You Do NOT Roll Over For Fascists
So, on Saturday, Jen Gerson published a column in the Globe and Mail titled “The Backlash Against Drag Artists Is Unfair, But It’s No Mystery Why It’s Happening”. I read…
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Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Those of you how have followed the blog for years know that Kevin Goudreau, a neo-Nazi active now for more than 30 years, has been covered on these pages mostly…
Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Those of you how have followed the blog for years know that Kevin Goudreau, a neo-Nazi active now for more than 30 years, has been covered on these pages mostly…
Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
Those of you how have followed the blog for years know that Kevin Goudreau, a neo-Nazi active now for more than 30 years, has been covered on these pages mostly…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Alejandro de la Garza writes about the devastation continuing to be wrought by COVID-19 in Lamb County, Texas even as the powers that…
Musical interlude
Bob Moses – Hanging On
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Al Shaw, Irena Hwang and Caroline Chen discuss how forest loss and changing interactions between people and wildlife could be the trigger for…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rosemary Boyton and Daniel Altman discuss how any immunity from prior COVID-19 infection is waning as time passes and ever-changing variants circulate…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kevin Jiang reports on the reality that COVID-19 has resulted in a crash in life expectancy (which has already been stagnant due to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Hibernating cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aria Bendix examines the state of current knowledge as to how likely people are to suffer from long COVID after being infected…
Ethics In Artificial Intelligence
The emergence of “large language model” chatbots like ChatGPT and others raises major philosophical and ethical questions that we need to start talking about now. Back in 1950, Alan Turing…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Final Girl
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Camille Bains reports on Dr. Mona Nemer’s warning that long COVID represents a mass disabling event with potentially devastating social and economic consequences.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Luke Savage points out that even biased right-wing polling is finding broad support for stronger social programs and limitations on corporate domination…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Keen cats.
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dyani Lewis writes that we know enough to ensure clean indoor air if we care enough to work on limiting the spread of…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joshua Cohen writes that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the first sustained streak of declining global life expectancy in over 60…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tarun Sai Lomte discusses new research on the connection between structural brain changes and fatigue associated with long COVID. And Eric Topol examines…
Musical interlude
Cannons – Love on the Ground