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Watching and waiting.

Since the 1950s, the #federal govt has consistently operated as the predominant source of #research #funding for #universities, acc/to the #NSF.

One of the largest govt sources of research funding has been the #NIH, which disburses about $35 billion each year. The largest recipients of those NIH #grants are #MedicalSchools, acc/to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #privacy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump #science #medicine

Given what it's gonna do to the world economy when the bubble will burst I think it's better if we drop all references to intelligence and just start calling it subprime computing

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116287036014902199

His ballot got lost in the mail or it wasn’t postmarked in time!

When I was done with the goat, I found this one waiting for me to demand hugs. I never thought turkeys were cuddly before the farm. #NewMexico #turkeys #birds
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, Association of Professional Flight Attendants, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 135, and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: US flight attendants demand pay for TSA to keep airports secure, not create havoc with ICE. https://afacwa.org/pay_tsa/
U.S. Flight Attendants Demand Pay for TSA to Keep Airports Secure, Not Create Havoc with ICE - Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

Washington, DC—As U.S. airports suffer long security delays, Flight Attendant Union leaders representing more than 100,000 of aviation’s first responders released the following joint statement:  “Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers must be paid now. “Flight Attendants will not allow the TSA and the frontline Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who keep us safe to be used…

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
people keep trying to convince me that the entire economic system needs to be burned down and rebuilt from scratch according to a book written in 1867. what's your plan for Thursday though. specifically Thursday. the day after the revolution. what happens on Thursday
When you see the news
about all the energies
being devoted
to turning the world
into a wasteland,
it is vital to remember
that applied differently
those same energies
could turn the world
into a garden.
@LoganFive I want to create an animated GIF of Homer receding into the hedge and this unicorn emerging in his place, but that would require time, skill, and a wildly disproportionate sense of how much effort I'm willing to put into something for a very tiny payoff.

Looks like I've got the latter base covered, now about the other two...

The defining characteristic of domestic policy in the United States is racism. It’s literally why we can’t have nice things.

Every time some practice doesn’t make sense from the war on drugs to how education is funded, Trump getting elected twice or the lack of universal healthcare, you can trace the roots back to racism.

People would rather be kings in hell than risk being servants in heaven.

"In each of the Peace Games the AI recommended deep listening for unmet needs, respite in nature and meditation for all parties, and reckoning with and making amends for historical injustice."