Nectar update
We are delighted to tell you all that Nectar left Bradford Cat Watch Rescue & Sanctuary yesterday afternoon and has had a settled first night in her new home.
She enjoyed her chicken this morning amd said she loves her new home .
#catsofmastodon

Rosa Update!
Imagine almost 7 months ago this little lady came into our lives at Bradford Cat Watch Rescue & Sanctuary.

193 days of uncertainty and little chance of survival.

Vets said "those wounds will never heal", people said "she cant possibly see" volunteers questioned her future quality of life.. yet we never ever gave up on her.

#catsofmastodon

New episode! "Inclusive Transportation with Veronica O. Davis." We speak with Houston's Director of Transportation and Drainage Operations about her new book, how to repair communities divided by highways and dangerous streets, ways to rethink public engagement, and more.

Listen now:

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/08/22/109-inclusive-transportation-with-veronica-o-davis/

#TheWarOnCars #transportation

Trump finally has a mugshot & has been made to post bail — standard practice for criminal defendants that he's been spared up till now.

His defenders who complain about a "two-tiered" justice system are half right. There's one for the rich & powerful and one for everyone else.

@nwsdetroit_bot #Detroit #Michigan ⚠️

Wild weather in #Detroit right now, pretty much out of nowhere.

Tornado Warning in #Canton, so I am told.

Stay safe out there!

#Michigan

Learn4Life of San Antonio suspended teacher Michael Gonzales after he tweeted a picture of himself in his classroom beside a #pride flag.

Our Editor-in-Chief @gabrielarana reflects on the sorry state of #LGBTQIA+ rights in #Texas:
https://www.texasobserver.org/a-queer-teacher-in-edgewood-picked-a-fight-he-couldnt-win/

#homophobia #transphobia #FreeSpeech #news #politics #USpol #HumanRights #SanAntonio #schools #education

The efforts of sex work advocates are better invested, says Stabile, in campaigning for new laws that would make it illegal for banks to discriminate against sex workers on the basis of their profession, than in developing an alternative financial system.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #SexWork

https://www.wired.com/story/sex-workers-crypto-failing-them/

The elephant in the room of AI wonders: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/ugly-numbers-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt

really delighted to have reached 1,000 paid subscribers on https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/!

especially now as i am approaching the end of my year-long fellowship and needing to decide what’s next, your support is so critical in allowing me to continue doing this work

#newsletter

Today is @motoringpodcast recording day. LOTS to talk about again. Also, some Follow Up from an actual organisation we discussed last week. My word, another week of us being consumer journalist types!

Yes, absolutely the ex staff members who did this should be prosecuted. BUT it tells us so much about their "security culture".

Questions like 'why could they access so much information?' leap to mind.

Let's not forget the same CEO wants to get people to send selfies and Gov ID documents to be "verified" on his social media site. Yeah, that's a hard no.

https://qz.com/tesla-data-breach-insider-job-former-employees-lawsuit-1850756905

Things are heating up as the FTX trial looms, various crypto companies try to outmaneuver the SEC in court, and mainstream media crypto boosterism enjoys an unexpected revival.

All that and more in Issue 37 of my newsletter: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-37-things-sam-is-freaking-out

And another message. There was absolutely no need for this and we got the companies wanting to create an AGI god, putting these students in this awful situation. These "AI detection" tools need to be banned.

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.

763,044 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and want Trump to be president.

I published over the weekend and worked on another post today.

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NHC/NOAA 2:00pm PDT update: "CORE OF HILARY NEARING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPEP4+shtml/202035.shtml

@BlackAzizAnansi Not to mention years and years of posts about things like Arab Spring have been mass deleted in recent days. We’re losing *history* because Elon doesn’t want to pay for storage.

Last Wednesday evening @nova had a climbing accident and died.

All of us that loved her are heart broken and stunned. She was an amazing person that lived out loud and built connection and community wherever she went. She will be horribly missed.