Preston MacDougall

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#STEAM advocate and Master of the Atomic Domain (chemist) professing in the ‘Boro. My research profile on ResearchGate is here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Preston-Macdougall
An archive of 'Chemical Eye' commentaries that aired on WMOT public radio in Nashville-Murfreesboro is here: http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/list.html
You can find some with tootfinder!
La Ciencia Más Allá del Aula; "¡Las moléculas son bellas!"https://www.youtube.com/live/Wlp8sqUmQ18
“A prisoner has been removed from public record.
Their location is being withheld.
Contact has been cut off.
And the state is refusing to explain why.
Under international human rights standards, this pattern has a name: enforced disappearance. The detention of a person followed by a refusal to disclose their fate or whereabouts. It is a practice historically associated with authoritarian regimes and political repression.”
Oregon DOC Appears to Have Disappeared Malik Muhammad https://www.wewillfreeus.org/oregon-doc-appears-to-have-disappeared-portland-protester-malik-muhammad/
Oregon DOC Appears to Have Disappeared Malik Muhammad

Oregon DOC Appears to Have Disappeared Portland Protester Malik Muhammad

We Will Free Us

Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
http://www.techmeme.com/260404/p10#a260404p10

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Ars Technica
#BBCNews - French-owned ship passes through Strait of Hormuz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd8275jrrko
French-owned ship passes through Strait of Hormuz

It appears to be the first ship owned by a major European firm to go through the strait since the conflict began.

BBC News

These fascistic, eugenicist billionaires have stated clearly that the human species would only benefit from the demise of us "useless feeders".

"Even if billions perish in the coming [...] catastrophe..we shouldn’t be too concerned".

They said [climate], but also read [forever wars, poverty, pandemics].

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/ .

#USPol #EUPol #Fascism #Eugenics #TrumpPolicy #ClimatePurge #ClimateCatastrophe .

Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic - Salon.com

Whatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism

Salon.com

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hstone519/116349269463654529

This guy should go to prison....

A librarian was fired for refusing to hide LGBTQ+ books from kids. Then something amazing happened. - LGBTQ Nation

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/a-librarian-was-fired-for-refusing-to-hide-lgbtq-books-from-kids-then-something-amazing-happened/

A librarian was fired for refusing to hide LGBTQ+ books from kids. Then something amazing happened. - LGBTQ Nation

PEN America called her termination "emblematic of the fight against censorship and suppression.”

LGBTQ Nation

Native Americans were playing dice and other games of chance many millennia before any known cultures elsewhere.

https://www.404media.co/gambling-is-thousands-of-years-older-than-we-thought-rewriting-human-evolution/

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution

Native Americans were playing dice and other games of chance many millennia before any known cultures elsewhere.

404 Media

"...NPR has learned that hundreds of sailors were evacuated back to the United States from their base in Bahrain after the base was attacked by Iranian missiles and drones. In addition to the base in Bahrain, NPR has learned that there have been evacuations at other U.S. military bases in the region, though the exact details are unknown at this point..... Around 8,000 people were stationed at the base in Bahrain before the U.S. attacked Iran on Feb. 28....Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.

"The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing,""

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops

#Iran #War #Bahrain #military

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/116309132176333486

Reposting this sign seen at the #NoKings protest in #Murfreesboro , #Tennessee. Adding tags to #McDonalds - and #WalterReed. 🤞

#Resist hilariously. #8647now