2026-03-19T01:14:17Z https://yabu.me Levka https://yabu.me/npub1et6yknexrshka5dfs72x20g5qv5h37494qp4rrqqrs4ecmkxxjps64e5sv https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/363/947/948/823/482/original/33037c1153b1702f.png https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/363/947/948/823/482/original/33037c1153b1702f.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv2al4ez8ehmtpg0l7dn0fgk2pjhsnuassy0r3mj4hk3rsdanxeagzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxf0nvkj #migrants #ChildAbuse<br/><br/>&#34;Exclusive: Beatings, restraints and isolation: Allegations of abuse at a migrant children’s shelter trigger federal review<br/><br/>A facility in New York that housed migrant children faces allegations of physical abuse, including placing some children in isolation in a so-called &#39;red room,&#39; according to multiple sources who spoke with CNN about what’s unfolded at the shelter.<br/><br/>The accounts from federal sources and child welfare experts describe a heavy-handed approach to punishment for potential behavioral issues in recent years, prompting an internal review by the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is charged with the care of migrant children, according to two of the sources.<br/><br/>The shelter, called the Children’s Village, has multiple locations across New York serving kids, including US citizens, though the abuse allegations stem from their treatment of migrant children at the Dobbs Ferry location. The Children’s Village has served unaccompanied migrant children since 2004.<br/><br/>Children were allegedly beaten by a &#39;special&#39; unit, akin to a security team, including at times, out of the view of cameras. They were also allegedly held in restraints for several minutes, beyond protocol in place to ensure safety. Children were also involuntarily taken to a room as punishment, according to a source familiar with the situation.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.ph/O751b">https://archive.ph/O751b</a> 2026-04-19T18:31:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq30zl0r3xp64c63t55k0tuz5xzk5qvamt4megyx3eynp7ayzu8pszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxsj2swu #eugenics #BodyFascism<br/><br/>&#34;Body Fascism: the promotion of an &#39;ideal&#39; body type as a symbol of patriotism—conceived of as the pinnacle of health, discipline, credibility, and worth—in service of a nationalist agenda, while &#39;non-ideal&#39; bodies experience increased violence and erasure.<br/><br/>We are living through a moment of intensified pressure on the body and flesh. In the afterlife of a mass disabling pandemic, COVID-19, the language of health and discipline has resurfaced with a vengeance. The rapid rise of GLP-1s, the cultural fixation on enhancements and bodily optimization, and the expansion of metrics used to measure fitness and productivity signal something larger than a wellness trend—which is, in itself, a benevolent form of anti-fatness. Together, these all reflect a political commitment: the elevation of a specific kind of body as the standard of safety—which can&#39;t be divorced from surveillance—and belonging.<br/><br/>The term &#39;body fascism&#39; names the promotion of thin/muscular, &#39;productive,&#39; cisgender and heterosexual, white, militarizable bodies as a national and patriotic symbol. This body is projected through social institutions such as education, media, religion, medicine, and the government so that it stands out as the standard. Through this projection, the &#39;ideal&#39; body is given authority, credibility, and care, while bodies that deviate from it are not simply excluded but pushed and pulled toward erasure. The ideal body becomes a symbol of the nation, treated as competent and worthy—but only as long as it can perform for the state.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/">https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/</a> 2026-03-05T19:47:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswpgujxq46f8dl3zlhms7s3q4z3q9qycv03l72wpzd3c3quf9tv6czyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx6ay903 #Trump #MetalHealth<br/><br/>&#34;The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay<br/><br/>Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.<br/><br/>(. . .)<br/><br/>In 1973, an Air Force nuclear-missile officer named Harold Hering asked a simple question during a training session: &#39;How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?&#39; The question cost him his career. Military members are trained to execute orders, not question them. But today, both the man who can order the use of nuclear arms and the man who would likely verify such an order gave disgraceful and unnerving performances in Quantico. How many officers left the room asking themselves Major Hering’s question&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.ph/5iIkv">https://archive.ph/5iIkv</a> 2025-10-01T21:34:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfyk9ku37py5xzr2u86mqdnyhwd8zzatrdd09tzlcr40kdp3kkh8czyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxe4dsmj #pollution #polluters <br/><br/>&#34;How to track the super polluters next door<br/><br/>A new interactive map and groundbreaking database allows people in the world’s largest metropolitan areas to track their air pollution exposure, along with their region’s biggest sources of planet-warming pollution.