Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

My Quaker Meeting is now discussing making masks optional. It's so tender and hurts so much -- someone even suggested that continuing with hybrid was blocking Spirit from moving within us (what the actual f*ck???) -- I'm stunned that even in places that are supposed to be different (progressive, considerate, thinking of others) those of us who are immunocompromised are being told we don't matter. It's so awful. I left Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business because it was too upsetting.

“ Steve Wozniak: If you want to learn about AI killing people, “Get a Tesla” “ – SkyMagzines
https://skymagzines.com/steve-wozniak-if-you-want-to-learn-about-ai-killing-people-get-a-tesla/

#Tesla
#Elmo
#ElonMusk
#AI #ML #SelfDriving
#Artificialintelligence
#MachineLearning
#EthicalAI
#AIEthics
#BigTech
#BigData
#Apple

Crazy statement: ‘The Trump administration’s brutal treatment of the C.D.C. also took a heavy toll. ‌Agency leadership found themselves traumatized‌‌, sidelined and ill-equipped to stand their ground.’ —NYT ill-equipped? Traumatized? Researchers, physicians and scientists were the Most equipped to speak up! CDC scientific authority was blunted after media pounded the false trump cures and Brix withered. Was the problem in CDC? Media focused on trump. Media made the problem.

Ted Cruz’s Democratic Challenger Shuts Him Up With Push For Action After Shooting https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/05/07/ted-cruzs-democratic-challenger-shuts-him-up-with-push-for-action-after-shooting/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@TonyStark What's not killing kids: using someone's preferred pronouns, dealing with that idea, letting people dress how they want as long as it's not a message of violence or hate, reading books about Black history or pro-labor movements, hearing that a teacher has a same-sex partner, seeing a musical.

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1184375/story_image/050223.TenCommandmentsClassroomcopy.jpg?1683060005 Finally a Use for Ten Commandments

Best explanation I've seen of why the Paradox of Tolerance is no paradox at all.

#philosophy

Absolutely insane when you consider that Trump presided over a loss of 3 million jobs, while Biden has presided over the addition of more than 12 million. And yes, Covid impacted those numbers, but Trump did a horrendous job managing the pandemic. He's to blame for that.

'Now it’s God’s fault': Texas Republican slammed for claiming 'the almighty' controls shootings https://www.rawstory.com/now-its-gods-fault-texas-republican-slammed-for-claiming-the-almighty-controls-shootings-2659975683/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You will remember just last Wednesday in Atlanta when the mass shooting occurred, within an hour we got a photo of a Black man, his name (Deion Patterson), his age (24) and numerous surveillance video stills of him.

Are you telling me that in a big ass mall in freakin’ Texas (where they do everything bigger including guns and mass shootings) there aren’t surveillance cameras and footage of this shooter in #allen, Texas? Come on, now. The shooter is dead. Law enf. know who he is. #BlackMastodon

As the only person still regularly masking at work, I feel pretty triumphant when I got a message from a colleague who sat next to me at the seminar that he just tested positive for COVID. 😷

Wear a mask. It’s good for blocking viruses and hiding yawns.

no no, let's hear out the royalist on this excellent idea

Freedom means being able to shop at malls safely and send your children off to school knowing that they will return home at the end of the day.

Every one of these idiots has to be voted out. OUT. NOW.

#KeithSelf

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/texas-rep-keith-self-ridiculed-his?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=74270

We went to out to the Camas National Wildlife Refuge (near Hamer, Idaho) this evening and saw five of these porcupines waddling around eating off the ground. I watched and photographed this one for awhile. Apparently, it had enough.

#idaho #porcupine #wildlifephotography #TravelPhotography

@TonyStark
Why is it always red state governors who proclaim to be pro life who push to expand the death penalty? I guess life only counts in utero, and barely at that.

@TonyStark Aye, and let's not forget that the Republicans are also waging an assault on transgenders across state legislatures too.

Read the following article:

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/what-is-behind-republican-attacks-on-transgender-people/