Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

"The internment of Japanese American citizens remains one of the darkest and most shameful periods in our history,” said U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who joined with U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Act.

https://bit.ly/3GYZNZK

#americanhistory #politics #goodnews

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

In the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) at an entrance to the camber: Chinese Hikvision camera. Hikvision cameras have been caught reporting back to China, getting hacked, and are implicated in the persecution of Uyghurs. https://www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-calls-for-immediate-removal-of-hikvision-cameras-from-oireachtas/

Garden planning and soup, today was the perfect cozy Saturday. Tuscan tortillini with chicken, cannellini beans, and fresh basil from my windowsill.

#soup #food

Another PDP-10 was installed today at the datacenter: A Systems Concepts model 40 or SC40 running Mars TOPS-20 7.

SC Group - Mars System ASC20, TOPS-20 Monitor 7(21733)

ssh sc40@hie.sdf.org "login new new" to play tourist. Eventually this machine will be part of TWENEX.ORG

A 2017 study identified Craigslist as a protective factor against homicide: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Craigslist-Reduced-Violence-Against-Women-%E2%88%97-Cunningham-DeAngelo/36229421fc4f63c7aa0e298e8f710510d8710b02

“Using the geographically-staggered rollout of ERS, we estimate that ERS reduced the female homicide rate by 10-17 percent, with the reduction driven by street prostitution moving indoors and by helping sex workers to screen out the most dangerous clients.”

This whole situation is heartbreaking but also inspiring. In case it wasn’t on your radar, an Oakland abolitionist community organizer and baker died from injuries she sustained during a theft incident that turned violent.

Even in their grief her family are unwavering in their commitment and belief in the possibility of restorative justice and are asking that state violence not be used in the pursuit of her case.

https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jenangel

61
Cherries
bloomed along
the still river

when our heads
were broken
for speaking

for peace.


Risa remembers that the cherry trees on the Potomac were in glorious bloom when she, and a million others, went to Washington to protest the Vietnam war. She felt the trees were sympathetic, raining down petals as tears. 209/

It should be YOUR choice as a website as to whether or not you want generative AI being trained on your data! - How to Block ChatGPT From Using Your Website Content - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-block-chatgpt-from-using-your-website-content/478384/#close

Pfizer made a record $100 billion in 2022, almost $57 billion of which was from its #COVID-19 vaccine and Paxlovid.

Yet they still want to charge people $130 per dose, and refuse to share vaccines and treatments with the world.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/the-covid-pandemic-drives-pfizers-2022-revenue-to-a-record-100-billion.html

#VaccineEquity

You guys. Please click over and read this thread about a train wreck that caused massive chemical spill in East Ohio.

https://twitter.com/moreperfectus/status/1623854130375847936?s=46&t=2KuXBM0XPVc-xxnCF_3PxQ

Ohio abortion law meant weeks of ‘anguish,’ ‘agony’ for couple whose unborn child had organs outside her body - https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/health/ohio-abortion-long/index.html

BREAKING: Putin plans to destroy nation of Moldova.

Ukraine intercepted the Russian plans and handed them over to their western neighbor Moldova.

Putin's plan for 2023 is clearly to expand his war of aggression, surrounding Ukraine on another front.

Moldova must be defended.

@lauren
Starlink could not exist without the US government. The US funded most of the research upon which Starlink's depends, it is a primary customer, it sponsors Starlink's use of space in international regulatory forums, etc. While Starlink is technically a private company, it is very much a product of our government.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

It is reasonable to demand that Starlink not oppose US government goals and policies.

🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨

Be aware: mastodon.lol is shutting down.

If you're on that instance, migrate your account RIGHT NOW!

NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.

Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

From @zoeschiffer and me.

Reddit has been hacked.

Attackers gained access to:

* internal documents
* code
* some internal business systems.

Reddit believes, at the moment, that users' passwords and accounts are safe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/

The anti-vax movement is in large part a pandemic of statistics illiteracy.