Addendae 10
Nina Turner: Ohio Voters Have Rejected GOP Power Grab in Victory for Democracy & Abortion Access
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/9/ohio_abortion_constitution_restriction_nina_turner
Nina Turner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Turner
* American politician, television personality, member of Democratic Party
* politics variously described as progressive, left-wing, far-left
* Turner supported Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign
#OhioIssue1 #NinaTurner #GOP #abortion #neofascism #StateConstitutions
Addendae 7
DeSantis Suspends 2nd Elected Prosecutor in Florida
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/us/desantis-orlando-prosecutor.html
* DeSantis accused Monique H. Worrell of leniency toward violent criminals
* 2nd time DeSantis taken drastic/exceedingly rare step of removing elected state attorney - both Democrats
* DeSantis heavily criticized for removing Andrew H. Warren, who signed statement w. 90 elected prosecutors across U.S. vowing not to prosecute people who seek/provide abortions
#DeSantis #neofascism #MoniqueWorrell #FloridaLaw
Addendae 14
Ron DeSantis, Fake Populist
Florida governor pretends to attack the elites with an economic agenda that would preserve his big donors’ power over Americans’ lives
https://www.levernews.com/ron-desantis-fake-populist
* effort to revive his well-funded but unappealing presidential campaign
* DeSantis presented a faux-populist economic agenda
* few items in his agenda/speech threaten sweeping economic power the ultra-wealthy & corporations have over Americans’ lives
#DeSantis #populism #CultureWars #WarOnWoke
Addendae 15
The Ron-mentum Continues … Circling the Drain
After firing almost half his staff, DeSantis just replaced his campaign manager.
But who’s got authority to handle the real problem: the candidate?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/desantis-trump-election
#DeSantis #populism #CultureWars #WarOnWoke
Hybrid PAC: Leaders We Deserve
David Hogg launches young candidate PAC
New PAC wants more people under 35 in Congress, legislatures
Leaders We Deserve looking at open seats in Florida, Georgia, Texas
https://rollcall.com/2023/08/09/new-pac-wants-more-people-under-35-in-congress-legislatures
* David Hogg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hogg
* 23-year-old American gun control activist
* student survivor of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
* Time magazine 100 Most Influential People of 2018
#DavidHogg #LeadersWeDeservePAC #PAC
Addendae 2
'Sizable' Conservative ad buy aims to soften, redefine Poilievre to Canadians 🤨
* steady lead in polls; healthy war chest of political donations
* Conservative Party rolling out 3 ads that to redefine/soften Pierre Poilievre's image, messaging
* personal branding
* timing re: Trudeau announcement of marriage separation not coincidental
#Canada #FarRight #populism #PierrePoilievre #propaganda #ConservativePartyOfCanada #branding
Sixto Rodriguez dead at 81 😥
Musician gained late-career fame after music smuggled into South Africa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sixto-rodriguez-1.6931354
* star/subject: Searching for Sugarman (good movie 👍️)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=searching+for+sugarman
https://thepiratebay0.org/search/Searching%20For%20Sugar%20Man%20/1/99/0
Sixto Rodriguez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Rodriguez
* career initially met with little fanfare in U.S,
* unbeknownst to him: for decades his music extremely successful/influential in South Africa, where he sold more records than Elvis Presley
#SixtoRodriguez #SouthAfrica #Sugarman
[interactive data visualization] g9.js
GitHub: https://github.com/bijection/g9
Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058674
[2016] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572412
* g9: JavaScript library for creating automatically interactive graphics
* user functions draw shapes based on data
* g9 automatically manipulates data when you drag shapes
* not for charts; for interactive demos
#d9js #DataVisualization #InteractiveGraphics #illustration #JavaScript #visualization JSlibrary #interactiveVisualization
Addendae 4
A Critical Problem
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/a-critical-problem
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059487
nostr:npub1aumflwnvgc3lnckxvyat07s6e4uprxkwe2aq7u2yp6shvddmxkkqysjq58
* nuclear engineering; nuclear criticality safety
Nuclear Negligence
https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence
* safety weaknesses at U.S. nuclear weapon sites operated by corporate contractors
* unpublicized accidents at nuclear weapons facilities
* avoidable radiation exposures
#NuclearEngineering #nuclearSafety #criticality #OSHA #OHS #DefenseContractors #DOE #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #MIC
🎵 Morning ☮-in
Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnC_8_ZeYE
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right (Top of the Pops)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRVSSwJYqh0
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #ClimaxBluesBand
Addendae 7
Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik Interviewed by Jan. 6 Prosecutors
Kerik, close ally of the Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, questioned about Trump’s fund-raising efforts & attempts to investigate fraud in 2020 election
