News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz).
They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:
This banner of Donald Trump on the DOJ headquarters building is giving 1930s Germany vibes.
The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier.
They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964.
#WomenInSTEM
The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.
Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
“It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.”
- Nina Simone 🎶💔💕
Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy
Rep. Stephen Lynch: "It offers a great contrast. Look what the British government is doing in light of the evidence, and look what the US government is doing. Nothing. Our chief law enforcement officer Pam Bondi is defending and obstructing the investigation."
The UK arresting Andrew.
South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life.
John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
“‘I am begging my fellow politicians, my fellow Americans to realize that right now in this country we are not fighting over policy or political party,’ Pritzker said. ‘We are fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness—or one rooted in cruelty and rage.’”
How much of tech is just wizard of oz mechanical Turk flimflam scams these days, because it feels like a lot
Daily affirmation: You deserve pączki
Dozens of Minnesota GOP lawmakers propose bill to criminalize residential protesting
#MN #ICEOUT #1A #FDT #WalterHudson
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...
Just realized it’s Mardi Gras and Lunar New Year and Ramadan begins tonight. Happy everything!
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited
maybe if he becomes 5 points more unpopular he just howls and turns into mist and blows away????????
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg's book On Repentance and Repair is such a fantastic read. EVERYBODY should check it out.
the neighbour who was here yesterday pitching a fit over the length of my lawn came back 10 min ago to tell me that he's been watching news and I should not worry & long as he lives here they will have to go through him first and thing is, it wasn't just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes
Coyote pups at a cemetery in Chicago.
Watch with sound on.
A good thing to keep in my pocket today.
Who knows, I might have the opportunity to do some dramatic reading.
