Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org

I was sceptical before, but after seeing his management skills in action, I think allowing Elon to oversee the migration of Earth’s wealthiest elites to Mars is a great idea.

I expanded the discussion about the Colorado court's decision regarding Trump and the Fourteenth Amendment, and I added it to yesterday's blog post.

You can see it here:

https://terikanefield.com/parchment-barriers-and-the-dangers-of-hope/

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People following me for cybersecurity content: Chris Bing, one of the most distinguished reporters on this beat, recently joined the Fediverse. Chris has broken way too many stories to count and also has valuable insight into all things related to hacking. Please follow him.

@Bing_Chris

And please boost for reach.

Here we go, v editor in chief of TVRain - his comments as follows:
"A crowd seized #Makhachkala airport in search of #Jews. There are no police. The same goes for the valiant Russian Guards and FSB officers who conduct special operations to detain those who “discredit” the army. In the second year of the “special operation” for “denazification”. #Russia, 2023.
https://t.me/tdzyadko/3758
Makhachkala is the captain City of #Dagestan, Republic in #Russia's North #Caucasus
#Israel #Gaza #hamas

And in case you didn't catch it last week, Paula @levihncoon published this guide to increasing the diversity of #plants in your #backyard, featuring beautiful #photography: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-native-plant-tips/

I'm excited to be working with both these promising early career journos for the next several weeks.

#gardening #Texas #nature #culture

Rep Noah Arbit, a Jewish Dem from West Bloomfield Twsp, described #SamanthaWoll as the "kindest, most beautiful soul."
"I am shattered & broken & unable to move. There are no words. The kindest, most beautiful soul taken in the most evil, brutal way. Sam was committed to justice & equality. In her name we will never give up. Baruch Dayan Emet, Sam. You were so loved & cherished,”Arbit wrote.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detroit Police Department's Homicide Section at (313)596-2260

Wildlife crossing built over the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park.

Combined with fencing to keep the animals off the road, these structures have reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80%—and by more than 96% for elk and deer alone.

Jack Smith Cites Trump Execution Remark on Milley in New Filing

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mark-milley-attack-gag-order-jack-smith-1234836105/

#TrumpExecutionRemark #MarkMilleyAttack #JackSmithFiling #MilleyGagOrder #PoliticsNews #RollingStone #Politics #News

This is possibly the funniest social insect study of all time. To keep them from eating all the food, female wasps stuff male wasps head-first into empty cells and threaten to sting them if they try to escape.

#Wasps

https://www.nature.com/articles/38931

A former physics teacher says America could lose its technological edge if it doesn’t do a better job of teaching quantum information science

https://theconversation.com/quantum-information-science-is-rarely-taught-in-high-school-heres-why-that-matters-210112
#education #science #stem #physics

And the #OSIRISREX samples are on the ground. Here's our story about why that's important and what happens next: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02954-2

We made a robot and landed it on a rock hurtling through space, took samples of that rock, and just this morning, landed the samples safely back on Earth. Scientists will study them for decades. Who knows what they'll learn, about the history of the solar system and the universe. All without endangering human crew or spending the resources needed to support them.

Congratulations to the OSIRIS-REx team and everyone at NASA who has to hear people complain that we don't do amazing things anymore.

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“Special counsel #JackSmith seeks 'narrowly tailored' gag order against Trump, citing 'disparaging and inflammatory attacks'
The court filing accuses Trump of engaging in a campaign of disinformation.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-seeks-narrowly-tailored-gag-order-trump/story?id=103197976

Does no one in the U.S. government have anything to say about one rogue private citizen knee-capping a war effort on which we have so far spent $75 billion?

Ukraine is not mincing words.

#Musk #Ukraine

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-ukraine-zelenskyy-starlink-access-crimea-russia-invasion-2023-9 https://news.yahoo.com/zelenskyy-advisor-slams-elon-musk-151459281.html

We passed 20,000 followers in this week on #mastodon!

In less than a year, we've accumulated 29% of the followers we got in 9 years of regular posting on the #birdsite, and we get far, far more engagement with our content here.

Thank you.

We will continue to post regularly here because we have found it is a community that values our kind of thoughtful journalism, written by experts for the public.

If you know folks who haven't discovered us yet, we'd really appreciate a boost #Newstodon

Drought-tolerant succulent plants as an alternative crop under future global warming scenarios in sub-Saharan Africa (OA)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.13095

As the climate crisis intensifies, drought-tolerant succulent plants offer a potential solution in semiarid regions. The plants could yield economic and environmental benefits through derived bioproducts & bioenergy. Cultivating these plants in Africa could pave way for sustainable alternative bioeconomies. 🌵

#Botany #BotanyAI

Also, a #FollowFriday #Newstodon shoutout to some other great nonprofit news organizations on Mastodon:
@TexasObserver
@ProPublica @thexylom
@themarkup@mastodon.thema
rkup.org
@thetyee
@gbhnews @insideclimatenews
@mongabay
@damemagazine

And our sister sites around the globe: @TheConversationUK @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationau @TheConversationClimate
@theconversationes

Elon Musk secretly used control of his Starlink network to cripple a Ukrainian military operation while it was under way, in defiance of American foreign policy.

He is an oligarch working against U.S. interests, benefitting his fellow oligarchs in Russia. His biographer seems to think this is just Musk being Musk, quirky and idiosyncratic.

#Musk #Ukraine

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

We're gearing up for our annual celebration on October 11 & 12! This year, we'll be highlighting how students & scholars all over the world use the Archive’s petabytes of data to inform their own research.

🌐 Join us in-person & online! https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/07/celebrate-with-the-internet-archive-on-october-11th-12th/

Just a few decades ago, mass shootings were essentially unknown in the US, limited to infighting among organized crime or the rare spectacular incident, such as Charles Whitman’s use of the clock tower at the University of Texas to murder 15 people.

In 2021, there were 686 made shootings in the US—incidents in which four or more people are injured or killed by a shooter. In 2023, there have been about 480 so far, with five months left to go.

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