Clement Tahershamsi @Clementulus@qoto.org

The profits of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell have skyrocketed by 169% so far this year to $125 billion.

While you were paying through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil companies were using the cover of inflation to line their pockets.

It's time for a windfall profits tax.

HOT OLDER MEN in YOUR AREA want to know if YOU have been TOUCHING the THERMOSTAT.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

"The endothelium is a vertebrate specific specialization of the circulatory system that enabled a critical new level of vasoregulation. The evolutionary origin of these endothelial cells is unclear. We hypothesized that Mir-126, an endothelial cell-specific microRNA may be informative."

#Preprint #Evolution #Development #endothelium

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.23.517662v1

Today in #Science (@sciencemagazine), Claudia Arevalo, Scott Hensley, & al develop an #mRNA–#LipidNanoparticle #vaccine encoding #hemagglutinin antigens from all 20 known #influenza A & B virus subtypes/lineages! #Vaccination protected animals challenged w/ matched & mismatched viral strains!

In the same issue,
Alyson Kelvin & Darryl Falzarano write a wonderful Perspective on this important next step towards a #UniversalFluVaccine!

Article: bit.ly/Sci_abm0271
PS: bit.ly/Sci_adf0900

#IAV #IBV

autumn

"RACISM IS THE MOST CHALLENGING ISSUE CONFRONTING AMERICA.

A nation whose ancestry includes every people on earth, whose motto is E pluribus unum, whose ideals of freedom under law have inspired millions throughout the world, cannot continue to harbor prejudice against any racial or ethnic group without betraying itself. Racism is an affront to human dignity, a cause of hatred and division, a disease that devastates society."

https://www.bahai.us/the-vision-of-race-unity-americas-most-challenging-issue/

#RaceUnity #Racism

So, to start with, I've decided that I'll be posting one paragraph daily from a letter entitled "Vision of #RaceUnity: America's Most Challenging Issue":

https://www.bahai.us/the-vision-of-race-unity-americas-most-challenging-issue/

Each paragraph will be a public toot for max visibility. Hopefully this can develop into a thread and attract some deep thought from Americans—black, white, and otherwise—as well as concerned folks from around the world. #BlackFedi #Racism #Prejudice #Unity

Good night all. Sweet dreams.

#Aurora, #photography

The three chinese curses, for those who are curious, are usually some variation of:

1. May you live in interesting times

2. May you be recognized by powerful people

3. May you get what you wish for

In this case its a more stylized version of #3

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

#Peace in not the refusal to defend oneself and one's community.
Peace is the commitment never to attack anyone.
and mostly, Peace is an internal sense of #tranquility, regardless of external #circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
http://www.jlhuie.com/2022/11/todays-affirmation-i-am-at-peace-with.html

Perspectives.

Just posted a new workingpaper:

The political economy of AI regulation: Towards democratic control of the means of prediction

https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/handbook_politicalecon_ai.pdf

This is a first draft of a handbook chapter.
It covers a lot of topics that I have been thinking about; feedback and comments are very much appreciated!

#machinelearning #inequality #AI #ethics

Did #austerity cause #Brexit? In the past weeks there was much talk in the UK on a return of #austerity. I am a Prof of Economics at Warwick University and I wrote a paper in 2018 that shows how #austerity was instrumental to bringing about #Brexit. This is a means of #introduction on here.

Open Access ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181164

The paper shows that #austerity was a pivotal driver of #Brexit result. But that is only half the story: most likely there wouldnt have been an #EUReferendum ...

picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals

The value of one single tree...