Tucker Legerski

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Born and forged in the Rocky Mountain West. Lots of moves since. I support and strive to create good information.
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Oklahoma is considering a bill that would criminalize porn: https://www.404media.co/oklahoma-senator-dusty-deevers-porn-bill/
Oklahoma Senator Introduces Bill to Make Porn Completely Illegal

In a slate of several bills restricting reproductive rights and divorce, Oklahoma senator Dusty Deevers suggests anyone making anything even vaguely pornographic should go to jail.

404 Media
643 words words for a nonfiction book on growing up with crooked bones and a mom with diabetes. #DailyWords

Found my mom on the internet she passed away in 2011 and left very little in terms of a digital trail. #archive #writing

I found an old email listserve forum post:

https://www.tuckerlegerski.com/finding-my-mom-on-the-internet/

Finding my mom on the internet

It's important to archive and protect history on the internet. Especially when few recordings exists.

Tucker Legerski
What IVF taught me about political possibility

We had embryos, not children. But in the eyes of the Alabamian judges, those five-days-of- growth cells were, actually, children.

Tucker Legerski

883 words for A nonfiction book on growing up with crooked bones and a mom with diabetes #DailyWords

4th version of this book. Here we go.

This book is for anyone who has lost an important person in their lives. People who have lost parents. Who grew up without stability. It’s for people who struggle to accept their bodies; it’s for people who have spent lots of time in hospitals; it’s for people learning what it actually means to gain control and letting go of what you can’t control.

Newsletter: Independent writers are an important facet of the media ecosystem, but a recent legal threat helps to remind me that it’s not the path for everyone.

https://www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-legal-department/

#newsletter #CitationNeeded #journalism #IndependentMedia

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”

Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.

Citation Needed

Humans behind that A.I. sparkle. Just read chapter one of Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia.
For every “A.I. wonder” — a garbage picking robot, a self-driving car, a talking GPT — I think it’s essential to know about the human labor behind the machines. Annotates, labelers across the planet help train the bots. Note their vulnerability and essential role behind the “magic.” Pay, protect, recognize.

#ai

Amazing read #bicycle. Nothing beats June in Portland.

The Beauty And Boredom Of 500 Laps Around The Same .148-Mile Loop - https://defector.com/the-beauty-and-boredom-of-500-laps-around-the-same-148-mile-loop

The Beauty And Boredom Of 500 Laps Around The Same .148-Mile Loop | Defector

Ladd’s Addition is one of the oldest residential developments in Portland, Ore. It is a big square anomaly in the middle of Southeast Portland’s standard grid formation, bordered by historic Hawthorne Boulevard on the north, SE 20th Street on the east, SE Division Street on the south, and SE 12th Street on the west, not […]

There are many raw milk drinkers, who drink it for political or health reasons, and ignore the evidence that it may make them sick. And now there's the bird flu #food #health #milk #virus #healthcare

https://www.truebug.org/untitled/

Bird flu complicates the love for raw milk

May 3rd, 2024 Tuscaloosa, AL In late April, the USDA released a press release: that stated: Since late March 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state veterinary and public health officials have been investigating the detection of highly

True Bug

As always, statistics are structural.

"[A] shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the source."

"[T]o scientists’ dismay, the publicly released data do not include critical information that would shed light on the outbreak’s origins and evolution. Researchers also express concern that the genomic data wasn’t released until almost four weeks after the outbreak was announced."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01256-5

#BirdFlu #AvianFlu #H5N1 #PublicHealth

Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals

Genomic analysis suggests that the outbreak probably began in December or January, but a shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the source.