Mastodawn

Adrienne Jones Dec 31, 2023

libramoon Dec 29, 2023

American Identity in Crisis
#video #transcript #cspan
Spread the Vote + Project ID founder Kat Calvin chronicled her work to help Americans without #IDs obtain the necessary #documents they need to live, work, and #vote.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?531272-4/american-identity-crisis

Adrienne Jones Sep 9, 2023

Widdershins Smith 🐘Sep 3, 2023

#BanTheSuit

Adrienne Jones Sep 8, 2023

@wayword In 2017, you recommended an amazing thesaurus for my then third grader. 4 years later, she got the Oxford Dictionary of Etymology per your recommendation. Today, I get to surprise her with a second hand Compact OED! Thanks for the show (and the excellent book recommendations)!

Adrienne Jones Aug 27, 2023

Denis - The COVID info guy -Aug 27, 2023

By Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

One of the most important myth-busting deep-dives I've ever done.

What was the real impact of Covid school closures?
Were they avoidable?
Did they cause 'learning loss' & mental health decline?
What's the impact of Covid on kids' health?

Please do watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5xyGdVfvo&list=PLDIVi-vBsOExSEL5CAZ7q7KLi-Q7EU2Ax&index=3&ab_channel=MSNBC

Twitter source: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1695136482082566255

Adrienne Jones Aug 8, 2023

Show thread

Sheldon Aug 7, 2023

Want to see what a CO2 chart for an office meeting with about 12 people for one hour looks like? We start with excellent indoor air quality at 9am with 500ppm of CO2.

After one hour in a poorly ventilated space, the CO2 readings are 1720ppm! And this is a fairly spacious office that would have a bit of air reservoir to slow down the rise in CO2 levels.

Yikes! This means everyone is breathing quite a bit out of each other's lungs. If you're only going to wear a mask in the riskiest situations, this should be one of them.

Keep in mind that just having high CO2 concentrations doesn't mean much unless someone is contagious in the room, but if there was someone contagious that day, lots of people in that meeting would have gotten whatever was being passed into the air be it Covid, flu, RSV, or a cold.

#aranet4 #co2 #covid

Adrienne Jones Mar 21, 2023

First Focus on Children Mar 21, 2023

"It might be tempting to believe that the impact of culture wars is limited to policy decisions...data show otherwise. The culture wars directly affect our health and mortality, and that of our children who have little say in these matters." More: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/3905737-early-deaths-are-skyrocketing-culture-wars-are-part-of-the-problem/

Are culture wars costing lives?

Whereas it might be tempting to believe that the impact of culture wars is limited to policy decisions related to ideology and morality, data show otherwise.

The Hill

Adrienne Jones Mar 21, 2023

First Focus on Children Mar 21, 2023

Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles in elementary grades & restrict instruction on human sexuality to grades 6-12. More: https://www.startribune.com/florida-may-ban-girls-period-talk-in-elementary-grades/600260014/?refresh=true

Florida may ban girls' period talk in elementary grades

Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.

Star Tribune

Adrienne Jones Mar 13, 2023

Texan_Reverend Mar 10, 2023

Discord is getting in on the "AI" trend with testing of new features utilizing user data scraping, potentially for training a large language model. To disable the only settings which might affect your data being utilized for this, go to the Privacy & Safety section of your Settings. From there, toggle off both "Use data to improve Discord" and "Use data to customize my Discord experience."

Adrienne Jones Mar 10, 2023

First Focus on Children Mar 9, 2023

Newly leaked emails reveal the network behind the surge trans youth healthcare bans. Meanwhile >1/2 of trans A& nonbinary kids have considered suicide & 93% worry about laws denying them access to medical care supported by all major medical organizations… https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/

Inside the secret working group that helped push anti-trans laws across the country

Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans.

Mother Jones

Adrienne Jones Mar 3, 2023

myrmepropagandist Feb 27, 2023

So. A Texas* school superintendent** went to the restroom in a school and left his gun*** in the stall by mistake.

It was found by students. No one was harmed. Parents were mad.

Happily it was not a copy of "And Tango Makes Three" or some other bit of subversive literature. Then there might have been real danger.

um. what the heck are we doing in this country?

* Is anyone surprised?
** Leadership.
*** This whole sentence is messed up from top to bottom and shouldn't exist.