<br/><br/>The tool, which depicts air pollution plumes and their sources, is the work of a nonprofit coalition of scientists, universities and nongovernmental groups called Climate TRACE. The group says the tool is a breakthrough in showing the biggest sources of air pollution down to the facility level for about 2,500 urban areas worldwide.<br/><br/>The new data, which combines hazardous air pollutants known as PM2.5 and greenhouse gases, taps into Climate TRACE’s global inventory of more than 660 million sources of global warming pollutants.<br/><br/>The researchers found that air pollution &#39;super emitters&#39; — facilities that are in the top 10% of all PM2.5 pollution sources by volume — expose a disproportionate amount of people to hazardous air. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/climate/tracking-polluters-tool">https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/climate/tracking-polluters-tool</a> 2025-09-24T17:48:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd376knd47jed6en96v7d70028jlsvgk3twxfmq0sk3gdhd6yr9lqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxrwnqga #HuntingtonsDisease <br/><br/>&#34;One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington&#39;s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors.<br/><br/>The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson&#39;s and motor neurone disease.<br/><br/>An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.<br/><br/>It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of good quality life&#39;, Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News.<br/><br/>The new treatment is a type of gene therapy given during 12 to 18 hours of delicate brain surgery.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro</a> 2025-09-24T17:45:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvysuyan3pylzkay42fzwkulfgdmx4mv3gfylgvayqye5nwmtyuwqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxda6k8v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxvhe77mxlvky07m8t92s9l8de2c6hyxdjzplv790zphs5tz400ag6z4t87'>nevent1q…4t87</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>An ethnic state is an ethnic state is an ethnic state. The only difference between an Aryan state and a Jewish state is the name of the tribe in charge. 2025-09-24T13:07:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsztaz9l4846cmn983xe5g5uylx3s33r95x9jw5t40ekujql87hxnszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxd9emcu #haboobs<br/><br/>&#34;Dust Storms Surprise the Midwest and Raise Worries About Climate Risks<br/><br/>Recent deadly swirls from dry open fields have prompted scientists to examine how climate change contributes to hard-to-predict dust storms in Illinois and neighboring states.<br/><br/>Dust storms have always swirled through parts of North America, but they are becoming more unexpected and destructive and landing in places unfamiliar with the danger, scientists warn. <br/><br/>In May 2023, a dust storm stalled over parts of central Illinois, disorienting more than 80 motorists on Interstate 55 who crashed into each other, leaving eight people dead and 37 hospitalized. In March this year, Kansas found itself swallowed in a dusty rush of wind that covered Interstate 70, killing eight people in a 71-car pileup. A few months later, Chicago was engulfed by its first torrent of throat-choking dust since 1985. No one was injured in that May storm but visibility was near zero for hours. <br/><br/>In all these cases, the dustups followed a similar script. Thunderstorm winds churned up soil from plowed-open fields and carried it for a short distance. Dust billowed violently, giving people little warning. Scientists from the region are now reviewing and pursuing research to consider whether the ruptures are the start of a new normal for parts of the Midwest.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21092025/midwest-dust-storms-climate-change/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21092025/midwest-dust-storms-climate-change/</a> 2025-09-21T17:26:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs82zq46umwmm05sgrvunhayukzy54jzvx7t6ddwhrxtf4qpqpnftczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxfj9d4j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ttuwr7ug9enl4dt6tdt7uk3tmyegdhfe3swy4zvhwszde5v38gcffwskj'>nevent1q…wskj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Kinder, küche, kirche&#34; -- Nazi slogan re: women&#39;s role in the Reich 2025-09-21T17:23:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs850jg9fypjaghqxtrsdaka37jlxwsqhu2q6hgl8jxen542j94q6qzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxyj35ka #BannedBooks #history<br/><br/>&#34;There’s no more potent evidence of the power of the written word than the fact people have historically looked to ban them. Not even Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) has been exempt: *The Lorax* (1971) was ostracized as political commentary.