Elon Musk first, right? And Melania too?
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"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.
NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...
The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.
NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
Nature Prevails! Wild violets growing from a tree. Heart-shaped green leaves and five purple flowers with white throats. These are called Common Blue Violets but the flowers look purple to me. #ShowHeart
#WeekPforPurple
#AlphabetChallenge
Happy Earth Day! ππ
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel routinely kick their critics off the X platform. Which is an excellent reason not to use it. Ever.
This is what a completely rotted grifter looks like. As if Nazis aren't bad enough, Nazi-ing for the highest bidder is a heck of a choice.
Wind farms and solar looking at the world right now and saying βwe told you soβ.
large orange cat in good health is sleeping soundly with an angelic smile on his cat face
βJorts is an 18 lb neutered male domestic short hair. Evaluated for extensive evening screaming. In good health; behavioral. Very affectionate. Vet enjoys visiting for funβ
A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.
I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...
Woke 2 is coming.
(Thatβs a threat)
The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
#NowReading #Science #Space #Tech #Voyager #NASA
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone βnoβ vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
When I think about packing light, the first thing I like to eliminate is the garment that takes up almost no space, weighs almost nothing and is essential to personal hygiene
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
Trump illegally coerced Apple and Facebook into removing ICE tracking devices that citizens have every right to use, rules federal judge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Washington ceremonial architecture, like the government itself, must be returned to the purpose for which it existsβto promote democracy, not the demented, bruised ego of one sick man. trib.al/OAkGK7b
Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.
Be sure to read the whole thing.
Conclusions:
1) #USWNT A team beats Japan A team
2) Japan B team beats #USWNT B team
3) #USWNT A team + tape beats Japan A team + tape by a MILE
Yesssss. Seeing besties Soph and Naomi giddily celebrating togehter earlier was delightful too.
Unbelievable ball in and finish. #USWNT
the #uswnt is better logistically, strategically, and tactically than the DoD, and actually has end product
I love when defense scores. It means youβre playing the game as a team.
#USWNT
And yet its better than the stripes kit. *sigh*