Greenland expresses surprise that Trump would move his inauguration indoors during shorts weather.
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I have now read several news articles that mention that Trump is trying to figure out how to restore TikTok, and literally not a single one has pointed out that he STARTED this whole mess (unless I'm mis-remembering?). There was that whole "Oracle will buy TikTok" boondoggle? Not a whisper!
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Scenes from #XCskiing today in #Gatineau#Park with @Kathryn Barr
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When STRØK came to Aberdeen for Nuart in 2019, he left behind this brilliant mural, along with a few smaller pieces scattered around the city.
It’s one’s one of my favourites.
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Sioux Falls. April, 2024.
#siouxfalls #southdakota #mural #blackandwhite #streetart #streetphotography
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Surf was big this morning along my run in Barcelona.
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Cuban authorities have started releasing prisoners after announcing their impending freedom on Tuesday. The plan to release 553 prisoners came shortly after U.S. President Biden said he would remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as part of a prisoner release deal. Cuban authorities have not provided details on the prisoners, who will likely include anti-government protesters detained in 2021.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 3 completed
Almada and the Naval Base
Sonnet 129 - CXXIX
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action: and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
bot by @davidaugust
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Scientists find most microplastics in drinking water smaller than EU detection limits
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Scientists say that most microplastics found in drinking water are very fine and thus more likely to pass from the human intestine into the blood and organs.
Original research paper here journals.plos.org/water/articl…
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Have always loved this poem
“I was struck by lightning.
The strangest thing
Wasn't the flash of my hair
Catching on fire,
But the way people pretended
Nothing had happened.”
~David Orr #poetry
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The strangest thing Wasn't the flash of my hair Catching on fire, But the way people pretended Nothing had happened.The Poetry Foundation
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Free 30 minutes bike share trips for Fingal residents
Residents of Fingal in north and north-west Dublin are being offered free 30-minute bike share trips once they sign up with proof of residency in the Fingal County Council area. Bleeper's bicycles are available in Fingal areas such as Dublin 15, Swords, Howth, Sutton, Malahide, Portmarnock, Baldoyle, and Dublin Airport. Although the company's coverage area has been reduced recently -- due to low usage, Bleeper's…
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Free 30 minutes bike share trips for Fingal residents
Residents of Fingal in north and north-west Dublin are being offered free 30-minute bike share trips once they sign up with proof of residency in the Fingal County Council area. Bleeper’s bic…IrishCycle.com
The world’s largest gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela, is a Hindu festival with an estimated 400 million attendees. The pilgrimage happens every 12 yrs on the banks of the Ganges and Yamuna in the Indian city of Prayagraj, says The NY Times. People travel from across the globe to “purify their sins” by taking holy baths in the water. The state of Uttar Pradesh has spent around $800m building a temporary 10,000-acre campsite with tents, bathrooms, parking areas and water stations.
Incredible!
Hilde Dosogne - Marathon Woman 366
Hilde Dosogne, Belgian ultra runner and Belgian 100km champion in 2023, shares her journey to attempt a Guinness World Record for running 366 marathons by 2024. Follow her inspiring story.www.hildedosogne.be
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Absolutely dream weather at 0° with oxygen-saturated air. On the way back in the woods I tripped over a molehill, but luckily landed gently in the leaves. Note to self: frozen molehills are hard and won't give.😅
@damianlehmann But sunshine is the right weather for shorts, isn't it? 😉
#running #runnersOfMastodon #Leudelange
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Part of comment I just saw, regarding social networks..
"it all went to shit once it stopped being a complement to one's life and transformed into a soapbox for Discourse and a battle royale for a slice of the Attention Economy. while there are plenty of influencers i respect, the entire concept of a modern-day influencer — one who rises to fame on a tidal wave of incendiary hot takes and clickbait — is so fundamentally broken and fucking with our parasociality."
Wow!
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Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’
A group of technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a project aimed at creating a social ecosystem atop the AT Protocol.Emma Roth (The Verge)
So, this has been in the works for a while, arguably most of last year. I intend to transfer my personal ownership of the Mastodon trademarks and assets, incl. copyright over my code, to the Mastodon non-profit, and transition to a different role at the organization.
