Tootfinder

A real use for AI: removing from search results scholarly works on "North America" that are actually only about the US.

"Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use"
#PeregrineFalcons #Birds
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Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use
Peregrine falcon populations across North America are heavily contaminated with harmful flame retardants–including those that have been phased out for years—according to a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Expert: Putin may visit Vietnam, North Korea during trip to China: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/11/expert-putin-may.html

Springtime in Mexico: 51°C...
Mayday, Mayday, as they say.
#globalwarming

Extreme Temperatures (@extretemps@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image HISTORIC EVENT Unbelievable 51.1C/124F at Gallinas MEXICO yesterday, HOTTEST DAY IN MAY IN NORTH AMERICA HISTORY. By far,the worst heat wave ever recorded in North America and there is no end in sight to it in any foreseeable future. From SMN/Conagua:

GB News hires Steven Edginton as its first US-based correspondent, part of its plan to expand to the US, after launching a GBN America section in 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/gb-news…

GB News hires first US correspondent in expansion of GBN America
GB News has hired its first US correspondent as it revealed aims to be a "truly competitive player" in America.

America, 2024
https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/112418799308394207

Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com)
Attached: 1 image This North Carolina bill is ridiculous. It justifies punishing protestors for blocking emergency vehicles, yet bans wearing masks for health reasons. This bill is dangerously anti-public health and restricts people's ability to protest and exercise their First Amendment rights.

Gaza: Open letter from academics in North America
"We are academics based at North American institutions who have come together based on a shared sense of collegial obligation and respect for humanity to condemn Israel’s systematic attacks on educational life in Gaza."
Opportunity to sign if that's you.
#academia #Gaza #scholasticide

"Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use"
#PeregrineFalcons #Birds
https://

Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use
Peregrine falcon populations across North America are heavily contaminated with harmful flame retardants–including those that have been phased out for years—according to a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Wow - if we can get some cloud free skies, much of the northern (north of 35N) US and us border parts of Canada (to 55N) will have a great chance to see the #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights
#geomagneticStorm
New York looks out of luck but looks fairly clear in the central and western parts of North America.
Look at the clear sky forecast:
https://digital.weather.gov/
Look at the Aurora forecast:
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast

The social cost of carbon, as preferred by scholars from the Global North, is too high https://ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers/2404.04989.html

Towards a representative social cost of carbon
The majority of estimates of the social cost of carbon use preference parameters calibrated to data for North America and Europe. We here use representative data for attitudes to time and risk across

Sikh leaders welcome arrests in Canada activist killing: Leaders demand justice for threats against Sikh activists in North America and accusations of Indian gov’t involvement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/si

Sikh leaders welcome arrests in Canada activist killing, but questions loom
Leaders demand justice for threats against Sikh activists in North America and accusations of Indian gov’t involvement.

GB News hires Steven Edginton as its first US-based correspondent, part of its plan to expand to the US, after launching a GBN America section in 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/gb-news…

GB News hires first US correspondent in expansion of GBN America
GB News has hired its first US correspondent as it revealed aims to be a "truly competitive player" in America.

Lime plans to spend $55M in 2024 to expand its e-bike fleet, adding 30K bikes in North America and elsewhere, and reports 2023 gross bookings up 32% to $616M (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Uber-Backed E-Bike Startup Lime Planning Global Fleet Expansion
Lime, the operator of a shared electric bike and scooter network backed by Uber Technologies Inc., is planning to invest more than $55 million this year to expand its global fleet.

Solar Eclipse Activities, Resources, and Safety Information • TechNotes Blog #tceajmg

I don’t even live in North America and still through the magic of online conversations my brain won’t stop playing „Turn around… Every now and then I get a little bit lonely 🎶🎵“

it may be an eclipse morning for those in the East of North America but here on the West Coast it's cold, raining and windy. #wx #PNW #VancouverIsland

Mark Robinson: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn't Vote' (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002
http://www.memeorandum.com/240306/p84#a240306p84

On April 8, 2024, a #total #solar #eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
The sky will darken as if it were dawn or dusk.
Be sure you're familiar with when you need to wear sp…

Yo! Logged in, and the post at the very top is this one, from @… - https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/112236016816937513

🚗 Honda to spend $11 billion on four EV factories in North America
#hinda

Honda to spend $11 billion on four EV factories in North America
The new facilities are in addition to the previously announced EV hub in Ohio.

Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies
Purwoko Haryadi Santoso, Bayu Setiaji, Wahyudi, Johan Syahbrudin, Syamsul Bahri, Fathurrahman, A. Suci Rizky Ananda, Yusuf Sodhiqin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07190…

Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies
The force concept inventory (FCI) is one of the research-based assessments (RBAs) established by the physics education research (PER) community to measure students' understanding of Newtonian mechanics. Former works have often recorded the notion of gendered mean FCI scores favoring male students notably in the North America (NA) based studies. Nevertheless, these performance gaps remain inconclusive and unexplored outside the NA context. This paper aims to fill this gap by meta-analyzing the m…

Since it came up in another thread I thought it'd be useful to quote W.E.B. Du Bois on the American Dream. This is from Black Reconstruction in America:
"Behind this extraordinary industrial development, as justification in the minds of men, lay what we may call the great American Assumption, which up to the time of the Civil War, was held more or less explicitly by practically all Americans. The American Assumption was that wealth is mainly the result of its owner’s effort and that any average worker can by thrift become a capitalist. The curious thing about this assumption was that while it was not true, it was undoubtedly more nearly true in America from 1820 to 1860 than in any other contemporary land. It was not true and not recognized as true during Colonial times; but with the opening of the West and the expanding industry of the twenties, and coincident with the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, it was a fact that often a poor white man in America by thrift and saving could obtain land and capital; and by intelligence and good luck he could become a small capitalist and even a rich man; and conversely a careless spendthrift though rich might become a pauper, since hereditary safeguards for property had little legal sanction.
Thus arose the philosophy of “shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves,” on which the American theory of compensated democracy was built. It asked simply, in eighteenth century accents, freedom from government interference with individual ventures, and a voice in the selection of government officials. The continued freedom of economic opportunity and ever possible increase of industrial income, it took for granted. This attitude was back of the adoption of universal suffrage, the disappearance of compulsory military service and imprisonment for debt, which characterized Jacksonian democracy. The American Assumption was contemporary with the Cotton Kingdom, which was its most sinister contradiction. The new captains of industry in the North were largely risen from the laboring class and thus living proof of the ease of capitalistic accumulation. The validity of the American Assumption ceased with the Civil War, but its tradition lasted down to the day of the Great Depression, when it died with a great wail of despair, not so much from bread lines and soup kitchens, as from poor and thrifty bank depositors and small investors."
#AmericanDream #WEBDuBois #Reconstruction #BlackReconstructionInAmerica

LMAO
I'm testing different antenna options to try & look for any possible effects of #solareclipse in North America.
I removed the terminating resistor from my 15x4.5m SuperLoop, making it bi-directional on MW, roughly NNW-SSE.
And... I have a good copy on Radio Caroline
IN BROAD FUCKIN DAYLIGHT 🤯🤯🤯

Sikh leaders welcome arrests in Canada activist killing, but questions loom | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/sikh-leaders-welcome-arrests-in-canada-activist-killing-but-questions…

Sikh leaders welcome arrests in Canada activist killing, but questions loom
Leaders demand justice for threats against Sikh activists in North America and accusations of Indian gov’t involvement.

