blackou...

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Basic income is just money. Poverty is unjust lack of money.

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@joshuajfriedman.com look at our cute new sticker!! www.fox8live.com/2024/07/08/l...

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One helluva story on the impacts of Bitcoin on the health of people in a Texas community after a local business invested in Bitcoin farming computers that run at all hours... Sociology episky 🛟 policysky polisky lawsky 🧪 Medsky 📈🧭

Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Towntime.com A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.

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Well, here's the source which gives necessary context: holleyarchaeology.com/index.php/th...

“Stonehenge” Lake Michigan by Dr. Mark Holley – Dr Mark Holley – Underwater Archaeologistholleyarchaeology.com

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Statewide Office of Pretrial Services release new data dashboard detailing Pretrial Fairness Act implementation. Of the cases overseen by Pretrial Services in 75 counties, failure to appear warrants were issued in just 5% of cases. capitolnewsillinois.com/news/after-9...

After 9 months, state data begins to detail new pretrial detention systemcapitolnewsillinois.com By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois [email protected] Nine months after cash bail ended in Illinois, the state is taking its first steps in publishing the data that...

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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.

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And just to be clear, this isn’t about people who are not voting for a candidate because their conscience won’t allow it. That is also a thing people are allowed to do, and normalize letting people vote (or not) the dictates of their conscience.

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It doesn’t mean I’m planning on “sitting this out” or that I think that my dislike for Candidate Y means I think Candidate Y is “just as bad as” Fash McFascist. I didn’t like Hillary and I worked for her campaign for 20+ hours a week because I knew Trump posed a bigger threat than people thought.

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It is fully okay to vote for the NLRB board being able to protect unions and the FTC to keep all our grocery stores from being owned by the same entity. You don’t have to like the goddamn candidate.

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People vote for candidates that they don’t like. If your rule is “no, you also have to like them, and I will angrily insist you do so” you are telling people they shouldn’t vote for a candidate they don’t like. Nobody has to like a politician.

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Important detail of this (overly generous) piece: This conspiracy theory started from NYPost and Alex Berenson. People who call themselves journalists took as assignment editor a right wing propaganda outlet and a notorious conspiracy theorist.

The eagerness to get ahead of Biden infirmities got some people out over their skis on Monday. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The Biden-Parkinson’s mini-controversy, explainedwww.washingtonpost.com One effect of Biden’s poor debate performance? New eagerness to uncover evidence of Biden’s physical failings.

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Here's my latest medical horror story from the federal jail in Brooklyn. Staff at the Metropolitan Detention Center ignored an inmate's cancer diagnosis for months, letting a mass in his lungs grow to double its size as he coughed up blood, defense lawyers say. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/09/b...

Brooklyn federal jail ignores inmate’s lung cancer diagnosis in latest medical messwww.nydailynews.com Terrence Wise is the latest inmate subjected to what defense attorneys and judges describe as grievous medical mistreatment at Metropolitan Detention Center.

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Updated: I read the NYT Front Page so you didn't have to.

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Intro credits on Evil continue to be the best.

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Lissa Harris

Everyone I know who wrote near-future SF has switched, because it was just too depressing to see your worst-case predictions for 30 years in the future show up in the early stages in the present. Easier to write about dragons or spaceships.

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brb writing a darkly comic near-future SF novel where FEMA and NOAA and USGS got junked and all the actual disaster and weather experts went to work logistics at fast casual restaurant chains

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look, the answer to “crops will rot in the fields” after mass deportation is “chain gangs from for-profit prisons” they’re just not showing that card right now

Mass deportation is a kitchen table issue, and Trump and the GOP need to be hounded about it. "Kids will come from school to homes without their parents. Businesses would lose workers, some would just shutter. Crops would rot in the fields.” zacharymueller.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

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Sentencing dates have been set for FTX's Nishad Singh and Gary Wang. Singh is scheduled to be sentenced on October 30, and Wang on November 20.