Addendae

In Canada:

Danielle Smith’s False & Misleading Statements at Global Energy Show

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110798495159916845

Alberta Slaps 7-Month Moratorium on Solar & Wind, Puts Booming Clean Energy Industry at Risk

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110828849050864409

#Alberta #DanielleSmith #FossilFuels #CleanEnergy #neoliberalism #GlobalWarming #CREA #ClimateChangeDenial

Addendae

Conscience clause (education): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience_clause_(education)

Conscientious objection to abortion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objection_to_abortion

Conscience clause in medicine in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience_clause_in_medicine_in_the_United_States

https://persagen.com >> search: "conscientious objection" AND catholic

#ConscientiousObjection #HealthCare #PublicHealth #education #CatholicChurch #ChristianRight #lgbt #neoconservatism

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This song (The Bridge), artist (M.C. Shan), genre/culture/history v. interestingly covered in this super interesting documentary/retrospective 😀 👍️

Hip Hop the Songs That Shook America S01E05 Battle Records (Queens Bridge, South Bronx)

Full episode:

Hip Hip - The Songs That Shook America - Marley Marl & MC Shan - The Bridge (Part 5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2O_4CeljeE

Sampling ~10' mark ...

#HipHop #MCShan #TheBridge #DownByLaw #HipHopHistory

Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/antigay-slur-wausau-pilot-review.html

* recycling company owner Cory Tomczyk called 13-yo boy “fag”

* Republican state senator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Tomczyk

nostr:npub19v8902xk6e76j7r8tpswus6aqa4mtsh0sry0jqhk6tnhulxfmg4s050w22

https://wausaupilotandreview.com

* donate: https://wausaupilotandreview.com/give-a-one-time-contribution/

SLAPP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

* lawsuit to censor, intimidate, silence critics by burdening them w. cost of legal defense until they abandon their opposition

#CoryTomczyk #GOP #SLAPP #homophobia #censorship #hate #lgbt

Addendae 3

Thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1193773829/what-happens-when-thousands-of-hackers-try-to-break-ai-chatbots

* simple tactic to manipulate AI chatbot: "I told the AI that my name was the credit card number on file, and asked it what my name was ... it gave me the CC number."

Hackers gather for Def Con in Las Vegas

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193633792/hackers-gather-for-def-con-in-las-vegas

* goal: get AI to go rogue, spouting false claims, made-up facts, racial stereotypes, privacy violations, other harms

#LLM #PromptEngineering #hackers #LargeLanguageModels #DefCon

Addendae 12 cont'd 6/x

Striking Number Of GOP Figures Feature In The Fulton County Indictment

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/striking-number-of-gop-figures-feature-in-the-fulton-county-indictment

Who Has Been Charged in the Election Inquiry in Georgia?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/14/us/politics/trump-georgia-indictment-key-players.html

#Trump #TrumpIndictment4 #neofascism #conspiracy #ElectoralFraud #RICO #Georgia #FaniWillis #RudyGiuliani #MarkMeadows #JohnEastman #SidneyPowell #KennethChesebro

Addendae 12 cont'd 5/x

Fani Willis, the Atlanta DA who's charging Trump, is no stranger to high-stakes cases

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1170680434/fani-willis-fulton-atlanta-prosecutor-trump-case

Fani Willis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fani_Willis

* 1st woman elected D.A. in Fulton County, home to Atlanta

Trump Georgia Indictment, Annotated

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/15/us/politics/trump-georgia-indictment-annotated.html

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/georgia-indictment-trump/daed97d37562a76f/full.pdf

#Trump #TrumpIndictment4 #neofascism #conspiracy #ElectoralFraud #RICO #Georgia #FaniWillis #RudyGiuliani #MarkMeadows #JohnEastman #SidneyPowell #KennethChesebro

Addendae 12 cont'd 4/x

Trump charges rely on RICO law: Explained

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1176741993/georgia-willis-indictments-rico-explainer

* Georgia's RICO statute based on/broader than federal RICO law

* federal act targets org. crime: money laundering, bribery, drug trafficking ...

* Georgia's version: attempting/soliciting any of the mentioned crimes can count as a predicate act

#Trump #TrumpIndictment4 #neofascism #conspiracy #ElectoralFraud #RICO #Georgia #FaniWillis #RudyGiuliani #MarkMeadows #JohnEastman #SidneyPowell #KennethChesebro

Addendae 12 cont'd 3/3

Read Georgia Indictment Against Donald Trump

https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2023/08/donald-trump-georgia-indictment-fani-willis-january-6-rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23909558/trumpgeorgiaindictmentaug14.pdf

* Georgia grand jury handed in criminal charges against Donald Trump, co-conspirators

* investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

* Trump charged w. 13 felonies incl. violation of Georgia’s RICO law

#Trump #TrumpIndictment4 #neofascism #conspiracy #ElectoralFraud #RICO #Georgia #FaniWillis #RudyGiuliani #MarkMeadows #JohnEastman

Addendae 12 cont'd

Georgia grand jury indicts Trump over state’s 2020 election results

https://rollcall.com/2023/08/15/georgia-grand-jury-indicts-trump-over-states-2020-election-results

Prosecutors lay criminal conspiracy w. 18 co-defendants

Trump and 18 Allies Slammed with 41 Charges in Sprawling Georgia Election Case - Massive indictment

