FerdiMagellan

RealJournalism, 16 days ago to random

The big thing about the #Trump conviction is that even if the Supreme Court were to uphold presidential immunity, it would not apply to #NewYork because he was tried on state charges. Unless, of course, the SCOTUS wants to take an axe to States' Rights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/trump-trial-convicted-impact/

GottaLaff, 24 days ago to random

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ “During a marathon day of proceedings in the #Trump Mar-a-Lago classified #documents case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen #Cannon devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand” https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon-hearing?cid=ios_app

br00t4c, 1 month ago to random

This is just weird

#post

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/this-is-just-weird/56081/

RealJournalism, 1 month ago to ethelcain

Failing #Alabama Senator and forced pregnancy enjoyer Katie Britt is now proposing a national pregnancy register that she assures us would not be used to track the movements of pregnant women. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/11/2240194/-GOP-s-Gift-To-Moms-Katie-Britt-Wants-To-Have-A-National-Registry-Of-Pregnant-Women-in-MOMS-Act

NatureMC, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to climate

🧵 1/ Great action against #FastFashion, #Waste and #ClimateChange: The #AtacamaFashionShow https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/08/castoffs-to-catwalk-fashion-show-shines-light-on-vast-chile-clothes-dump-visible-from-space?utm_source=press.coop
I would like to see more of these #catwalks in television and #fashion magazines!
The #FashionWeek Website: https://atacamafashionweek.com/

And you can engage yourself in #FashionRevolution https://www.fashionrevolution.org/

@sewing @visiblemending @fiberarts @fibrearts

#SlowFashion #Upcycling #Environment #ClimateAction #PlasticWaste #Atacama

FerdiMagellan, 1 month ago to auspol

Police rarely charge sexual offences because they rarely investigate them, study says…

"Some of those suspects who weren't approached had serious violent history of family violence offences, or had previous charges of child sexual abuse and conviction.”

#Auspol #RapeCulture #ACTPolice

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/police-rarely-charge-sexual-offences-because-they-rarely-investigate-them-study-says/8ravrd39b

Teri_Kanefield, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

1/

dgar, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#LifeHack

neenish_tart, 1 month ago to Unions

Today, like many other West Australian teachers, I'm not going to work this morning.

It's interesting that our industrial action is represented in the media as about pay. We're not striking over salary - we're striking because the system is broken.

My son has had no Phys Ed teacher all year. He's had a procession of relief teachers which, for a special needs child, is extremely distressing. He attends an inner city public school, but staffing shortages are statewide.

Speaking of special needs students, I'd like to look after my own without having to skip lunch to ensure their needs are met.

I'd like the Education Department to give me a personal device so I can do my job
(more efficiently). If I want a laptop, I have to lease one.

I'd like an acknowledgement of how teaching has recently become more difficult and demanding, especially during #COVID19, when we kept schools open and tried to keep students safe.

I enforced the mask mandate far more often than a rank-and-file police officer. I've probably been threatened and assaulted more times than many police officers too. And the statewide mobile phone ban? Guess who enforces that every single day.

So many of my colleagues have left teaching: re-trained or resigned due to burnout and stress. Who suffers? The students.

It's not about the pay. We're tired, and we need support. We're underfunded and under-resourced. We need to improve conditions for students. We need to fix the system.

#sstuwa #union #unions #industrialaction #teachers #teaching #westernaustralia #Perth #solidarity #FixEd #australia #stopwork #strike

impactology, 2 months ago to random

Universities and Their Function by Alfred North Whitehead

https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEEwhiteheadunivfxtable.pdf

"A university is imaginative or it is nothing - at least nothing useful"

"Imagination can only be communicated by a faculty whose members themselves wear their learning with imagination"

"The whole art in the organisation of a university is the provision of a faculty whose learning is lighted up with imagination"

That's key, an imaginative faculty. Absence of which the purpose of a uni ceases to exist.

StillIRise1963, 2 months ago to random

We live in a place where William Shatner will narrate the eclipse, not a scientist.

