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Oscar Nominee Jeff Pope, Producer Xavier Marchand Set Series ‘Castle of the Eagles,’ Based on True Story of Daring WWII Prison Break
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📢Out Now in OA: '#SusanIsaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of #Children' by Philip Graham.
📚 This revised and expanded edition of 'Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children' by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs’ childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to #historians of #British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and #psychoanalysts.
As only the second biography on Isaacs, this book is a valuable resource that shines a light on the life of a figure who has often been neglected in this field of study. 'Susan Isaacs' is crucial reading to raise our awareness and appreciation of the person behind the work, while also highlighting and celebrating the impact she has made on today’s education and #psychoanalytic practice.
Access this OA title for free or get your own hard copy at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0297
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📢Out Now in OA: '#SusanIsaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of #Children' by Philip Graham.
📚 This revised and expanded edition of 'Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children' by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs’ childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to #historians of #British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and #psychoanalysts.
As only the second biography on Isaacs, this book is a valuable resource that shines a light on the life of a figure who has often been neglected in this field of study. 'Susan Isaacs' is crucial reading to raise our awareness and appreciation of the person behind the work, while also highlighting and celebrating the impact she has made on today’s education and #psychoanalytic practice.
Access this OA title for free or get your own hard copy at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0297
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#MaineTribes and Leading #Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed #Mine in Shadow of #Katahdin
Proposed #ZincMine at #PickettMountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company
June 28, 2023
"Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of #BaxterStatePark and the #KatahdinWoods & Waters National Monument.
"The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, #WolfdenResources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden’s request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to #Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.
"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets, the #PenobscotNation, and the #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine [#NRCM], represented by #Earthjustice and #Brann&Isaacson, joined the #ConservationLawFoundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (#LUPC) to rezone the area for #industrial uses.
"'The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this #ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the #water quality and f#isheries of the area, which our members rely upon,' said #ChiefKirkFrancis of the Penobscot Nation. 'The West Branch of the #MattawamkeagRiver contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated #CriticalHabitat for #endangered #AtlanticSalmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place.'
"The area Wolfden wants to mine is next to three State Heritage Fish Waters and is a centerpiece of the region’s growing outdoor economy. It contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River, which is sacred to the Penobscot Nation and provides key, federally designated critical habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.
"'The Katahdin region’s wild beauty and clean water are extraordinary. One look at this landscape demonstrates that this is no place to put a mine,' said Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. 'Wolfden’s claims that it will treat #wastewater more effectively than any mining company on earth are not credible. This is too big a risk for #Maine.'
"'The legacy of metallic mineral #mining in Maine is one of empty promises of economic development, acid mine drainage #polluting waters and killing fish, and multi-million dollar c#leanups funded by taxpayers and not the fly-by-night mining companies like Wolfden,' said #SeanMahoney, vice-president and senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. 'Rezoning this area to allow mining would fail to recognize the cultural and spiritual importance of the land to the #WabanakiTribes and threaten the natural resources and experiences valued by generations of Maine citizens.'
"After withdrawing its initial request because it was riddled with errors, Wolfden submitted a second rezoning petition in January that sparked another review by the LUPC. Comments by Wolfden’s CEO disrespecting Maine tribes and #MininLlaws have prompted outrage from the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and #conservationists. The company has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past decade.
"'This is one of the absolute worst areas to rezone for a mine,' said Aaron Bloom, a senior attorney with Earthjustice. 'The region is known for its vast contiguous forest, pristine streams, high-quality lakes, and aquatic species like wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. Why would we risk that, along with the outdoor economy that depends on it, on a half-baked proposal from an unproven mining company? The Commission must put Maine’s unique natural resources, and the well-being of the people of Maine and Maine’s Wabanaki Tribes, before short-term industry profits.'
"More than 700 hundred Mainers and local businesses, including Bradford Camps, Chandler Lakes Camps and Lodge, and the #MaineWildernessGuidesOrganization, have spoken out against Wolfden’s plans. In May 2022, residents of #Pembroke voted overwhelmingly to ban industrial-scale metallic mineral mining in their town in response to Wolfden’s plans to develop a mine there."
#WaterIsLife #Maine #WabanakiNations #Environment #Mining #CorporateColonialism #NoMining
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Ohio House waits on data center study vote, hints at veto override on sales tax exemption
After rapidly advancing a bill to study data centers through committee, Ohio House lawmakers took a beat Wednesday, and held off on putting the measure to a...
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/06/ohio-house-waits-on-data-center-study-vote-hints-at-veto-override-on-sales-tax-exemption/#data-centers #house-speaker-matt-huffman #politics-&-gov #rep.-dani-isaacsohn #sen.-nickie-antonio #senate-president-rob-mccolley #technology -
"Next wee #Congress will decide on proposed plans to save pandemic-era enhanced tax credits, which are due to expire in less than 30 days. Without these credits, tens of millions of #Americans could see their #insurance premiums increase by 114% on average. #Republican #Senator Bill #Cassidy, a #doctor and the chairman of the Senate’s health committee, joins Walter Isaacson to share what he believes may be a solution.
Originally aired on December 3, 2025"
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Elon Musk’s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes
Since the unrest across Britain began last week, Musk’s outspoken criticism of the government has surprised many.
But it’s only the latest example of the billionaire’s progression down the #radicalisation pathway.
After making his fortune in the dotcom boom, and growing it with his involvement in PayPal,
Musk invested in Tesla in 2004, eventually becoming the company’s chief executive.For a time, Musk presented himself as one may have expected from a former software executive running an electric vehicle company:
he spoke at length about the risk of climate change,
while launching and investing in other projects like SpaceX, OpenAI and The Boring Company
that could all be sold as matching a general 🔸vision of improving humanity’s future.🔸But around 2020, Musk’s public profile began to shift.
He had always been a fairly engaged user of Twitter,
but as the pandemic hit, he became a far more frequent poster
and experienced his first brushes with the world of #factchecking:
breezy assertions about the danger or length of the pandemic led to calls for his account to be suspended for spreading #misinformation.In his private life, Musk’s relationships with his #family were in turmoil.
His relationship with Claire Boucher, better known as the musician #Grimes, began to fall apart in 2021.
Boucher, the mother of three of his at least 12 children, eventually ended up in court over custody rights.According to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, around this period Musk began sending
“rightwing memes and conspiracy theories” to Grimes,
who replied: “Is this from 4chan or something? You’re actually starting to sound like someone from the far right.”At the same time, his daughter #Vivian came out as transgender and changed her name,
declaring that she no longer wanted to “be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”.Musk himself has cited Vivian as a reason for his political shift, telling the pop psychologist Jordan Peterson that he had
“lost [his] son [sic], essentially”, and concluding that his son “is dead, killed by the woke mind virus”.“For a lot of people who are radicalised there is a formative personal experience that creates the cognitive opening for their radicalisation journey,”
said one radicalisation expert, who asked not to be named because of fear of reprisal.
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Otsikko kuulostaa ylimieliseltä, mutta se on käänteispsykologinen ja itseironinen, koska uskon, että kukaan ei ole absoluuttisen oikeassa tai väärässä missään. Tämä aihe saattaa kaikessa syvällisyydessään ahdistaa, joten sisältövaroitus tähän lienee paikallaan. Seuraa rollemaista pohdintaa. Tekstipohdintani sisältää kyseenalaisia aiheita, jotka tuovat elämään sekä iloa että surua, yhtä aikaa.
