ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Did you know that of all elected officials in America—97% of GOP are white (76% male) and 79% of Dems are white (65% male)?

Women and Black, Indigenous, & POC are more than 70% of American society—but represent less than 25% of those in public office.

Let’s change that, because representation matters.

@bulwarkonline

After years of study, the efficacy of broken windows as a means of improving public safety remains unproven. By contrast, evidence of the harm it and related approaches to policing cause abounds.

https://inquest.org/shattering-broken-windows/

Bahian moonrise #photography

At the full-moon-lit high tide at Burnham Overy Staithe last night. This view lasted just a few moments. #winter #night #coastal #cloud #photography

#Iran ’s Food & Drug Administration has ordered pharmacies to force their female staff to wear black veils at workplace.

Iranian men are mocking this order and supporting their female colleagues by wearing hijab.

#news #politics #IranRevolution #womenshistorymonth #women #humanrights

Hello, I just learned moments ago that Medicare recipients who qualify can get Medicare funds to help with the cost of internet access. Sharing in case this can help anyone: https://www.affordableconnectivity.gov/do-i-qualify/

beware diet advice that recommends "eating light," for that is most certainly the way you become a black hole

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes.

The newest episode of the Abandoned America podcast is up! In it I take you on a 20 minute tour of the life and death of the abandoned Randall Park Mall, once the largest mall in the world. Think that malls are boring? This place definitely was not - there are some genuinely haunting stories in this place's past, and I guarantee you'll walk away with some new knowledge about the megamall phenomenon.

Listen to it at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/randall-park-mall-everything-must-go/id1619808235?i=1000603146855

(To mark this March 8th, we're turning over our social media to some of the brave women in Ukraine, fighting against the Russian invasion & attempted genocide)

"I remember I was making a card for my mom for 8 March in second grade. The number 8 was made of dry beans glued to cardboard… I can’t imagine anything more kitschy, anything that devalues and distorts this day more than turning it into a “day of spring and beauty,” and all these endless awkward cards, tulips, shampoo sets, and drunk parties to celebrate the “decoration of the office team” once a year.

So I can understand the part of our society who advocate for canceling this holiday as one of the last remnants of the Soviet Union. Generally, it would be logical to send the “day of girls” after the “day of boys” (23 February) to follow the course of the Russian warship. But there’s a “but,” and not just one. Around the world, 8 March is not a day of spring and beauty, it is a day of struggle for women’s rights. And this is still relevant, given the problems faced by countless women everywhere and in Ukraine in particular. It is especially relevant during the war, when the level of poverty, unemployment, violence and discrimination goes off the charts, and women are the first to suffer from it. So as long as the problems of the struggle for women’s rights are relevant, this day remains relevant as well.

I am at the front now. Just like over 5,000 other women who fight and 60,000 who serve, I am also fighting the russian aggressor. I want us to defeat this empire of evil as soon as possible, so that our only enemy after the victory is the patriarchy. Which will be defeated, too.

Death to the empire! Death to the patriarchy!"

-Chimera, paramedic
SUPPORT CHIMERA: fnd.us/blueskies

Have been pondering this sign from yesterday’s bike ride.

Many on the right have openly embraced “Christian nationalism” as a goal, even though it is wholly anathema to our fundamental democratic values and cherished personal freedoms.

How have we stumbled our way toward the Gilead America of The Handmaid’s Tale? And how do we fight back against it? That’s today’s subject in The Big Picture. Visit this link to read my team's latest piece on the topic: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-threat-democracy-freedom

Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Tried ChatGPT several days ago. I felt that it was such a shame when OpenAI decides not open source it. Despite I don't have enough resources to run it, I still want to model files.

And Facebook helped me, by leaking their own LLaMA model. Just start downloading, LOL.

I've talked about this in smaller contexts, but I haven't found any traction and time is getting short. When the Nazis passed the enabling laws for the book burning on April 8th, 1933 — exactly 90 years ago in 34 days — the first thing they burnt, the same day, were the archives of the largest trans and gay research institute in the world. When they say now that we didn't exist until after the war, the only reason they can get away with it is that they burned all the accumulated evidence.

https://assemblag.es/@hugo/109972631252644527

夕陽が窓に分散してた。

"When To Leave" is an episode young people and especially those in the medical field should listen to.

Idaho, like other fascist Red states is going to imprison healthcare providers.

As a young couple, remaining healthcare providers in fascist Red states will be forced to kill you if you have pregnancy complications.

The time to leave your Red Fascist State is NOW.

#PackSwingStates

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/

Give these Navajo women credit for making the Apollo Missions possible:

"The historic Apollo moon missions are often associated with high-visibility test flights... But intricate, challenging handiwork — comparable to weaving — was just as essential to putting men on the moon... the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer... who wove the computer’s core memory."

#Navajo #Indigenous #Native #WomensHistoryMonth

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa

The Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University at Buffalo invited Michael Knowles, who said transgenderism should be eradicated from public life, to speak on Thursday evening at 7:00 PM EST in Slee Hall (120 Coventry Road, Buffalo, NY 14228).

It's free to students and members of the public.

If you can, protest this event. It is necessary to push back on people calling for the genocide of a vulnerable minority. In this climate, it is no longer an idle threat.

https://www.yaf.org/events/michael-knowles-at-the-university-of-buffalo/