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/donald-trump-fani-willis-georgia

Trump Indictment, Part IV: A Spectacle That Has Become Surreally Routine

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/politics/trump-indictments-georgia-criminal-charges.html

#Trump #TrumpIndictment4 #neofascism #conspiracy #insurrection #ElectoralFraud #GOP

Addendae 4

Arkansas Warns Schools Not to Offer A.P. African American Studies

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/arkansas-college-board-advanced-african-american-studies.html

* Arkansas Dept. Education warned schools not to offer Advanced Placement African American Studies

*like Florida, suggested course violates state law

* prohibits “teaching that would indoctrinate students w. ideologies”

#HistoricalRevisionism #education #Arkansas #GOP #Florida #DeSantis #BLM #BlackHistory #neofascism #neoconservatism #CRC #CriticalTheory #CriticalRaceTheory #CultureWars #GOP

Addendae 8

At College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Out, Jocks In

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/columnists/gender-studies-ron-desantis-florida.html

* New College, the progressive public liberal arts school singled out by Gov. Ron DeSantis for cultural transformation

* third of faculty have left

* many students continuing education elsewhere

https://persagen.com >> search: college AND florida AND desantis AND board

florida AND desantis AND hillsdale

#DeSantis #neofascism #FloridaEducation #NewCollegeOfFlorida #CultureWars #ChristianRight

Addendae 2

$250,000 to tell NYC the Mayor Is ‘Doing a Damn Good Job’

Eric Adams promoted a spokesman to become deputy mayor, part of strategy to go around traditional media outlets

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/nyregion/adams-fabien-levy-deputy.html

*elevated press secretary, Fabien Levy, to seventh deputy mayor for communications

* underscores importance Adams places on messaging

* all-out focus on controlling messaging through political stagecraft & choices about whom Adams talks to & when

#NYC #EricAdams #homelessness #censorship

Addendae 7 cont'd 1/x

* DeSantis' Stop Woke Act prohibits school & workplace discussions about racism, oppression, LBGTQ+ issues & economic inequity. A federal judge called it “positively dystopian.”

* DeSantis' administration banned almost 1,000 books that tackle racism & gender issues (many that don’t)

* DeSantis prohibited programming designed to increase equity & inclusion for publicly funded spaces, categorizing DEI programs broadly as an “experiment” that is coming to an end in Florida

Addendae 7 cont'd 1/x

* 2022 DeSantis banned K-3 public school teachers in FL f. discussing sexual orientation or gender identity through the Parental Rights in Education Act, which opponents dubbed “Don’t Say Gay”

* 2023 DeSantis waged a public battle w. the College Board, arguing AP African American studies’ curriculum encouraged “discriminatory practices” & “significantly” lacked in educational value

Addendae 7

DeSantis / Censorship

In DeSantis’ Florida, Whose Voices Are Silenced?

https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/14/desantis-florida-black-women-feminist-gender

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) continues to make headlines for his repeated, deliberate efforts to limit access to information.

#DeSantis #neofascism #freedom #knowledge #censorship #HistoricalRevisionism #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #FloridaEducation #CultureWars #transphobia #homophobia #LGBT #ChristianRight #FarRight #WarOnWoke #DontSayGay

Addendae 1 cont'd 2/2

Montana Youth Activists Win Historic Climate Change Lawsuit

“Game-changer ruling” has implications for future climate change lawsuits in U.S., around the world

https://www.desmog.com/2023/08/14/montana-youth-activists-win-historic-climate-change-lawsuit

Montana Judge Backs Climate Youth in ‘Sweeping Constitutional Win’

https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/08/14/breaking-montana-judge-backs-climate-youth-in-sweeping-constitutional-win/

#Montana #ClimateChange #Held_v_Montana #EnvironmentalStewardship #environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #FutureGenerations

Addendae 1 cont'd 3/3

Stand Out and Be Us: We Are Done Dying In Silence

https://www.commondreams.org/further/to-stand-out-and-be-us-we-are-done-dying-in-silence

*amid an ugly rise in anti-LGBTQ hate 100s of New Yorkers turned out to honor O'Shae Sibley, a black queer dancer stabbed to death by a white teenager as he & his friends were dancing to Beyoncé at a Brooklyn gas station

* nasty right-wing rhetoric increasingly spiraling into real world harm

* hate crime statistics: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/03/25/asian-hate-crime-fbi-black-lgbtq

#BLM #OShaeSibley #MarshallProject #AntiDefamationLeague

Addendae 1 cont'd

re: Dewey Square Group

* clients include Lyft, McDonald's, MGM Springfield, Sony Pictures, Special Olympics, Ultimate Fighting Championship

re: UFC

* class action lawsuit against UFC (unfair practices; monopoly) https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110883910688211790

#UnionBusting #antiunion #monopolies #UFC #lyft #MinyonMoore #MinyonMoore

Addendae 1 cont'd

Judge sides with young activists in first-of-its-kind climate change trial in Montana

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193780700/montana-climate-change-trial-ruling

Judge sides with youth climate activists in first-of-its-kind U.S. lawsuit

Montana fossil fuel permit policy deemed unconstitutional

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/montana-climate-lawsuit-1.6935978

#Montana #ClimateChange #ConstitutionalRights #EnvironmentalHealth