Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

My friend Janarthanan Rajendran is recruiting PhD students in deep reinforcement learning at Dalhousie University for Fall 2024. Check out his webpage to learn more: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/janarthanan-rajendran/prospective_students
#deeprl #deeplearning #dalhousie #phdposition #phd #job

“They love Israel for the possibility of ethnic cleansing at home – remove Jews from Euro-American Christian spaces and send them elsewhere – and also for the apocalyptic implications, which lead to a specific Christian victory and the elimination of all other religions.”

#MustRead #Evangelicals #Christofascism #Fascists

https://journa.host/@johnastoehr/111455694060929930

2/ Pagliery:

Dennis Fan, a sr asst solicitor gen at AG's office, notes that "a single justice" hit pause on 4 orders forcing Trump to shut up.

He says it's imperative to gag Trump ASAP—esp before the trial is over next month.

Fan says the 1st Amendment doesn't apply if Trump "threatens the safety of the court’s staff."

"Courts have the power to impose reasonable restrictions on both litigants & their attorneys during ongoing proceedings when necessary to safeguard those important interests."

🙄
Wow. Really...
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Colts owner Jim Irsay blames arrest on police prejudice against white #billionaires | Indianapolis Colts | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/22/jim-irsay-dui-arrest-white-billonaire-prejudjice

> #IndianapolisColts owner #JimIrsay said his March 2014 arrest for driving under the influence was a result of prejudice against him for being #white and #rich

@noelreports

Kick Hungary out of the EU. Go play with Russia, see how that works out, again.

Explosion on the Rainbow Bridge connecting New York and Ontario at Niagara. Reports from the scene say a car crashed into the toll booth and exploded. Despite the misinformation machine on Twitter, there's no confirmation that this was a car *bomb* (though, of course, that's possible.) Niagara Gazette has some good reporting form the ground: https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/update-witnesses-saw-smoke-fire-from-vehicle-at-rainbow-bridge/article_eb3ffec8-8957-11ee-93e5-cf9e52289455.html

@DrPsyBuffy I don't think it's concerted. I think it's just widespread laziness and dismissiveness. This summer I came down with some awful virus, and suspected West Nile because it has been observed in my area. I was tested for covid & flu but they had no interest in pursuing it further, telling me it probably wasn't West Nile because that's rare. Of course, if you don't test for it, your statistics will show that it's rare. I expect similar attitudes to covid in many areas.

A police state or fascism. What's the difference?
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/

Perfect post, no notes.

BREAKING: Federal lawmakers demand an #SEC probe into whether Elon Musk committed securities fraud after WIRED stories shed doubt on his claims about the health and wellbeing of #Neuralink's animal test subjects.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-nerualink-congress-sec-letter/

Now THAT's a tumbleweed.

Raise a child to become a competent adult

Wanna know what being #disabled is like? Companies making wheelchairs that don't meet minimum durability standards, getting away with it, and charging for constant repairs in a planned obsolescence model while we suffer.

“Independent testing has shown that manual wheelchairs and power wheelchairs commonly do not pass minimum durability standards outlined by ANSI/RESNA (RESNA is the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, which creates minimum standards for mobility devices for ANSI, or the American National Standards Institute). One of the big takeaways that was neutral to manufacturers is that, for the 10 most frequently prescribed wheelchair models in the sample, repairs exceeded 50 percent across all of them.”

https://sci-bc.ca/breakdown-blues-wheelchair-repairs/

Was watching Oregon Field Guide, a local show about all things outdoors. There was a segment about sea star die off, and the biologist was asked about why sea stars were important.

She said something utterly profound and beautiful:

"A species shouldn't have to justify to you why they should exist."
https://www.pbs.org/video/sunflower-sea-stars-sqam11/