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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · Jul 13

Zephyr Teachout:

[Crypto] uses about 2.3 percent of all U.S. electricity…more than the total electricity used for all residential lighting in America. One Bitcoin transaction…generate[s] greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to driving a mid-sized car 1,000 mi.

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Jul 13

Living in Nola I can tell you it's like walking through a steam room outside. I don't mind it until the office is like 55 degrees.

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · May 8

Many of these countries are cutting staff or have far fewer staff to begin with. Anyone have any sense of the places and areas?

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Apr 22

This is why treating schools like job centers where employers can externalize the cost of training will always be a disservice to the public and the economy's long-term health.

Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · Apr 22

its a cycle that happens a lot. Industry gets hot. everyone is told to go into it. by the time most of them graduate its been "hot"long enough for the labor pool to severely outstrip openings

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hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · Apr 2

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Mar 24

Any update on this? How can we help get it out of the shredder? My congresspeople are all maga so writing may just inspire them to support it

Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Mar 6

By the way, very fun to geek out on this. But is there a sense Blue Sky could avoid fall out given the fact we are personally moderating? Or is the idea that everyone would be the target?

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Mar 6

This part doesn't make sense to me. The first amendment doesn't protect against liability for libel, slander, hate speech. 230 gave a free pass on all of that no?

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Mar 6

Ah, I didn't know that. You've just changed my next lecture on internet policy. Thank you

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Mar 4

Activists railed against 230 because it allowed things like misinformation that social media could limit but had no legal liability if they didn't. Now I think the question is not about the government suing Bluesky for misinformation but say a PAC or billionaire.

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Mar 4

I hesitate to post for the first time on Bluesky only to be shouted down bc my expertise may not be seen as legit as Mike Masnick. The history of section230 was to enable more speech on the Internet by making social media companies not liable for contents.

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Feb 9

No place like home

The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 9

Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People

OVERLAND PARK, KS–Stung by flagging album sales and Eminem’s supplanting him as Middle America’s worst nightmare, shock rocker Marilyn Manson has embarked on a door-to-door tour of suburbia in a despe...

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Jan 21

15 May. CAMRI Seminar with Vicki Mayer (@vicki1971.bsky.social)

On Experience Work: a Phenomenology of Entrepreneurs, Influencers, Creators.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phenomenal...

Phenomenal work and selves

CAMRI Research Seminar with Vicki Mayer (Tulane University)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ziyan @ziyanmir.bsky.social · Jan 5

The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble.🔭

Image Copyright: Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble;

Processing: William Ostling

Hubble Space Telescope

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Dec 10

Where is this from?

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Dec 2

Looking for comments from Nola peeps on this

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boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Dec 1

Earth Science and #climate in the news: #NOLA is Ground Zero for the losing battle against #hurricane #flooding, sea level rise & land #subsidence. Best that can be done: slow the damage Mother Nature does, but she always wins in the end. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

Opinion | New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change

Unlike the other major cities that appear on lists of unsafe places, New Orleans has a striking competitive advantage.

www.nytimes.com

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Nov 30

Super queer

Brian Harrod @brianharrod.bsky.social · Nov 30

NEWSWEEK: #Vance Depicts Himself as #Wife for #Thanksgiving...

CREEPY: Vice President-elect #JDVance shared a Thanksgiving #Meme in which he is apparently depicted as #DonaldTrump's "wife."...

www.newsweek.com/1993354

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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.bsky.social · Nov 30

NEWSWEEK: #Vance Depicts Himself as #Wife for #Thanksgiving...

CREEPY: Vice President-elect #JDVance shared a Thanksgiving #Meme in which he is apparently depicted as #DonaldTrump's "wife."...

www.newsweek.com/1993354

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Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Nov 24

Serious question: is there any animal besides humans that would knowingly destroy their own environment/habitat?

Vicki Mayer @vicki1971.bsky.social · Nov 17

Was in Barça last month. Bonkers that the Gaudi house is owned by the Chupa Chupa family

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · Nov 7

As promised, the Popular Culture and Media Studies starter pack! If you work in this realm and would like to be added, just let me know. :) I wanted us all to be able to find each other here.
go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU

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