Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷

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| EU-based | Writer | Editor| Researcher | Artist | Photographer | Interests: Health, Psychology, Social Equity, Eco |
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Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷May 12, 2023
The curtailment of the rights to express yourself or peaceful protest in the UK is now officially deeply creepy.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/12/coronation-protest-arrests-police
The coronation arrests are just the start. Police can do what they want to us now

Draconian new powers allow the police to shut down every form of effective protest, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷May 6, 2023
Vanessa KnipeMay 3, 2023
I found this and want to share.
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷May 6, 2023
David HoMay 5, 2023
The best-selling vehicle in France vs. the US in 2022.
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷May 6, 2023
I continue to be astonished that people want to rewrite such recent history and pretend that preventative measures didn't matter. After more than 22 MILLION people died globally from Covid, we're still debating the benefits of masks???
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/
Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't

New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

Scientific American
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷Apr 30, 2023
Show threadNow at geekingirl@ottawa.placeApr 29, 2023

Work From Home is up there with weekends, paid sick leave, parental leave top ups and other benefits unions have won.

It seems like a wild ask now, but if we fight for it it will become normal.

#PSACstrike is an historic strike. Let’s make historic gains.

Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷Apr 30, 2023
Love this!
#plants #talking #communication https://www.abc.net.au/news/webstories/can-plants-talk-79863?sf266352735=1
Can plants talk?

You might be familiar with the growing body of work that provides evidence for plants being able to sense sounds around them. Now, new research suggests they can also generate airborne sounds in response to stress (such as from drought, or being cut).

Can plants talk?
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷Apr 26, 2023
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-mp-andrew-bridgen-expelled-tory-party-compare-covid-19-vaccine-holocaust/
British MP expelled from Tories after comparing COVID-19 jab to Holocaust

Andrew Bridgen has been increasingly critical of the coronavirus vaccine.

POLITICO
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷Mar 3, 2023
Yep -- it's going to be a wine night.
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷Mar 3, 2023

I'd count myself as one of the concerned "ethics crowd" in this unfolding discussion.

#chatgpt #deepfake #ai

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/03/fake-news-chatgpt-truth-journalism-disinformation

A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism

A platform that can mimic humans’ writing with no commitment to the truth is a gift for those who benefit from disinformation, says Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism

The Guardian
Deborah Harmes, PhD 💻 📷Mar 2, 2023

No easy #solutions for #greed.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/ecb-confronts-cold-reality-companies-are-cashing-inflation-2023-03-02/

ECB confronts a cold reality: companies are cashing in on inflation

Huddled in a retreat in a remote Arctic village, European Central Bank policymakers faced up last week to some cold hard facts: companies are profiting from high inflation while workers and consumers foot the bill.

Reuters