Ihminen on tavallaan jo syntyessään ylimielinen otus, koska emme ajattele itseämme nisäkäslajina, vaan mielessämme ovat me ja eläimet sitten erikseen. Ihminen on taitava keksimään sääntöjä ja normeja, joiden mukaan elämme. Jos esimerkiksi lihansyönti on yleisesti hyväksyttyä, miksi Kiinassa syödään lemmikkejä, mutta Suomessa ei? Miksi kiinalaiset ovat väärässä ja me oikeassa? Tiedämme vastauksen tähän itsekin: Ihmislajin moraalikäsitys ja säännöt. Silti poikkeavuus on outoa, väärin, sairasta tai kiellettyä. Ja katsantokannastamme riippumatta heitämme arvot romukoppaan, jos täytyy valita arvot tai selviytyminen.
Viime aikoina suomalaisissa blogeissa, somekeskusteluissa ja medioissa on keskusteltu tiukkasävyisesti nuorten suosikkisomesta, TikTokista. Palvelua isoimmin kritisoivat toivovat täyskieltoa, josta palvelusta pitävät pöyristyvät.
- Yle: Loimme 13-vuotiaan Ellan – Tiktok tarjosi hänelle sisältöä itsemurhasta ja kalorien laskemisesta
- Katleena Kortesuo: Tiktok – Kiinan kybersota länttä vastaan
- Iltalehti: Kansanedustaja haluaa kieltää Tiktokin
- Afterdawn: TikTok-kieltoa halutaan Suomeen – vaatimus on sekä populistinen että tekopyhä
Modernin somen haitallisuudesta kirjoittaneena olen henkilökohtaisesti tietenkin sitä mieltä, että kaikki palvelut, johon on rakennettu puolueellinen ja haitallinen algoritmi (jota tietokirjailija-ohjelmoija-futuristi Jaron Lanier nimittää ”sumuttimeksi”) tulisi lakkauttaa kokonaan. Tämä koskee niin TikTokia, Twitteriä, Facebookia, Instagramia, Threadsia kuin LinkedIniäkin. Näissä palvelut näyttävät sisältöä, jotka ovat palvelun olemassaolon kannalta järkevää, saavat ihmiset koukuttumaan palvelun käyttöön ja pahimmillaan aiheuttamaan käyttäjälleen mielihyvän lisäksi ahdistusta. Algoritmille on yhdentekevää kuinka paljon pahaa se levittää ympäriinsä, tärkeintä on valvontakapitalismin hyödyt ja vasta viimeisenä tulee käyttäjä.
Vuonna 2022 kirjoitin ”Twitterin tuhosta” ja sain satapäisen öyhöjoukon kimppuuni. Arvioni kyseisen somen asiaintilasta ei mennyt mitenkään isosti metsään, kuten vuoden 2023 aikana huomattiin (jos et ole kirjaihmisiä, eikä Walter Isaacsonin Elon Musk -kirja kiinnosta, katso edes Areenasta Musk ja Twitterin valloitus).
Maailmassa on jonkin verran asioita, joihin ihmiset ovat tottuneet ja joita pidetään yleisesti ottaen positiivisina elämänlaatua parantavina, mutta jotka ovat samaan aikaan kiistanalaisia tai jopa haitallisia. Tällaisia asioita ovat muunmuassa edellämainitun kaltaisen sosiaalisen median lisäksi lihansyönti, alkoholi, sokeri, kofeiini ja vaikkapa istumatyö. Näitä asioita käyttäessä terve ihminen yleensä rajoittaa käyttöä tai käyttäytymistään jollain tavalla, jotta haitat eivät tule esiin. Välillä se on kuin Jaakobin painia, jossa ihminen ikään kuin jatkuvasti kilvoittelee asian kanssa, toiset sortuvat äärimmäisyyteen ja toiset pärjäävät koko elämänsä pysyen omassa kohtuudessaan.
Innostuttuani alkusyksystä 2022 uudestaan avoimista someista (social web, Fediversumi), tuntui kuin 2000-luvun Internetin hyvät puolet olisivat tulleet takaisin. Avoimen lähdekoodin vapaan somen suosion räjähtäminen ja kehittyminen on ehkä parasta mitä Internetille on tapahtunut pariin vuosikymmeneen. Parikymmentä vuotta sitten kaupallisia algoritmejä ei oltu vielä nykymuodossaan keksitty, eikä somea oltu ”pilattu”, vaan käyttäjät saivat vapaasti seurata ihmisiä aikajärjestyksessä, kuratoida heitä listoihin ja osallistua haluamiinsa keskusteluihin ilman että algoritmi nosti heidän ruudulleen tavaraa, joita he eivät itse päättäneet nähdä. On jotenkin hassua, että edellä kuvaamani mennyt tilanne tuntuu joidenkin mielestä vaivalloiselta, vaikealta ja jopa vastenmieliseltä, mutta nykyään ihmiset ovat tottuneet päinvastaiseen tapaan selata somea, eikä uusi TikTok-sukupolvi edes tiedä perinteisestä, terveemmästä mallista. Siksi 35-vuotiaana vanhan hyvän somen kannattaminen tuntuu melko boomer-meiningiltä.
Innostuttuani asioista minusta tulee hetkeksi täysverinen nettiaktivisti. Se on pahimmillaan kuin ääriveganismia, jossa vastakkaista näkemystä on vaikea ymmärtää ja ihminen alkaa tuputtamaan omaa totuuttaan. Tällöin vaikka tiedostaisinkin, että suurin osa ihmisistä ovat eri mieltä, jatkan silti oman sanoman viestimistä, olenhan ”hyvällä agendalla” liikenteessä. Olen pitänyt tiukan linjan, että puhun vain itsestäni näissä tilanteissa, koska toiseen keskittyvä puhe on moralisoimista ja arvostelemista, eikä siitä kukaan pidä. Silti joidenkin silmissä olen kuin mormoni, joka kiertää ovelta ovelle kertomassa kuinka juuri sinun pitäisi muuttua. Mutta ei se niin mene. Muutos lähtee omasta sisimmästä. Olen jonkun mielestä ”mielipidejohtaja”, toisen mielestä rasittava – kunnes itse tajuan lopettaa, kun huomaan, että voittajia ei ole ja ahdistun keskustelusta itsekin.
Avoimen somen arkipäiväistyttyä ja raittiin elämäntavan tultua vuosien varrella itsestäänselvyydeksi olen hieman höllentänyt otettani. Itseironinen #JeSuisRolle hashtag on ikäänkuin jonkinlainen loppukaneetti someaktivismilleni. Postailen yhä Fediversumista aika ajoin siitäkin huolimatta, että moni ei ymmärrä. Se on osa arkeani. Raittiuteni ei varsinaisesti ollut mitään ”aktivismia”, mutta ehkä verrattavissa tähän vuosien 2020 ja 2021 aikana. Jos kysyt minulta avoimesta lähdekoodista, avoimista tietoverkoista tai raittiudesta, et saa puhetta loppumaan.
”Hyvistä asioista” ja ”totuuksista” puhuminen saattaa tehdä ihmisestä muiden silmissä ylimielisen mulkun. Minulle on suututtu, kun olen avoimesti kritisoinut somessa TikTokia tai alkoholia, sillä näitä asioita niin moni rakastaa. Mitä kivempi asia itselleen on, sitä enemmän sen haittapuolista kuuleminen ärsyttää. Kun haitat on helppo lakaista maton alle yleisen hyväksyttävyyden ja oman subjektiivisen mielihyvän varjolla, ei haittoja varmasti edes nähdä olevan olemassakaan. Silloin minä olen joidenkin silmissä raittiina ”someaktivistina” se ärsyttävä ylimielinen tosikko ja kusipää, joka paasaa jatkuvasti samasta asiasta.
