Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
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Spec Fic author | PhD Environmental Engr | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Host: Bright Green Futures podcast https://linktr.ee/susankayequinn "AI is a lying machine made out of crimes"(used to perpetuate more crimes).🔨 Working on a feminist romantasy with plant magic.
Again it seems insane that we would risk an entire highly populated region of our country's existence in order to make a tiny number of people very wealthy in order to grow a tiny amount of food but that's the way the system actually works! It's very stupid!
The regime cut SNAP They gutted the agencies responsible for overseeing food safety They’ve done nothing to bring down the cost of groceries A hungry, weak population is less likely to resist It’s a cull They’re targeting the poor, disabled & marginalized first but food issues will hit everyone
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 9h agoThe FDA has announced a recall on granola sold nationwide over potential salmonella contamination.
When your realtor "stages" your house while you're out of town and you realize she's decided to highlight your old EV plates and your #solarpunk futures game. 🌞 (yes, I was one of the first 9019 people in IL to register an all-electric vehicle, the coveted "EL" plate)
when the parrots are better people than 30% of humanity www.youtube.com/shorts/Ndtle...
They Weren’t Expecting This.. 😳
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Rank and file Republicans are turning against LGBT acceptance and GOP politicians are leaning into bigotry in both rhetoric and policy. But it is you, the progressive queer or ally, who needs to open your mind and consider other people's feelings. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...
#SolarpunkArtAugust "permaculture" Here's a sketch of a few of the perennials we've planted in our yard; sage, coneflower, and yarrow.
#SolarpunkArtAugust "disability rights" Here's a sketch of a solution I'm imagining for a sidewalk near me. There's a giant tree completely destroying the sidewalk in one spot, and I just want there to be a colorful painted path from the driveway before to the driveway after for anyone with wheels.
In July, a bookseller reached out to 404 Media's @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social, telling him they had a huge order. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag we provided inside a rare book to see where it was going and who was buying it. Here's the path it travelled: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
"but bookstores have always pulped books! AI corps are the same!!" AI corps are indiscriminate ravagers of the world's literature, wake TF up. "The logo of the Amazon team (destroying books) is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands." www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Interestingly, improving my mental health has also been one of the greatest assets to increasing my discomfort tolerance.
Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 2d agoDiscomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Further to this, we regret to announce that a story, written under the pen name, Lucien R. Starchild, and published in an earlier edition of Utopia SF, is strongly believed to have been written using AI tools. The "work" has now been removed from our archives.
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine@utopiascifi.bsky.social · last wk.We've said it before, but we'll say it again. If you "write" with AI and manage to trick a magazine, you are not just stealing from us. You are stealing a place from a real writer and robbing human connection from a reader. Shame on you!
Have you ever heard the name Melville Herskovits? He was the white Anthropologist who wrote the seminal 1941 work on the cultural continuity of displaced Africans peoples. Then he founded the first African Studies program in the country at Northwestern and its largest library. They're killing it
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d agoNorthwestern University is reportedly shuttering its 80-year-old Program of African Studies, laying off staff and keeping students in the dark It is the "first formal academic program focused on Africa in the United States."
The #SolarpunkArtAugust prompt for 8/14 is "disability rights." This was a tricky one to draw. As a model for the kind of disability rights I want to see in the future, I drew my own glasses: nearsightedness is so thoroughly accommodated in our society, it doesn't even register as a disability.
Normally, when the CDC makes a methodology change, they flag it prominently on each of their COVlD monitoring pages. This time, there was no alert and no explanation. Major changes were confined to COVlD, not Influenza A, and not RSV.
During intense surges, states will rarely get classified as Very High anymore. Presently, transmission is rising across the US, with a 75% chance of a wave, but states will be depicted in blue (Very Low) much longer, making communities less prepared. #Bluewashing
The good news is that the individual wastewater monitoring site data are still valid. The bad news is that the CDC maps and level descriptions will now mislead the casual user.
The FDA just approved Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine for adults 50+. It's the first mRNA flu shot for flu prevention in the US, and a large trial showed it was about 27% more effective than standard shots for this age group. A promising new tool for public health.
FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Vaccine for Adults Aged 50+
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, mResvia, for individuals 50 years of age and older. This marks a significant milestone as the first mRNA
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pervert glasses + AI are symptoms of a much larger problem for 12 years or so, we've been trapped in a cycle where tech platforms have to keep marketing new features to justify their existence, but the features keep making society worse for nearly everyone
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
The right has been investing in media for a long time, because they know you can use the media to shape public opinion; one of the way mass media does this is by telling the public what "public opinion" already is, to try to convince the public not to have a different opinion than "capitalism good"
Feels good to be moving to a place with competent government... which is a funny thing to say about Chicago😂 But the PA property tax system is outrageous. Pay everyone separately, no info, send a check to a guy named Guido, just WTF... 1/n
We were there because after the Philly Starbucks arrests, Howard Schultz got the bright idea to try and use our racial justice org to whitewash their reputation and part of the bribe was to fly us down to his big Atlanta Starbucks "job market" so we could see how great they were to Black people
Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d agoOne time I was at a "brainstorm table" with the CEO of Five Guys where we were all supposed to brainstorm about how we made the world better for Black youth and his big idea was lowering the minimum age for child labor so they could learn life skills flipping his burgers
This was the wildest ride I've ever been on and has solidified my belief that we need to sacrifice "successful businessmen" to the gods to atone for ... well, everything. Thank you for sharing!
still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
