Events! April 8, 2025 online: "Wikidata for Provenance Research" with Ruth von dem Bussche, Laurel Zuckerman, Achim Raschka , panel moderated by Meike Hopp.
What provenance data is available in #wikidata How can it be retrieved and used in provenance projects? Get to know people who are involved in wiki projects that create and use data for provenance research.

Starts 7 pm French time
Starts 1 pm NY time
https://www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/tdp/kuwiki-ag-wikipedia-arbeitsgemeinschaft-kunstwissenschaften/

#provenance #art #knowledge #learning #museum

Don’t buy swasticars.

#Tesla #Fascist #ElonMusk

With Musk-Trump destroying air travel safety, how long until the next airplane crash.
https://www.bloomberg.com/en/news/thp/2025-02-17/trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash?

At what point will airline react?
#crew
#tourists
utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business
#FAA #travel #airplane #safety #Mass #Firings #sabotage #airline

Good leadership means not firing your nuclear weapons safety experts without even knowing what they do, why they are important or how to contact them to beg them to come back.

Another win for MAGA geniuses, another loss for America and the world

#nuclear #stories #truecrime #kleptomanics #psychology #accident #DEI #boy

.”Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.”

Trump takes another page from the Hitler playbook

#arts #culture #dicatorship #Wwii #Germany

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html

The court ordered the funding freeze to be suspended, but it continues. Report from Virginia
https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-02-04/virginia-community-health-centers-close-federal-funding-grant-access

#lawless #Funding #Health #unconstitutional #illegal #court #virginia #NPR

we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk’

- Congressman Jamie Raskin

#US #constitution #Coup #fintech #resistance #Congress #Budget #Law #Legal #democracy #CSpan #Raskin
#musk #Oligarchs

Statement by Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight:
“Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of the Office of Personnel Management, sanctioned by Donald Trump, is putting Americans in danger. Since Trump handed #Musk the keys to our government, it’s been reported that Musk has set up private servers that risk a cybersecurity nightmare, sent out unsanctioned and untrustworthy resignation offers, and locked career officials out of agency systems.”

https://connolly.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6215

#cybersecurity #OPM