Notices by Rich Stein (he/him) (runrichrun@mastodon.social)

Version of H5N1 bird flu virus that killed a person in Louisiana & severely sickened a teenager in Canada has now detected in Nevada dairy herds —

Kicker: “'No caring public health personnel can currently in good conscience recommend that sick, undocumented farm animal caretakers or flock depopulation employees get tested, knowing that ICE could show up at testing sites to demand citizenship verification.'”
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-02-05/deadly-version-of-h5n1-bird-flu-spills-over-into-nevada-cattle
#AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #PublicHealth #H5N1 #UnitedStates #ICE

Disappointing. I held a modicum of hope re. Bessent:

"...
Reports suggest incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has granted access to members of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) - which is not a government department, but a team within the administration - to sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.

The division handles payments of nearly $6 trillion for programmes like Social Security, ... salaries..."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77rkg5dm3vo
#USpol #Bessent #DOGE #musk

@ZhiZhu
I prefer the Stat headline:
"‘This is censorship’: Trump freeze on communications forces medical journal to pull HHS authors’ article"
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/01/26/trump-freeze-hhs-research-integrity-paper-pulled-from-journal/

Very cool thread — "Post the amazing things you have done with federal funding"
https://bsky.app/profile/alexwild.bsky.social/post/3lgtdgz4w3s2c
[Was part of a project to rank & classify nuclear threats around the world. Still in use last time I checked.

More speculative, but also helped identify & quantify impact of cancer around the world, esp. in developing countries; as a result, the WHO — that one — shifted some attention to & began raising more funds for chronic disease management over NCDs.]
h/t @alexwild
#FederalSpending

World's gonna get wild at 12:01pm on January 20. 😕
https://journa.host/@w7voa/113788230849239513
#geopolitics #US #UnitedStates #USpol #Canada

@Gargron
Happy holidays!! All best wishes! 😊

@skinnylatte
Do you get deliveries from Weee? They have a large catalog of items (and they're not Amazon, thankfully).

Actions have consequences — eventually:

"The United States Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a budget for the 2025 fiscal year, or else face the shuttering of nonessential government functions."

"trump and his allies have pressured Republicans in the United States to ditch a short-term spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/19/facing-government-shutdown-trump-and-republican-allies-scuttle-budget-bill
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #Republicans #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE

Shocked (not) — Musk helped kill that congressional spending bill, but much of what he spread was misinformation
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-misinformation-government-shutdown-bill-budget-trump-musk-1235b15b425856bf902d0c8133eec222
#USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #USelections #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE #musk #misinformation

Somewhat speculative but a good overview of what the impact of a US Government shutdown might be, as well as some history of shutdowns. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/why-is-the-government-shutting-down/ v @Poynter
#USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #USelections #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE

House rejects counter-budget plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-trump-musk-johnson-e4b5c93d12838d180740a35daecc118d
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #Republicans #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE

@glynmoody
Musk is worse than a rogue state:
- There is no supranationalist coalition attempting to rein him in.
- Musk is a fool's fool and a sycophant, with an intel 🙃 staff of one (himself). He is a gullible lackey of those with the worst intentions.
https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/113685139404670139
#musk

Thank goodness!
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241213/p2a/00m/0li/035000c
#Tokyo #Japan #PipoKun (🤔... not sure about this hashtag...)

Everything happens in London —
"... only the second time an elite five-day tournament will be held outside Japan."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241205/p2g/00m/0sp/030000c

BTW, here is full coverage of sumo wrestling in @mainichi: https://mainichi.jp/english/sports/sumo/
#Sumo #Japan #London #rishiki #sports

Pretty morning. Cold, too. Have a good day.

#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #morning #December #AlmostWinter

@glynmoody
Agree. The world is full of resilience in ways that are unexpected, however. I wish we weren't at the point where "rewilding" or "de-extinction" were not regarded as panaceas, however, but this story about raising awareness through tech of a dying language and culture that is only commemorated where it has been extinguished made me smile (there's no business case for it yet they went ahead with it; how rare is that these days):
https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/11/student-creates-ai-translator-to-share-lenape-culture

@glynmoody
Ah... but only if published in French —
https://aus.social/@drrimmer/113536326387952648
h/t @drrimmer

@glynmoody
Wonderful (IMO) article obliquely related from 2021. Hope you enjoy it —
https://lithub.com/on-preserving-the-lenape-language-and-trying-to-get-face-time-with-an-nyc-mayor/

@glynmoody
Useful for a certain narcissistic, orange psychopath who would rather golf and watch TV than do anything serious — and who is devoid of intellect other than an ability to scheme about retribution against perceived enemies — anyone who is not sufficiently sycophantic.

Should be more than five minutes of training material available online. Can we get one of these made as a public service?

@ai6yr @Lazarou
It's all so embarrassing. The USG is about to be run by a bunch of narcissistic, petty jealous clowns with extreme visions of revenge/retribution, and their henchmen are a bunch of morons with guns.

What could go wrong...