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"The academic publishers Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and Springer Nature all confirmed to The Observer that scholarly slop is real – and growing “at scale”, according to an Elsevier spokesperson. None were able to share their data, but there are signs the problem is prevalent." Cheers guys.
‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan
this is a reach, but if anyone has marketing jobs (not for me!) in the upstate-ish NY area or knows someone who could use an INCREDIBLE videographer/video editor/creative director, pls reach out
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A picture of my cat Baby who is white grey and peach she is excited and was running around all crazy from catnip in the morning that she found she is gripping the carpet with eyes wide open cats of bluesky catsofbluesky good morning
Cleocatra
This... but they can't automatically register us to vote.
Hmmm... weird. 😡
Hippo dog toy is sticking out of a cup holder on a cargo bike
My kids have been talking with our neighbor kids (that we help get to/from school) that we’re getting a dog later this month.
Yesterday one of the neighbor kids said “I have a toy for your dog” and pulled this toy out of his backpack.
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Our favorite engineers re-establish their local office in Cornwall.
Uggi the dog in a snowy cemetery
Good morning
May you have warm words on a cold day,
a full moon on a dark night
and a smooth road all the way to your door.
- Irish Blessing
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
...time to tap the sign again: "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no-paywall essay with over 100 research studies & reviews):
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
The only way through us together. Something I've been trying to impress in my colleagues this year, and for a while.
Denmark to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over forced contraception
https://www.europesays.com/dk/36888/
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in…
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding President Donald Trump’s administration unveil their plans, if any, for deploying federal officers or troops on election day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the military. Congress has done little to push back. n.pr/4boNOmm
A drawing of seal with a straight face
Seal bebe
I first reported about Quittr exposing user data in January, but was unable to name Quittr in the story because its creators, Alex Slater Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix the problem. Naming the app while hackers were still able to easily steal Quittr’s user data would have endangered their privacy and put them at risk of extortion from hackers, which is very common today. Some of the data exposed includes the users’ age, how often they masturbate, and how viewing pornography makes them feel. According to the data, many of them are minors.
"According to the data, many of them are minors."
www.404media.co/viral-quittr...
.@aclu.org has reached 90 of the ~137 Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, then prisoner-swapped to VZ. 90 of 91 want to challenge their Tren de Aragua designation: 22 by coming back to USA (tho they’ll be detained) & 68 in written petitions.
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You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote?
I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
75 years of relentlessly crushing antiwar movements while drumming up militarism and Islamophobia and they are still underwater; imagine if the people were sovereign or something
I refuse to accept that this is real.
A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car
The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror
The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror
“Look at that bird”
A Play In Three Acts
Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC buff.ly/BnMwCOx
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Mangled missile fragments purporting to be from the deadly strikes that hit a naval base and elementary school in southern Iran on Feb. 28 bear the markings of an American cruise missile, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”
Always a good sign
‘The revelation comes from Texas resident Ron Hubbard’
v @laurenbeukes.com
