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Women and girls have been flogged by militiamen in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for wearing short skirts or trousers, the government said on Saturday, vowing to punish the perpetrators for "the degrading and inhuman abuses". Read more: u.afp.com/idFs

“The Department of Justice should launch an immediate investigation of the so-called SCORPION unit of the Memphis Police Department. What they are likely to find is a gang of thugs with badges, guns, tasers and police cruisers. It’s probably a good idea to take most all of that away.”

open.substack.com/pub/stevesch

@Wolven US cops spend on average 71 hours on gun training but only 21 hours on deescalation. Total police training is about 750 hours for US vs 4000 over hours for Germans and almost 5500 hours for Finland.
source: BBC

Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.

Elon Musk lost $115 billion.

Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.

None of this has any real consequence on their daily lives.

Hoarding wealth like this is grotesque.

Tyre Nichols’ death is revolting. I stand with Mr. Nichols’ heartbroken family, his loved ones, and our community in demanding justice today.

On the way to dinner tonight (Deep South Alabama), I saw a huge billboard that said “DeSantis for President in 24. Like Trump but without the crazy.” I cry.

I'm probably nuking my #SEO by releasing a beta in the middle of the night, but who cares!

If you like #ivory and #icecubes, here's a third competitor that is now in beta for #iOS AND #Android.

Links to each beta train and screenshots for for the store are in the replies.

Features:
- Multi account
- Quote Toots
- Push notifications
- Follow hashtags
- Edit posts
- Threaded replies
- Unroll threads
- Dark mode
- Media aspect ratio options
- Instance browse

#trunkssocial

I know tonight is as heavy as it gets, you have probably seen or read the worst already.

The vision #TyreNichols wanted in life to share with everyone was peaceful and beautiful.

His photography portfolio is here: thiscaliforniakid2.wixsite.com

@QasimRashid Remember my great-grandfather’s family, all of whom tried coming to the US (or anywhere) aboard the St. Louis, and perished in the camps when the ship was turned around.

The Holocaust must always be remembered because it must never be repeated.

We must always remember that ‘Never again’ is a call to action against Antisemitism.

We must always remember that Auschwitz is “a time not long ago, a place not far away.”

#HolocaustMemorialDay

What's behind the growth and interest in learning design? #oldaily downes.ca/post/74803 "Why is it that learning design is being talked about much more and why do universities feel that they need more people to engage in this work?" asks Neil Mosley. "It’s impossible to downplay the role that growing complexity and a diversity of modalities, such as blended, hyflex and online distance learning have had," he says. But the article is mostly about resistance to it.

What is GPTZero? The ChatGPT Detection Tool Explained By Its Creator
By Erik Ofgang

Programmed by Edward Tian, a Princeton senior, GPTZero is designed to help educators detect writing generated by ChatGPT

techlearning.com/news/what-is-

#gptzero#chatgpt #ai #education #edtech #schools #learning #k12 #teaching @edtech

@DemocracyMatters Anyone buying anything advertised on Truth Social deserves to get scammed.

RT @AuschwitzMuseum
78 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz78

@cautionarytale@mastodon.world @ianbetteridge @junesim63 Nor do I. But thousands of Republicans do it at every opportunity.

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