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I Misplaced My Phone for Forty-Five Minutes, and Now I’m a Mindfulness Expert

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-misplaced-my-phone-for-forty-five-minutes…
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Fri, 17/03/2023 - 04:00

I used to be like everyone else, hunched over a tiny screen, watching seventeen-year-olds give each other psychiatric diagnoses on TikTok. Then I misplaced my smartphone after the doorbell rang while I was playing Wordle on the toilet. Now I’m a mindfulness expert.

It all started forty-five minutes ago. Normally I would drink my morning coffee while hate-scrolling through Facebook to see which multilevel marketing scheme my high school nemesis is into now. Today, I chose to savor my beverage in the present moment. It was revelatory. The Trader Joe’s oat milk is way grittier than the Whole Foods brand. Also, two scoops of collagen powder is too much collagen powder. You can really taste the hoof.

This is still happening

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/16/this-is-still-happening/
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 03:30
That was this morning, not 2020.. It’s been well documented that Hydroxychloraquine is useless against COVID, Ivermectin as well. There was just another study on the latter a couple of weeks ago. And then there’s this: Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!” Hours later, Lemoi was dead. For the last decade, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows. In 2021, as ivermectin became a popular alternative COVID-19 treatment among anti-vaxxers, he launched what became one of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to promoting the use of it, including instructions on how to administer ivermectin to children.

Title VI Complaint Filed Against George Washington University Over “Hostile Environment of Anti-Palestinian Racism”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/pro-israel-groups-george-washington-university-pa…
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:57

Discrimination against Palestinians at George Washington University is an institutional problem deeply rooted in the administration and powerful entities that support it.

The post Title VI Complaint Filed Against George Washington University Over “Hostile Environment of Anti-Palestinian Racism” appeared first on MintPress News.

Does randomization control for ‘lack of balance’?

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/does-randomization-control-for-lack-…
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:40
Mike Clarke, the Director of the Cochrane Centre in the UK, for example, states on the Centre’s Web site: ‘In a randomized trial, the only difference between the two groups being compared is that of most interest: the intervention under investigation’. This seems clearly to constitute a categorical assertion that by randomizing, all other factors […]

Breaking: new Labour Files episode sees Forde respond to Labour racism

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/03/16/breaking-new-labour-files-episode-sees-forde-r…
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Fri, 17/03/2023 - 01:44
The Al Jazeera ‘Labour Files’ documentary series exposed afresh the rampant racism and war on democracy of the Labour right, both to sabotage the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and to purge the left from the party under Keir Starmer. Now a new episode sees Martin Forde – the barrister Starmer reluctantly commissioned to investigate the […]

“American-style deprivation”

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/16/american-style-deprivation/
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 01:30
A nation of Scrooges Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted” recalls that when abroad he’s heard heard the phrase “American-style deprivation” on several occasions. “Anyone who has visited [peer] countries can plainly see the difference, can experience what it might be like to live in a country without widespread public decay.” “The United States has a poverty problem,” Desmond explains. It is a tragedy and a national shame (New York Times): A third of the country’s people live in households making less than $55,000. Many are not officially counted among the poor, but there is plenty of economic hardship above the poverty line. And plenty far below it as well. According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for government aid and living expenses, more than one in 25 people in America 65 or older lived in deep poverty in 2021, meaning that they’d have to at minimum double their incomes just to reach the poverty line.

Bulldozing the Planet

https://steadystate.org/bulldozing-the-planet-materials-use-for-construction/
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 01:12
by Gregory M. Mikkelson

Just as it does for a certain “old man on a green bike,” my commitment to car-free travel often drives me to greater levels of exercise, and more vivid experiences of nature, than one would get behind the wheel of a car. Unfortunately, economic growth has progressively degraded one such experience. Trips to my partner’s lake cottage begin with a commuter train in Montréal and end with an hour-long walk on a dirt road through the countryside.

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The Drupal Association Supports ICFOSS/Zyxware Back-to-work Programme

https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/the-drupal-association-supports-icfossz…
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Fri, 17/03/2023 - 01:00

The Drupal Association is honored to be included in this month’s cycle of the Back-to-work Programme, an initiative by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software in collaboration with Zyxware Technologies. Zyxware Technologies is one of our amazing Drupal Certified Partners, and we are excited to contribute to the success of this program for many cycles to come.

The Back-to-work Programme provides Drupal training to women professionals who have been on a career break due to various reasons. This program not only aims to induct them into the talent pool of Drupal developers but also provides an opportunity to reintroduce them to the Free Software community.

Israel Protests Should Not Be Confused With the Palestinian Struggle for Equality

https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-protests-confused-palestinian-struggle/284…
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 00:34

Ramzy Baroud sheds light on the ongoing protests in Israel and their limited impact on the country's inherently racist institutions and ongoing military occupation and apartheid in Palestine.

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JPM: $2T could be “injected!”

http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2023/03/jpm-2t-could-be-injected.html
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 00:34

 

Nice figure of speech “injected!”… wow…

They are referring to the $2T of reserve balances currently in the RRP… why are they in that Fed account and not in Depository accounts where they could be utilized to settle unanticipated withdrawals without requiring sales of other HQLA at current reduced prices due to the dumb monetarists rate increases?

Why did the dumb Art degree people at the Fed reduce the RRR from 10% to 0% in the first place?

What is bad about requiring Depositories to maintain a ready USD balance of direct CB liabilities of  a small 10% of their deposit liabilities in case of unanticipated withdrawals?

If the deposits flow to another depository (ie withdrawals) from available reserve balances that transaction actually INCREASES the Depository’s SLR with ZERO effect on Capital…

Hard to understand how the Art degree brain works… 🤔



Don’t Try to Find a Home in Washington, D.C.

https://tomdispatch.com/dont-try-to-find-a-home-in-washington-d-c/
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 00:29

In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and no hotel would give them shelter, nor would any Black landlord let them in, because they were accompanied by Lomax, who was white. A white friend of Lomax’s finally agreed to put them up, although his landlord screamed abuse at him and threatened to call the police. In response to this encounter with D.C.’s Jim Crow laws, Lead Belly wrote a song, “The Bourgeois Blues,” recounting... Read more

“If Republicans are serious…” Are you kidding?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/16/if-republicans-are-serious-are-you-kidding/
Created
Fri, 17/03/2023 - 00:00
More self-serving outrage from the GOP Without getting overly wonky here, I’ve studied the Electronic Registration Information Centers (ERIC) efforts at voter roll maintenance for several years. Multiple red states in recent weeks have exited the ERIC network. The consortium of over two dozen states (it was over 30) share voter registration data in a coordinated effort to eliminate multi-state registrants, to identify registrants who have moved within and between states, to identify those who have died, and to identify people who vote in more than one state in an election. There seem to be quite a few of the last group in Florida, one of several red states that exited ERIC last week. Readers who remember Kansas’ Kris Kobach’s defunct Interstate Crosscheck system and its history of bad data matching, take note. Originally a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, ERIC is what Interstate Crosscheck purported to be and was not. Kobach’s real project was not election integrity but promoting the notion that voter fraud was widespread and photo IDs necessary to combating the phantom menace. Republicans loved it.