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It's been a few months since I posted a sunset here, so: here you go, Mastodon. Hope you like it.

Harris County leaders are backing unionization efforts by mental health care workers.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/harris-county-health-care-union-18175247.php

#news #work #labor #houston #texas

Harris County officials encourage employees to unionize

Harris County mental health workers are on the path to unionization, and county officials have their back.

Chron

The Union Solidarity Coalition has been formed by WGA members to start helping those in other unions affected by the strike. Look this over and pass it on...

https://www.tusctogether.com/

The Union Solidarity Coalition

Bringing our community together.

I have two words to say to this radical Supreme Court: Term Limits

(Actually I have another two words to say to them, but I’ll keep them to myself.)

If today feels like we're farther from the sunlight than ever, you're not that wrong.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-aphelion-isnt-the-reason-for-the-seasons/

Earth's Aphelion Isn't the Reason for the Seasons

Our planet’s not-quite-circular orbit means that on July 6 we’ll be about 2.5 million kilometers farther from the sun than average—but we won’t feel any colder

Scientific American
Rainbow Road to refer LGBTQ refugees to Canada

OTTAWA – Canada has partnered with a non-profit to seek out LGBTQ people fleeing violence all over the world and refer them to Canada as government-assisted refugees. Rainbow Road is based in N...

Winnipeg Free Press
@mcc When I installed Windows on my Steam Deck (after shrinking the SteamOS partition), it did not remove the SteamOS entries (I can select the OS from the BIOS boot menu).
I’m grateful that we have a president who honors and pays tribute to our fallen heroes, and doesn’t consider them “losers” and “suckers.”
The counterargument in the ChatGPT lawyer debacle is that the AI's summarization of the precedent, being based on a statistical summary of the relevant legal debates, is a better Hayekian distillation of the common law tradition than any ordinary exercise in legal pedantry carried out by humans combing Westlaw. The hallucinated citations are a purer form of the caselaw than any merely existing cases in our sordid sublunar realm could possibly aspire to being.
Here's a Tuesday evening treat: a wee sample from the excellent audiobook of The Terraformers, read by Emily Lawrence. #audiobooks #bookstodon https://soundcloud.com/macaudio-2/the-terraformers-by-annalee-newitz-audiobook-excerpt/s-BkfqLShzL4P
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz, audiobook excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of Annalee Newitz's THE TERRAFORMERS, read by Emily Lawrence. From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating explor

SoundCloud