What happens when a Chicago children's hospital bows to pressure to stop gender-affirming care
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5317637/what-happens-when-a-chicago-childrens-hospital-bows-to-pressure-to-stop-gender-affirming-care?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for the 5 Best Beaches in Aitutaki - Aitutaki Beaches Purple Travel Guide
This Aitutaki Best Beaches Travel Guide tells you what the best beaches in Aitutaki are and we show you photos of what you will see.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.
nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/poli…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #china
Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency
The conservative think tank’s efforts to dismantle the Education Department go back more than 40 years, a scholar writes.The Conversation
Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5337938/palestinian-deaths-gaza-israel?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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23 March 1920 | A Pole, Jan Stryła, was born in Niemienice.
In #Auschwitz from 17 April 1942.
No. 30920
He perished in the camp on 23 July 1942.
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From March 20th until April 21st, the light returns with intensity, and #Aries season propels this energy forward.
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I've also been told by drivers that they also enjoy being waved at, sometimes it even makes their day!
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A key problem with Rachel Reeves plan to save £5bn by cutting disability benefits eligibility is that many of those costs will need to be picked up by Councils (who are already in grim budgetary position).
So not only is this a policy penalising the vulnerable to free up money for defence, it will also likely compound local problems while ensuring for many disabled people any (posited) reforms of the system will be way too late to help them.
Its a disgrace!
#politics
theguardian.com/society/2025/m…
Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts
Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warnChaminda Jayanetti (The Guardian)
Where is the extra going to come from Chris, where if we do not make cuts somewhere is the extra money we need to support our NHS our School and other Government departments going to come from.
We know the UKs economy has crashed since Brexit, even if we rejoin the EU tomorrow that extra won't come it yet so, where is the extra coming from?
Do we get into more debt?
@RichardJMurphy sets out to try & understand what POTUS Trump is actually trying to achieve, and (rightly, in my view) settles on a central mission to neuter the institutions of countervailing power (to use J.K.Galbraith's term, not Murphy's) that have dared to try to constrain the billionnaire oligarchs in the past. Key to this is a move to shift what remains of governance functions to the state level to diffuse & weaken any residual power capacities.
taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0…
Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation
Please excuse this much longer-than-usual post. I am seeking to explain something that has appeared almost inexplicable - which is Trump's assault on the USA.Funding the Future
// foss.events is not just about software-related events. Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Open Hardware, Open Educational Resources and many other related movements are just as important as FOSS is.
Let's add these events to // foss.events and start connecting!
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"My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously."
Happy Birthday Emmy Noether!!
She made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's 1st and 2nd theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She developed theories of rings, fields, & algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry & conservation laws.
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#mathematics #physics #womeninStem
![Portrait of Emmy Noether, around 1900.
Unknown author Publisher: Mathematical Association of America [3], Brooklyn Museum [4], Agnes Scott College [5], [6] - Emmy Noether (1882-1935), Archived
The photograph shows Noether as a poised young woman, reflecting the academic environment of the era. Dressed in period attire typical of the late 19th to early 20th century, she appears composed and introspective, a visual contrast to the intellectual revolution she would later ignite in mathematics.](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/330068 "Portrait of Emmy Noether, around 1900.
Unknown author Publisher: Mathematical Association of America [3], Brooklyn Museum [4], Agnes Scott College [5], [6] - Emmy Noether (1882-1935), Archived
The photograph shows Noether as a poised young woman, reflecting the academic environment of the era. Dressed in period attire typical of the late 19th to early 20th century, she appears composed and introspective, a visual contrast to the intellectual revolution she would later ignite in mathematics.")
Booting a Desktop PDP-11
hackaday.com/2025/03/23/bootin…
Booting A Desktop PDP-11
Ever heard of VENIX? There were lots of variants of Unix back in the day, and VENIX was one for the DEC Professional 380, which was — sort of — a PDP 11. The 1982 machine normally ran t…Hackaday
Following #Trump’s shameful #Tesla advert on the WH lawn last week, US #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in #ElonMusk's company.
Cabinet secretaries *don't typically* [NEVER] recommend individual stocks, much less those linked to the president's closest adviser.
#kleptocracy #oligarchy #broligarchy
axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-mus…
SpaceX Positioned to Secure Billions in New Federal Contracts Under Trump nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/poli…
Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump
Elon Musk’s role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies. Supporters say he has the best technology.Eric Lipton (The New York Times)
„The document asks US-funded scientists in Australia, the UK and the EU to declare links to China or projects on diversity, equity and inclusion.“
„The 36-point survey also asks researchers whether their institutions work with communist, socialist or any parties that espouse anti-American beliefs“
Trump team ‘survey’ sent to overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fears
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
#FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters | WIRED
“Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted charges against three people accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at #Tesla vehicles and, in at least one alleged incident, writing “profane messages against President #Trump” near Tesla charging stations, among other crimes.”
