herid @herid@qoto.org

@queensparktoday

"Ford's argument is basically that corruption is okay if it gets houses built."

#onpoli #ontario
@david_moscrop

Oh, the search feature is coming to Mastodon after all: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

This clearly seems to follow up the VyrCrossont's idea of the extended search feature that finds public posts.

Gargron: "It is my decision to unite all discovery features in one setting, because all of this stuff is an expected part of a social network and splitting it up into different settings that everyone has to opt-into one by one just to get the same behaviour they get by default on other social media seems like a bad user experience. Also, discoverable is already a federated attribute." #Mastodon #Search #OpenSource

Another nail in the #lk99 coffin: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
It looks more and more likely that there was never any superconductivity, at room temperature or otherwise, in these samples 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sudden DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION improves HEALTH immediately & over 3 yrs

Pittsburgh: a highly polluting coke plant is suddenly closed

- Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs

- No change in control

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ace4ea

Twelve Quick Facts About Gun Ownership in America:

1) The US has about 120 guns per 100 people.
2) No other nation on Earth has even 110 guns per 100 people.
3) Or 100 per 100 people.
4) Or 90 per 100.
5) Or 80 per 100.
6) Or 70 per 100.
7) Or 60 per 100.
8) There is one nation that has about 50 guns per 100 people.
9) That nation is Yemen.
13) Fucking YEMEN.
10) Yemen hasn't had a mass shooting since 2013's Sana'a Attack.
11) That attack was committed by armed members of al-Quaida.
12) They committed it using American guns.

I'm sure none of these facts are at all connected.

Everyone must work for the victory, for the protection of people and Ukraine - address by Volodymyr #Zelenskyy President of #Ukraine 03/08/23

Extracts
The battles are tough, the occupiers are trying their best to stop our guys. The assaults are very fierce.......... It is difficult everywhere. But no matter what the enemy does, it is the Ukrainian force that dominates. And I am grateful to everyone on the frontline for this!

Full address🔗https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/usi-povinni-pracyuvati-na-peremogu-na-zahist-lyudej-i-ukrayi-84713

#SlavaUkraine #StandWithUkraine

(ATLANTA) – People exposed to a wildfire within a year after having lung cancer surgery have significantly lower chances of survival compared to lung cancer patients who are not exposed to wildfires, researchers from Emory University, the American Cancer Society and Yale University found

https://www.miragenews.com/research-wildfire-exposure-reduces-survival-1057419/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #health

This is what happens when you pay people for the work they do. (Via @Radical_EgoCom)

Musk’s rebranded Twitter is offering extremely hefty discounts to advertisers while simultaneously threatening them that if they don’t spend at least $1k on ads in the next 30 days their brand will lose its checkmark and they won’t police impersonation https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-rebranded-twitter-cuts-ad-prices-d2615d8f

“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott “Barbie” because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie

https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?

The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?

Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7104