20 March 1883 | A Polish Jew, Izrael Prepelicki, was born. A merchant.
In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941.
No 22239
He perished in the camp four days later.
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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#Abortion #Texas #GregAbbott #KenPaxton #GOPKillers #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.ProPublica
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Financial Times piece on $1.4 billion in shaky accounting on #Tesla’s books is… whoah.
Due to the reality of British libel laws and #ElonMusk’s propensity to sue his detractors i have to assume this is one of the most heavily legally vetted and fact checked things you will ever read. (Also not unreasonable to suspect there might be other tidbits of information the lawyers wouldn't sign off on being published - that happened a *lot* with FT's Wirecard investigation)
p.s. the FT reporter is #DanMcCrum, whose decade long crusade to take down the #Wirecard fraud is one of the more insane stories you can read on the subject of accounting based forensic journalism (McCrum wrote a book about the experience called “Money Men”). Trust me, it's more exciting than it sounds. There's Russian spies and shit.
* FT: ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-4…
* no paywall: archive.ph/CqQ9W
(h/t @Lazarou)
#FT #FTAlphaville #TSLA #TSLAQ #TeslaTakedown #uspol #eupol #DOGE
$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla
When money spent on assets doesn’t result in assetsDan McCrum (Financial Times)
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🚨🚨🚨 Alerta #WashingtonDC #DMV 🚨🚨🚨
#ICE has kidnapped with the intent to imminently deport Dr. Badar Khan Suri of #Georgetown University **for being married to a US citizen of Palestinian heritage**. They grabbed him at his home in Rosslyn; he was in Louisiana en route to Texas as of 7:30pm ET this evening
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Fires, wars and bureaucracy: The tumultuous journey to establish the US National Archives
Every democracy needs a national archive. Trump’s staffing shake-up is endangering an institution that preserves the nation’s history.The Conversation
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Travel Guide for Kyoto - Japan Purple Travel Guide
We show you the best things to see in Kyoto and, as always, we provide lots of photos so you can decide where you want to go.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Colorado gun control bill could make mass shootings less deadly
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5319043/colorado-gun-control-bill-could-make-mass-shootings-less-deadly?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
Pick Up A Pebble Again
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Pick Up A Pebble Again
A decade ago, smartwatches were an unexplored avenue full of exotic promise. There were bleeding-edge and eye-wateringly expensive platforms from the likes of Samsung or Apple, but for the more exp…Hackaday
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Nun-Man – The Incredible Story of a Man Who Lived as a Nun for 22 Years
Frank Tavares was born a man in the Dominican Republic, but for 22 years of his life, he lived as Sister Margarita in two different convents.Spooky (Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities)
Gonna start up #SpaceSongSunday again this weekend 💙🪐✨ instagram.com/glowascii
Live songs about space—covers & originals & rewrites—with requests taken! See most of my repertoire (plus many chords/lyrics & liner notes) here: bit.ly/spacesongsunday
Got a fave that would (probably) work with voice and guitar / mandolin / uke / Pocket Operator? I've mostly made it through the requests queue. 😁
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Physicists Finally Have An Answer For Why The Subaru Logo Has Only Six Stars Instead Of Seven
There's a new insight into this we really should discuss.Jason Torchinsky (Jalopnik)
As usual, Kate Wagner expresses how I'm feeling better than I can. Only she does it while recovering from a brain injury. So what's my excuse
Oh, wow--I keep saying this. My whole activism network broke when twitter failed, and even my neighborhood network broke during the pandemic.
This is so true.
Donald Trump’s nonstop news-making can be exhausting, making it harder for people to scrutinize his presidential actions
Overwhelming people with a deluge of announcements makes it difficult to easily track and understand what is happening in the White House.The Conversation
It’s like no one heard Bannon explain “flooding the zone with shit”.
I hate this timeline with a passion.
Steps:
(1) rise above the water level
(2) pull up those still underwater
(3) find the source of the tidal wave and bankrupt it
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Turkiye
Trump wants to deport another academic who's legally in the US.
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at #GeorgetownU, says he's being punished on spec as to the views of his wife, a US citizen of Palestinian heritage.
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This man's a #Virginian, y'all.
Also targeted by Trump: #Virginia's George Mason University.
Weird given it's home to conserv Mercatus Institute & a place Koch Bros have lavished money on.
Its large # of non-white students anything to do w/it?
#GMU
We can destroy him. His world is a house of cards
Imagine the message that would send to the other Oligarchs!
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#ElonMusk #Musk #TeslaTakedown #Tesla
This Is How Tesla Will Die
The vultures are circling the tech giant.Will Lockett (Planet Earth & Beyond)
This just in....
"The report also points to other red flags, like Tesla claiming to sit on $37 billion in cash and yet it raised $6 billion in new debt last year."
