Notices by Calishat (researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host), page 4

What kind of Paul Blart stuff is this

'A popular shopping mall in Torrance that made news when it was forced to briefly shut down during the winter because of unruly teenagers is back in the headlines again after one of its security guards did “doughnuts” in the parking lot while blasting Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us.”'

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-12/la-security-guard-not-like-us-fired

#Africa #NorthAfrica #Asia #art #photography #colonialism

"‘Decolonial’ has become a buzzword. But what does it look like to decolonise a practice? The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL) shows us how it’s done. Founded in 2019 by archivist and artist editor Êvar Hussayni, this collection has been meticulously curated to challenge conventional archival methods and embrace a more inclusive, experimental approach."

https://www.1854.photography/2024/08/decolonising-photo-archives-wanawal-evar-hussayni/

Find Out What’s Moving and Shaking With Wikipedia Hot Topics

Wikipedia Hot Topics analyzes the top 1000 Wikipedia pages for a given date, finds the ones which had a significant view bump against a 7-day median (more than 100%), then divides them into categories ... Each Wikipedia article on the list gets a detail…

https://www.calishat.com/2024/08/05/find-out-whats-moving-and-shaking-with-wikipedia-hot-topics/

#Wikipedia #Wikidata #CurrentEvents #OSINT

#trees #noise #NoisePollution #NatureBasedSolutions

'Trees do not only improve air quality by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They can also significantly reduce noise levels by absorbing and refracting sound waves. Scientists from Brno are currently investigating how trees could be used as sound barriers against traffic noise.'

https://english.radio.cz/czech-scientists-study-trees-ability-absorb-traffic-noise-8824354

#politics #obstetrics #women #WomenOfColor #babies #PublicHealth

'In the two years after Trump was elected, there was a significant increase in the number of non-white women in the U.S. who gave birth to children who were premature or underweight, researchers report in a study published today in the journal Demography. The increase in underweight and premature births was especially pronounced for children born to Black mothers, the study found.'

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/07/25/after-trumps-election-women-of-color-had-more-underweight-premature-babies-study-finds/

#covid #immigrants #migrants #PublicHealth

'Migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people have an 84% higher COVID-19 infection rate and a 46% higher COVID death rate than the general population, a new systematic review and meta-analysis in EClinicalMedicine reveals.'

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-19-hits-migrants-refugees-especially-hard-review-shows

#politics #RonnyJackson #CampaignFinance #transparency

'Former US Navy doctor turned Texas congressman Ronny Jacksoon may have broken campaign finance laws by using donor funds to cover thousands of dollars worth of bills at a swanky Texas club, according to the nonpartisan House Office of Congressional Ethics.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ronny-jackson-house-ethics-committee-b2568097.html

Hey @stefan you see this?

https://fedidevs.com/

Listening to "Roxanne" and wondering if Sting maybe should have just minded his own fucking business

@Gargron @ricmac Yes, and that's fine for those who care to use it. I don't. I think the hashtag search is more than enough.

@stefan @anildash Oh shit! I could put my stuff on there!

#Russia #disinformation #news #InformationWarfare #media #politics #PinkSlimeJournalism

"More than 150 fake local news websites pushing Russian propaganda to U.S. audiences are connected to John Mark Dougan, an American former law enforcement officer living in Moscow, according to a research report published Wednesday by NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fake-news-sites-florida-deputy-sheriff-russia-rcna154315

#milk #RawMilk #BirdFlu #H5N1 #pasteurization

'Consuming raw cow’s milk that contains H5N1 avian influenza virus poses an infection risk, but a laboratory process that simulates high-temperature pasteurization reduces the virus in infected milk by more than 99.99%. That’s according to a team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists, who reported their findings May 24 in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine.'

https://news.wisc.edu/raw-milk-containing-h5n1-can-infect-mice-while-lab-based-heat-treatments-greatly-reduce-the-virus/

#slavery #EnslavedPeople #history #BlackHistory #GiftArticle

'The rediscovery of a long-forgotten slave narrative would be notable enough. But this one, scholars who have seen it say, is unique for its global perspective and its uncensored fury, from a man living far outside the trans-Atlantic network of white abolitionists who often limited what the formerly enslaved could write about their experiences.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/arts/john-jacobs-slavery-discovery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE0.lwhX.smjYjUak5eBI&smid=url-share

@Adam_Cadmon1 I find it interesting that after ALL this money and ALL this hype and ALL this futuristic yadaya the reaction to Google I/O has seemed to be ... tepid?

https://gizmodo.com/google-io-boring-gemini-ai-1851485806

"Google Search Enshittification" has reached Know Your Meme status. Congratulations @pluralistic

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/google-search-enshittification

#Russia #Ukraine #disinformation #InformationWarfare #Europe #news #media

'The European Union on Friday banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread of propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and disinformation as the EU heads into parliamentary elections in three weeks.'

https://apnews.com/article/eu-russia-sanctions-media-ukraine-war-39f2ba861a5e1441aa24ec4c11f1d822

Wait, there's a #StackExchange data dump on #InternetArchive ?

The stackoverflow.com-Posts.7z file is 21.4GB 😬

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

@StillIRise1963 And unfortunately depending on where you live that only does so much, damn it.

Why is it so difficult for some people to wrap their heads around the idea of systemic racism? How can the fact that houses in Black neighborhoods are consistently undervalued be anything BUT systemic racism?

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/race-determines-home-values-more-today-it-did-1980

@tchambers When Twitter was sputtering yesterday during the DJT Trial, I was thinking to myself "Imagine all these reporters were updating RSS feeds instead and we could all use the readers of our choice."

We don't need Twitter and we need to say that louder and louder