Ihminen tietää pohjimmiltaan mikä hänelle on haitallista, mutta ehdollistumme asioihin huomaamatta. ”Totuus sattuu”, sanotaan. Monesti se onkin niin, emme halua myöntää, että käytämme liikaa alkoholia tai olemme asioihin riippuvaisia, että saamme dopamiinipiikkejä somen tykkäyksistä ja kehuista Instagram-salikuviin. Mutta kuka oikeastaan on oikeassa ja kuka väärässä? Onko jonkun subjektiivinen kokemus toista oikeampi? Jos itseäni nykysome tai alkoholi häiritsee, olenko väärässä? Jos toinen nauttii TikTokin algoritmifeedistä ja juo alkoholia, onko hän väärässä?
xkcd: Duty calls, 2008Asioilla on monia puolia ja ihmisillä on syynsä. Elon Musk on vain yksi syy esimerkiksi Twitterin (nykyään X) rappeutumiseen, kun koko algoritmisomen voi ajatella kyseenalaisena. Isoimmat kriitikot ovat sitä mieltä että Twitter meni pilalle jo sen perustajan ja entisen toimitusjohtajan Jack Dorseyn aikana, eivätkä tästä syystä usko esimerkiksi Blueskyn menestykseen ollenkaan, vaikka Dorsey ei ole edes aktiivisesti enää toiminnassa mukana.
Elämä on prosessi, jossa ihminen oppii virheistään tai viettää koko elämänsä toistaen niitä. WordCamp Finlandin puheessani 2022 kerroin, kuinka elämänfilosofiani on oppia ja nimenomaan opetella myöntämään, että olen väärässä. Mielipiteeni pohjautuu subjektiiviseen kokemukseeni ja empiiriseen tutkimukseeni. Kukaan ei millään voi olla kaikessa oikeassa. Olen oikeassa, kunnes olen väärässä. Käsi pystyyn virheen merkiksi.
Oikeassa tai väärässä olemista tärkeämpää on olla ensin rehellinen itselleen ja sitten vasta muille. Minulla meni 17 vuotta ymmärtää, että alkoholi on vaarallinen hermomyrkky, enkä tarvitse sitä mihinkään. Jätin väkevät viinat vuonna 2013, mutta lopullisesti vasta 2020. Algoritmisomejen kehityttyä jätin ensin Facebookin vuonna 2015 ja sitten Twitterin 2022. Twitterin osalta mieli ehti muuttua vielä pariin kertaan, kuten kirjoituksistani huomaa. Asiat eivät ole niin yksiselitteisiä, kun eletään yhteiskunnassa, josta putoaa helposti pois, jos ei ole osana valtavirtaa.
Edelleen olen osa koneistoa ja käyn bileissä, joissa kulutetaan alkoholia ja minulla on käyttäjätunnus Facebookiin ja Twitteriin, vaikka en niitä juuri käytäkään. Jos se on kaksinaismoralismia, olkoon sitten niin. Mutta voisin väittää, että yhtä kaksinaismoralistista on tuomita alkoholistista haittajuomista samalla kun käyttää itse alkoholia tai tukea rahallisesti Twitteriä (nykyään X) maksamalla sen käyttämisesttä, vaikka tietää sen tehostavan rangaistavan vihapuheen ja lainvastaisten asioiden leviämistä sananvapauden varjolla. Kaikki lienee suhteellista.
Keskusteluissa on helppo mennä whataboutismiin, asioiden sivuuttamiseen tai kollektiivisen kokemuksen ja yleiskuvan unohtamiseen. TikTokin kohdalla nostetaan jatkuvasti ”no mites sitten Meta, eikö amerikkalaisten some ole vähintään yhtä haitallinen” ja raittiuskeskusteluissa nostetaan rinnastetaan päihde helposti muihin huumeisiin. Joskus näistä on hyötyä, joskus keskustelu ajautuu kokonaan väärille urille. Itse suosin tiedolla johtamisen kulttuuria ja objektiivisia faktoja. Jos puolueettomat tutkimukset sanovat, että alkoholi on vaarallisempi päihde kuin heroiini, ei auta inttää vastaan. Jos Suojelupoliisi ja useat ulkomaiset tahot tutkimuksineen sanovat, että TikTok on poikkeuksellinen vaarallinen somepalvelu, ei asia muuksi muutu vaikka olisimme eri mieltä. Valheita ja nyansseja riittää, mutta kokonaiskuva ja kivenkovat faktat ratkaisevat tilanteen.
Kun ensimmäistä kertaa hohkasin omasta raittiudestani, minulta kysyttiin aionko lopettaa myös kahvinjuonnin tai sokerin käytön. Miksi lopettaa nyt? 82% kofeiinin käyttäjistä on huomannut, että kofeiinin lopettaminen… (odotat varmaan jotain mullistavaa hyvää asiaa tässä kohtaa, mutta ei:) vie viimeisenkin ilon elämästä (tämä pseudotieteellinen vitsi on somesta pöllitty). Olin kofeiinilakossa kolme kuukautta, mutta sitten totesin, että aamukahvi tuntuu hyvältä, eikä aiheuta mahdotonta riippuvuutta. Pointti onkin, että aloitetaan siitä isoimmasta haitasta. Lopetetaan tai rampautetaan TikTok, alkoholi ja lihansyönti. Pienet nyanssit kuten kofeiini ja sokeri saavat hyvin olla. Mikä kenellekin toimii, mutta isoimpia haittoja pitää pyrkiä ehkäisemään, vähentämään tai jopa lopettamaan. Yksittäinen vaikutus on kuin pisara meressä, mutta yksilöstä kaikki saa alkunsa.
Pelkästään tämä modernin somen rinnastaminen alkoholiin voi saada joidenkin veren kiehumaan. Tiedostan sen, mutta Tukholma-syndrooma on läsnä asioissa, jotka aiheuttavat kognitiivista dissonanssia.
Mielestäni on hienoa, että asioista ylipäätään puhutaan nykyään niin paljon ja ihmisten suhtautuminen esimerkiksi niin fyysiseen kuin henkiseenkin terveyteen on suopeampi. Kieltolakiaikaan 1919-1930-luvulla raittiusliikettä ei katsottu hyvällä missään, mutta nykyään sober curiousin ja muun liikehdinnän vuoksi raittius on trendikkäämpää kuin koskaan. Enää et ihan niin automaattisesti joudu silmätikuksi, jos valitset illanistujaisissa alkoholittoman vaihtoehdon.
Kyse ei ole siitä kuka on sataprosenttisesti oikeassa ja kuka väärässä. Kyse on faktoista ja niihin suhtautumisesta, rakentavasta keskustelusta ja hyvien asioiden edistämisestä. Kukaan ei tykkää käännyttäjistä, eikä viisastelijoista, mutta subjektiivista mielihyvää tuottavista asioista pitäisi pystyä keskustelemaan myös kriittiseen sävyyn.
Tärkein sääntö nykyajan tiukassa diskurssissa mielestäni on: Ole ystävällinen (engl. Be kind), olit oikeassa tai et. Silloin ei voi mennä pahasti pieleen.
En tiedä, onko tässä pohdinnassa päätä tai häntää, mutta totean vain: Meitä on moneen junaan ja junia maailmassa riittää.
https://www.rollemaa.fi/oikeassa-olemisen-kirous/
#alkoholi #filosofia #internet #kannanotot #lihansyönti #pohdinnat #some #sosiaalinenMedia #tiktok #twitter
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When he took the stage in downtown Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday night to rev up Democrats ahead of a critical State Supreme Court race,
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said he didn’t think name-calling would help things.Then he called #Elon #Musk a “#dipshit” and, later, a “South African #nepo #baby” with the power to cut government programs.
