kcarruthers

kcarruthers, 4 months ago to random

“Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains.

The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.” Via Dr Steve Campbell from the other place

He later references https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex

https://twitter.com/historian_steve/status/1745920780624711886?s=46&t=4TnCHrl_NkgPDLmdROH8hA

kcarruthers, 10 months ago to random

Russia=Nazi: “it turned out that the Kremlin initiated and paid for the lawsuit of the Alternative for Germany party, aimed at stopping the supply of German weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The AfD party members received from the Kremlin not only instructions, but even the texts of their own speeches aimed at reducing support for Ukraine.” https://twitter.com/feher_junior/status/1687429541831086081?s=61&t=JJuSa--kJdX04FADgZO2KA

http://theins.ru/politika/263990

kcarruthers, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?
If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2023/05/ceos-salaries-expensive-automate-robots

https://archive.is/FDPly

kcarruthers, 5 months ago to random

lol in today’s #Brexit means brexit news

kcarruthers, 8 months ago to random

Measles, mumps, rubella making a comeback thanks to #AntiVax movement and #VaccineHesitancy: Cases of deadly disease double in England as parents avoid jabs

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/cases-deadly-disease-double-england-27803614

kcarruthers, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

This kind of thing is why I 💚 mastodon and the team who are working on it. Thank you 💐

kcarruthers, 4 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Folks should really pay attention to this Trump project 2025 stuff. They are literally planning to get rid of government & experts & replace them with Trump loyalists.

They’re planning to sack 50k public servants as soon as they win.

It will break the US as we have known it.

This is literally the same thing that Hitler did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

kcarruthers, 9 months ago to random

Just sent my first “no I won’t come to your conference in Florida which is a state where as a woman I cannot safely access healthcare” email

kcarruthers, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I’ve been re-reading all my history books about the Nazis. One thing that strikes me is how hard it was to fight back against Nazism from inside. The normative culture is so strong and everybody is just going along. Ordinary folks, with denouncing their neighbours to the Gestapo. The Gestapo was tiny only 32k. It was the ordinary people that were informing on their neighbours. Ordinary people enabled Nazism.

kcarruthers, 11 months ago to random

Good news from Kaja Kallas: “It's official: #Estonia has legalised marriage equality. We join other Nordic nations with this historic decision.

I'm proud of my country. We're building a society where everyone’s rights are respected and people can love freely.

The decision will enter into force from 2024.”

kcarruthers, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.

You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.

More on this feature here:

https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/ ht @Mer__edith

kcarruthers, 11 months ago to random

Here's one for @internetofshit: Man locked out of smart home for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist

‘Unexpected and unwarranted’ exile began after Amazon driver misheard a response from a smart doorbell

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/smart-home-lock-out-amazon-b2358107.html#:~:text=Man%20locked%20out,a%20smart%20doorbell

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

Every time you read the term “Christian Nationalist” just substitute “Nazi”.

kcarruthers, 10 months ago to climate

Good grief! John Burn-Murdoch: “NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat".

This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.”

#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange #ClimateExtremes

kcarruthers, 1 month ago to random

Chinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after Chinese government shuts his lab

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0

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

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

“The big difference…was that all of the scientists I worked with were incredibly frustrated. Everyone was at the end of their rope, asking: what the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

kcarruthers, 6 months ago to random

The “Hunt for Hamas” Narrative Is Obscuring Israel’s Real Plans for Gaza

Israel has targeted courthouses, universities, and legislative halls. It has razed orchards, farmland, and greenhouses. Adam Johnson asks: Does any of this sound like a “hunt for Hamas?"

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hunt-hamas-narrative-gaza-israel-palestine/

kcarruthers, 9 months ago to LGBTQ

Bless them 🙏 The doors of Cork City Library stayed open today as a group of counter-protestors formed a human shield on the Grand Parade to block far-right agitators from making their way inside.

The #FarRight group has been harassing library staff for months in an attempt to get #LGBTQ+ books banned

ht @ritawild

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/human-shield-keeps-cork-city-27641644

kcarruthers, 6 months ago to random

People vaccinated before their first case of #COVID-19 are diagnosed with #LongCOVID almost four times less than unvaccinated people, suggests a large new study published Nov. 22 in the BMJ.

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076990

kcarruthers, 6 months ago to random

I do hope everyone is Europe is war gaming what NATO without the US looks like.

kcarruthers, 1 year ago to random

Aussies talking truth re the US and their gun culture

kcarruthers, 5 months ago to random

lol TikTok. Apparently now “Moms for Liberty” are now “Klanned Karenhood”

kcarruthers, 1 month ago to random

UC Davis spent ~$175k trying to repair its image & remove pic from net after a campus police officer pepper-sprayed student protesters on the Quad in Nov. 2011

https://theaggie.org/2016/04/14/documents-reveal-uc-davis-spent-175000-to-erase-pepper-spray-incident-from-internet/

kcarruthers, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context
The dread Israelis are feeling after today's assault, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long.
https://www.972mag.com/gaza-attack-context-israelis/