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How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair #environment

How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair
For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many residents, the dust that is released there is just part of everyday life—but it can contain natural uranium compounds that come to the surface with the mined rock. A new study in the journal Environmental Geochemistry and Health reveals how this exposure is reflected in children's hair.

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city
after federal agents launched teargas at a crowd of demonstrators
– including young children
– outside an ICE facility
during a weekend protest that he and others characterized as peaceful.
Witnesses said agents deployed teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets
as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday.
Erin Hoover Barnet…

🤑 Nearly Half of Young Japanese Workers Spend Big on Fandom Activities
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/young-japanese-workers-spend-big-on-idol-fandom/

Nearly 50% of Young Japanese Workers Are Investing in Idol Fandom Activities
A recent survey suggests that Japanese 20-somethings are increasingly turning to fandom culture for motivation at work.

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

Sex Cells
Eliza, with an academic background of Counselling and Behavioural Science, Sexology, Life Coaching and Relationship Counselling, talks all things sex, dating, relationships and culture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sex-cells…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Alice Coltrane:
🎵 A Love Supreme
#AliceColtrane
https://ganavya.bandcamp.com/track/a-love-supreme-part-3-alice-coltrane
https://open.spotify.com/track/43eVW8gbCoYr6u7XeCgfxU

Windy and chilly #FirstDayHike at Claytor Lake State Park

How to Live in Hard Times: Holly Gayley on the Example of a Female Tantric Master - online Dec 9
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Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
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When school counselors must decide which children get to eat,
it’s time to acknowledge we’re in a national affordability crisis.
The problem is the economy itself
— not just its current condition, but the underlying unfairness of how it is organized.
A friend's elderly parents live near an elementary school not far from the nation’s capital.
For several years, they had been quietly raising money to provide groceries and basic supplies for families whose child…

The Affordability Crisis Is Real. Only Worker Organizing Can Offer Solutions.
A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.

"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Book — Non-fiction. By David Wallace-Wells. 2019. 320 pages. This book raises the alarm over the Earth's climate crisis and demands radical action to save human civilization as we know it.