ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Or if you want it put another way, every American is spending in the order of $50 a year in direct lethal assistance to Ukraine, but losing about $1700 a year in indirect economic costs caused by that war.

If you had a company that sold a widget that upped a business cost from $50 to, let's say, $100, but doing so saved the customer $1700 a year, how quickly do you think VCs in Silicon Valley would jump in to invest in that widget?

For #FossilFriday check out this gorgeous #fossil #insect! This 49 million year old beauty is Pulchritudo attenboroughi, a #beetle found in the rocks of the Green River Formation, Colorado. what's particularly striking about this fossil is the pattern on its wing cases.

#palaeontology #paleoentology #entomology #arthropods #science

Not sure what to do with this space yet. Here's a picture of my cat and some snow. #catsofmastodon #mnwx

You’re not supposed to put a Qtip all the way into your ear because that’s where the reset button is

Hmm, we really missed the mark when we designed radiators sized for cats but not humans. 😐

#catsofmastadon #mnwx

New York City
Holiday Windows, 2018

In 2018, I visited NYC for Christmas and toured some of the store windows dressed for the holidays.

I'd never seen windows like these! I wonder if they still put so much effort into them after the pandemic. I hope they do. They were wonderful works of art, and I certainly never forgot them.

#WindowFriday #Window #ArtAdventCalendar #MastoArt #JoinIn #ArtMatters #Photography #StreetPhotography #NewYorkCity #NYC

When you're Jewish ... but also pagan.

Remember that 'distracted boyfriend' picture which went viral? Here's the same people 10 years later.

A belated self-#introduction: I'm a cognitive science professor whose research focuses on human language: how we understand it when we hear & read, how we produce it when we speak & write, and how we learn it. I'm PI of the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory (cpl.mit.edu) at MIT where our work draws on ideas and methods from artificial intelligence, linguistics, and psychology. I'm also a passionate advocate for open scholarship, open science, and open access. #nlp #linguistics #cogsci

The Intercept is working on verifying its Mastodon account, @theintercept with theintercept.com. But I’m the meantime, it is indeed the official account!

A lot of white Americans don't value bail reform, because they can't conceive of themselves being charged with a crime they didn't do, when there is literally zero evidence. That seems like a vanishingly rare occurrence.

A lot of Black Americans do support bail reform, because they know that being falsely accused of a crime is a very real possibility for them. Happens a lot.

Both groups of people are correct in their risk assessment. 🙂🙃

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
~ Roald Dahl
📚
#bookstodon #books @bookstodon #RoaldDahl #reading #booklover #bibliophile #writingcommmunity #books #heaven #writerslife #writer #bookshelf #library #attic #writersofmastodon #quotes

I recently emailed a rabbi, and when he didn't reply for two days, the more reasonable part of my brain was like "It's the holidays, this is not an unusual amount of time, and he's probably busy." But the rest of my brain was like "Maybe he found an archive of that time I did an extended thread about which Pokemon are kosher to eat on Twitter".

Long before European settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples had established complex agricultural practices that are still relevant today

#Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #agriculture #farming #gardening

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/agriculture/2022/10/08/roots-run-deep-2

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. for decades as a planner of the Montgomery bus boycott and as the primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington. A confidant and adviser, he introduced MLK to Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent resistance. His role in the civil rights movement was largely relegated to the background, however, because he was gay. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate for gay and other human rights. #BlackFriday #LGBTQ