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/kerik-giuliani-trump-jan-6.html
#BernardKerik #Giuliani #Trump #TrumpIndictment3 #GOP #insurrection
Breaking news [2023-08-08]
Woot woot!! 🥳 🎈 🎉
Ohio voters reject measure that would have made it harder to change constitution
* Ohio voters defeated Issue 1
* rejected GOP-proposed constitutional change to made it harder to pass future amendments to Ohio Constitution
* since SCOTUS/Roe states have been passing workaround legislation
* higher expected turnout in special August election
#OhioIssue1 #GOP #neofascism #StateConstitutions #democracy #Ohio
Addendae
In a Reversal, A.P. Psychology May Be Allowed in Florida Schools After All
The College Board and the Florida Department of Education had been feuding over the inclusion of a section on gender and sexual orientation
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/us/florida-ap-psychology.html
Addendae 3
Shakespeare & penguin book caught in Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' laws
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192767641/shakespeare-florida-excerpts-dont-say-gay
* FL school district will read excerpts f. Shakespeare's plays rather than full texts
* Hillsborough County Public Schools' curriculum guides conform to laws prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation, gender identity
And Tango Makes Three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three
* introduces idea of diverse families to children
#FloridaEcucation #censorship #CultureWars #DeSantic #BookBans
Addendae 1
Quantum material exhibits 'non-local' behavior that mimics brain function
Ppossible way to improve energy-efficient computing
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230808110939.htm
* electrical stimuli passed betw. neighboring electrodes can affect non-neighboring electrodes
* step toward brain-like computers w. minimal energy requirements
Spatial Interactions in Hydrogenated Perovskite Nickelate Synaptic Networks
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02076
#nonlocality #NeuromorphicComputing #SynapticPlasticity #quantummMaterials
xkcd 2812: Solar Panel Placement
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2812:_Solar_Panel_Placement
Title text: Getting the utility people to run transmission lines to Earth is expensive, but it will pay for itself in no time.
Cartoon text: Solar energy tip: to maximize sun exposure, always orient your panels downward and install them on the surface of the sun.
#xkcd #SolarEnergy #SolarPanels #cartoon #humor
#SundayMorningRead
This morning [2023-08-06] I carefully read the podcast transcript mentioned in my 2023-08-03 Mastodon.social post: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110828954046800308
That is an important document for several reasons - most notably for the first-person account of the far-right fundamentalist Baptist movements, and their views on LGBT communities.
I have collated and reposted that information here (adding links where appropriate):
https://persagen.com/docs/sure_foundation_baptist_church.html
Addendae 1
https://persagen.com >> search:
"alliance defending freedom" AND "federalist society"
title:"alliance defending freedom"
"alliance defending freedom"
"alliance defending freedom" AND "charles koch"
"alliance defending freedom" AND "leonard leo"
...
#CharlesKoch #LeonardLeo #neofascism #ADF #AllianceDefendingFreedom #ChristianRight
Addendae 2
How Texas AG's office became pipeline for conservative federal judges
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/08/texas-federal-courts-abbott-paxton-cornyn-trump
* 9 federal judges appointed by Trump worked in Texas attorney general’s office
* key decisions favoring conservatives on issues incl. abortion, COVID-19 vaccine requirements, immigration policies, through framework of constitutional originalism
Righting the Rule of Law
https://www.texastribune.org/series/texas-law-conservative-revolution
#Texas #neoconservatism #Trump #neofascism #FederalJudges #GreggAbbott #KenPaxton #GOP
Addendae 1
https://persagen.com >> search:
"alliance defending freedom" AND "federalist society"
title:"alliance defending freedom"
"alliance defending freedom"
"alliance defending freedom" AND "charles koch"
"alliance defending freedom" AND "leonard leo"
...
#CharlesKoch #LeonardLeo #neofascism #ADF #AllianceDefendingFreedom #ChristianRight
... cont'd 1/2
* Starr mandated the training as sanctions for religious discrimination
* Starr described ADF as 1 of several “esteemed non-profit organizations that are dedicated to preserving free speech & religious freedom”
* SPLC designated ADF an extremist hate group
* flight attendant Charlene Carter sued Southwest for 2017firing after she sent anti-abortion messages to her union’s former president
#CharleneCarter #neofascism #ADF #AllianceDefendingFreedom #ChristianRight #SPLC
Addendae 14
Ron DeSantis, Fake Populist
Florida governor pretends to attack the elites with an economic agenda that would preserve his big donors’ power over Americans’ lives
https://www.levernews.com/ron-desantis-fake-populist
* effort to revive his well-funded but unappealing presidential campaign
* DeSantis presented a faux-populist economic agenda
* few items in his agenda/speech threaten sweeping economic power the ultra-wealthy & corporations have over Americans’ lives
#DeSantis #populism #CultureWars #WarOnWoke
Addendae 13