"In a bad-tempered session at the Covid inquiry, the former health secretary repeatedly criticised the line of questioning describing it as "naive", "hostile" and "inappropriate"."
Rich.
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Matt Hancock criticises 'wholly naive' and 'hostile' Covid inquiry
The former health secretary was giving evidence about medical equipment deals during the pandemic.Jim Reed (BBC News)
A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.The Conversation
Time for an update on my book of walking tours around Glasgow. I've just finished the revisions suggested by the editior and have sent it off for a final proof copy to be printed. Barring any major issues with that, it should be available by the end of April.
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#glasgow #book #architecture #glasgow850 #glasgowarchitecture #visitglasgow
PiEEG Kit is a Self-Contained Biosignal Labratory
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PiEEG Kit Is A Self-Contained Biosignal Labratory
Back in 2023, we first brought you word of the PiEEG: a low-cost Raspberry Pi based device designed for detecting and analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) and other biosignals for the purposes of e…Hackaday
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
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🇦🇺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…
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in SAN DIEGO next MONDAY (Mar 24):
And in CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:
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More tour dates here:
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.exileinbookville.com
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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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who ...Macmillan
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Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users
Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users | TechCrunch
Another consumer-grade spyware operation was hacked in June 2024, which exposed thousands of Apple Account credentials.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
What's this about a crypto reserve? : The Indicator from Planet Money
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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
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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.
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.” ❞
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
doesn't matter
they're laughing the whole time. they knew it would not stand. the point is to push with radioactive racist shit to elicit pain
because it's funny to them
the Trump administration is literally internet trolls. it's the back of the 4th grade class saying something outrageously ugly by design to be gleeful when the teacher gets upset
our fucking GOVERNMENT
then we forget about it, and next election go "HURR DURR EGG PRICES... *snort*"
americans are fucking morons
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 searchedRobert 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)
"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
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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 reputationIrish Star
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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!
20 March 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Freda Rojzner, was born in Paris.
She was deported to Auschwitz in February 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.
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in reply to The Conversation U.S. • • •That was when Americans wanted public health "care" for those who could not afford it.
Now many just want health "business" for profit, forget the care part.