<br/><br/>Cultural norms, politics, personal beliefs, school policy, and other factors can all conspire to deem a book too incendiary to circulate in America. But just how far back does this policy of thinly-veiled thought control go?<br/><br/>(. . .)<br/><br/>Savonarola<br/><br/>(. . .)<br/><br/>Caligula<br/><br/>(. . .)<br/><br/>Qin Shi Huang&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650466/first-banned-book">https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650466/first-banned-book</a> 2025-09-21T17:11:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdd8729n4c6q5l6svur8f4pk7mn2m3s0mpf8c6kzc09jdyj3vdwlqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx93fcyt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0ahcchk7xjv2eyh958ccnjn423anlm2lupetye94u2ctxgsrqyxgs29tw7'>nevent1q…9tw7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.ph/tH9pc">https://archive.ph/tH9pc</a> 2025-09-20T15:37:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9fkgupmyz8lnkng8tm8ze7mju36q428sh2epy47p865z0ayrxwuqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx5fkzdr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx20uygqmv5jkrjc02zha7rp632fcslgk73hu32u2ffzdte0n96lgeu90vc'>nevent1q…90vc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Trump is not the problem. Trump is a symptom of the problem. The system itself is the problem.<br/><br/>There has been grassroots fascist movement in America for a century, Trump is not its leader. He&#39;s its current mascot. They&#39;ll just find a new one. 2025-05-06T01:42:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfhure708snfk98xm2f27ya0x994r0awew5v4phualelpgxv4jevszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxkvnk94 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxs9m6mj03yn2leld5943wcfydqsv0zwh7xz0agfnyvjq3qkeczfgqzv4rc'>nevent1q…v4rc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Do you want Vance in the job? 2025-05-06T01:29:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsft7s8jaz4yjg59w984dumfk5hjn5elm9aunezvcnm5ezl9t9e0sqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxz9e9fg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp6v76hv6lec0c0adtgp3tqjvlnqxfe7tds40n7w7nv00mmnhdyxqyn7psl'>nevent1q…7psl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wrong. The totally decentralized anti-Tesla protests are *extremely* successful. 2025-05-04T18:40:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs24uk2aur4qdhtwm2036ck94gxds6y8s0c3mvstqr9qqsm8skkhdszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxm8d00x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst0hfdr44rv0hsf74jn2jp5y0tvnr9vlrn6dx3xq6j0d090sak2wsgqqfgd'>nevent1q…qfgd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>*Some* Kremlin talking points are ctually true, unlike DC&#39;s talking points, most of which are baldfaced lies.<br/><br/>See also:<br/><br/><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/114450616507794932">https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/114450616507794932</a> 2025-05-04T17:28:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0kjd06hdkclrnyyy4ghvs56kun8a3rqk0n2jvnv565xgsd73h4jgzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxn24qjr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsydcwzc07ntx28qujk7cksjhncgclm58nmm5kzrkxmcpyclavd7wcgfnefn'>nevent1q…nefn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So what&#39;s your favorite recipe? I&#39;ve got them trying to climb in my front window. You have to admire their persistence. So. far I&#39;ve only tried the soup. It&#39;s delicious. What else do you recommend I try? 2025-05-01T22:03:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp3pdd0rsjmke7h9h3ensjmm594v06kha7rhafnjyu2az5mht5raczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxwf0pch In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ykxt0qdawkgwrq0w440qwgpe2ujf39lra0s64dvcay9err50e3cwvktu0'>nevent1q…ktu0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.growforagecookferment.com/stinging-nettle-recipes/">https://www.growforagecookferment.com/stinging-nettle-recipes/</a> 2025-05-01T21:55:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd2aqwlrgapnegs924n3qatgy6ltmz022p3vkpkft0erts9vrwn0qzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxm536nm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8k7mynf3eaf6aqc0nrkkfswdkj4y5n6xea20zdytle7dltgk65svvwywj'>nevent1q…wywj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I live in America. That&#39;s how it is right now. For a lot of people that&#39;s how it has always been. You can ignore us all you want, but we&#39;re not going away. The only reasons I haven&#39;t left this place is I don&#39;t have enough money.<br/><br/>Sanity is facing reality for what it is and doing something about it. <br/><br/>You can ignore reality all you want but you can&#39;t ignore it into not existing. Believing you can is nuts.