appelpeterbaum.bsky.social
@appelpeterbaum.bsky.social
Sound art, critical math ed, postanthropocene civic engagement
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Pete Hegseth (Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense) attends a CREC church. CREC is the denomination founded by Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson whose family publishing company (Canon Press) published The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe. 1/
November 15, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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Periodic reminder: a lot of what makes AI "work" is exploited people doing the tasks, just hidden behind fancy websites.

It's good that a normie outlet like 60 Minutes is reporting on this.
November 23, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Strap me to the mast, Matey?
Bluesky and enshittification
No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
doctorow.medium.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.

www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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As bad as this sounds, I guarantee it’s massively worse.
NASA satellites reveals an abrupt drop In global freshwater levels.

Demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40% by the end of the decade, because the world’s water systems are being put under “unprecedented stress”

There is no coordinated global effort to address this crisis. #opcanary
NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop In Global Freshwater Levels
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low eve...
www.eurasiareview.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:22 PM