lfrobertson

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Lawyer, novelist, amateur musician, killer of plants.

Marion Walter was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in Berlin.

In 1939, she escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport - a rescue operation that evacuated thousands of Jewish children to England before WWII.

Eventually Marion arrived in the US & earned her doctorate in math education from Harvard. She became a professor & founded the Boston Area Mathematics Specialists focused on improving math education for children.

Marion passed away in 2021, at age 92. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Walter/ #HistoryRemix

Marion Walter - Biography

Marion Ilse Walter was born in Berlin and escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport to England. She emigrated to the United States in 1948 and after earning her doctorate, founded the Mathematics Department at Simmons College. She published over 40 journal articles, several children's books, and the popular book The Art of Problem Posing.

Maths History

Before the violent attacks on Brazil's Congress, Elon Musk fired nearly all of Twitter's staff in Brazil, including all the workers in São Paulo who enforced rules around incitement to violence and misinformation. There are no teams actively moderating rule-breaking Twitter content in the entire country

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-bolsanaro-twitter-facebook/

Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil

Just like with Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, supporters of Jair Bolsanaro used social media, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to fuel the anger that exploded on Sunday in Brasília.

The Washington Post

This should be the top story on every news outlet...

"Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/

Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live - 60 Minutes

Leading biologist tells Scott Pelley humans would need "five more Earths" to maintain our current way of life.

CBS News

@auschwitzmuseum @histodons @museum I visited Auschwitz & Birkenau in 2019. It was Maximilian Kolbe’s annual memorial ceremony day.

You think you’ve prepared mentally for what you’re about to experience, but when you realise there are no bird sounds, the atmosphere is not of this earth, you see the shoes and the hair offcuts, it hits you how you cannot possibly ever be prepared for the atrocities committed here.

We must never forget.
It must never happen again

Dear Journalists: Yes, we know that George Santos is a fraud. The latest lie is much less interesting than these follow-up questions that need your concerted attention:

1) Where, and how, did he get those millions of dollars? Follow the money.

2) Why are Republicans -- especially leaders -- not denouncing him? You have access, so do your damn jobs and ask them, repeatedly, until they respond.

@stevesilberman

Regarding the Ohio SOS changes, one thing not mentioned in the linked piece is that the supermajority requirement will only apply to citizen-initiated measures. When the Republican-controlled legislature puts something on the ballot, it will still only require a simple majority to pass.

Stacking the decks again - it's the Republican way.

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

Also, it's worth flagging this, which adds an even uglier cast to the whole thing: even as Musk is running around baselessly accusing people of pedophilia and putting their lives in danger, Twitter is blowing off meetings with NCMEC https://twitter.com/mhkeller/status/1601322712005509120
Michael Keller on Twitter

“This week, @MissingKids, the center that receives reports of online child exploitation, held a roundtable with leading tech platforms about combating this illegal imagery. For the first time in the event’s decade-long history, Twitter reps didn’t attend.”

Twitter
Since Elon Musk just accused former Twitter CEO @[email protected] Dorsey of being soft on child sex trafficking, I thought it important to share this article showing that it was Elon who cut Twitter’s child sexual exploitation team.