Yesterday the Rachel Maddow Show featured my scoop on a Russian disinformation op: Fake news sites meant to look legitimate sharing allegedly "leaked" audio of 2 US officials discussing backing Russian opposition. Take watch, and read: https://www.thedailybeast.com/victoria-nuland-and-jim-obrien-impersonated-in-russian-influence-hoax
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar notes that GOP gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina, Mark Robinson, has said, “I don’t care if you’re 24 hours pregnant. I don’t care if you’re 24 weeks pregnant. I don’t care. If you kill that young’un, it is murder.”
But Robinson admits he himself has paid for an abortion — so he's admitting to murder.
Kareem concludes, "Bad for Black people. Bad for North Carolina. Bad for America. But good enough for Republicans."
https://kareem.substack.com/p/france-just-took-over-as-world-leader
Josh Kovensky reports,
"A men-only, Christian-only, right-wing secret society with the aim of installing certain kinds of Christians in a future U.S. government does not want to be called Christian nationalist."
Billionaires are taking over everything. How can we stop them? I have some thoughts. https://youtube.com/shorts/0BKGYKboVZQ?feature=shared
When eight-year-old Emma Glenfield wanted to know more about why magpies swoop at people, her teacher (Luke Carr) encouraged her to gather data and analyse it.
She noted that the birds seemed to target tall balding men, and created an online survey with the help of her mum. The survey went viral, with over 30,000 respondents.
The results, as shown in a brilliant Lego graph, demonstrated that the birds do target balding men more frequently (with less than 1% margin of error, thanks to the large sample size).
"According to magpie expert Darryl Jones, professor emeritus at Griffith University, it's the first time anyone has ever examined the link between magpie swooping and appearance."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520
The ABC article includes more details, along with this excellent Lego graph (and other great pictures).
Gravity waves caused by complex terrain over the Tibetan Plateau can enhance the intensity of spring rainfall https://phys.org/news/2024-03-gravity-complex-terrain-tibetan-plateau.html #science
I just finally deployed something I've been working on for a few weeks now: a feed of my writing, posting, reading, and other various activity that lives on my website at https://www.mollywhite.net/feed!
I've admired the POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE; "Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere") model for a long time, but only finally found the time and energy to put something together that I'm actually happy with.
indieweb, POSSE
On Donald Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Ben Shapiro saying the quiet part the only way he knows how (loud) https://www.findinggravity.net/p/work-at-the-mill-until-you-die
Drugs are cheap, government-granted patent monopolies make them expensive Drug companies DO NOT want a free market https://cepr.net/in-a-free-market-drugs-are-cheap-government-granted-patent-monopolies-make-them-expensive/
I remember when the mushroom people were angry about something like this a few weeks ago. Someone had published "books" on amazon that claimed to be edible mushroom identification guides.
And they were AI garbage. Garbage that could get people very dead.
Since English is my first language the bad writing gives some of it away (but not always) but please don't think that people being tricked by this ocean of meaningless garbage isn't a real threat.
We've made the internet useless.
Horny audio smut
"I guess it is a bit like begging. I am debasing myself for this, for him, for my cunt."
NEW #AudioPorn - exclusively for Patreons at the moment - by the incomparably filthy @Mollysdailykiss
Come listen to 'needy bitch' - and if you're not yet subscribed, now's a good time to do an annual sub because you get 16% off, which is the biggest discount Patreon allows...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/needy-bitch-new-100154960 #NSFW #cunt #begging
NEW research: https://sparktoro.com/blog/who-sends-traffic-on-the-web-and-how-much-new-research-from-datos-sparktoro/
The wait's over. Thanks to the amazing team at https://datos.live, we can finally answer questions about:
- Who sends traffic to the open web (besides Google)?
- How much? Does it go to the long tail, or just the top few sites?
- What's changing?
If this research is valuable to you, I'd truly appreciate amplification (the reach is how I'll justify getting to do more studies like this!)
How is this not one of the world's most canonical bad takes? It's perfectly legitimate to criticize, even to the point of condemnation, aspects of technology and industry without abandoning all use of the technology. I mean, obviously?
My dearest Bryce,
I can. And I do. And I will continue to do so. I will use whatever tools exist today however I please to try and bring about the better world I want to live in tomorrow. Now kindly take your fascist “love it or leave it” demagoguery, shove it up your ass, and fuck off out of my mentions. https://infosec.exchange/@NationMeta/112077178052261355
How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/11/pharma-drug-priding-biden-negotiations/
How the Osage Nation helped Martin Scorsese make ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ more authentic
From the White savior narrative at the heart of “Dances With Wolves” to the Indigenous stereotypes in “The Last of the Mohicans,” Hollywood doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to portrayals of Native Americans.
#Oscars #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon #Osage #Native #Indigenous
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/21/entertainment/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-nation-cec/index.html
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