This is happening in north America now.
#Amiga

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03702 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Leafy Spurge Dataset: Real-world Weed Classification Within Aerial Drone Imagery
Invasive plant species are detrimental to the ecology of both agricultural and wildland areas. Euphorbia esula, or leafy spurge, is one such plant that has spread through much of North America from Eastern Europe. When paired with contemporary computer vision systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, offer the means to track expansion of problem plants, such as leafy spurge, and improve chances of controlling these weeds. We gathered a dataset of leafy spurge presence and absence in grassla…

The Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet (@…), @…
The recording of this recent talk is now available on the #ossna2024 schedule page:

Open Source Summit North America 2024: The Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet, LWN...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit North America 2024

Solar Eclipse Activities, Resources, and Safety Information • TechNotes Blog #tceajmg

#SilentSunday #birdphotography #BirdsOfMastodon
Canada Goose pair, with goslings. May 2024

#wildfire season is here already with #smoke over much of North America.
So many fires are going now in #Mexico after the #drought there:
#BritishColumbia causing evacuations again this year
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/13/thousands-evacuate-as-wildfire-grows-dramatically-in-western-canada
Be careful out there folks.
(Defer to your local media, but to monitor all of North America)
Air Quality resource:
https://fire.airnow.gov/
Active Fires resource:
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;@-80.5,38.1,4.0z

Semafor launches a Global Election Hub; Ben Smith says the hub will feel like what Twitter "used to do well" as readers look for "human editorial judgment" (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/semaf…

[And as far east as the North Pole? 😉]
Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms;
Spectacular aurora borealis caused by geomagnetic storms on sun’s surface may be visible in North America as far south as the midwest
htt…

iirc the japanese version wasn't easily available in north america for a long time? i'd only ever watched the US version until the early 2000s when there was a limited theatrical run of the original. maybe someone can jog my memory or fill in the details #monsterdon

February 2024 was the warmest February on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.81°C above the already warmed 1991-2020 average for February. The month was 1.77°C warmer than an estimate of the February average for 1850-1900.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

A mixed bag, but not too shabby: 20 G$ to non-profits for #ClimateChange work.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic $20 Billion in Awards to Expand Access to Clean Energy and Climate Solutions and Lower Energy Costs for Communities Across the Nation | The White House
Vice President Harris and Administrator Regan to visit Charlotte, North Carolina to announce selectees under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund  First-of-its-kind national network to fund tens of thousands of climate and clean energy projects across America, especially in communities historically left behind and overburdened by pollution Today, Vice President Kamala Harris and…

Albert Mayol is indignated
https://flipboard.com/@pitchfork/latest-news-pqu92e91z/-/a-zG4Y1y02Q6eRELODfWORig:a:910329480-/0

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long (and longish) reads of the week.
This week's selection covers
--Secret network of CIA-funded spy bases in Ukraine,
--The Pentagon uses ad networks to find targets,
--A Morris worm for the AI-era,
--The last Morse-code station in North America,
--How the Internet was indexed,
--AI warfare threatens humanity,
--AI warfare is already here
https://www.metacurity.com/p/best-infosecrelated-long-reads-week-22424

Among other things, I study political history. In places like North America that have had long-lasting, relatively stable states, we default to the national narrative that traces a country's origins and development to the present, while implicitly imagining it existing indefinitely. We need to think more deeply about the end of states. Otherwise, we're not studying them, we're legitimizing them, taking their ideological work as our own. Historical actors don't know how things…

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago,
raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought
https://www.

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought

When we saw the eclipse in 2017, we swore we‘d travel to catch the next one. Maine sounds like a fun place to visit!
However, the timing of things turned this into a big travel year for other reasons and we just couldn’t cram in one more trip. Really bummed I’m going to miss it. The next one in North America is decades away. Catch this one if at all possible!

Sasquatch Cat!
Through the magic of AI-enhanced photography, it can now be revealed that the legendary Sasquatch has, all along, been a Cat!
/
Origins of the Sasquatch legend are rooted in the traditions and stories of various Indigenous peoples of North America. The name "Sasquatch" itself is an Anglicization of "Sasq’ets," derived from the Halq’emeylem language spoken by First Nations peoples in southwestern British Columbia.
/

🐺 Coywolves are prospering in Eastern North America
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coywolves-are-taking-over-eastern-north-america-180957141/

Take advantage of cosmic phenomena to teach science? Let’s take a look at a few available resources. Safety concerns and safety precautions appear below, as well as instructional activities, apps, and music playlists. https://blog.tcea.org/solar-eclipse-activities-resou…