FerdiMagellan, 2 months ago to Scotland

Mhairi Black pledged to deliver a "brutally honest" look at politics as she was announced as one of the acts taking to the stage at the Gilded Balloon venue in Edinburgh this summer.

##Scotland #SNP #MhairiBlack #EdinburghFestival
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/mhairi-black-pledges-brutally-honest-look-at-politics-in-her-first-fringe-show/ar-BB1kTXJH?cvid=f0bc38b4394e4abd93c311575aa5a599&ei=65

CelloMomOnCars, 2 months ago to climate

How federal tax dollars meant to fight #ClimateChange could end up boosting #Louisiana’s fossil fuel production

"On the surface, these projects seem beneficial. Keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere prevents the greenhouse gas from fueling climate change. In practice, however, this may lead to a net increase in #FossilFuel production and more emissions.

Louisiana has taken advantage of disasters to boost the fossil fuel industry before."

https://theconversation.com/how-federal-tax-dollars-meant-to-fight-climate-change-could-end-up-boosting-louisianas-fossil-fuel-production-225885

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 months ago to auscovid19

"COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level," clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly said

#COVID19 #brainhealth @auscovid19

Source: https://people.com/covid-linked-lower-iq-poor-memory-other-negative-impacts-brain-health-8619254

Al-Aly, who is director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System in Missouri, wrote that he has been studying long COVID since early reports of the disease and before the term was even coined by the medical community. He explained in his essay that "large epidemiological analyses" showed that people who had COVID were at an increased risk of cognitive deficits including memory problems. A study of people with a mild to moderate form of the virus showed significant, prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that "are commensurate with seven years of brain aging." Al-Aly also cited imaging studies done on people both before and after their COVID infections, which showed "shrinkage of brain volume" and "altered brain structure" after infection. Other research reveals that people who require hospitalization or intensive care amid their COVID infection may develop "cognitive deficits and other brain damage that are equivalent to 20 years of aging."
In addition, Al-Aly highlighted preliminary analysis pooling together data from 11 studies that showed that COVID increased the risk of development of new-onset dementia in people older than 60. He also noted that autopsies performed on people who died with COVID revealed "devastating damage" in their brains. Autopsies of people who had severe COVID but died a few months later from other causes showed that the virus was still present in brain tissue, suggesting that "SARS-CoV-2 is not only a respiratory virus." Studies assessing patients hospitalized with COVID who experienced brain fog indicate that the virus can disrupt the blood-brain barrier, "the shield that protects the nervous system, which is the control and command center of our bodies," Al-Aly wrote. Most recently, Al-Aly said, a study published on Feb. 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine assessed cognitive abilities including spatial reasoning, memory and planning in nearly 113,000 people who had previously had COVID. "The researchers found that those who had been infected had significant deficits in memory and executive task performance," he wrote. The deficits were seen among people infected with the virus in the early phase of the pandemic, as well as when the delta and omicron variants dominated. According to Al-Aly, that same study found that "those who had mild and resolved COVID-19 showed cognitive decline equivalent to a three-point loss of IQ." Those with unresolved persistent symptoms —

grrrr_shark, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Hey #SwissBubble - I have a really dumb question, but I need to get this resolved.

It's been hanging over my head since a couple of years in to the pandemic, and I've finally decided that I must do something about it.

I have a car. It's an old Hyundai i10 that no one here in Switzerland is likely to buy. It probably does not run right now because it's been sitting in a parking space in a garage for two years without being moved.

It is not registered in Switzerland. The title is German, but I never registered it here, because it would have required going out during lockdown etc.

So basically, even if it ran, it couldn't be legally driven, as it would have to be repaired to the correct state to pass inspection.

I've found I just don't need a car.

And so I'm really not willing to poke around to find someone who will tow the car from its underground garage parking space and then not screw me making it inspection-ready. Especially since I don't understand much Swiss German, and mechanics etc do like to take advantage of that.

I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT CARS.

