Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

Sometimes it feels like justice will never be served, but in the era of Trump, we must remember that accountability is a road to walk, not just a destination. Trust me—I know how difficult it is to be patient in times like these.

In today's Substack, I dive into my own personal experience with what it takes to achieve closure, the kind that seeing 45 convicted and sentenced would bring, and propose how we can remain engaged, vigilant, and demanding of the truth and of results in the days ahead.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/will-we-see-justice-accountability

2 March 1943 | A transport of 1,736 Jewish men, women & children arrived at #Auschwitz from Berlin. SS doctors during the selection sent 292 men & 385 women to the camp. The remaining 1,059 people were murdered in gas chambers.

One of them was a 7-year old Rut Mandel.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #children #Berlin

I've written a post explaining why I think WASPI campaign's legal action is morally wrong.

It entices women to contribute money they can ill afford in the hope of receiving thousands of pounds from the Govt. The legal action is in my view unlikely to succeed and wouldn't give them what they want anyway.

And when 1 in 4 children is living in poverty, giving even more money to the richest generation in history would be a disgrace. Uprate working-age benefits instead.

https://www.coppolacomment.com/2023/02/waspi-campaigns-legal-action-is-morally.html

@carolynporco @joshsusser I guess this is another way they're making up for the $855 million in FCC grants they can't receive because they couldn't meet even the basic requirements?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg

It seems strange that a product with a mobility as a primary capability would charge extra for people who otherwise wouldn't need it, but that follows from everything else that's ludicrous about it

Please Boost! -- Mastohivemind: We have sequenced 36 Drosophila melanogaster and simulans genomes (raw data to SRA), and we have *phased* them using offspring of crosses. These (manually curated) phased genomes are available as fasta. What public database should they be submitted to?

@TDL99 @freemo

https://www.thelooploft.com/blogs/ryans-corner/38917697-can-you-keep-perfect-time-take-this-test-and-find-out

https://www.musicademy.com/can-you-keep-perfect-time-test-yourself/

https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/keep-time-test/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_deafness

"Fun" fact - white supremacy is really bad for (most) white people!

Here are some things white people lost out on because of racism:

-Walkable cities (because white flight post Civil Rights mean the creation of the suburbs)
-Good, cheap public transit (because they didn't want Those People to go to the newly created suburbs
-Universal single-payer health care (because You Know Who would be "welfare queens")
-Police who are accountable to the public (need to keep Wink Wink Nudge Nudge in line)
-Progressive taxation (because white people can pull themselves up by the bootstraps, just like Elon Musk, and not like I Bet You Can Probably Guess Who)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #politics #racism

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@monkeyninja

David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."

It was such a joy to attend the Interplanetary Festival, a conference of thinkers working on the frontiers of their respective fields, at the Santa Fe Institute last fall. Thank you @sfiscience for inviting me.

As for my presentation, the best part of all was artist Dario Robleto's 7-min intro of me! <blushing>

Don't miss it!
https://bit.ly/3YVd4Zh

All panels & keynotes from #IPFest 2022 are up on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlVBTf7N6GrL6ceDXxGuD22YFV_wRp0S

One for the archaeos: Utter bollocks from the #Guardian. This is a piece written by an architect basically saying that #archaeologists don't need to spend ages digging sites now, they can just use #LiDAR instead. Now, why would someone involved in the development industry think that would be a good idea I wonder? #archaeology https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1677150701

Publication bias revealed: mandatory trial registration grammatically cuts proportion of positive results

from Likelihood of Null Effects of Large NHLBI Clinical Trials Has Increased over Time https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132382 a 2015 classic

Food waste is responsible for at least *6%* of global greenhouse gas emissions.

We can change that. Right now.
https://ourworldindata.org/food-waste-emissions #ClimateChange #food

Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.

Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.

Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/ #science #history #HistoryRemix

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

**LAUNCH** of #ClimateDiary
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I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday observations, experiences, thoughts, feelings relating to the #ClimateCrisis

I would like to try out simply using a #Hashtag - #ClimateDiary - here on #Mastodon to create this and I would like to invite you all to join in and share widely! 1/4

Dr. Patricia Era Bath, 1981. Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe, used worldwide in eye surgery to remove cataracts. Bath founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.

She restored sight to millions of people suffering from cataracts. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon

When climate dommer is a judge ...
Today in Berlin in a process against a climate activist the judge says: 'Dinosaurs went extinct. Humans will anyway, I am firmly convinced of that. It can't be prevented, they are too stupid for that.'
... we have a problem.
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RT @carla_hinrichs_
Ich heute vor Gericht:
Ich möchte das Leben auf der Erde schützen.

Richter daraufhin:
Kakerlaken auch? Die Dinos sind auch ausgestorben. Der Mensch…
https://twitter.com/carla_hinrichs_/status/1626269547165634562

Researchers at Caltech, my alma mater, have found by a careful look at one of his notebooks that Leonardo da Vinci had devised experiments showing gravity is a form of acceleration ... 300 yrs b4 Einstein!

He even modeled the gravitational constant to ~97% accuracy. https://bit.ly/3xow9HP

Genius!