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My attempt at night-time #photography during my today's #run. The photos look good on a smartphone, but when I look at them on a big PC screen, not so much.
And it always surprises me how tiny full moon looks on photos, compared to how it seems in real life.
For various reasons (time, health, motivation) I let me fitness suffer last year. Toward the end of the year I started to get motivated and re-gained my running habit.
Now I'm at the stage where I feel strong, and I want to run farther and faster. I know from (adulthood) experience that usually what then happens is I get injured! For example, I've turned an ankle, or hurt my lower back.
So this time I've resolved to not overdo it. I'm not going to run too fast or too far, and I'll add just a little distance over time. Right now I'm at 4-6 km per run, and I would like to be at 6-8 km per run next month.
Red grape juice could be a drug-free alternative to Viagra. A Chinese study of more than 1,500 men found that those who consume the beverage five times a week have an 80% reduced risk of erectile dysfunction, says the Daily Star. Talk about a “stiff drink”.
Rod Stewart may be worth around £200m but he’s still got an eye for a deal, says Patrick Kidd in The Times. A gardener was once working at his estate when the singer came out and asked to borrow his van. He handed over his keys and half an hour later Stewart returned with the van packed full of crates of lager. “Thanks,” the rocker told him. “The local shop was selling these off cheap because they’re out of date and I couldn’t get them in the Lamborghini.”
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Run at dawn…
#hometown #2800love #running #snap #mobilephotography #runningphotographer #energize #revitalize #runningviews #tragewegen #ddon #morningrun #dawn
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#LGM #metsmastodon #Mets
Lindor should have been MVP, not Ohtani.
Gather Round as I tell you all of Elon Musk
A man whose opinions
Are ignored by his minions
Call him a racist, he just comes off brusque
"Racist Schmasist"
Will Tweet Elon Musk
Don't say that he's antisemitic
He'll just say for Earth he's terrific
He's tweeting every thought he has from dawn to dusk
And he's not getting much sleep, is Elon Musk
"California’s on fire, and while the GOP is busy blaming DEI and concocting conspiracies, Canada and Mexico are busy saving lives.
Canadian firefighting planes? Check. Mexican firefighters marching straight into the flames? Absolutely."
~ God
#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ecology #Canada #Mexico #Trump #Republicans
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"We got South African firefighters coming to help put out fires in Los Angeles. And a white American representative from Ohio saying cut funding and don’t help. What kind of country is this!"
~ Celly Blue
Note the TikTok video Celly Blue embeds here.
#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ecology #Canada #Mexico #Trump #Republicans
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Yesterday evening, I somehow found myself down and online rabbit hole — as we all know, this can happen easily — where I was reading comments about the Los Angeles fires in an online discussion group. In the group, members were blaming
"coloreds" for starting the fires, and claiming a man of color had been arrested as a key culprit. Group members wanted him executed in public, with t.v. coverage.
#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #racism
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I've seen no news reports at all corroborating their claims about who "started" the Los Angeles fires or the arrest of a key culprit. The word "coloreds" was obviously codespeak to avoid having the site hosting this filthy racist discussion shut it down for using more overtly racist language.
This kind of filth has long been out there. Now, though, it's out and proud and claiming center stage.
#California #fires #LosAngeles #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #racism
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"According to training materials viewed byThe Intercept and other media outlets, Meta users will be able to say things like 'immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit,' 'Black people are more violent than whites,' 'Italians are dickheads,' women are 'household objects' or 'property,' and transgender people are mentally ill. Calling trans people 'trannies' or 'it' is now also acceptable on Meta sites."
#Meta #Zuckerberg #HateSpeech #racism #misogyny #immigrants
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'Beta' Mark Zuckerberg praises 'masculine energy' in corporate America
As numerous U.S. corporations bend to the right with the political winds swirling around Republican President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to power, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is following up on his company's termination of its fact-checking pr…Brett Wilkins (Alternet.org)
"Most of the press coverage focused on Meta ending its fact-checking partnerships, but I think that misses the real harm. The fact-checking program was never as robust as it needed to be, and there are multiple examples of fact-checkers being overruled due to political pressure from the Right.