The crowd roared.Mr. Walz, his party’s nominee for vice president last year, is one of several Democrats who have referred to Mr. Musk’s immigrant background as they ramp up attacks on the billionaire’s powerful role in the Trump administration.
At times, their language, casting Mr. Musk as a foreign outsider, has echoed aspects of President Trump’s own xenophobic insults of his political foes
— although Mr. Trump’s remarks were typically directed toward elected officials of color, not white billionaires.At a news conference last month, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said she wondered,
“Which country is he loyal to? South Africa, Canada, or the United States?”Representative Nydia Velázquez of New York declared Mr. Musk should “go back to South Africa” at a recent protest.
At a different protest, Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said, “We’re going to send Elon back to South Africa.”
Mr. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971, moved to Canada in 1989 and then to the United States during college.
He obtained Canadian citizenship just before moving there and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2002, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson.Mr. Walz made his remarks at a town-hall-style event that coincided with the first day of early voting for a State Supreme Court race in #Wisconsin.
That election, which will be held on April 1, pits a liberal candidate against a conservative Trump ally who has drawn more than $13 million in backing from Mr. Musk.
Wisconsin Democrats have seized on those contributions to cast Mr. Musk as the election’s main villain
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When he took the stage in downtown Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday night to rev up Democrats ahead of a critical State Supreme Court race,
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said he didn’t think name-calling would help things.Then he called #Elon #Musk a “#dipshit” and, later, a “South African #nepo #baby” with the power to cut government programs.
The crowd roared.Mr. Walz, his party’s nominee for vice president last year, is one of several Democrats who have referred to Mr. Musk’s immigrant background as they ramp up attacks on the billionaire’s powerful role in the Trump administration.
At times, their language, casting Mr. Musk as a foreign outsider, has echoed aspects of President Trump’s own xenophobic insults of his political foes
— although Mr. Trump’s remarks were typically directed toward elected officials of color, not white billionaires.At a news conference last month, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said she wondered,
“Which country is he loyal to? South Africa, Canada, or the United States?”Representative Nydia Velázquez of New York declared Mr. Musk should “go back to South Africa” at a recent protest.
At a different protest, Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said, “We’re going to send Elon back to South Africa.”
Mr. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971, moved to Canada in 1989 and then to the United States during college.
He obtained Canadian citizenship just before moving there and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2002, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson.Mr. Walz made his remarks at a town-hall-style event that coincided with the first day of early voting for a State Supreme Court race in #Wisconsin.
That election, which will be held on April 1, pits a liberal candidate against a conservative Trump ally who has drawn more than $13 million in backing from Mr. Musk.
Wisconsin Democrats have seized on those contributions to cast Mr. Musk as the election’s main villain
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When he took the stage in downtown Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday night to rev up Democrats ahead of a critical State Supreme Court race,
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said he didn’t think name-calling would help things.Then he called #Elon #Musk a “#dipshit” and, later, a “South African #nepo #baby” with the power to cut government programs.
The crowd roared.Mr. Walz, his party’s nominee for vice president last year, is one of several Democrats who have referred to Mr. Musk’s immigrant background as they ramp up attacks on the billionaire’s powerful role in the Trump administration.
At times, their language, casting Mr. Musk as a foreign outsider, has echoed aspects of President Trump’s own xenophobic insults of his political foes
— although Mr. Trump’s remarks were typically directed toward elected officials of color, not white billionaires.At a news conference last month, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said she wondered,
“Which country is he loyal to? South Africa, Canada, or the United States?”Representative Nydia Velázquez of New York declared Mr. Musk should “go back to South Africa” at a recent protest.
At a different protest, Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said, “We’re going to send Elon back to South Africa.”
Mr. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971, moved to Canada in 1989 and then to the United States during college.
He obtained Canadian citizenship just before moving there and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2002, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson.Mr. Walz made his remarks at a town-hall-style event that coincided with the first day of early voting for a State Supreme Court race in #Wisconsin.
That election, which will be held on April 1, pits a liberal candidate against a conservative Trump ally who has drawn more than $13 million in backing from Mr. Musk.
Wisconsin Democrats have seized on those contributions to cast Mr. Musk as the election’s main villain
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When he took the stage in downtown Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday night to rev up Democrats ahead of a critical State Supreme Court race,
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said he didn’t think name-calling would help things.Then he called #Elon #Musk a “#dipshit” and, later, a “South African #nepo #baby” with the power to cut government programs.
The crowd roared.Mr. Walz, his party’s nominee for vice president last year, is one of several Democrats who have referred to Mr. Musk’s immigrant background as they ramp up attacks on the billionaire’s powerful role in the Trump administration.
At times, their language, casting Mr. Musk as a foreign outsider, has echoed aspects of President Trump’s own xenophobic insults of his political foes
— although Mr. Trump’s remarks were typically directed toward elected officials of color, not white billionaires.At a news conference last month, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said she wondered,
“Which country is he loyal to? South Africa, Canada, or the United States?”Representative Nydia Velázquez of New York declared Mr. Musk should “go back to South Africa” at a recent protest.
At a different protest, Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said, “We’re going to send Elon back to South Africa.”
Mr. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971, moved to Canada in 1989 and then to the United States during college.
He obtained Canadian citizenship just before moving there and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2002, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson.Mr. Walz made his remarks at a town-hall-style event that coincided with the first day of early voting for a State Supreme Court race in #Wisconsin.
That election, which will be held on April 1, pits a liberal candidate against a conservative Trump ally who has drawn more than $13 million in backing from Mr. Musk.
Wisconsin Democrats have seized on those contributions to cast Mr. Musk as the election’s main villain
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When he took the stage in downtown Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday night to rev up Democrats ahead of a critical State Supreme Court race,
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota said he didn’t think name-calling would help things.Then he called #Elon #Musk a “#dipshit” and, later, a “South African #nepo #baby” with the power to cut government programs.
The crowd roared.Mr. Walz, his party’s nominee for vice president last year, is one of several Democrats who have referred to Mr. Musk’s immigrant background as they ramp up attacks on the billionaire’s powerful role in the Trump administration.
At times, their language, casting Mr. Musk as a foreign outsider, has echoed aspects of President Trump’s own xenophobic insults of his political foes
— although Mr. Trump’s remarks were typically directed toward elected officials of color, not white billionaires.At a news conference last month, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said she wondered,
“Which country is he loyal to? South Africa, Canada, or the United States?”Representative Nydia Velázquez of New York declared Mr. Musk should “go back to South Africa” at a recent protest.
At a different protest, Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said, “We’re going to send Elon back to South Africa.”
Mr. Musk was born in South Africa in 1971, moved to Canada in 1989 and then to the United States during college.
He obtained Canadian citizenship just before moving there and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2002, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson.Mr. Walz made his remarks at a town-hall-style event that coincided with the first day of early voting for a State Supreme Court race in #Wisconsin.
That election, which will be held on April 1, pits a liberal candidate against a conservative Trump ally who has drawn more than $13 million in backing from Mr. Musk.
Wisconsin Democrats have seized on those contributions to cast Mr. Musk as the election’s main villain
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‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ review – The latest Trek series asks big questions – NPR
Sandro Rosta as Caleb Mir and Zoë Steiner as Tarima Sadal in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
John Medland / Paramount+.Review, TV Reviews
‘Starfleet Academy’ interrogates the values at the center of ‘Star Trek’ itself
January 15, 20267:00 AM ET
By Eric Deggans, 8-Minute Listen
Sandro Rosta as Caleb Mir and Zoë Steiner as Tarima Sadal in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. John Medland/Paramount+.It’s one of the most perilous challenges any crew can take on in the modern Star Trek universe: Building a new series around a bunch of characters who do not include Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock.
