Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

The goal isn't to plug the same old inequitable, inefficient, GDP focused economy into a new power source. Or it shouldn't be.

The goal is to reorient everything toward wellbeing of people and planet. Which will require a new power source, but a lot more creativity too.

First post, because why not. Shameless plug: If everyone bought one right now for themselves, and one for a friend, this book, Algorithms of Oppression, could have a chance at improving the internet for women and people marginalized by tech...and I hope you will buy it from Eso Won Books, a Black-owned Los Angeles independent bookstore we’ve treasured so dearly: https://www.esowonbookstore.com/

Hi everyone! I'm @basktastic on Twitter but am trying out my real name here. My #chembio #cellbio #lipidtime lab at Cornell develops tools for imaging and editing the lipidome, drawing on #bioorthogonal chemistry, #clickchemistry, #chemoproteomics, #optogenetics, #directedevolution, and more. https://baskin.wicmb.cornell.edu

The Fed should pause interest-rate hikes long enough for the nation to see they’re harming workers and consumers more than corporations that have raked in record profits. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fed-is-dead

The annual NOAA Arctic Report Card is available today for 2022. It discusses recent changes in the #Arctic, extreme events, and broader human/environmental impacts.

+ Report: https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2022
+ Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MDG-moe0tZs
+ Summary: https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

I am happy again to have played a small role in this year's report - see our section on Arctic sea surface temperatures: https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2022/ArtMID/8054/ArticleID/988/Sea-Surface-Temperature

Also check out the fantastic collection of visuals by at https://climate.gov/news-features/features/2022-arctic-report-card-image-highlights

Just remembering how Jack Kirby was inundated by threats and complaints from Nazi sympathizers after the publication in 1941 of his famous cover showing Captain America punching Adolph Hitler.

No reason.

Railroads were exempted from Obama's 2016 executive order requiring federal contractors to give their employees 7 paid sick days. (Railroads have been federal contractors since the mid-19th century.)

Today would be a great day for POTUS to de-exempt them by executive order.

"The value of the smoked fish isn’t in its sale. It’s in the teachings I can share with my son while he’s fishing. It’s in the way the Elders’ eyes light up when you give them a fish. It’s in the hope I get every time the salmon returns."
- Jared Qwustenuxun Williams

IndigiNews: https://indiginews.com/first-person/how-do-you-put-a-price-on-sacred-foods

#salmon #food #VancouverIsland

The UC strike is not just an effort to raise thousands of academic workers out of near poverty. It’s a movement whose success requires a reversal of the austerity that has subverted public higher education across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-strike-in-the

Apparently now people are sending death threats to UFoI members... all this does is reafirm to me the dire need for sonethi g like the UFoI

https://awoo.fyi/@Transparency/posts/AQXMaePil3qyNs6MM4

@ufoi #UFoI #UFI

For everyone grieving how close it was in Georgia, I am thankful to see the descendants of those once held in bondage return a Black man of their choice back to the Senate in a polarized nation. They suppressed the vote, changed rules, challenge votes but all that maneuvering is a reminder that each vote matters.

Voting isn’t everything but it’s something. This is the registration of my ancestor Henry in 1867 in Elbert, Georgia. We’ve come a mighty long way. Ain’t that good news? #BlackFolk

Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner sum up Musk's ugly attack on Dr. Fauci:

"This isn’t about facts and the truth. This is about scoring political points. It is about flooding our global discourse with horse manure. It is about attacking the very notion of expertise. It is about saying everything can be true so nothing is true. It is about intimidating scientists and health officials. It is about feeding the MAGA crowd with the red meat of a sacrificial lamb."

#Elon #Musk

https://steady.substack.com/p/thank-you-dr-fauci

1. This man moved from New York to Florida a few months ago

Now he wants to ban 3600 BOOKS from the school libraries

And he's already made significant progress

Follow along if interested

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Here's my favourite photo from the #Artemis1 mission photo album. The detail is gorgeous, and the angles of the light really shows the relief on the surface. Looking forward to much more!

See the full-res version here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52549239085/in/album-72177720303788800/

#Orion #artemis #space #spaceflight #moon

Say it with me: To control inflation, we must take aim at corporate profits, not working people.

Tell me - Where were these kids radicalized?🤔

White Kansas HS Students Threaten to Hang Black Players, Taunt w/ Blackface Babydoll & Attempt to Raid Black Player’s Locker Room After Game

But yeah, lets ban teaching about America's history of racism—which by the way is exactly what MAGA Republicans in Kansas are trying to do.

https://t.co/VPxCozUM0Q

To: POTUS

Railroads were exempted from Obama's 2016 executive order requiring federal contractors to give their employees 7 paid sick days. (Railroads have been federal contractors since the mid-19th century.)

So you could de-exempt them by executive order.

Maybe Monday?

I swear the causal “nice white people” racism on here with the “decorum” and “civilized” tone policing is something else.

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he #UFoI has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

#UFI @ufoi