28th February 2022
Could a Black D.A. finally help reimagine Alameda County’s regressive criminal justice system? (S.F. Chronicle) After all, black good, white bad.
Tucker Carlson condemned for Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Rwanda’ comments (The Guardian) After all, black good, white bad.
Clyburn: supreme court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘beyond politics’ (The Guardian) After all, black good, white bad.
NY Times journalist suggests media concern for Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrates racial ‘biases’ After all, black good, white bad.
Washington Post: Ukraine Enthusiasts Are Racist After all, black good, white bad.
ABC, CBS Distort History to Mark 10th Anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s Death After all, black good, white bad.
Federal Court Declares Diversity Initiative At Thomas Jefferson High School To Be Unconstitutional
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28th February 2022
Romney on Greene, Gosar: ‘I have morons on my team’ (The Hill) If it were your team, Mitt, you’d quit helping the other side score.
With the world watching Putin, Trump targets Trudeau
Donald Trump at CPAC: Five Moments You Might Have Missed (Newsweek) Spin, spin, spin….
Conservatives turn to a new message: ‘God bless the Ukrainian people’ (Washington Post) Continuing the Narrative that ‘conservatives’ were pro-Putin.
Investigate Trump’s mishandling of presidential records (Boston Globe)
The war against democracy finds allies in America First (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.
Study: Twitter’s ‘Liberal’ Content Turned Voters Away From Trump
MSNBC Slags Kavanaugh, Barrett SCOTUS Resumes as ‘Abysmal, Embarrassing’
Pass the Haterade! CBS’s ‘Magnum P.I.’ Disparages Police with Far-Fetched Anti-Cop Storyline
Sinister: AP Says Republicans Using Trans as ‘Wedge Issue’ No pun intended, I’m sure.
Big Tech Allows Russia State-Affiliated Accounts to Have 38.7M Followers — Banned Trump
Watch: Dem Rep. Suggests Kicking Out Every Russian Student In The US Eric Swalwell cements his position as being possibly the most putrid Democrat in Congress.
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28th February 2022
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Australian researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries.
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The “bubble column” method starts with liquid metal being heated to about 100-120C.
Carbon dioxide is injected into the liquid metal, with the gas bubbles rising up just like bubbles in a champagne glass.
As the bubbles move through the liquid metal, the gas molecule splits up to form flakes of solid carbon, with the reaction taking just a split second.
“It’s the extraordinary speed of the chemical reaction we have achieved that makes our technology commercially viable, where so many alternative approaches have struggled,” Chiang said.
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28th February 2022
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Sandra Kim, a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, started homeschooling her three children in the summer of 2020.
She doesn’t necessarily have a problem with public schools, Kim says, but realized her children—Yenna Elizabeth, now 13, Emily, 10, and Teddy, 8—could do more.
The Virginia mother’s second grader, Teddy, now is doing higher-level math and her fourth grader, Emily, is writing essays, which normally wouldn’t have happened until sixth grade.
“Homeschoolers also do really well in college because they learn executive functioning skills from being at home,” Kim says.
In other words, factory-model government schools (Thank you, Prussia!) aren’t the best choice for your kids.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order raising the alert status of Russia’s massive nuclear forces this week in the midst of an invasion of neighboring Ukraine is presenting a test of a 2012 agreement that calls on China to provide a nuclear deterrent umbrella for Kyiv.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that.
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28th February 2022
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The conventional wisdom is that ‘primitive’ societies, as they become more industrialized and affluent, will in turn come more and more to resemble the Enlightened West. Well, it ain’t necessarily so.
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28th February 2022
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I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
I’m not sure that this works — but it might.
What he calls ‘low-filter mode’ is what I call ‘mindlessly mechanical mode’: Just pull your time horizon up to your chest and take things one minute at a time. I developed this when I was a kid, washing dishes or running a handpress–you just zone out and let your mind wander while your body goes on autopilot. It helps to make boring stuff less burdensome.
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28th February 2022
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Bibliotherapy is premised on the idea that books can be healing tools. It can occur in individual or group settings, though the main distinction is between clinical bibliotherapy, where texts, including fiction and nonfiction, are recommended by a clinical therapist, and nonclinical bibliotherapy, as practised by a facilitator such as a librarian. Though not a stand-alone clinical practice in Canada, clinical bibliotherapy is a method used by professionals who already have certification in counselling, therapy, and clinical therapy and want to help patients seeking an additional outlet. Nonclinical bibliotherapy can’t replace professional help for patients with mental illnesses; instead, it is often used in conjunction with other forms of clinical therapy.
