Rachel Roddy’s recipe for new potatoes, eggs, asparagus and green sauce
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for new potatoes, eggs, asparagus and green sauce
This sounds so good that I might have to learn what parsley looks like!
An Excellent Book
Genetic variations help explain the link between cognitive ability and liberalism
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If you are smart, you will vote this year
Courts Rule For Climate Policys
The Day of Happiness
the International Day of Happiness, established by the United Nations, is celebrated on March 20.
The top 9 in the latest report are:
Finland
Denmark
Iceland
Sweden
Israel
Netherlands
Norway
Luxembourg
Australia
The USA is # 23
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AI can read anything you can read
Omg, Big Brother is actively using AI. Beware of what you say in all your social media contexts. It can and will be used against you. Again, it’s not the tool that is the problem, instead it is the carpenter.
“We know that these technologies are really commonly used by companies to do tasks like screening job applicants,” said Valentin Hoffman, a researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of the recent paper, published this week in arXiv, an open-access research archive from Cornell University.
In person get-togethers might return to popularity once Gen Z learns that AI has become an uninvited guest at all their internet gab festivals. Remember, AI can read Instagram and TicToc and all those other apps.
The HR departments have hired AI technicians.
The Truth of the Matter
Solar Eclipse
Yellow Dot Studios
A Tail of Fire and Ice
https://youtu.be/EFBBy8sGIx4
You Expect Me To Believe That?
Car Commercial 419
https://youtu.be/G3ZA76dttys
Market Testing
https://youtu.be/kn6NAGorSHE
Chevron Ad
https://youtu.be/S2XTGteritE
IRA Kitchen
“Cut your emissions in half every decade.”
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“Plant enough trees every year so that at least 2 live beyond a full year.”
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Voting Is So Important
The following was written by Heather Cox Richardson in her Newsletter of March 4th 2024 which hi lights a major issue in our Federal Constitution. We need to find a way to fix the Constitution without breaking Democracy. Will it happen in my life time? Pessimistically, no. In the meantime, voting is so important — we must find and elect unbiased leaders.
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There is, perhaps, a larger story behind the (Supreme Courts) majority’s musings on future congressional actions. Its decision to go beyond what was required to decide a specific question and suggest the boundaries of future legislation pushed it from judicial review into the realm of lawmaking.
For years now, Republicans, especially Republican senators who have turned the previously rarely-used filibuster into a common tool, have stopped Congress from making laws and have instead thrown decision-making to the courts.
Two days ago, in Slate, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that when Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was Senate majority leader, he “realized you don’t need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don’t need to change hearts and minds. You don’t need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists…[a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called ‘law.’”
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Most Popular Languages as of 2023
Lenovo’s transparent laptop screen is impressive – Wow
3D family trees, Adobe AI images, architectural drawings, imagine….
I voted
“This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Monterey County Election. Your ballot for the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting!”
Thank you, California, for having Vote By Mail services.
Curiosity
64K women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states with abortion bans, study estimates
“Ninety-one percent of the estimated rape-related pregnancies took place in states without exceptions for rape, according to the researchers.”. It seems like the men who are “pro-life” need rape to have children.
Eric Schmidt on recursive self-improvement — from LessWrong
AGI => we don’t need to worry until AI systems can recursively improve themselves. Then we gotta call the terminator!
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cLC2HcQbFZ5pFAgqC/eric-schmidt-on-recursive-self-improvement
Eurasian Genetic Migration and Allele Mutations
These articles were first discussed on Anthropology. net by Kambiz Kamrani where the articles in Nature were discussed and referenced. I wish Nova would make a movie showing graphically the migrations and associated SNP mutation growth. I also wish we could figure out how to eliminate the negative health issues caused by these various alleles.
https://www.anthropology.net/p/unraveling-european-genomic-mysteries
Nature
Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06865-0
Nature
100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06862-3
Nature
The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06705-1
Nature
Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06618-z
– Bi-sexuality
https://www.anthropology.net/p/unlocking-the-genetic-secrets-of
– Neanderthal @ 408,000 ya
https://www.anthropology.net/p/unveiling-our-neanderthal-connection
Eco Fascism is a Real Problem
This is a zine so it’s got some comics in the beginning but later on it gets into more informative myth busting that we think you’ll find really interesting.
The Pdf is attached here.
Against-the-Ecofascist-Creep.pdf
Be sure to check out the resources shared at the end about 40 ways to fight fascism.
The five truths Trump hopes you will forget about 6 January 2021
Don’t come running next year when it is too late.