What I do know is that I need to get rid of this car. The best case is that I can sell it to someone for spare parts, but I just don't have the communications wherewithall to do that.

Does anyone, ANYONE, who knows what the best thing to do in this situation is in Switzerland? Who to contact? What to look out for?

My ADHD/executive function problems/social anxiety are screwing me here, but I really want to get rid of this thing and just buy a nice cargo e-bike.

EDIT: I appreciate the ideas I've gotten from people in other places, but I'm really looking for a Swiss perspective here, and definitely not for a recap of Google results. Thanks!!!

impactology, 3 months ago to random

Ruth, I have a question for you @RuthMalan how might you teach software architecture to academics from fields like this who want to transition to tech by translating their domain knowledge into products?

In what way can we design a syllabus or a roadmap for them that helps them practice all the skills required for them to do that but also to do that in a way that connects their knowledge with our syllabus's assignments/modules/exercises

mitchw, 3 months ago to random

Exxon CEO Darren Woods says the quiet part out loud: The problem with renewable energy sources is that they “don't generate above-average returns for Exxon's shareholders.” — @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/06/exxonknew/

The sun generates virtually limitless and free energy, with much of it available in the form of wind and tides. And we’re already well underway to harnessing that energy.

FerdiMagellan, 3 months ago to auspol

“Looking back, Morrison’s vision for the country was already forming. He knew there were certain people you could blame for their own deaths. He knew the difference between us and them. He knew the usefulness of cruelty.”
#Auspol #TheSaturdayPaper #ScottMorrison #WorstPMEver #LNPCrimeFamily

From: @trib
https://aus.social/@trib/112022850976836192

msquebanh, 3 months ago to random

HIjabi (Wrap My Hijab) is the debut single from Mona Haydar.

https://youtu.be/XOX9O_kVPeo?si=AJU2cg5hGwKuwA62

FerdiMagellan, 3 months ago to random

#TheDailyShow #USPol #TreasonWeasel

‘She added, “But that’s where we’re at. That is the big split in the Republican party today. Do you think Joe Biden won the election, or did you take a shit on Nancy Pelosi’s desk?”’

From: @br00t4c
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/111980925953344526

br00t4c, 3 months ago to random

Shamima Begum Loses Appeal Against Loss Of UK Citizenship

#shamimabegum

https://www.mediaite.com/uk/shamima-begum-loses-appeal-against-loss-of-uk-citizenship/

br00t4c, 3 months ago to random

Kevin Durant Confronts fan for Calling him the B Word [WATCH]

#kevindurant

https://heavy.com/sports/phoenix-suns/kevin-durant-confronts-fan-for-calling-him-the-b-word-watch/

mondoweiss, 3 months ago to Palestine

Overnight on Wednesday, stretching into the early hours of Thursday morning, an intense bombing campaign took place across Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.

“This is absolutely terrifying in a densely populated area. Right now, Rafah has been a center for Israeli attacks,” Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum added.

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-139-as-palestinians-in-north-gaza-starve-israel-attacks-msf-building-in-rafah/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

gerrymcgovern, 3 months ago to random

"The Nordic states are letting go of values and infrastructure resources that are dear to the welfare state – from shared access to public resources to democratic values and universal access to communication and electricity – while intensifying digitalization and dependencies on Silicon Valley companies."

The public values of openness, affordability of connection and universal access to infrastructure are under threat by Big Tech.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/reimagining-public-values-in-algorithmic-futures/whats-new/dismantling-public-values-one-data-center-at-the-time

Kathmandu, 4 months ago to TaylorSwift

Oh. I just got it.

Taylor Swift called on her followers to register to vote. Taylor Swift inspires young women who are more likely to vote left-wing.

So now I'm seeing a zillion re-posts of news articles about "Taylor Swift has a private jet: she is an evil polluting billionaire" because the right wing wants to suppress her political influence.

That's why we're seeing 'news' about just her jet, not anyone else's. It's a coordinated propaganda campaign.

#PrivateJet #TaylorSwift