herid @herid@qoto.org

Doug Ford: "I don't even like the word private because it's really not. You're never — I'm going to assure you, I'm looking into the camera — no Ontarian will ever have to pay with a credit card. They will pay with their OHIP card."

He's telling us here where his government is vulnerable as it prepares to announce the largest expansion to independent health facilities (IFHs) Ontario has seen in decades.

#OnPoli #OnHealth

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Beatles - A Taste Of Honey

https://youtu.be/MkQ1eOcl5ug

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 61/

And now dead again, along with some old unused API keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted.

I wouldn't have swapped out the keys in the first place if there was even a shred of communication. Figured if nothing else this would push the issue.

Oh well, on to smaller but greener pastures.

Also Germany: physically removing Greta Thunberg & other protestors so they can raze a small village to expand a coal mine. https://www.politico.eu/article/greta-thunberg-removed-by-german-police-from-lutzerath-protest-site/

"The goal needs to be to set up three to four large wind turbines in Germany every day." -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the acceleration required to hit the country's emission targets. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-14/germany-wants-fast-windmill-expansion-to-hit-climate-goals

@herid - my friend and former student Nina Otter is one of many people working on applied topology; she's using persistent homology in climate science. Her paper "A topological perspective on weather regimes" is open-access:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-022-06395-x

I went to a big conference on Applied Topology in Japan a while ago; it seems to mostly be persistent homology.

Need a bit of GOOD news? #UCLA researchers developed a small implantable device that drove cancerous tumors into remission, eliminated metastasis, prevented the growth of new tumors, and resulted in longer survival in laboratory mice. Next up: clinical trials in humans. Very exciting and hopeful stuff!
Article can be found here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-designed-implantable-device-combats-cancer
#Cancer #AnimalResearchSavesLives

So many people on this app get very hostile to any potentially useful feature request. Please understand that we all use platforms differently! A great social platform serves a wide variety of needs.

Says it all.

Thanks @deAdder

#Ontario #Healthcare #Cuts

Helping Ukraine meet its financing needs to face the Russian aggression is both crucial and urgent.

The Commission is acting with utmost speed and determination:

Tomorrow, we will already disburse the first 3 billion € of the 18 bn macro-financial support agreed in December.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1614945911498579968

Russia is invading Europe and at war with the collective West.

Ukrainians defend alone.

Scholz blocks tanks to Ukraine.

Biden blocks ATACMS to Ukraine.

The Swiss block arms to Ukraine.

Orbán blocks the NATO-Ukraine Commission.

Erdoğan blocks Finland and Sweden in NATO.

https://t.me/United24media/3308 ⚠️🇺🇦The Russians are increasing the pace of deportation and genocidal filtration of Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied territories, for this they deliberately create unbearable living conditions there, — National Resistance Center. People are being deported from the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to the Voronezh, Sverdlovsk, Kursk, Rostov regions and the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. There they are kept in (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

NYC, LA, Chicago, Montreal, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne and more *all* have a levy on commercial parking.

In order to fund transit and climate action, Toronto should place a levy on commercial parking lots.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-commercial-parking-levy-1.6712928

About that "global cooling" over the last eight years that climate skeptics are loudly proclaiming... https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-global-warming-has-not-paused-over-the-past-eight-years/