Weird experience, watching relatives listen to Epiphany service today. All about reading Isaiah, Paul, and all about the waters of Jordan. So bitter, given the claim that it's all about God 'enlightening' people. In Palestine-Israel!! Religions contain much wisdom but a 'personal God' isn't just unfathomable, it is a crushingly misleading trope.

@ChrisMayLA6 This is just like reading ML King breathing fire against "gradualism" and hypocritical tokenism re. 'Negro Rights' exactly 60 years ago, in the months after the 1963 uprising in the US.

@ChrisMayLA6 @feditips can u slow it down a bit? the posts go by too quick to get a real flavour, let alone understand.

A bitcoin mining company made more money from being paid by the Texas government not to waste electricity ($31.7M) than it did from mining bitcoin ($8.9M) in August.

This is basically another ransomware business model enabled by Bitcoin 🤣

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31point7-million-to-shut-down-in-august.html

@lovelylovely I doubt that evangelicals are faking their admission that they frequently don't follow Jesus (ie sin). For me the problem is how often they honestly deceive themselves that they defend Christian values (esp. when they justify US militarism abroad).

Dear neuroscientists, is there a beginner's guide of replicability of between-group dynamic causal modelling out there? Where do I start? Can anyone e.g. @dr_rick_adams help?

Neuroscientists successfully test theory that forgetting is actually a form of learning https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-neuroscientists-successfully-theory.html

Adaptive expression of engrams by retroactive interference https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01010-0

Highlights
• Retroactive interference causes forgetting by the competition of two memory engrams
• Forgotten engrams can be expressed or updated by reexposure to training cues
• Artificial reactivation of engram cells rescues interference-induced forgetting
• Interference is an active process that requires the activation of the suppressed engram

these findings indicate that retroactive interference modules engram expression in a manner that is both reversible and updatable. Inference may constitute a form of adaptive forgetting where, in everyday life, new perceptual and environmental inputs modulate the natural forgetting process.

#memory #engram #neuroscience #cognition

🌊 ALASKA : FONTE RAPIDE D'UN GLACIER ET CRUE SOUDAINE

En Alaska, dans le grand Nord des USA, l'état d'urgence a été décrété dans la capitale de l’État, Juneau, suite aux inondations qui ont eu lieu le 5 août.

Le réchauffement climatique provoque des fissures dans un énorme glacier qui forme un barrage naturel en amont de la rivière Mendenhall. L'eau de la fonte des neiges qui s'accumule a ainsi été libérée d'un coup, et a entraîné une crue rapide et puissante qui a...

https://contre-attaque.net/2023/08/09/alaska-fonte-rapide-dun-glacier-et-crue-soudaine/

Scènes apocalytiques à #Hawaï qui vient de déclarer l'État d'urgence en raison d'énormes incendies, attisés par l'ouragan Dora.

Des habitants ont dû sauter dans l'océan pour échapper aux flammes. Les pompiers et les gardes-côtes annoncent être dépassés et avoir besoin de renforts. Les hôpitaux sont complètement saturés.

I lose my stuff and it usually turns out to be exactly where I put it. Makes me feel a fool. Anyone know any good online courses to improve my randomly-blame-the-spouse skills? Or at least government-blaming-skills?

@ChrisMayLA6 Back in Greece we are extremely worried. Tourism is a huge part of the economy of Med countries, and if those with money to spend on vacations go to Belgium etc bec of consequences of global warming, we are stuffed. ofc. Advice?

Now the #UnitedNations wants a bigger role on the reform go global #taxation, and in doing so is setting itself up against the #OECD which jealously guards this aspect of its international norm setting function...

That said, in many ways the UN looks like a more sensible place for global tax reform to be formulated, until you think about the difficulties the organisation has in driving forward other changes.

Nevertheless a UN Tax Programme (UNTP) might build on (much) earlier work by UNCTAD!

#British #Quakers (aka Religious Society of Friends) have pledged to stand by the #UK #Trans community.

The faith unites people through a belief in each person’s ability to experience the light within or “answering that of God in everyone”.

“Belonging is being accepted as one’s true self. Who are we to resist what God has created & continues to create in all their glory?"

Article also outlines the history of Quakers supporting #LGBTQ+ in other ways. 🙏 💪

#PinkNews

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/quakers-trans-pledge-britain/

“Cooperation occurs at all levels of life, from genomes, complex cells and multicellular organisms to societies and mutualisms between species. A major question for evolutionary biology is what these diverse systems have in common. Here, we review the full breadth of cooperative systems and find that they frequently rely on enforcement mechanisms that suppress selfish behaviour.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0907-1

OK so now that everyone is on holiday I can come out about our first ever Medical Sociology publication 🤭 https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1030115/full Note the methodological emphasis - giving voice to underprivileged stakeholders is *essential* but only a modest step towards establishing claims.

@ChrisMayLA6 Quite agree... borrowing for the basics must make borrowers fall behind, unable to save, stressed, limit their freedom. But how high-risk a strategy is it for lenders? Won't the govt just use tax money to rescue them if borrowing collapses a la 2008?

@maudenificent @ChrisMayLA6 @Davidjackson @KimSJ I agree. Also in health, and mental health specifically, privatisation leads to exploitative pseudoscience, where the process of quantification of outcomes is tailored to the provision of ineffective but 'innovative' profitable services - rather than admit that said quantification is only good enough to be a secondary aid to decision making.

Familles homoparentales :
Meloni lance une offensive qui se répand dans tout le pays.

Une violence et une hypocrisie sans nom.
La devise de Meloni « Dieu, patrie, famille» est glaçante tant elle rappelle les mots d’ordre des époques les plus sombres de l’histoire et tant elle sous entend ouvertement que la « famille » est une structure qui ne peut exister que dans une seule forme.

@ChrisMayLA6 @RichardJMurphy hey Chris what's rhe difference between creating and extracting value in economics? Intuitively there seems to be outrageous "extracting" in renting, loaning etc but how do you econ scientists define it?

MIGRANTS : NOUVEAU DRAME EN GRÈCE

#greece

Hier, un bateau de pêche au large des eaux territoriales grecques a envoyé un signal de détresse.
Il était parti de Libye et faisait route vers l'Italie.
Selon les informations reçues, il y avait à son bord 750 personnes.
Le bateau a coulé dans la nuit et c'est pour l'heure 79 corps sans vie qui ont été retrouvés.
Il est probable que le bilan s'alourdisse dans les prochaines heures.