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#ElonMusk #Musk #TeslaTakedown #Tesla
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
For the US, you can opt out here: accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-pr…
Unclear whether or not that actually does anything, of course 🙃 metalhead.club/@danfairs/11418…
If you use eBay, they’ve just updated their T&Cs to say that they may train generative models (AI) on your personal data. Opt out here, if you’re in the EEA, UK or Switzerland: accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-…
Today, the Financial Times has released a new report: Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.
The article points out that Tesla reports having spent $6.3 billion on “purchases of property and equipment excluding finance leases, net of sales” in the second half of 2024, while property, plant, and equipment rose by only $4.9 billion in that period.
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Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
#detroit #chicago #nyc #LA
The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
Detroit’s Black population grew sixfold from 1910 to 1920, and many businesses that sprouted to welcome the newcomers flourished.The Conversation
WIP Wednesday, 19 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Sketcher:
PaddleStroke added an option to combine line and polyline tools and fixed a couple of bugs
Shkolik implemented a new configurable color for external defining geometry.
CAM:
clsergent added a postprocessor for the Snapmaker machines with CNC capabilities
phaseloop change the default V-bit tip diameter to 0.1mm a
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#DevelopmentUpdates
WIP Wednesday, 19 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher: PaddleStroke added an option to combine line and polyline tools and fixed a couple of bugs Shkolik implemented a new configurable color for external defi…FreeCAD News
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> Unlike intelligence, which primarily concerns problem-solving and reasoning, wisdom involves a deeper comprehension of human nature, moral principles, and the long-term consequences of actions.
Glad to have an opportunity to get in an outdoor ride this evening after work. It was super windy when I left, but dropping down into the valley in the #CVNP helped get a little shelter from it. Makes the 12 minute climb back up to my house at the end worth it.
Frontier Airlines mocks Southwest by offering "free checked bags" - Boing Boing
Frontier Airlines mocks Southwest Airlines by offering "free checked bags" — and Southwest doesn't see the humorCarla Sinclair (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
Buy my music so I can continue to hack fascists (with righteous cyberpunk audio assaults)
It’s midweek and that means… well, I don’t know that it means anything unless you want it to. Time is a circle, or possibly it’s a line, or maybe it’s all strings. Who knows? But if you’re looking for some time to chill out and want to dig on some space and ambient grooves? Cosmoeuphoria will spin up tonight for a couple of hours of audio hallucinogens.
Gonna roll out some Tangerine Dreams and Spaced Out things, tonight at 7:30pm Central.
See ya there, at Radio Free Elsewhere.
Shawn Simpson, University of Pittsburgh
Can animals make art?
Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners and bird sculptors certainly make it seem plausible.The Conversation
If you've never heard of Lemmy, it's an open-source, federated Reddit alternative that isn't censored and controlled by billionaires.
IE - it doesn't suck.
And my indie, zero-ads allowed publication The Index has a community there:
Travel Guide for DEER LAKES PARK - Pittsburgh Purple Travel Guide
We tell you why you should visit DEER LAKES PARK in the Pittsburgh area and what you need to know.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
"In two months, the nation under Trump’s leadership has alienated, threatened, and is now in a trade war with Canada and Mexico. We are estranged from our nearest neighbors and economic allies.
In two months, our nation has alienated and isolated itself from other nations in the North America Treaty Organization (NATO). Our nation has withdrawn its military and intelligence support to Ukraine."
~ Wendell Griffen
#Musk #Trump #NATO #Mexico #Canada #Ukraine
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FROM BAD TO WORSE OR ELSE
The United States experience with Donald Trump’s second term as president is almost 60 days old.Wendell Griffen (Wendell Griffen on Faith, Hope, Justice, Love, and Peace)
"Instead, Trump has aligned the United States with Russia, the chief military and political threat to Europe and Ukraine.
In two months, our nation has threatened the sovereignty of Greenland and Panama. Those nations provide vital transportation (shipping) and other services for the Western Hemisphere."
#Musk #Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #Ukraine #Panama #Greenland
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"In two months, the United States has experienced the worst outbreak of measles in decades. The stock markets have suffered heavy losses. Prices of household items and food have risen.
In two months, the United States has become more of a pariah than a partner concerning human rights, global security, environmental protection, and goodwill."
#Musk #Trump #measles #economy #tariffs #StockMarket #PriceofEggs #stagflation #Trumpcession #HumanRights #environment #GlobalSecurity
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Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order
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#a11y #politics #UnitedStates #ADA #news #accessibility
My blog had 1,134 published posts dating back about a little over 15 years. There were also 329 drafts just sitting there.
Rather than work this afternoon, I began publishing them! I've gotten through about 18 so far. If you like outdated content, this is the blog post series for you...
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The Lost Blog Posts | MakerBlock
I've got a lot of unpublished draft blog posts here. Like a lot. At the time I'm writing this post, I've got 1,134 published posts and 329 drafts. This isn't versions of drafts.Maker Block (MakerBlock)
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