tingilinde

non-paywalled patsy mink video on title ix

liars

Some of the Supreme Court justices

Two have credible sexual assault charges and one's wife was/is working to overthrow the government.

 

 

other gods

I've read the US Supreme Court has never legally defined religion.  Since the current court is Christofascist, I can only guess where they'd stand on the god of Spinoza or Einstein. 

 

 

a visual guide for college-bound students

distance to an abortion clinic

america has rarely been united

Now it appears to be moving back to its normal state, but this time more like 1850 than 1950.

 

 

an important post by a historian

The worst is yet to come..  

 

on cryptocurrencies

Matt Green posted a few comments on cryptocurrencies and Bruce Schneier responded.  Both are friends.  I understand Matt's point of non-absolutionism, but side (strongly) with Bruce on this one.

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To me, the problem isn’t that blockchain systems can be made slightly less awful than they are today. The problem is that they don’t do anything their proponents claim they do. In some very important ways, they’re not secure. They doesn’t replace trust with code; in fact, in many ways they are far less trustworthy than non-blockchain systems. They’re not decentralized, and their inevitable centralization is harmful because it’s largely emergent and ill-defined. They still have trusted intermediaries, often with more power and less oversight than non-blockchain systems. They still require governance. They still require regulation. (These things are what I wrote about here.) The problem with blockchain is that it’s not an improvement to any system—and often makes things worse.

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a long covid episode

advice from a flight attendant

Air travel is currently in bad shape in the US.

 

huge bacteria

Extremely large is an understatement.

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“We have just scratched the surface, but we’ve been very dogmatic,” he said.

That dogma began cracking in the 1990s. Microbiologists found that some bacteria have independently evolved compartments of their own. They also discovered species that were visible to the naked eye. Epulopiscium fishelsoni, for example, came to light in 1993. Living inside surgeonfish, the bacteria grows to 600 microns long — larger than a grain of salt.

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