How to Start Contributing to the #Linux #Kernel – Kelsey Steele & Allen Pais, Microsoft
Recording and the slides for this recent #ossna2024 talk are now available on the schedule page:

Open Source Summit North America 2024: How to Start Contributing to the Linux K...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit North America 2024

Look at us, problematic and such.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@VOANews/112377411119742797

Voice of America (@VOANews@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Globally, press freedoms are in decline says Reporters Without Borders. See the results of their global index: ⁠ 1: Norway 🇳🇴 2: Ireland 🇮🇪 3: Denmark 🇩🇰 24: France 🇫🇷 26: United Kingdom 🇬🇧 45: United States 🇺🇲 68: Japan 🇯🇵 92: Brazil 🇧🇷 161: India 🇮🇳 136: Algeria 🇩🇿 179: China 🇨🇳 180: North Korea 🇰🇵 https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom #voanews

“For evidence of that look no further than Tesla. “
Yes... because apparently the failing car company run by a “mercurial” Nazi-buffoon and the companies who bet on him (Hertz) are the best measures…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ev-sales-

“This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Euoplocephalu s. Euoplocephalus was found in 1897 in Alberta.” Via

Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America
by Matthew Olzmann
Tell me what it’s like to live without
curiosity, without awe. To sail
on clear water, rolling your eyes
at the kelp reefs swaying
beneath you, ignoring the flicker
of mermaid scales in the mist,
looking at the world and feeling
only boredom. To stand
on the precipice of some wild valley,
the eagles circling, a herd of…

I’ve reached the point in my decades-long slog towards the repurposing of my ingredients that I am starting to recognize things I’ve never done as things I’ll never do. The venality of some of these epiphanic moments is unflattering, but among the more profound recognitions is that I will almost certainly never leave North America.
It's not that I have any aversion to travel or to 'foreign' places, it’s just that I think I’ve missed my window and don’t see much chance of it…

Never forget about Starbucks’ “Phase Two”
#starbucks

Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation
SEATTLE–After a decade of aggressive expansion throughout North America and abroad, Starbucks suddenly and unexpectedly closed its 2,870 worldwide locations Monday to prepare for what company insiders are calling “Phase Two” of the company’s long-range plan.

Unlike pollen in Europe or North America, pollen from Japanese cedar disperses over several dozens of kilometers
https://c.im/@cdarwin/112217070305855525#.

I watched "Let the River Flow" (2023) yesterday. I know very little about Sšmi or Norwegian history, so I can't speak to its accuracy. Still, its themes of discrimination, resource extraction, language, culture, and relation to the land and community strongly resonate with the recent history of colonialism in North America. Plus, it's a visually beautiful film.

I just added my first family tree member born in the UK, in Cambridgeshire. Everyone I'd added before was born in Continental Europe or North America.
#genealogy #familyhistory

FACS - North America Endless (Official Video)
#FediRadio

Neue #Studie zeigt: Die Effektivität von #Glyphosat in der #Unkrautbekämpfung hat durch einseitige Nutzung in glyphosatresistenten Kulturen abgenommen.

The silver bullet that wasn’t: Rapid agronomic weed adaptations to glyphosate in North America
Abstract. The rapid adoption of glyphosate-resistant crops at the end of the 20th century caused a simplification of weed management that relied heavily on glyp

@… I was (of course) aware that there are differences in cutlery use across Europe and between Europe and North America, but I ha no idea to what extent the styles were codified… Wow! htt…

@… I was (of course) aware that there are differences in cutlery use across Europe and between Europe and North America, but I ha no idea to what extent the styles were codified… Wow! htt…

Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to perform a "short test ride" with customers to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, a "hard requirement" from now on (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tesla (TSLA) Must Give Driver-Assist Demonstration With Every US Sale, Musk Says
Tesla Inc. staff are now required to install and demonstrate the company’s driver-assistance technology before handing cars over to buyers in North America, a “hard requirement” that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk says will slow deliveries.

