alyaza [they/she]
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alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMto AskBeehaw@beehaw.org•Why do people consider Al Jazeera as a trusted source?9·3 days agobecause western media–at least on the issue of Palestine–is almost entirely biased toward Israel, Israel’s right to exist without change to its apartheid and oppression of Palestinians, and the legitimacy of Zionism as an ideology; Al Jazeera obviously is not, and is far more willing to cover what Israel is doing without attempting to justify it, explain it away, or downplay it
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto U.S. News@beehaw.org•Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science3·7 days agothe “chart” is just the thumbnail for the submission, so yeah; you have to actually click through, since that’s the point of a link aggregator
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Space@beehaw.org•The Vera C. Rubin Observatory observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start3·9 days agofor more on this, see the New York Times article on the observatory: How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
Each image taken by Rubin’s camera consists of 3.2 billion pixels that may contain previously undiscovered asteroids, dwarf planets, supernovas and galaxies. And each pixel records one of 65,536 shades of gray. That’s 6.4 billion bytes of information in just one picture. Ten of those images would contain roughly as much data as all of the words that The New York Times has published in print during its 173-year history. Rubin will capture about 1,000 images each night.
As the data from each image is quickly shuffled to the observatory’s computer servers, the telescope will pivot to the next patch of sky, taking a picture every 40 seconds or so.
It will do that over and over again almost nightly for a decade.
The final tally will total about 60 million billion bytes of image data. That is a “6” followed by 16 zeros: 60,000,000,000,000,000.
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto U.S. News@beehaw.org•Breaking: SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice141·9 days agothe Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution and you should be screaming at the Democratic Party to annihilate it if they ever come back into power, because otherwise it will be yet another reason this country croaks
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto World News@beehaw.org•A majority of people around the world support a carbon tax — even if they're paying it7·12 days agothe study: Majority support for global redistributive and climate policies
We study a key factor for implementing global policies: the support of citizens. The first piece of evidence is a global survey on 40,680 respondents from 20 high- and middle-income countries. It reveals substantial support for global climate policies and, in addition, for a global tax on the wealthiest aimed at financing low-income countries’ development. Surprisingly, even in wealthy nations that would bear the burden of such globally redistributive policies, majorities of citizens express support for them. To better understand public support for global policies in high-income countries, the main analysis of this Article is conducted with surveys among 8,000 respondents from France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA. The focus of the Western surveys is to study how respondents react to the key trade-off between the benefits and costs of globally redistributive climate policies. In our survey, respondents are made aware of the cost that the GCS [a global carbon price funding equal cash transfers] entails for their country’s people, that is, average Westerners would incur a net loss from the policy. Our main result is that the GCS is supported by three quarters of Europeans and more than half of Americans.
Overall, our results point to strong and genuine support for global climate and redistributive policies, as our experiments confirm the stated support found in direct questions. They contribute to a body of literature on attitudes towards climate policy, which confirms that climate policy is preferred at a global level17,18,19,20, where it is more effective and fair. While 3,354 economists supported a national carbon tax financing equal cash transfers in the Wall Street Journal21, numerous surveys have shown that public support for such policy is mixed22,23,24,25,26,27. Meanwhile, the GCS— the global version of this policy—is largely supported, despite higher costs in high-income countries. In the Discussion, we offer potential explanations that could reconcile the strong support for global policies with their lack of prominence in the public debate.
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto U.S. News@beehaw.org•"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump5·17 days agothe crowsourced sheet, which is still taking submissions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158rlsPk0jxXwh3GIKl2YP1W84dPLC_2RXZnMjaG5bVw/edit?usp=sharing
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Music@beehaw.org•Grammys Introduce New Country Album Category, Best New Artist Rules for 20262·20 days agothis is going over hilariously on social media, despite the insistence by the Grammy’s that it has nothing to do with Beyonce’s win last year:
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told Billboard that the proposal for the two new categories was submitted previously several times before it passed this year. The new categories “[make] country parallel with what’s happening in other genres,” he explained, pointing to the other genres which separate traditional and contemporary. “But it is also creating space for where this genre is going.”
Traditional country now focuses on “the more traditional sound structures of the country genre, including rhythm and singing style, lyrical content, as well as traditional country instrumentation such as acoustic guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, piano, electric guitar, and live drums,” the 68th Grammys rulebook explains.
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Betterment and Praxis@beehaw.org•Streetwise & Steady: A Workbook for Action Peacekeepers or Event Marshals1·20 days agosee also the associated Waging Nonviolence article Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMto World News@beehaw.org•Scientists prove that fish suffer "intense pain" for at least 10 minutes after catch, calls made for reforms111·21 days agoi think this topic has about run its course in terms of productiveness, and has mostly devolved into people complaining about being held to (objectively correct) vegan ethics. locking
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMto U.S. News@beehaw.org•General Strike plannend for May 1, 20286·21 days agofor context: Shawn Fain has been pushing for this since at least the beginning of 2024. so by the time the date happens, he will have been organizing this for over four years–that is the kind of lead time you need for this to not just be toothless posturing (and there’s a decent chance it still won’t be nearly as sweeping as you might expect of a general strike due to low US union density).
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMto U.S. News@beehaw.org•General Strike plannend for May 1, 20287·21 days agoyou can’t just organize a general strike on the fly, and this is an actual one with actual backing from unions that’s been organized since well before our current issues. and currently it’s a struggle to even get many unions to align their contracts in a way that would be conducive to the date (since that’s not a thing you can just do, you have to negotiate that), so it’s not even a guarantee that the over three years of lead time given is sufficient.
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto U.S. News@beehaw.org•‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US9·22 days ago‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ is just… something else. what are these buzzwords
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions21·25 days agosomeone on Bluesky analogized what is happening to how QAnon transpired for most people, which is that the crazification it was causing simmered under the surface until January 6, when it all publicly exploded and the influence it had over a non-trivial block of the population became undeniable. hard to disagree with that!
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Science@beehaw.org•Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’15·28 days agothe paper in question: Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency by Paula M. Cevaal et al.
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Gaming@beehaw.org•Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site1·1 month agodeleted by creator
alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military27·1 month agojust a nightmarish headline. get these two the fuck out of here
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Duncan is an interesting guy these days. he is one of a number of Republicans who was basically run out of the party for refusing to be fascist and autocratic enough, and he was formally expelled from the party last year after endorsing Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris. i doubt he has sufficient distance or credibility to make it through a Democratic primary, but you never know. the Republican-to-Never Trumper-to-Democrat pipeline has been a pretty successful move for other people