AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
@mybarkingdogs@ohai.social @futurebird don’t sleep on elephants. Sophisticated social structures, problem solving, emotional range, memory, tool use, communication capacity, etc. But their long lives give them an advantage as a contender for progressing into a civilization as we know it over most birds, octopi, and smaller mammals. Like, an octopus lives 1-5 years, a raven 10-15, a prairie dog 3-4, a raccoon 2-3, bonobos 40, chimps 33, dolphins 40-60, but African elephants 60-70.
@maxleibman if I lived over a megafamous city of antiquity, digging might well be my weekend hobby.
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Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public
People were forced to leave their pets and other animals in the town--where they're now dying en masse.
#Ohio #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #NorfolkSouthern
Reported here:
https://qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giving-25-000-to-an-ohio-town-wher-1850094599
from twitter:
"five dollars per person for poisoning the air, water, and land of this town. all pets dead, the poisoned water now flowing into the ohio river on its way to the mississippi. five dollars"
https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1624215484945076224
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Long thread/9
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
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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?
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@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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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Once AI works out how to do hands then this deepfake crap is going to be one of the biggest problems the world has faced. It has the potential to be extremely damaging and we are sleepwalking into a nightmare with this. I hate everything about it.
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It appears that the panic over egg prices was an ovary action.
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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
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