What's a good pair of glasses to buy to watch a solar eclipse?
Safety is primary. Cost is next.
🔗 💬 🔃 🙏
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-what-the-solar-eclipse-will-look-like-across-most-of…

See What the Solar Eclipse Will Look Like across Most of the U.S.
Even if you’re not in the path of totality, the solar eclipse on April 8 will offer a show to nearly everyone across North and Central America

Measuring #methane from space only began in 2009 with the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, or #GOSAT, by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Previously, most of the world’s methane detectors were on the ground in North America.
GOSAT enabled scientists to develop a more geographically div…

Why Are There So Many Methane Satellites?
Over a dozen methane satellites are now circling the Earth — and more are on the way.

👍 An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can "get a feel for" eclipses | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/27/an-eclipse-for-everyone--how-visually-impaired-students-can…

An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can "get a feel for" eclipses
On April 8th, many people will view an eclipse over North America. Even visually impaired folks can take part

Good Morning #Canada
And Happy Fresh Tomato Day. An appropriate day to share a likely little known fact that Canada is the main producer of greenhouse tomatoes in North America. Annually, more than 250 000 tons of tomatoes are produced in greenhouses, with a value of around $500 million, mostly from Ontario. This old article calls Canada a greenhouse superpower, an advantage that has slipped slightly but still true today.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Tomatoes #Gardening
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/16/473526920/how-canada-became-a-greenhouse-superpower

Measuring #methane from space only began in 2009 with the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, or #GOSAT, by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Previously, most of the world’s methane detectors were on the ground in North America.
GOSAT enabled scientists to develop a more geographically div…

Why Are There So Many Methane Satellites?
Over a dozen methane satellites are now circling the Earth — and more are on the way.

🐳 Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-starvation-decimated-gray-whales-pacific.html

Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?
When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along North America's Pacific Coast nearly six years ago, marine scientists could only speculate on the reason: Was it disease? Ocean pollution? Increasing ship collisions?

FuboTV reports a $71M Q4 net loss, down 26% YoY, global revenue up 28% YoY to $410.2M, $370M from subscriptions, 1.61M subscribers in North America, up 12% YoY (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

FuboTV CEO Calls Planned Sports Super-Streamer “Pernicious”
David Gandler called out the upcoming Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery venture as his sports streamer hit 1.61 million subscribers and shrank its fourth-quarter loss.

Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…

An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more (David Cassel/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/linus-torvalds-on-security-ai-open-source-and-trust/

Linus Torvalds on Security, AI, Open Source and Trust
Torvalds retains his lifelong love of open source development even in a world filled with upstream security issues, overhyped AI, and other people's hardware bugs.

I am planning on a short road trip south into Ohio to witness totality.
“Planning” may be a strong word. I’m an adult, it’s a few hours, what takes planning? Obviously I’ll scrub if the weather sucks bad enough, but I’m willing to chase a break in the clouds a few hundred miles. A bucket list item. Might never come back if I miss it. …

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

Satellite Visibility During the April 2024 Total Eclipse
Samantha M. Lawler, Hanno Rein, Aaron C. Boley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19722 https://

Satellite Visibility During the April 2024 Total Eclipse
On 8 April 2024, tens of millions of people across North America will be able to view a total solar eclipse. Such astronomical events have been important throughout history, but with nearly 10,000 satellites in orbit, we question whether total eclipses will now reveal a sky full of satellites, fundamentally changing this experience for humanity. Using the current population of Starlink satellites, we find that the brightest satellites would be naked-eye visible in dark skies, but the high sky b…

Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…

In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? Employers' Perspectives on the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
Divyakant Tahlyan, Hani Mahmassani, Amanda Stathopoulos, Maher Said, Susan Shaheen, Joan Walker, Breton Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18459

In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? Employers' Perspectives on the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
We present an employer-side perspective on remote work through the pandemic using data from top executives of 129 employers in North America. Our analysis suggests that at least some of the pandemic-accelerated changes to the work location landscape will likely stick; with some form of hybrid work being the norm. However, the patterns will vary by department (HR/legal/sales/IT, etc.) and by sector of operations. Top three concerns among employers include: supervision and mentoring, reduction in…

"North Carolina ‘Forever Chemical’ Plant Violates Human Rights, U.N. Panel Says"
#US #USA #America #PFAS

North Carolina ‘Forever Chemical’ Plant Violates Human Rights, U.N. Panel Says
The allegations of human rights violations linked to pollution from the factory broadens a yearslong battle over the site and over the chemicals known as PFAS.

