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That's what happened during the #Trump years, when rail lobbyists secured the repeal of a long-overdue, hard-won safety regulation that would have required rail companies to replace the Civil-War-era brakes on their rolling stock with modern #ElectronicallyControlledPneumaticBrakes (#ECP):
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/rail-companies-safety-rules-ohio-derailment-brake-sytems-regulations
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Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant. This imperils land they claim is theirs. #Russia has a rich history of ruining their own land, "we will out die you" seems their doctrine. #Ukraine
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155761686/russia-is-draining-a-massive-ukrainian-reservoir-endangering-a-nuclear-plant
h/t @morgfair
Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 / h/t @playingwithdust
@micahflee @chargrille @jesusmargar @atomicpoet oh cool, thank you.
@micahflee @chargrille @jesusmargar @atomicpoet so when I search someone by the name I know them by, like a journalist or pundit, and find a matching account in Mastodon with a few old posts that now seems dead, it might be a defunct account from before they migrated to a different server?
@JoyceResistAndVote I have an active account and I see we have a lot of shared interests. Let me know if you have any favorite recommendations for follows, too.
Hi everyone!
I'm #newhere and I'm doing a #twittermigration , so any of you tired of the #GQPClownShow and their #BloatedOrangeIdol , I would appreciate a follow!
Tyre Nichols documents: Officer never explained stop to him | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/law-enforcement-tyre-nichols-memphis-3c20513e067d2f55786d8f42cf98b3c6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_05
#Politics #Law_enforcement #AP_Top News #U.S._News #Tyre_Nichols #Memphis
Anyway, now that a ton of journalists are flocking back to Mastodon... you should read my article about how all your articles about Mastodon "slumping" were bullshit. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/
@panther_modern @SocialistStan @leemadgwick did you learn nothing from last decade? A lot of fake news is laughably sloppy, just a parade of red flags for anyone who looks twice, from dodgy urls to wildly improbable claims to scenes that aren’t even from the right country and have visible signage in the wrong language. But they get thousands upon thousands of shares and interactions anyway. It only has to be believable for a second to do damage.
@go_shrumm @leemadgwick but unfortunately, as the legal and psychology fields know but few others really understand the extent of, eyewitness memory is actually complete garbage, and it was a glimmer of hope that technology was just starting to move society away from such complete reliance on it.
The State of the Union as Seen Through My Twitter Feed (Sorry Fediverse!)
Today's #DogShirtDaily is out!
https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-state-of-the-union-as-seen-through?sd=pf
It’s us, we’re publishing company https://thehill.com/homenews/3845798-publishing-company-will-offer-free-black-history-e-books-especially-in-florida/
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scientific papers: https://unpaywall.org/ #science #free
👇🇹🇷🇸🇾"Death toll passes 5,100 as rescuers battle freezing weather in Turkey and Syria" #Earthquake
#Turkey #Syria #EarthquakeDeathTollRises
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/earthquake-turkey-syria-live-updates-rcna69449
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