The collection of Trek series on Paramount+ have done yeoman’s work in that regard — starting with Sonequa Martin-Green’s principled Starfleet officer Michael Burnham on Star Trek: Discovery way back in 2017, birthing a bold new universe of characters that also made room for superstar supporting actors like Michelle Yeoh and Jason Isaacs.
Divided as fans could be about that series — originally set years before the days of Kirk and Spock, only to jump from the 23rd century to the 32nd century in a wild recalibration of the story — Discovery set the tone for big swings when it came to rebuilding the world of Trek for a modern streaming audience on Paramount+.
Now fans have another big swing coming their way in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a series set in the 32nd century that Discovery landed in — a time when the venerated Federation of Planets is pulling itself back together after a massive disaster called “The Burn” shattered the alliance. This new Federation is rebuilding the school for starship officers and staff that produced legends like Kirk and Spock hundreds of years earlier.
Many of the best Trek series revolve around intrepid explorers in a starship stumbling on new adventures in new corners of the galaxy in every episode. Starfleet Academy tries to tell that tale in a different way — presenting the Academy as a school that is also a giant starship with a warp drive that gets waylaid while traveling through space to its home on Earth in San Francisco.
Paul Giamatti as Nus Braka and Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake. Brooke Palmer/Paramount+.The first episode of the series is among its most action-packed, featuring Oscar-winner Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake, the Academy’s chancellor and the starship’s captain. At over 400 years old, she’s part Lanthanite — a particularly long lived alien species introduced on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — so she remembers the pre-calamity days when the Federation was in full bloom and the Academy was regularly churning out ace starship personnel.
Paul Giamatti chews the scenery as Nus Braka, a ruthless criminal who has history with Ake and attacks the Academy for payback. And new face Sandro Rosta plays Caleb Mir, a well-muscled, rebellious kid who was separated from his mom by Ake back in the day and has agreed to attend Starfleet Academy if the chancellor helps him track down his mother (played by, of all people, Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany; be still my sci-fi geek heart!).
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ ends as an underappreciated TV pioneer
Finding your place in the galaxy with the help of Star Trek
If this sounds like a lot, that’s because it is. In fact, over its first few episodes, Starfleet Academy is so stuffed with new characters, subplots and franchise references, it’s not clear this program knows what kind of series it wants to be. Is it a rollicking adventure building out the damaged universe first revealed after Discovery’s time jump? Or is it a bizarre blend of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beverly Hills: 90210 set in the stars, featuring an idiosyncratic group of young aspirants coming of age in the most bizarre college on television?
Consider this sampling of storylines: Hunter’s hippie-ish leader Ake is struggling to make amends while teaching Caleb the ways of the Federation. Caleb, meanwhile, is on his own journey, trying to find a mom he hasn’t seen for many years, who he learns has escaped from a Federation prison.
He’s surrounded by cadets with their own odd stories, including a sentient hologram trying to learn if her people can trust humanoids and a member of the warlike Klingon race who seems uncharacteristically peaceful and non-combative. Comic Gina Yashere is particularly entertaining as Lura Thok — the cadet master and second-in-command at the academy who also happens to be a hybrid of two of Trek’s most combative races: Klingons and the Jem’Hadar from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Religion – Patrick Stewart says his time on ‘Star Trek’ felt like a ministry
There’s also the requisite fan service, including the return of Robert Picardo as the now-900 year old Doctor, the emergency medical hologram he played on the UPN series Star Trek: Voyager back in 1995. Comic Tig Notaro pops up as Jett Reno, an engineer from Discovery who now teaches at this brand new Starfleet Academy.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ review: The latest Trek series asks big questions : NPR
Tags: Actors, After Star Trek: Discovery, Characters, Episode, National Public Radio, NPR, Review, Star Trek, Starfleet Academy, The Burn, Timeline
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📙 Literature review
#SpaceEconomy, Di Pippo
The Space Economy, Anderson
To Infinity, Roettgen
The Cosmos Economy, Gregg
#SpaceMining and Manufacturing, Sivolella
Red Moon Rising, Autry, Navarro
Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle, Hersch
Reentry, Eric Berger
Elon Musk, Isaacson
Breaking All the Rules, Cantrell
The New World on #Mars, Robert Zubrin
Spacefarers, Wanjek
The Long #SpaceAge, MacDonald
#SpaceCapitalism, Nelson
The Dimming of Starlight, Munévarhttps://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IEA_Space-Economy_Zitelmann_Digital_V3-.pdf
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‘We want the mill to shut down,’ #GrassyNarrows #FirstNation to #Ontario
After nearly 60 years of industrial poisoning, the northwest #Indigenous community continues to demand justice
September 17 2024
by Jon Thompson"When members of #Asubpeeschoseewagong #Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) and their supporters arrive at Queen’s Park this week, they’ll be calling for the #DrydenPulpAndPaper mill that’s been poisoning their water with #neurotoxins for nearly 60 years to permanently close.
"'We want everybody to be compensated, we want the mill to shut down, and we don’t want no #mining or #logging in our territory. We just want it all to stop,' says #ChrissyIsaacs, lead organizer of the caravan.
"Isaacs has been a staple of the annual #RiverRun demonstrations since they began in 2010. She was a leader among Grassy Narrows youths who blockaded #LoggingTrucks from entering the nearby #WhiskeyJackForest in 2002 and is currently travelling 1,900 kilometres to Toronto from her community near Ontario’s western border to protest the downriver effects of #methylmercury poisoning.
"Staff at the upstream #ReedPaperMill in #DrydenOntario, about 150 kilometres east of Grassy Narrows, dumped nearly 10 metric tonnes of #mercury into the #EnglishWabigoon River system in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mercury poisoned the #plants and #fish that the people of Grassy Narrows, and neighbouring #Wabaseemoong Independent Nation, were consuming.
"A half-century later, medical experts are finding that varying nervous and neurological health effects affect up to 90 per cent of Grassy Narrows residents.
Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation stopped to demonstrate outside of the Dryden mill before heading to Toronto for the annual River Run demonstration at Queen’s Park. There, they will call on the Ontario government to compensate the community for generations of industrial poisoning and call for the mill, now owned by First Quality Enterprises, to be shut down.
"The Grassy Narrows road blockade to prevent clear-cut logging and mining from happening in their traditional territories has stood for 22 years, and in that time Isaacs’s children have had children of their own. She says the conversation has never been transformed as much as it has this year.
"In May, scientific researchers released the revelation that #sulphate and organic matter in the #effluent that the mill is still releasing into the river is making methylmercury in the river system even worse, as opposed to diminishing over time as they were told."
#MercuryPoisoning #DirectAction #WaterIsLife #NativeAmericanNews #NativeAmericanActivism #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations
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“Quien de verdad sabe de qué habla no encuentra razones para levantar la voz”
Un 2 de mayo muere,
🎨 🪶 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Uno de los más populares y aceptados genios del #Renacimiento y de la humanidad.