I must confess that I have often thought that some people with problems would profit greatly by being whacked up side the head with a Funk & Wagnalls … but I’m sure that’s not what these guys have in mind.
Ah, well.
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28th February 2022
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During the early stages of the “pandemic”, I experienced instances of rationing in supermarkets. The most prominent examples were toilet paper, hand soap, and hand sanitizer, but rice, pasta, and other foodstuffs were also affected. The consumer was advised that there would be a limit on the number of each item that he could purchase on any given trip to the grocery store.
Last week I noticed the same thing with butter. Customers were told that they could only purchase one (or two) items of each butter product sold by the store.
Similar rationing has now appeared in Germany. According to the following report, the war in Ukraine will only make matters worse.
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27th February 2022
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Elon Musk now has Starlink satellites operating over Ukraine, reestablishing much-needed internet communications after damage from the Russian attack. It may not have occurred to very many people before these events, but in some ways, SpaceX is an actual military power in space. When you have close to 2,000 maneuverable satellites in low earth orbit, you’re in a position to do…very interesting things.
I’ll just bet.
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The reason I don’t buy more Ikea stuff is that going there is a full-day exercise and I just don’t have that kind of time.
Plus I sold my van so I have no way to get all of that crap home.
But I do have nine ‘Billy’ bookcases in my library.
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27th February 2022
Links to various projects.
Since I don’t see one, here is a link to International Orthodox Christian Charities, my favorite.
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27th February 2022
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The Swiss have put the most thought (and preparation) into being the hedgehog of international relations.
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In recent weeks, even in states that have long insisted on the necessity of strict COVID mitigation strategies, the masking regime is crumbling. Following the lead of red states such as Texas and Florida, officials in heavily Democratic areas of California, New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere are finally acknowledging that it’s time to return to normal and rescind many mandates.
The transition won’t be easy, particularly regarding masks, which for many people now serve as talismanic objects signaling one’s public health virtue. It’s difficult for many people to recall that at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, even the experts were inconsistent and lackadaisical about recommending that people wear them. “There’s no reason to be walking around with masks,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes in early March 2020.
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MIT spin-off Quaise says it’s going to use hijacked fusion technology to drill the deepest holes in history, unlocking clean, virtually limitless, supercritical geothermal energy that can re-power fossil-fuelled power plants all over the world.
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26th February 2022
White House spokesman calls Trump, Putin ‘pigs’ who ‘hate what America stands for’ (The Hill)
“Don’t Say Gaetz” Law Protects Florida’s Kids from Matt Gaetz (The New Yorker)
Kimberly Guilfoyle, fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., meets and clashes with Jan. 6 committee (NBC)
New dark money group reminds NCGA lobbyists they can donate unlimited money (WRAL News) In the Narrative Media, ‘dark money’ means ‘pro-Republican’. George Soros, for example, cannot be ‘dark money’.
Believe It or Not, Ron Johnson Used to Be Normal (Daily Beast) For sufficiently left-leaning values of ‘normal’.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly suggests Donald Trump, Republicans enabling Putin aggression during MSNBC interview No mention of her years as Secretary of State, of course.
GOP’s Gerrymandering Called Racist, but ‘Obamamandering’ Just Politics
Vox Mourns ‘Imperiled’ New York Investigation of Trump
FLASHBACK: When Russia Invaded Ukraine in 2014, NBC Whined That Trump Called Obama ‘Weak’
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As they did in Afghanistan.
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Smartwatches have a reputation for losing battery power at the worst time — like in the middle of a jog. The all-day sync drains the power quickly.
But imagine being able to power up while you run: with a built-in, ultrathin solar panel, a Fitbit or any wearable device could keep a constant charge by just soaking up the sun.
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Why is learning effortful? Why do we struggle to learn calculus but easily learn our mother tongue? How can we make hard skills easier to learn? Cognitive load theory is a powerful framework from psychology for making sense of these questions.
Cognitive load theory, developed in the 1980s by psychologist John Sweller, has become a dominant paradigm for the design of teaching materials. In this essay, I explain the theory, some of its key predictions, and potential applications for your learning.
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For all the recent improvements in artificial intelligence, the technology still cannot take the place of human beings in situations where it must frame its perceptions of the world in words that people can understand.
You might have thought that the many apparent advances in speech recognition would have solved the problem already. After all, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive, but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t understand or react to the environment around them.
To bridge this communications gap, our team at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories has developed and built an AI system that does just that. We call the system scene-aware interaction, and we plan to include it in cars.
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26th February 2022
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An interesting analysis. Of course, it’s twenty years old.
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25th February 2022
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25th February 2022
Babylon Bee.
Works for me.
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