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"Who preserves what happens on the internet?" Listen as
@brewsterkahle talks with Mary Louise Kelly of All Things Considered about the cyberattacks against the Internet Archive.

▶️ npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-51624…

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Juniper Dunes Wilderness Area in Redd, Washington

One of the northernmost occurrences of western juniper can be found in the sand dunes of Washington39;s Palouse.#dunes #naturepreserves #flora #nature #trees #section-Atlas




Here’s an excellent write-up about all the ways the 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act protects Presidential election results. The Act can’t and won’t prevent lawsuits from being filed or even all unwarranted Congressional interference but it does seriously limit the chances of the election being unlawfully overturned. rollcall.com/2024/10/31/electi…

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in reply to Heidi Li Feldman

Are you giving me hope now? Your last thread was a bit terrifying tbh...
Having said that, you are one of the ones helping me stay sane!
in reply to Chris Turnbow

@cturnbow Personally, I’m just trying to stay grounded in facts, some of which are scary and some of which are encouraging. Hope and concern are both warranted.


step one, liberal makes obvious parody video roasting rump's "garbage truck" cosplay

step two, maga dumbfucks think it's real and praise the artist...

until they learn it's parody, when they start to cry about how unfair "the left" is....

open.substack.com/pub/thegodpo…



If Trump wins, everyone else loses. It’s that simple.

The anticipation of a Trump win is sending mortgage rates soaring. Top economists say scorching inflation is very likely to go with it fortune.com/2024/11/01/donald-…

#NaziTrump #GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol

in reply to Democracy Matters

It'll be like Reagan: worse for awhile, then better (economics terms only).


This is a righteous takedown of #GrowthMindset and #Microsoft from #EdZitron:
wheresyoured.at/the-cult-of-mi…
I won't exactly call it "entertaining," since what Microsoft is doing is too gross to laugh at, but Ed has a gift for writing text that is satisfying to read.
Having said that, I want to talk about what I perceive as a positive impact of growth-mindset teaching in primary school.
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#education #bullying
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in reply to Jonathan Kamens

Leaving aside whether growth-mindset teaching strategies actually improve learning or intelligence, one thing I think they does do is, simply put, make people nicer.
In a growth-mindset teaching culture, students are nicer to each other, teachers are nicer to students, and students are less oppositional with teachers.
This, in my opinion, reduces bullying, exclusion, and other harmful school experiences.
I personally think it's worthwhile for this reason alone, regardless of academic benefit.




‘More toxic than ever’: #Lahore and #Delhi choked by smog as ‘pollution season’ begins - theguardian.com/world/2024/nov… well, #beijing tackled it, so can they



sunny.garden/@moonrabbit/11340… moonrabbit@sunny.garden - just a little peace and kindness at the end of this week. just in case anyone needs any. take care hoomans; it's a crazy world out there.

jizo nature spirit sculpture available at
driftingspirits.art
or, for UK folk, etsy.com/shop/driftingspirits

(boosts very welcome but never obligatory.)

#art #artist #MastoArt #ceramics


in reply to GM7077

An orange bike repair station with a sticker that says "Bici Borne" and a bicycle wheel with a wrench. There is a sticker that says "Free Gaza" on the side. The station is in front of a glass door.


The ongoing storyline will return Monday. In the meantime, if you're in the US, here's a lil' comic strip for next week:

dorktower.com/2024/11/01/vote-…

Retweet/Repost/Reblog/Repeat...please and thank you...but mostly., VOTE!



The women ‘cancelling out’ their #Trump-loving partners’ votes: ‘No one will ever know’ - theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n… US women could save the habitable planet; let's hope they do for the sake of their children - and us....



#Google has disabled call recording on its phones so thank gawd for OBS, Open Broadcaster Software, which records just about anything. So I'll be doing interviews from windows, not android.

#journalism #FOSS

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