Sugiero: La muy recomendable biografía que le dedica el gran especialista 🖊️ Walter Isaacson
Editada en español por Bebate 👇️
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En los isópodos marinos del género Gnathia, como este Gnathia maxillaris, los machos adultos tienen unas potentes mandíbulas, recordando junto con su céfalon a unas hormigas soldado. Antes de ser adultos, alternan varias veces entre etapas parasitarias zuphea, donde se alimentan de los peces como pulgas, y pranzia, donde mudan y crecen. Como adultos, dejan de ser parásitos. 📷Chris Isaacs #crustacea #isopoda
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Author Raynor Winn's 2018 book, "The Salt Path," was a huge hit. It was an autobiographical tale of how she and husband Moth lost their home, Moth was diagnosed with a degenerative condition, and the pair walked the 630-mile South West Coast Path in the U.K. The book sold over a million copies and spawned two sequels and a movie starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. But over the weekend, reporting by the U.K. Observer called the story into question, casting doubt over the circumstances in which they lost their home, and Moth's illness. @BBCNews has the latest on the tangled tale.
#Books @bookstodon #Film #SaltPath #RaynorWinn #MothWinn #Autobiography
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Y'know, sometimes your friends just can't help boasting about having been part of Space Rocks 🗣️
And when they do it on national TV, putting us in the same sentence as both NASA and ESA, well ... ☺️🤪
Thank you to the mighty Jason Isaacs for this shout-out last week on "Would I Lie To You?" on BBC One in the UK – he's such a mensch & we love him to bits 🙇♂️
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[#Docu 📺] «La Maison du réalisateur», malicieux pied de nez à l’industrie du documentaire
Aujourd’hui, il faut «du crime, du sexe et des célébrités» pour trouver les fonds qui permettront de réaliser un #documentaire. Quand Marc Isaacs apprend que sa productrice a du mal à financer son projet, il prend les choses en main. Un étrange object filmique proposé en partenariat avec #Tënk, la plateforme du documentaire d’auteur.
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Steelers Training Camp Injury Report – Aug. 1 – Joey Porter Jr. Doesn’t Practice, Cory Trice Jr. Injured
The Pittsburgh Steelers hit the field for Friday Night Lights practice at Latrobe Memorial Stadium, and there are…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NFL #BroderickJones #CalvinAnderson #CoryTriceJr. #DJThomas-Jones #EseziOtomewo #IsaacSeumalo #JoeyPorterJr. #KeeanuBenton #RyanMcCollum #Sports #Trending
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In an effort to imagine a more equitable future, a big thing that comes to the front is the idea of circular economies.
Really it's about eliminating waste. If we want to live and adapt with climate change, and change how we interact with nature and stop extracting resources, we can instead aim to reduce waste, and material production as much as possible.
This touches on a bunch of other ideas like #localization but it would be cool in a near future, to have modular and recyclable components used to build everything from furniture, to garden beds, to event spaces, really anything that we need. A standard for manufacturing so any part can be reused. Lego is an example that people use for modularity, but the big thing is making most of the parts also work with existing things.
With standard parts you can both mass produce and have localized production with free plans that anyone can make or 3D print. If you have a desk and instead want a sleeping loft, then you can move parts around and have one. We can make the parts from recycled plastic, taken from landfills, waterways, or floating around in the countless areas of litter and trash.
Wood and other materials can come from salvaged areas, or through thoughtful coppicing.Even better, manufacturing can be done at a more local level. Instead of relying on complex supply chains and capitalist systems. Fabrication Labs can spring up, that might host tool libraries, but also help produce things, and recycle items to make them useful again. Imagining a fablab run as a worker co-op, where the central goal is to meet the basic needs of everyone in the community. Old plastic is melted down and used to create new modular pieces. When something breaks it can be quickly repaired instead of thrown away. Anyone can make their own designs and collaborate on what works best. Using the local materials around them to make new and old things. Moving away from consumption to waste >> and towards reuse and modularity.
For a concrete framework on this openstructures.net has a great idea of orienting parts in a grid, that can connect to others in a bunch of ways.
This book by Ken Isaacs, "how to Build Your Own Living Structures" really inspired me to think about this. (images are also from the book) (http://www.publiccollectors.org/LivingStructuresk_isaacs-1.pdf
#solarpunk #modular #modularconstruction #degrowth #alternativebuilding
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Takie pytanie mogą sobie zadawać dinozaury, starzy ludzie albo… trzydziestolatkowie. W ostatnich kilku latach dotarło to do mnie szczególnie dobitnie, a ostatni raz jak dinozaur poczułem się podczas wizyty Steve’a Wozniaka we wrześniu 2023 r. w Polsce.
Ten artykuł pochodzi z archiwalnego iMagazine 11/2023
Czas sprzętu
Steve Wozniak opowiadał nie tylko o początkach Apple, ale raczej o historii internetu, który dziś uznajemy za rzecz oczywistą. Ci z was, którzy czytali biografię Steve’a Jobsa spod pióra Waltera Isaacsona, kojarzą zapewne Blue box, który był pierwszym głośnym urządzeniem zbudowanym przez duet Wozniak-Jobs I pozwalał za darmo dzwonić na cały świat. Specjalne narzędzie dla tzw. phreakerów, oszukujących amerykańską sieć telefoniczną Bell (obecnie AT&T) de facto rozwiązywało społeczny problem.
W tamtych czasach tylko sprzęt (hardware) mógł przekonać kupujących do tego, że warto w niego zainwestować. Magiczna czarna skrzynka dla wielu stanowiła obiekt z pogranicza magii. Tak samo mówiono o Apple II, Lisie czy później Macintoshu. Komputerów nie kojarzono z miniaturowymi inteligentnymi zegarkami, ale raczej nie dowierzano, że nie musimy ich już przetrzymywać w specjalnych opasłych opakowaniach. Że mieszczą się pod lub na biurkach. Innowacja była wówczas widoczna – dosłownie – na pierwszy rzut oka.
Steve Wozniak wielokrotnie nawiązywał do tego podczas spotkania w Warszawie, snując osobistą opowieść o antropocentrycznym świecie i rynku technologii, który człowieka stawia na pierwszym miejscu. Jemu ma służyć i pomagać upraszczać codzienne życie. I choć te wspomnienia współzałożyciela Apple bardzo mocno wykorzystywane są przez niego w dyskusji na temat prywatności w sieci, to – umówmy się – wówczas nikt o prywatności nie myślał. Trzeba być tego świadomym, zanim całkowicie przepadniemy w romantycznych wspomnieniach lat minionych.
Czas usług
Pamiętam, jakby to było dziś, że kiedy chciałem sprawdzić coś w internecie – a musicie wiedzieć, że do sieci zostałem podłączony dopiero w wieku lat 10 – musiałem prosić rodziców o zgodę. Dlaczego? Ponieważ linia DSL od Telekomunikacji Polskiej potrafiła być jednocześnie błogosławieństwem i przekleństwem. Dla portfela rodziców. Liczył się każdy impuls i każda sekunda. W tamtych czasach nikt nie potrzebował korzystać z trybów skupienia na urządzeniach, bo już wystarczająco skupialiśmy się na tym, aby maksymalnie sprawnie załatwić sprawy w sieci i ją wyłączyć. Powiadomienia push? Zapomnijcie!
To były ciekawe czasy, w których tuż po rewolucji sprzętowej zaczynała się rewolucja usług, na których wdrożenie ów sprzęt pozwolił. Pierwsza encyklopedia online, portale z ogłoszeniami lokalnymi, portale z informacjami czy w końcu komunikatory. IRC i polskie Gadu Gadu. Potem BLIP (odpowiednik Twittera), na którym poznałem sporo członków naszej redakcji i bańki technologicznej, skupionej nad Wisłą dookoła marki Apple. To wszystko nie wydarzyłoby się, gdyby nie ludzie, którzy postanowili wyprowadzić komputery z wielkich pomieszczań i położyć je na naszych biurkach. Jeśli ciekawi Was szczegółowa droga, którą przebyliśmy w naszym cyfrowym świcie, polecam książkę „Innowatorzy”.