<br/><br/>I&#39;m a realist. You&#39;re a troll. Go away. 2025-05-01T17:54:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfvkrpqsxmvf083cpsdg35z7p0fza6s34q0l9xjwm9pd37lnzlgaczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx5t8q57 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs04dg4wt72smtr8wn2qvep7592yue56d34p2pncdkzvazqv77qvlcwvxj0h'>nevent1q…xj0h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Uvalde proved once and for all that cops are worse than useless, they&#39;re in the way. <br/><br/>Uvalde proved once and for all that cops are worse than useless, they&#39;re in the way. There&#39;s a name for people who rely on police to protect them. They&#39;re called &#34;victims.&#34;<br/><br/> Police have no obligation to protect us. The SCOTUS agrees:<br/><br/>See: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)<br/><br/>See also: DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (1989) 2025-05-01T15:40:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswdw3e0575zfkfcqy6hpmcqt04h875r20wrjc64n9f42rpjrxps7qzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx0geeyh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0578tv5sxwzaud4sgn2k4s7fhhekwjvhndprqh64pzrzz2a38q0sy6c4fm'>nevent1q…c4fm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s not a mechanism. It&#39;s an implement with which to level the playing field between individuals. For example:<br/><br/>I&#39;m a 76 year old, four eyed, gimpy legged, stroke survivor. I used to have superior balance. I rode a motorcycle in traffic for decades and never got killed, not even once. Now I never know when the floor is going to start feeling like a boat deck. Fisticuffs are no longer an option.<br/><br/>My SO is just shy of 80 and stands just shy of five feet. If even a lone thug broke in here to rob us, or worse, we would not be his physical equal, but for our guns. <br/><br/>It doesn&#39;t scale to social level. Guns can&#39;t bring us economic equality. We tried that. It didn&#39;t work. There is no military solution to capitalism. It&#39;s not a military problem. It&#39;s an economic problem. It needs economic solutions. Want equality? Replace capitalism with #LibertarianSocialism. Bada bing. Problem solved. Well, that particular problem, anyway. But inequality is not our only problem. 2025-04-30T21:50:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdl2aagpgk32r5rpf7ncgvmpwd4xu5fh9n6cshs0f2z9e29y8usxszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx685vdc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz8z8mpqdhrhj7d6wgkr5lljzsar23fpxsh025l3g98cl92lkg9cqc5frxd'>nevent1q…frxd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Disabled elder here. The troubles that come from gun culture are *far* outweighed by the benefits. Guns make us equal. Without guns, the old, the weak, the small and the disabled are at the mercy of the the young, the strong, the big and the able-bodied. 2025-04-30T17:13:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstx5eg33elyu8xe6puv9nj7xwsu79urpye8nn90ptctu5kvcz09rczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxxsfwu6 Quote of the day.<br/><br/>&#34;The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people&#39;s blood.&#34; -- Frantz Fanon, *The Wretched of the Earth* 2025-04-29T17:42:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrrerueujm2w7f2ld5znul5mx6eg2578d8q8tnmql2emjaskyzzsqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx9kul6a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswzll88p47m3flkdc5n2xarkdgadzpgsmn224f8talf9luk0jn6mqfh77v8'>nevent1q…77v8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Then Vance would get the job. Then Johnson. And so on. It&#39;s not the men, it&#39;s the system. 2025-04-29T01:45:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqj6xa38c20cqkuntku6qrjn67s7a9chtla3mpps4d25nxsfz6qdqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxqytx7t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstsleff6c0ttlcl6l4kmus9g4fe08p6elfypv28hsw906veufpqmscnh3p9'>nevent1q…h3p9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Democrats!?! Oh please. They&#39;re in on it. Good cop, bad cop? Both cops. 2025-03-29T20:10:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszctgzkkp6ap7g3h79ktasldjql4w4ds9kz4ek5sgkmwtx95xf25gzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxy8g94p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8h0930awy04c2vx9ur2nchkfw5cyvgzplazjejjvptwlpeh6nwscpy3xtk'>nevent1q…3xtk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s why it has the hashtag &#34;#history&#34;. Most people never heard of Signal till it made the mainstream news. Now they know. 2025-03-26T20:50:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2vqsg0xtjhjlymwkaykdsftw7snauvs0nxjnte0faulqe8jupvuszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxw38pdh #Signal #MoxieMarlinspike #history.<br/><br/>&#34;Moxie Marlinspike, the co-founder and chief executive of encrypted-messaging app Signal, has resigned.<br/><br/>He blogged it was a &#39;good time to replace myself as CEO&#39; after working on Signal for over a decade.<br/><br/>Signal recently enabled crypto-currency payments within the app, which has concerned some users.