Notices by Steven Saus [he/him] (stevensaus@faithcollapsing.com)

I keep getting frustrated by people (neurotypicals) thinking that the pattern-matching and analysis and ethics and "oh, it's broken, I'll fix it" bits -- which they initially find super useful and interesting -- are somehow able to be "turned off" when it's inconvenient for them.

(Personally and professionally, FWIW.)

@actuallyaudhd

(22 Mar) Scientists break down cheap plastic using the air — and turn it into something far more valuable

Scientists developed a new method for breaking down one of the most common plastics to a byproduct that can be upcycled into more valuable materials.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/r6oxh
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/xcB74 ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/f1h5g

#chemistry

From 26 Feb: Petition to strip Musk of Canadian citizenship gathers 280,000 signatures - Parliamentary petition accuses Musk of acting against the national interest of Canada and threatenin... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/26/petition-to-strip-musk-of-canadian-citizenship-gathers-280000-signatures?traffic_source=rss

From 19 Feb: Elon’s DOGE Claimed It Saved Billion. The Real Figure Was Million. - Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ... https://gizmodo.com/elons-doge-claimed-it-saved-8-billion-the-real-figure-was-8-million-2000565628 #elon-musk #news-analysis

@aral

(Also, love the work you're continuing to do. I've been impressed since I saw you at Penguicon years ago. Bravo, sir.)

@raindrops_and_roses @rbreich

So apparently that cartoon got taken off of X for "violating community standards"...

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3licoe5lpek2k

From 14 Feb: Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate - Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily... https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-data-analyses-missing-mmwr-bird-flu-seasonal-influenza/ #cdc #health-industry #hospitals #public-health #trump-administration #vaccines

From 06 Feb: Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List' - The old X account for the conservative non-profit known as the American Accountability Foundation... https://www.dailydot.com/debug/dei-watch-list-dossiers-civil-servants-social-media-hacked/

In case you needed yet another reason: Google search is politically compromised.

https://imgur.com/gallery/search-matters-qcrU8jm

#uspol #search

So the bigoted and virulently anti-immigrant sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, decided to post a sign outside of the jail.

I fixed it for him.

https://imgur.com/gallery/truth-advertising-butler-county-sheriff-edition-dimA6tf

From 19 Jan: ‘XHS is being “raided” by Americans’: People are already being racist on TikTok’s replacement, a Chinese app - With TikTok officially banned in the United States on Sunday, January 19, Americans have migrated to... https://www.themarysue.com/it-took-americans-one-day-people-are-already-being-racist-on-tiktoks-replacement-a-chinese-app/ #big-on-the-internet #rednote #tiktok #xiaohongshu

From 17 Jan: Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search - Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming languag... https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/

H.Res 7, introduced by 2 GOP reps on 3 Jan 2025: "Whereas health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities as they relate to women’s health care..."

Why does health care for women need to address the needs of men?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/7/text

Biden's eulogy for Jimmy Carter is both a wonderful celebration of the man's life, and simultaneously illustrating the stark contrast between Carter's ideals and those of the incoming administration.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/text-president-joe-bidens-eulogy-state-funeral-jimmy-117524761

From 02 Jan: Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees - Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes in... https://www.wired.com/story/editors-at-science-journal-resign-en-masse-over-bad-use-of-ai-high-fees/

From 25 Dec: Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues - USD99.23EUR103.30OIL73.26DONATEРусскийNews20 December 2024... https://theins.ru/en/news/277378

From 30 Nov: Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds - Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit im... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/30/instagram-actively-helping-to-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests

From 28 Nov: 1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species - In a fossil first, researchers have announced the discovery of 1.5 million-year-old footprints ... https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-5-million-year-old-footprints-reveal-our-homo-erectus-ancestors-lived-with-a-2nd-proto-human-species #archaeology

There is a HUGE chicken recall. The majority of the products are things *including, but not limited to* "ready to eat" salad kits with chicken, frozen casseroles, skillet kits, and more. The PDF with labels of recalled items includes brands from Kroger, Trader Joe's, Giant Eagle, Amazon, and more. The PDF is 162 PAGES worth of stuff.

Alert: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/brucepac-recalls-ready-eat-meat-and-poultry-products-due-possible-listeria

Direct to PDF of recalled labels: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/food_label_pdf/2024-10/Recall-028-2024-Labels.pdf

#food #recall

For the 30th anniversary of Dookie, Green Day has put together very limited editions of each song on various obsolete media, and videos of each one playing in their entirety. "The listening experience is unparalleled, sacrificing not only sonic quality, but also convenience, and occasionally entire verses."

https://www.dookiedemastered.com/