Special Weather Statement
At 901 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms over southwestern San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, southern Ventura, and southern Los Angeles counties. Storms were moving north to northeast at 10 to 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 55 mph, half inch size hail, brief heavy downpours, and cloud to ground lightning. Some rotation is being detected with storms, with a slight chance of these storms spinning up a brief tornado over…

Good Morning #Canada
One of my favourite sayings that my mother used was, "There's not enough room in here to swing a cat..." And that provides the perfect segue to today's post about bragging rights for the smallest jail in North America. The smallest in the world, according to the Google, is on the island of Sark in the United Kingdom, but Canada has its fair share of contestants in this weird competition.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Prison #LockEmUp
https://militarybruce.com/who-has-the-smallest-jail-in-north-america/

I tired of the sanctimonious whining about alleged put-downs of White rural residents.
Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea offer a three-pronged argument intended to excuse these voters and shift blame to others.
🔹First, they suggest that these residents are victims of
“economic policies that have devastated local industries,”
an idea they support with only a glancing reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement,
which has a history and impact more c…

What city-dwellers and rural Americans don’t get about each other
Four readers on the way Americans from different parts of the country see each other.

Film buffs who love physical media have established "Free Blockbuster" sites, which lend DVDs, similar to little free libraries, in the US, Canada, and Britain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03…

Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative to Streaming
The neighborhood lending libraries have popped up around North America, offering a nostalgic return to DVDs.

This is fun.
#BlockBuster #Movies #Film #DVD

Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative to Streaming
The neighborhood lending libraries have popped up around North America, offering a nostalgic return to DVDs.

"April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy

April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids
During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., on Aug. 21, 2017, the skies darkened as the moon crossed in front of the sun. It blocked out all sunlight—except for that from a golden ring visible around the moon's shape, called the corona. Not surprisingly, solar power generation across North America plummeted for several hours, from the first moment the moon began to obscure the sun to when the sun's disk was clear again.

"April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy

April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids
During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., on Aug. 21, 2017, the skies darkened as the moon crossed in front of the sun. It blocked out all sunlight—except for that from a golden ring visible around the moon's shape, called the corona. Not surprisingly, solar power generation across North America plummeted for several hours, from the first moment the moon began to obscure the sun to when the sun's disk was clear again.

Mexico will not accept deportations made by Texas “under any circumstances,” the country’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to arrest migrants who cross into the state without authorization.
The ministry condemned the state law, known as Senate Bill 4, saying it would separate families, violate the human rights of migrants and generate “hostile environments” for the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin living in T…

Mexico Condemns Texas Law, and Says It Will Not Accept Deportations From the State
Mexico’s top diplomat for North America rejected the Supreme Court’s ruling, saying that immigration policy was something to be negotiated between federal governments.

Undersea attacks on cables and pipelines threatens security of billion people, Nato commander warns
The security of nearly 1 billion people across Europe and North America is under threat from Russian attempts to target the extensive vulnerabilities of underwater infrastructure including windfarms, pipelines and power cables, a Nato commander has warned.
V Adm Didier Maleterre, the deputy commander of Nato’s Allied Maritime Command (Marcom), said the network of underwater cables…

Good Morning #Canada
In March of 1906, Canada's oldest outdoor club was established in Winnipeg. The Alpine Club of Canada has grown to 10,000 members and maintains the largest network of back country huts and shelters in North America. The original founders, A.O. Wheeler and Elizabeth Parker, allowed women to join and treated them as equals, both as members and climbers.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Hiking #mountaineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Club_of_Canada