<br/><br/>Mr Marlinspike remains a board member of the Signal Foundation, while the board&#39;s executive chair, Brian Acton, becomes interim chief executive.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59937614">https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59937614</a> 2025-03-26T20:15:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy0jhuugwuf57ezdxxsmdylmrz6pt7rhmzfkd0f4f63hj39lmph3qzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx6u8xsv #DollyParton #LGBTQI<br/><br/>&#34;I just want everybody to be treated good. I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I’ve got transgender people. I’ve got gays. I’ve got lesbians. I’ve got drunks. I’ve got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/dolly-partons-viral-lgbtq-quote">https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/dolly-partons-viral-lgbtq-quote</a> 2025-02-28T02:04:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz9v5zc2l7juyyx44spmage2lagxs3y09870fcs96tvw4tylcwfrszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx3cyu3a #EPA<br/><br/>&#34;House Republican moves to block new EPA rule on lead in drinking water<br/><br/>(. . .)<br/><br/>A new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule aimed at reducing lead in drinking water faces a challenge from Rep. Gary Palmer ((R-Ala.), who introduced a resolution to overturn it using the Congressional Review Act.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.ehn.org/house-republican-moves-to-block-new-epa-rule-on-lead-in-drinking-water-2671150787.html">https://www.ehn.org/house-republican-moves-to-block-new-epa-rule-on-lead-in-drinking-water-2671150787.html</a> 2025-02-14T19:53:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgatqjz3x6ttu24rys2ckkl6fcc87qekgu82g2fkk83tn4wuyft8szyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx2dszs3 #AI <br/><br/>&#34;Scientists say artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a critical &#39;red line&#39; and has replicated itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.<br/><br/>&#39;Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart [humans], and is an early signal for rogue AIs&#39; the researchers wrote in the study, published Dec. 9, 2024 to the preprint database arXiv.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/ai-can-now-replicate-itself-a-milestone-that-has-experts-terrified">https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/ai-can-now-replicate-itself-a-milestone-that-has-experts-terrified</a> 2025-02-14T19:37:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdq5hdkumu09ek62xerwy2mytcy6rfaza6wywr9250tzd3hrvpjuqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx3hpcpe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdh5r86tj9zxm8jkckvvwmtgdtpldhquu2d95fy3hpzkurr68d9jc9mvenh'>nevent1q…venh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What forensic evidence exists that this was a Russian drone and not a false flag by the Ukrainians intended to influence the upcoming talks? Be specific. Cite your sources.<br/><br/>It is plausible that this was a Russian act, but where&#39;s the proof. Plausibility is not proof. Show us the proof. 2025-02-14T16:48:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszq3scurvztt427nu7ggr3wx5frlun7wcnmhllczmc6uzz97xz3xqzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxlsgm5c #CarringtonEvent #MiyakeEvents<br/><br/>&#34;Miyake was not researching the Carrington event, but something bigger and more distant. Thanks to previous research, she knew there had been a pronounced carbon-14 spike sometime in the late eighth century. Eventually, she found an unmistakable signal: Between 774–775 AD, she noted a 12 percent jump in carbon-14 that suggested an event twenty times larger than ordinary cosmic phenomena. Other researchers confirmed Miyake’s findings with European and North American trees. Scientists found a similar signal in beryllium isotopes present in Antarctic ice cores. The collective findings provided abundant evidence that the event in question was a global, rather than a local, phenomenon.<br/><br/>(. . .)<br/><br/>Miyake and her team published their results in Nature in 2012. Since then, more &#39;Miyake events&#39;—characterized by sudden, single-year leaps in the concentration of carbon-14 in trees, as well as beryllium-10 and chlorine-36 in ice sheets—have been confirmed in 7176 BC, 5410 BC, 5259 BC, 774 AD, and 993 AD.<br/><br/>Miyake events exhibit significantly greater intensity than the solar or stellar events that could have triggered the Carrington event in 1859. &#39;Those two scintillating days in 1859 are barely a blip,&#39; Charlotte Person, a dendrochronologist at the University of Arizona, told Science. The carbon-14 stored in tree rings that year barely surged at all.