Dziś żyjemy w czasach usług. Moc obliczeniowa praktycznie nie jest już wyzwaniem, a jej użycie dyktuje kwota, którą można dzięki niej wygenerować. Czy to dobrze? Spójrz na płatności zbliżeniowe, zakupy online czy możliwość pracy zdalnej. To zaledwie trzy przykłady zmian, które – chcąc czy nie chcąc – zawdzięczamy cyfrowemu kapitalizmowi. Każdy zatem musi ocenić sam.
Ja jednak nie tyle oceniam, ile staram się doceniać jeden fakt.
Wdzięczność
Mianowicie to, że moje pokolenie jako ostatnie urodziło się bez internetu. Bez komputera, a co za tym idzie – smartfona czy tabletu – w dłoni. Pamiętam czasy DSL, przegrywania płyt (a nawet kaset magnetofonowych czy wideo!), ich zgrywania do wczesnych wersji iTunes, premierę Discmana, iPoda, telewizorów z płaskim ekranem czy iPhone’a. Ktoś zapyta: Ale po co to pamiętać?
Ano na przykład po to, aby zachować pokorę. W tym bardzo pomagają mi takie momenty, w których uświadamiam sobie, jak wiele przeszedł świat technologii w zaledwie trzy dekady! To jest wręcz nieprawdopodobne. Jestem szczęściarzem, że urodziłem się w czasach, w których moi rodzice nie poinformowali o tym fakcie Facebooka czy Instagrama.
Tak, pamiętam kwadratowe zdjęcia na Instagramie, gdy był dostępny tylko na iPhonie. Nie miał reklam ani Stories, ale tutaj zakończę dzisiejszą historię.
https://imagazine.pl/2024/04/03/a-pamietasz-dsl-w-telekomunikacji/
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Our new newsletter is out! We are sharing news about our upcoming #symposium, projects our qualitative #openScience and what open science can learn from #qualitativeResearch methods, new collaborations and network partners:
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#Musk #Billionaires #Ford #Fordism: "What Musk displays is less fealty to technocracy as Jonathan Taplin would have it – in the sense of subjecting decision-making to a utilitarian calculus – and more what the critic John Ganz has called “bossism”. This is a commitment to the inviolability of hierarchical chains of domination, and a revelling in the sadistic surplus of power offered by that status.
The business bookshelves groan with biographies of asshole innovators. The usual justification, which Isaacson supplies many times here as he did in his biography of Steve Jobs, is that the gains are worth the collateral suffering. “Could he have been more chill and still be the one launching us towards Mars?” he asks rhetorically. But attending to Musk’s description of his goals, we see that he is not launching “us” to Mars (unless Isaacson hopes his frequently puffy biography will win him a berth). Musk’s goal of leaving this planet “before civilisation crumbles,” as he put it as recently as April 2023, is defined by the stringent selection of a few refugees from a dying world. It is a scenario reminiscent of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, favoured by Musk, or the satirical Adam McKay film Don’t Look Up.
Where Fordism and Teslaism differ most is that for Musk it has never been about a rising tide lifting all ships. It’s about a geyser of rocket fuel lifting one particular ship – literally the Starship – to take him and his (at last count) ten offspring far away from the zombies. What’s good for Tesla is good for Mars is good for the Musks. On the software billionaire Larry Ellison’s private island in Hawaii, Musk lifts his young son, X Æ A-Xii, up to a telescope and says, “Look at this, this is where you are going to live someday.”"
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#MaineTribes and Leading #Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed #Mine in Shadow of #Katahdin
Proposed #ZincMine at #PickettMountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company
June 28, 2023
"Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of #BaxterStatePark and the #KatahdinWoods & Waters National Monument.
"The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, #WolfdenResources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden’s request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to #Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.
"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets, the #PenobscotNation, and the #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine [#NRCM], represented by #Earthjustice and #Brann&Isaacson, joined the #ConservationLawFoundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (#LUPC) to rezone the area for #industrial uses.
"'The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this #ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the #water quality and f#isheries of the area, which our members rely upon,' said #ChiefKirkFrancis of the Penobscot Nation. 'The West Branch of the #MattawamkeagRiver contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated #CriticalHabitat for #endangered #AtlanticSalmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place.'
"The area Wolfden wants to mine is next to three State Heritage Fish Waters and is a centerpiece of the region’s growing outdoor economy. It contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River, which is sacred to the Penobscot Nation and provides key, federally designated critical habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.
"'The Katahdin region’s wild beauty and clean water are extraordinary. One look at this landscape demonstrates that this is no place to put a mine,' said Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. 'Wolfden’s claims that it will treat #wastewater more effectively than any mining company on earth are not credible. This is too big a risk for #Maine.'
"'The legacy of metallic mineral #mining in Maine is one of empty promises of economic development, acid mine drainage #polluting waters and killing fish, and multi-million dollar c#leanups funded by taxpayers and not the fly-by-night mining companies like Wolfden,' said #SeanMahoney, vice-president and senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. 'Rezoning this area to allow mining would fail to recognize the cultural and spiritual importance of the land to the #WabanakiTribes and threaten the natural resources and experiences valued by generations of Maine citizens.'
"After withdrawing its initial request because it was riddled with errors, Wolfden submitted a second rezoning petition in January that sparked another review by the LUPC. Comments by Wolfden’s CEO disrespecting Maine tribes and #MininLlaws have prompted outrage from the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and #conservationists. The company has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past decade.
"'This is one of the absolute worst areas to rezone for a mine,' said Aaron Bloom, a senior attorney with Earthjustice. 'The region is known for its vast contiguous forest, pristine streams, high-quality lakes, and aquatic species like wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. Why would we risk that, along with the outdoor economy that depends on it, on a half-baked proposal from an unproven mining company? The Commission must put Maine’s unique natural resources, and the well-being of the people of Maine and Maine’s Wabanaki Tribes, before short-term industry profits.'
"More than 700 hundred Mainers and local businesses, including Bradford Camps, Chandler Lakes Camps and Lodge, and the #MaineWildernessGuidesOrganization, have spoken out against Wolfden’s plans. In May 2022, residents of #Pembroke voted overwhelmingly to ban industrial-scale metallic mineral mining in their town in response to Wolfden’s plans to develop a mine there."
#WaterIsLife #Maine #WabanakiNations #Environment #Mining #CorporateColonialism #NoMining
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#MaineTribes and Leading #Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed #Mine in Shadow of #Katahdin
Proposed #ZincMine at #PickettMountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company
June 28, 2023
"Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of #BaxterStatePark and the #KatahdinWoods & Waters National Monument.
"The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, #WolfdenResources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden’s request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to #Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.
"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets, the #PenobscotNation, and the #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine [#NRCM], represented by #Earthjustice and #Brann&Isaacson, joined the #ConservationLawFoundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (#LUPC) to rezone the area for #industrial uses.
"'The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this #ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the #water quality and f#isheries of the area, which our members rely upon,' said #ChiefKirkFrancis of the Penobscot Nation. 'The West Branch of the #MattawamkeagRiver contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated #CriticalHabitat for #endangered #AtlanticSalmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place.'
"The area Wolfden wants to mine is next to three State Heritage Fish Waters and is a centerpiece of the region’s growing outdoor economy. It contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River, which is sacred to the Penobscot Nation and provides key, federally designated critical habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.
"'The Katahdin region’s wild beauty and clean water are extraordinary. One look at this landscape demonstrates that this is no place to put a mine,' said Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. 'Wolfden’s claims that it will treat #wastewater more effectively than any mining company on earth are not credible. This is too big a risk for #Maine.'