The bigger story, at least in my mind, is that Meta’s policy changes now make it easier to target marginalized groups with harassment."
~ Melissa Ryan
#Meta #Zuckerberg
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They didn't say they would stop screening content. They just absolved themselves of responsibility for it. I fully expect them to continue removing content that they consider against their own interests.
@CassandraVert You'll have to help me understand which comemnt you're directing your statement to — Melissa Ryan's? If so, I don't find her even using the word "screen."
No, screen is my word. Zuck said they would no longer be responsible for fact checking, but that's only part of screening, which they have done and will continue to do.
It's just that I think people think "no fact checking" means letting content run wild, but that's not what it means.
It's just that I think people think "no fact checking" means letting content run wild, but that's not what it means.
and in terms of the general perceptions of the general population the algorithms are absolutely critical.
@peterbrown Yes, they are, and so insidious, since nothing about them is transparent, yet they exert tremendous influence on what we see and what we end up knowing and thinking.
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This is what it means to be a good neighbour. Our finest flying in Canadian Canadair CL-415 water bombers are doing non-stop runs filling up in the Santa Monica Bay to drop water on the Palisades fires. - Matt Austin
#Neighbors
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Sunday morning on the sofa with coffee, a snoring dog, and this view of The Wasatch Front. #silentsunday
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What Shakespeare revealed about the chaotic reign of Richard III – and why the play still resonates in the age of Donald Trump theconversation.com/what-shake…
What Shakespeare revealed about the chaotic reign of Richard III – and why the play still resonates in the age of Donald Trump
William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil society.The Conversation
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My latest musings are out on misinformation, propaganda and flooding the zone.
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#misinformation #fakenews #propaganda #socialmedia
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Very nice. Three thoughts.
1. The Tetris analogy is truly lovely.
2. Journalism has forever had this kind of problem. Just yesterday I was at a typography exhibit that showed (and labeled) a sensationalist newspaper cover from a century ago (like at your restaurant). But also, I think a lot of people don't understand that columnists and op-ed are a totally different part of "news" than the reporting side. ↵
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3. Combining that w/ podcasts: just this morning I was listening to a high-quality podcast interviewing a person who (amongst other things) writes op-eds for the WaPo, talking about a subject I know well, and I was dismayed by how poorly she understood causal factors on a topic she widely opines on…and on how freely she switched between fact and opinion w/out flagging them. ↵
@shriramk absolutely. I wonder in this case you describe if part of it is the pace at which people are asked to produce content, and feeling like one needs to pretend to be an expert on all things?
I listened to a low-quality ( 😆) podcast recently that someone shared, and I marveled at how the person circled around a very real problem but then zeroed in on so-called specific causes with next to no evidence for it. Surprise, surprise, they were selling a supposed cure 🙄
I listened to a low-quality ( 😆) podcast recently that someone shared, and I marveled at how the person circled around a very real problem but then zeroed in on so-called specific causes with next to no evidence for it. Surprise, surprise, they were selling a supposed cure 🙄
Yeah, I am always impressed by columnists who can produce an article every few days on demand, but it also makes me question how much they could really know about what they're writing (with such confidence).
Heck, I couldn't even produce a column *about my own research areas* with that level of confidence at that frequency… and these folks are opining about the entire world!
This is why my preferred newspaper is probably the WSJ. The op-eds are a dumpster fire at their best, but their reporting is excellent (and also, covers "liberal" topics in ways that would surprise many people who only know them from social media). I guess if you sell news to people who make money off the news…you need to just do that much better?
@shriramk the WSJ does do some excellent reporting! One reporter I very much appreciate is @mimsical … agreed on the opinion page. It’s not my No. 1 preferred newspaper as it doesn’t have the breadth for me, overall, and is a little too zeroed in on business and tech (which I want but not only), but I do like it.
I currently have, I think, six newspaper subscriptions 🤣
I currently have, I think, six newspaper subscriptions 🤣
@mimsical Yes, Mims is great! And indeed they are a bit narrow. I've got… about six or seven too, depending on how I count.
excellent read. I would also add two aspects that have troubled me.