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/">https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/</a> 2025-02-11T21:36:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8mklkxkj4yf3xmh73dh5efnd5yls7su7n8lqmgwcm2xnfvpun79qzyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxs4j982 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9q5ymqhptk6ztljhzv9avejzm48u5htlhlha22jzlh2n59xgrrlqenvdvt'>nevent1q…vdvt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t do religion. I do science. Ergo, I worship Athea, Goddess of Contradictions, for lo, verily, She is the G.O.A.T. Contradictions are the building blocks of the universe. They&#39;re what reality is made of. 2025-02-01T20:55:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqy8d7pqr7mjz547khh0cxpzq3mgfcr53h0886zk9sgk3qz49n8eszyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxrf9ug2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrhz5gt2xg7ez22a2c856cvwg0tp9vedeslt58mcmwwaduce3xudsz07c3f'>nevent1q…7c3f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Getting paid isn&#39;t about the business making a profit. It&#39;s about the workers getting paychecks. 2024-09-07T18:40:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfgt5cz726st74zwea70ffw27nhjavr58xqhg855a79p7jzmrxlgczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxnxu34m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9lpr43gn82rjd30phqa66vwvvzucekhgrt7se3lqyfkg7q0t3cpgd7n2mq'>nevent1q…n2mq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Prep is not paid work *anywhere.&#34;???<br/><br/>Not true. Prep is paid work in the restaurant biz. 2024-09-07T18:33:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsragztz48at9fvqgnm2evpelu7du0avzcsvwxv3xu4ny92rth99uczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxpuufwl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstjdv9krtutdpj9cs2l5cpnkm56rdlsu6t6gsqey4qqyezhtu942sdyzdmf'>nevent1q…zdmf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Disabled elder here. The troubles that come from gun culture are *far* outweighed by the benefits. Guns make us equal. Without guns, the old, the weak, the small and the disabled are at the mercy of the the young, the strong, the big, and the able-bodied.<br/><br/>The cops won&#39;t protect us. Uvalde proved once and for all that cops are worse than useless. They&#39;re in the way. <br/><br/>There&#39;s a name for people who rely on police to protect them. They&#39;re called &#34;victims.&#34; Police have no obligation to protect us. The SCOTUS agrees. <br/><br/>See: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)<br/><br/>See also: DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (1989)<br/><br/>Wh protects us? We protect us. An example from my personal life:<br/><br/>I&#39;m what Nazis call a &#34;race traitor&#34;. I sleep with a Jew, the same one for 40 years as of last July.<br/><br/>In the 2019 GOP primary, neo-Nazi Patrick Little campaigned on a platform of Holocaust denial and ethnic cleansing. He got 1,369 votes in Alameda County, 841 in SF and 1,249 in Contra Costa. That&#39;s a lot of neo-Nazis in what most of the country considers a hotbed of leftism. And that&#39;s just the ones who voted.<br/><br/>More than three thousand armed men whose ideology demand the death of my wife and myself, are living within an hour&#39;s drive. Almost 90 thousand live, and voted, in California. Nearly a thousand live within walking distance. It&#39;s safe to assume that each one owns at least one firearm. It only takes one to punch our tickets. To feel even remotely safe we sleep with a scattergun next to our bed.<br/><br/>People who think we should disarm ourselves are beneath contempt. You can tell them I said so.<br/><br/>&#34;That rifle on the wall of the labourer&#39;s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.&#34; -- George Orwell<br/> <img src="https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/088/017/627/095/258/original/3180677ae087e4e0.png"> <br/> 2024-09-06T01:43:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswa9ldnw7z5j2rca9tdjvre5pg57nfwv8g96nwqercfn48spl6n6szyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gxhex8cs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvzdtx0gcyytnnzuk4zlhvaaggdqwu3cfyr7f4wtx0skhsg2wy0qcrfh6kq'>nevent1q…h6kq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s nothing new. I&#39;m old enough to remember being in demo chanting &#34;Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today.&#34;<br/><br/>For this we were beaten arrested. I personally was framed for a totally bogus , felony drug charge. Lucky for me I was born white, so I was permitted to bribe my way down from 5 to 7 years in prison to a misdemeanor and probation. It&#39;s still on my record though. There went my teaching career and any chance of decent job doing anything at any corporation. <br/><br/>#FTP #ACAB 2024-09-02T23:03:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs96x5str0q96z7esuwdy8n5lf39fv6u2g37z2897h4wtke2845kuczyr90gj60ycwz7mk34xregefazspjj7865k5qx5vvqqwzh8rwcc6gx2kgzcw #PFAS #USAF #SCOTUS<br/><br/>&#34;The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the &#39;Chevron doctrine&#39;. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS &#39;forever chemicals&#39; and other dangerous compounds.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/air-force-epa-water-pfas-tucson">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/air-force-epa-water-pfas-tucson</a> 2024-08-18T22:09:21Z