"'The legacy of metallic mineral #mining in Maine is one of empty promises of economic development, acid mine drainage #polluting waters and killing fish, and multi-million dollar c#leanups funded by taxpayers and not the fly-by-night mining companies like Wolfden,' said #SeanMahoney, vice-president and senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. 'Rezoning this area to allow mining would fail to recognize the cultural and spiritual importance of the land to the #WabanakiTribes and threaten the natural resources and experiences valued by generations of Maine citizens.'
"After withdrawing its initial request because it was riddled with errors, Wolfden submitted a second rezoning petition in January that sparked another review by the LUPC. Comments by Wolfden’s CEO disrespecting Maine tribes and #MininLlaws have prompted outrage from the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and #conservationists. The company has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past decade.
"'This is one of the absolute worst areas to rezone for a mine,' said Aaron Bloom, a senior attorney with Earthjustice. 'The region is known for its vast contiguous forest, pristine streams, high-quality lakes, and aquatic species like wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. Why would we risk that, along with the outdoor economy that depends on it, on a half-baked proposal from an unproven mining company? The Commission must put Maine’s unique natural resources, and the well-being of the people of Maine and Maine’s Wabanaki Tribes, before short-term industry profits.'
"More than 700 hundred Mainers and local businesses, including Bradford Camps, Chandler Lakes Camps and Lodge, and the #MaineWildernessGuidesOrganization, have spoken out against Wolfden’s plans. In May 2022, residents of #Pembroke voted overwhelmingly to ban industrial-scale metallic mineral mining in their town in response to Wolfden’s plans to develop a mine there."
#WaterIsLife #Maine #WabanakiNations #Environment #Mining #CorporateColonialism #NoMining
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#MaineTribes and Leading #Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed #Mine in Shadow of #Katahdin
Proposed #ZincMine at #PickettMountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company
June 28, 2023
"Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of #BaxterStatePark and the #KatahdinWoods & Waters National Monument.
"The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, #WolfdenResources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden’s request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to #Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.
"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets, the #PenobscotNation, and the #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine [#NRCM], represented by #Earthjustice and #Brann&Isaacson, joined the #ConservationLawFoundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (#LUPC) to rezone the area for #industrial uses.
"'The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this #ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the #water quality and f#isheries of the area, which our members rely upon,' said #ChiefKirkFrancis of the Penobscot Nation. 'The West Branch of the #MattawamkeagRiver contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated #CriticalHabitat for #endangered #AtlanticSalmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place.'
"The area Wolfden wants to mine is next to three State Heritage Fish Waters and is a centerpiece of the region’s growing outdoor economy. It contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River, which is sacred to the Penobscot Nation and provides key, federally designated critical habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.
"'The Katahdin region’s wild beauty and clean water are extraordinary. One look at this landscape demonstrates that this is no place to put a mine,' said Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. 'Wolfden’s claims that it will treat #wastewater more effectively than any mining company on earth are not credible. This is too big a risk for #Maine.'
"'The legacy of metallic mineral #mining in Maine is one of empty promises of economic development, acid mine drainage #polluting waters and killing fish, and multi-million dollar c#leanups funded by taxpayers and not the fly-by-night mining companies like Wolfden,' said #SeanMahoney, vice-president and senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. 'Rezoning this area to allow mining would fail to recognize the cultural and spiritual importance of the land to the #WabanakiTribes and threaten the natural resources and experiences valued by generations of Maine citizens.'
"After withdrawing its initial request because it was riddled with errors, Wolfden submitted a second rezoning petition in January that sparked another review by the LUPC. Comments by Wolfden’s CEO disrespecting Maine tribes and #MininLlaws have prompted outrage from the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and #conservationists. The company has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past decade.
"'This is one of the absolute worst areas to rezone for a mine,' said Aaron Bloom, a senior attorney with Earthjustice. 'The region is known for its vast contiguous forest, pristine streams, high-quality lakes, and aquatic species like wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. Why would we risk that, along with the outdoor economy that depends on it, on a half-baked proposal from an unproven mining company? The Commission must put Maine’s unique natural resources, and the well-being of the people of Maine and Maine’s Wabanaki Tribes, before short-term industry profits.'
"More than 700 hundred Mainers and local businesses, including Bradford Camps, Chandler Lakes Camps and Lodge, and the #MaineWildernessGuidesOrganization, have spoken out against Wolfden’s plans. In May 2022, residents of #Pembroke voted overwhelmingly to ban industrial-scale metallic mineral mining in their town in response to Wolfden’s plans to develop a mine there."
#WaterIsLife #Maine #WabanakiNations #Environment #Mining #CorporateColonialism #NoMining
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#MaineTribes and Leading #Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed #Mine in Shadow of #Katahdin
Proposed #ZincMine at #PickettMountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company
June 28, 2023
"Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of #BaxterStatePark and the #KatahdinWoods & Waters National Monument.
"The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, #WolfdenResources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden’s request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to #Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.
"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets, the #PenobscotNation, and the #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine [#NRCM], represented by #Earthjustice and #Brann&Isaacson, joined the #ConservationLawFoundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (#LUPC) to rezone the area for #industrial uses.
"'The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this #ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the #water quality and f#isheries of the area, which our members rely upon,' said #ChiefKirkFrancis of the Penobscot Nation. 'The West Branch of the #MattawamkeagRiver contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated #CriticalHabitat for #endangered #AtlanticSalmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place.'
"The area Wolfden wants to mine is next to three State Heritage Fish Waters and is a centerpiece of the region’s growing outdoor economy. It contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River, which is sacred to the Penobscot Nation and provides key, federally designated critical habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.
"'The Katahdin region’s wild beauty and clean water are extraordinary. One look at this landscape demonstrates that this is no place to put a mine,' said Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. 'Wolfden’s claims that it will treat #wastewater more effectively than any mining company on earth are not credible. This is too big a risk for #Maine.'
"'The legacy of metallic mineral #mining in Maine is one of empty promises of economic development, acid mine drainage #polluting waters and killing fish, and multi-million dollar c#leanups funded by taxpayers and not the fly-by-night mining companies like Wolfden,' said #SeanMahoney, vice-president and senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. 'Rezoning this area to allow mining would fail to recognize the cultural and spiritual importance of the land to the #WabanakiTribes and threaten the natural resources and experiences valued by generations of Maine citizens.'
"After withdrawing its initial request because it was riddled with errors, Wolfden submitted a second rezoning petition in January that sparked another review by the LUPC. Comments by Wolfden’s CEO disrespecting Maine tribes and #MininLlaws have prompted outrage from the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and #conservationists. The company has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past decade.
"'This is one of the absolute worst areas to rezone for a mine,' said Aaron Bloom, a senior attorney with Earthjustice. 'The region is known for its vast contiguous forest, pristine streams, high-quality lakes, and aquatic species like wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. Why would we risk that, along with the outdoor economy that depends on it, on a half-baked proposal from an unproven mining company? The Commission must put Maine’s unique natural resources, and the well-being of the people of Maine and Maine’s Wabanaki Tribes, before short-term industry profits.'
"More than 700 hundred Mainers and local businesses, including Bradford Camps, Chandler Lakes Camps and Lodge, and the #MaineWildernessGuidesOrganization, have spoken out against Wolfden’s plans. In May 2022, residents of #Pembroke voted overwhelmingly to ban industrial-scale metallic mineral mining in their town in response to Wolfden’s plans to develop a mine there."
#WaterIsLife #Maine #WabanakiNations #Environment #Mining #CorporateColonialism #NoMining