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⏰ New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-assumptions-linking-racial-attitudes-political.html

New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
Nearly 40% of U.S. cities analyzed in a study in NPJ Complexity diverge from the common narrative that Republican-dominated areas have high levels of implicit racial bias while Democratic strongholds are more tolerant.

High Noon Announces Recall of its Vodka Seltzer Beach Pack (12 Pack) Due to Inclusion of CELSIUS® ASTRO VIBE ™ Energy Drink Cans that were Inadvertently Filled with Vodka Seltzer (US Food and Drug Administration)
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/high-noon-announces-recall-its-vodka-seltzer-beach-pack-12-pack-due-inclusion-celsiusr-astro-vibe-tm
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p109#a250730p109

#TIL that blowing vs sucking the same spot on a harmonica produces notes that are roughly a half-step apart, while adjacent blown/sucked notes are roughly a whole step apart. I always wondered why I couldn't play any melodies on harmonicas because there would always be some notes I just couldn't find no matter how hard I tried, and now I know the answer isn't some tricky block-holes-with-your-tongue technique like I used to think.
I always knew blowing vs sucking produced different tones, but I thought that they were whole-step transpositions of each other such that any note in one modality would appear somewhere in the other.
My wife showed me this fact and when I asked where she learned it, she said she just figured it out herself...

That thing where a neighbour goes on a bit of an “anti-woke” grumble on the neighbourhood chat then asks for help the very next day…
#lgbtq

This is really wild: Microsoft is pushing more and more #spyware features into everyday products to steal all of your data:
"#Copilot #Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall [...] is de…

Neue Regel:
Wenn jemand ein "Schulfach X" oder "Pflicht für X in der Schule" fordert, ist das Thema auf dem Hype Höhepunkt und es geht danach nur noch bergab.

RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rfk-jr-targets-cdc-ridiculous-complaint-chaos-grips-agency-rcna227978
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p48#a250829p48

Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
#AmReading

Ham salad products recalled due to possible listeria: USDA (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5424519-ham-salad-products-recall-usda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p36#a250729p36