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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-15 08:17:02

“The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18…

Doctors Without Borders report found cases of abuse and exploitation by staff in Chad
A confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says that the international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border. The organization said it launched the monthslong investigation in response to AP reporting that women had accused staff of sexually exploiting them in displacement sites in Chad. Hundreds of thousands fled there from Sudan’s civil war. Doctors Witho…

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2026-07-13 12:25:48

One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.

Scatter plot titled "Political alignment with AI industry: Strategies employed by US politicians in summer 2026." Vertical axis ranges from accelerationist (bottom) to cautionary (top); horizontal axis from blue districts (left) to red districts (right). Labeled examples: Bores—"Invite the attack"; Rutinel—"Stay quiet, let allies shield you"; Lawrence—"Frame it as land, not ideology"; Lasher—"Take the money, mock the PACs"; Whitmer—"Pitch growth to older voters."
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-06-14 06:49:45

Judge blocks Trump national parks order -- calling it ‘censorship’
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about slavery, civil rights, climate change and other topics from national parks.

Angel Kelley, a U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts, on Friday issued a preliminary injunction
directing the National Park Service to stop taking further action to implement an executive order issued by Donald Trump aimed at
scrub…

Judge blocks Trump national parks order, calling it ‘censorship’
A federal court barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about civil rights, climate change and other topics from national parks, directing the government to restore what it changed within the coming weeks.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-07-11 18:27:24

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

~ Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in Marin hospital EXAMINER STAFF REPORT Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the Grateful Dead, has been hospital ized. His attorney, Chris Andrian, con- | firmed that Garcia was in the hospi- tal but had no further details, other than to say, “Just tell everybody who loves Jerry to pray for him.” KFOG reported today that Gar- cia was admitted to Marin General Hospital with a high temperature. The hospital would say only that “a Jerome Garcia” had been admit- ted…
Saturday, July 12. 1986 Page Y Garci » GREENBRAE, (AP) Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead rock band, has been hospitalized after slipping into a diabetic coma that resulted from an infection caused by an abcessed tooth, a band spokesman said. (Garcia, 43, was in Marin General Hospital, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, but hospital spokeswoman Sandra Currie would not release any information about his condition. Band spokesman Dennis McNally said Garcia lapsed into a diab…
Jerry Garcia in the hospital
1 EE Pa ee. = ee. tls wn. \ : 'y . GARCIA G — From A-1 Deadheads. : Early last year Garcia was arrest : ed in Golden Gate Park. Police said he had cocaine and heroin in his "car. The charges were dropped when he agreed to enter a drug-di version program. A friend said: “There is absolute ly nothing illegal connected with "Jerry's illness. The infection has heen painful, and he’s basically ex ' hausted.” :
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-12 17:37:27

Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/andr

Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling | TechCrunch
Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-05-14 21:51:03

This except from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath stings like a taser:

The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow. The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thin…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-05-12 15:19:25

Use of AI on the battlefield,
#AI #dronedefense

Ukraine Fields AI Turrets That Can Destroy UAVs With a Single Button Press
Ukraine's new turret uses AI to autonomously detect, track, and calculate of incoming drones.

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-05-12 21:42:29

"#Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today. The legend among legends in #crystallography, she cracked the 27 atom structure of penicillin, and then the 181 atom structure of vitamin B12, and THEN the 788 atom structure of insulin. "
See "Monarch of Crys…

Monarch of Crystallography: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the Structure of Large Molecules.
Two scientists.Two crystallographers.Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her, while the other lived to a ripe old age after a string of ground-breaking discoveries and a Nobel Prize. The former, Rosalind Franklin, is a household name. But the latter, in spite of the foundational importance of her work, has always remained on the fringe of our cultural perception: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994).  It is one of the truly frustrating …

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-15 00:40:58

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election,
a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office,
the commission's spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel r…

Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Checks Likely Illegal, Wisconsin Board Says
The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred complaints against Musk to the Brown County district attorney’s office.

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-06-12 22:47:08

I've just signed a petition calling on the richest governments to tax the profits of oil and gas companies. It’s completely unfair that those who did the most to cause the climate crisis stand to profit from more destruction and war while we pay the price. You can sign it here:

Tax polluters' profits now!
The war in the Middle East is taking hundreds of lives while also causing oil and gas prices to surge – and fossil fuel companies are cashing in, while families struggle with rising bills. The richest countries must tax these polluters' profits now! Let’s make them pay!