Sunday Children can see funeral processions before they occur - but they had better stay out of their path...

#Germany #folktale #folklore @germany @folklore
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The Department of Education has been next.

We collected what we already did safeguard in this thread:
safeguarding-research.discours…
We got:
- data.ed.gov
- ocrdata.ed.gov
- nces.ed.gov
- eric.ed.gov
- nces.gov/programs/
- ope.ed.gov/dapip/
- studentaid.gov
- iog.ed.gov
- sites.ed.gov

Do you know of anything else from the DoE that needs safeguarding?
Please ping us!

cc @SafeguardingResearch
#SafeguardingResearch #DoE #Education

Collection: Department of Education

Things are looking grim for the DoE: Trump plans executive order to lay groundwork for shutting down Education Department, official says.

^{Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory}

🇦🇺Australia: Covid-19 kills 5 times more people than flu in 2024.

"Five times as many Australians are dying from Covid-19 as the flu five years after the outbreak of the global pandemic, shock new research has revealed."

"New analysis by the Institute’s Mortality Working Group of mortality between January and November 2024 found 3,676 people died from Covid-19 – 69% more than predicted."

"Covid-19 deaths at 3,676 were five times more than the 728 recorded for influenza"

Source: archive.md/jV6Jt

#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotFLU #COVIDisNotOVER @auscovid19

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Ray Nayler's "Where the Axe Is Buried"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/20/bir…

#Pluralistic

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In the latest episode of The Comfortable Spot podcast, my guest is author and social anthropologist Brian Milne. We discuss the current state of rights of children in conflict and ask whether our modern societies have become desensitized to their suffering.
#ChildAbuse #childslavery #childrights #UN #RightsOfTheChild #Palestine #Ukraine

thecomfortablespotpodcast.com/…

Brian Milne

Lost Childhoods: Conflict, Migration, and the Fight for Children’s Rights with Brain Milne Apple Spotify Amazon Linktree Today, I’m joined by author and academic Brian Milne. Brian is a socia…

^{The Comfortable Spot Podcast}

Ray Nayler's *Where the Axe Is Buried* is an intense, claustrophobic novel of a world run by "rational" AIs that purport to solve all of our squishy political problems with empirical, neutral mathematics:

us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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What's this about a crypto reserve? : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/1239646557/crypto-bitcoin-government-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-npr

Sesame Street : Throughline
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/1239646567/throughline-sesame-street?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr

Happy Thursday to one and all. 🤗

It’s International Day of Happiness, which aims to highlight the importance of happiness within our lives.

In my A-Z of simple steps to a better world, step J is ‘Journey Jovial’, which includes some methods anyone can adopt to try to bring more happiness in to their lives: ethicalrevolution.co.uk/journe…

In particular it highlights methods of breaking free from the negative 24 hour news cycle that can lock us in to perpetual states of anxiety.

This year’s #InternationalDayOfHappiness theme is ‘Sharing and Caring’ - both of which also feature in my A-Z steps:
🤲 Sharing:
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/share-…
🫂 Caring:
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/know-k…

Journey Jovial - Ethical Revolution

Join me in taking step J, “Journey Jovial”, in the A-Z of simple steps to a better world: Don’t let the bastards grind you down!

^{Ethical Revolution}

NEVER FORGET this evergreen quote from Pierre Poilievre:

"Former residential school students need a stronger work ethic, not more compensation dollars."

That's REAL prime ministerial material right there, folks. Another whitey telling Indigenous people what's good for them.

cbc.ca/news/canada/conservativ…

I see the tough guy approach is going well.

❝ Today, when the phone call [with Trump] was scheduled, Putin was on stage at an event. When his interviewer asked if he needed to go because he would be late for the call, Putin dismissed the question and laughter broke out. Brett Bruen, president of the Global Situation Room public relations firm wrote: “Making leaders wait is an old Putin power play. But, this is pretty brutal. Putin is publicly mocking Trump.” ❞

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

March 18, 2025

On Saturday, U.S.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

So the 4chan trolls #MAGA sadists have put in charge of the #DoD website have gone after #JackieRobinson

People with more than 2 braincells knew attacking #DEI was just a stand in for simple #racism all along

So now what. Now that #bigots are just openly bigots and no one with even 1 braincell can deny it without being laughed at, now what

We just let our honored heroes be pissed on by MAGA turds and we shrug? Forget about it? Accept it?

This country is a fucking joke

So, science friends.

When in the 1930s would you have decided “no, I’m not going to go to that conference in Germany”?

Because the question now needs to be posed looking westwards across the Atlantic.

If your phone can be taken on arrival & searched for messages critical of the government & then you can be denied entry (or perhaps worse in the future), why would you even think of going in the first place?

Absolutely horrifying slide into totalitarianism.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

^{Robert Mackey (The Guardian)}

#Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner is stepping down after #DOGE leader #ElonMusk called for the #transit service to be #privatized.

Amtrak, also known as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is the national passenger #rail service for the #US. It is nationally chartered, meaning the federal government is the majority stockholder. It also means Amtrak board members are nominated by the president & confirmed by the Senate.

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

Amtrak CEO steps down as Musk insists ‘sad’ rail service needs to be privatized

Stephen Gardner left position to ‘ensure that Amtrak continues to enjoy the full faith and confidence of this administration’

^{Katie Hawkinson (The Independent)}

Eight arches.

#Architecture #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

"Top Tesla investor issues brutal ultimatum to Elon Musk as boycott leads to major stock plunge

Ross Gerber, who owns an estimated $105 million in shares of Tesla stock, called on Elon Musk to step down as head of the company, saying that he 'destroyed' the company's reputation"

By Alana Loftus, Boston reporter
08:20 ET, MAR 19 2025
Updated10:58 ET, MAR 19 2025

irishstar.com/news/us-news/elo…

Top Tesla investor issues brutal ultimatum to Elon Musk as stocks plunge

Ross Gerber, who owns an estimated $105 million in shares of Tesla stock, called on Elon Musk to step down as head of the company, saying that he "destroyed" the company's reputation

^{Irish Star}

G.
Cheese and wine, a party table with a selection of cheeses and wines, a basket of sliced bread, cheese knife, wine glasses with red and white wines poured.
[ Prints : james-mccormack.pixels.com/fea… ]

#cheese #wine #party #bread #FediGiftShop #wineglasses #BuyIntoArt #redandwhite #red #white #MastoDaoine #MastoArt

Chess masters and physicists show how expertise, not innate talent, enables flexible thinking. For evaluating online info, that means knowing #history and civics.

A scholar explains: theconversation.com/why-histor…
@academicchatter #academicchatter @psychology

Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation

Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.

^{The Conversation}

I post memes like these as a way to feel connected to the people who I care the most about.

Let's all be good to each other!