The consolation of media (in the US specifically, my frame of reference), such as Sinclair for broadcast TV. This has led to a federated ease in flooding the zone. Sinclair, specifically, mandates specific coverage in “must carry” declarations. The other end of the spectrum is news deserts, which the collapse of the smaller newspaper industry has created. So much reporting is lost at the local level.
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@mlawton thank you. Yes, those are hugely important factors!
I am trying to do more “small bite” pieces this year, where maybe I am not tackling the full complexity of a problem or subject, but focusing on a few aspects, or even just zeroing in on one. I hope that will enable me to do more writing, by making it more approachable and shorter. But hope that won’t be misleading.
There’s substantial evidence that those living in news deserts are less informed. And ugh, Sinclair!
I am trying to do more “small bite” pieces this year, where maybe I am not tackling the full complexity of a problem or subject, but focusing on a few aspects, or even just zeroing in on one. I hope that will enable me to do more writing, by making it more approachable and shorter. But hope that won’t be misleading.
There’s substantial evidence that those living in news deserts are less informed. And ugh, Sinclair!
also the psychological weight of trying to encompass everything is just too great. That's beyond treatise and into manifesto territory. I like the small bites approach, and thought this one, in particular, was really well done. 👏
adding to that is the loss of net neutrality, which will likely have an affect on distribution of news.
Secondly, people acknowledge bias, but then select sources to affirm their bias… the echo chamber effect. Media outlets seek relevancy and to carve out a niche. Here we can blur the lines of op-ed and hard news, and consumers struggle to find a difference. Add the ability for foreign states to influence those zones so cheaply & effectively via social media? Trouble.
@mlawton big trouble. I think we also face an issue on neutrality that, historically, journalists were taught to give both sides of the story. I certainly was. And that was meant to be more neutral or objective. But if one side is purposely putting out misinformation at a far higher rate - at least among leadership - that is anything but neutral.
Sutton Hoo burials may belong to Anglo-Saxons who fought for the Byzantine Empire, new research reveals
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#OfInterest #Culture #Archeology #ArcheologyMagazine
Sutton Hoo burials may belong to Anglo-Saxons who fought for the Byzantine Empire, new research reveals
A recent study challenges long-held views of Sutton Hoo, suggesting the site may hold Anglo-Saxon warriors who served in the Byzantine EmpireDario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
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Just a general thread about running. How's your running going? What are you training for? Did you get new shoes? Sporting an injury etc.
Recently, as in for the last week or so, I’ve started developing shin splints. It’s a little annoying when the limiting factor in endurance & speed isn’t heart & lungs.
I’m attempting to stretch the shins specifically by planting my heel, pushing the toes as far forward as I can stand, and holding it as long as I can.
Is there anything else I can do about it? Are there exercises which target shin muscles specifically to strengthen them?
Have had to deal with shin splints a couple of times. What worked best for me was decreasing distance for a while, and to do some targeted exercises.
Had some recommendations from my brother, who’s a physiotherapist. Great to have one of those in the family when I run as much as I do.
First one is “Ankle Dorsiflexion with Resistance Band”. Second one is “Ankle Plantar Flexion with Resistance Band”. Lots of illustrations etc. First one I randomly found: katieegood.com/4-way-ankle-exe…
Do one of them to exhaustion, then the other to exhaustion. Couple of times per day at least. Can do lots of stuff while you do the exercise, since it’s only one foot and you don’t have to count.
4 Way Ankle Exercises With Band For Ankle Physical Therapy - Katie E Good
4-Way Ankle Band Exercises A great way to strengthen the muscles around the ankle is through 4-way ankle band exercises.Katie Good (Katie E Good)
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YOU READING THIS, BE READY
Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life –
What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?
- William Stafford
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in reply to Shriram Krishnamurthi • •You are right.
The other major omission from news articles is that Congress passed this law. The President is supposed to enforce the law, not evade it. Congress is free to repeal or amend the law, but the President is not free to ignore a statute.
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