Whatever happens to USAID, it will apparently "leverage blockchain technology."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher
Whatever happens to USAID, it will apparently “leverage blockchain technology.”…WIRED (Ars Technica)
This Harlem pastor fights mental health stigma — and shares his own struggles
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5336793/mental-health-harlem-black-church-pastor?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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As Ovechkin nears the NHL goals record, the hockey world leans in to savor the moment
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5331209/ovechkin-gretzky-nhl-goals-record-hockey-washington-capitals?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Yes, I understand the emotion around AI “stealing" artists' content. But you know what will protect your copyrights most effectively *and* keep you in work?
No copyright for AI.
If the capitalists can't own it, they can't replace people who do.
yahoo.com/news/us-appeals-cour…
US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be...Blake Brittain (Yahoo News)
Travel Guide for Auckland, New Zealand - New Zealand Purple Travel Guide
Auckland is the most populous city in New Zealand and a great place to start your New Zealand vacation. Our detailed itinerary provides the best things to see in Auckland and has lots of photos so you can decide what you want to see.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Trump’s inauguration was really big this y… wait… oh, that is AOC and Bernie Sanders speaking to 34,000 people in Denver, Colorado, on their Fight the Oligarchy tour.
In 5 events across the US, 86,000 people have showed up.
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God sent a freezing wind for Trump's inauguration. Somehow you wonder why these so-called Christians don't read the signs on the wall.
Last time she did this was for Reagan's second term. Looks like there is a consistent pattern.
Luckily the friend I was walking with didn’t mind the frequent stops and exclamations over the moss and lichen.
More info in Alt text with lichen names (thanks to help from iNaturalist)
#LichenSubscribe #Tensmuir
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Und das ist die beste der Karten. Den Spruch kann man in vielen Meetings bringen…
Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Let me tell you about the most wasteful US federal government spending I know about. It's a humdinger. You and everyone you know are mired in it for weeks, or perhaps months, every year. It will cost you, personally, thousands of dollars over your lifetime. I'm talking about filing your taxes.
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#FreeFile #Intuit #IRS
Was pleased to see they had all the deductions already filled in. If I'd had an expensive commute for work, I'd have been able submit receipts to get a deduction above the standard minimum. Same with any non-electronic transactions I might have had. I don't , so I didn't.
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in reply to Auschwitz Memorial • • •In 1948 "civilized" western countries donated Palestinian land to Jews who "deserve" a land of their own. The idea was that Palestinians and Jews would live together in peace.
Instead, the Jewish migrants renamed the land into Isreal and excessively terrorized the Palestinians. They hunted them down, stole their land and cattle and burned their olive trees. And they discriminated, humiliated, murdered, raped, tortured and/or took them hostage to lock them up without means of communication let alone access to a lawyer.
Zionists never stopped doing that - murdering Palestinians, children among others, last night.
After nobody listened and cared about the fate of the Palestinians, they started organizing and DEFENDING THEMSELVES.
Since then, "civilized" people started calling what PALESTINIANS did and do terrorism.
And now they call anyone who tells the truth an antisemite.
Before you become complicit to genocide by boosting Auschwitz propaganda, abusing Holocaust victims, please read the declaration at the bottom of
... show moreIn 1948 "civilized" western countries donated Palestinian land to Jews who "deserve" a land of their own. The idea was that Palestinians and Jews would live together in peace.
Instead, the Jewish migrants renamed the land into Isreal and excessively terrorized the Palestinians. They hunted them down, stole their land and cattle and burned their olive trees. And they discriminated, humiliated, murdered, raped, tortured and/or took them hostage to lock them up without means of communication let alone access to a lawyer.
Zionists never stopped doing that - murdering Palestinians, children among others, last night.
After nobody listened and cared about the fate of the Palestinians, they started organizing and DEFENDING THEMSELVES.
Since then, "civilized" people started calling what PALESTINIANS did and do terrorism.
And now they call anyone who tells the truth an antisemite.
Before you become complicit to genocide by boosting Auschwitz propaganda, abusing Holocaust victims, please read the declaration at the bottom of auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschw…, which includes:
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Threatened in its existence, the State of Israel has the right to self-defense in accordance with international law and the principles of humanitarianism.
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One of the board members is a former high-ranked member of the Israeli Destruction forces (auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschw…).
The current maintainers DO NOT CARE ABOUT HOLOCAUST VICTIMS: see this (less than 2 years old) girl in mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseu….
More disgusting facts in, for example, infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat… and
infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat….
#Auschwitz #Hasbara #Propaganda #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Westbank #Lebanon #Siria #Yemen
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