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My research focuses on how senior congressional staffers in the U.S. make decisions on #science policy.

For over a year, I’ve been sifting through hours & hours & hours of transcripts from my interviews while analyzing the data & writing.

Now, it's time to begin sharing what I've learned... sheril.substack.com/p/lets-beg… #politics

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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Does this account for the shifting baseline in people’s views where they and so many go hard to the right that centrist positions are viewed as hard left?

Speaking as a Brit 🇬🇧, universal healthcare is not some socialist hard left thing.

The centre, who cares about the economy realises that the economy benefits from better health in the workforce, enjoys the cost saving of not having to fund health insurance and improves on the increased liquidity of Human Resources where people can swap jobs as they are not locked in on insurance.

Healthcare is human equivalent to roads, where everyone benefits and the cheapest way is through government monopoly. Yes, cheapest as a cost to business.

Healthcare is NOT left wing! It is only questioned by those obsessed with not helping people or businesses and I can only think of one thing that’s about. #Racism

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I almost didn't click because the opening quote from the senior congressional staffer seemed so absurd. The left has, maybe more influence on the democratic party than it did 25 years ago, but it sure doesn't "run the party" .


Today we have @10leej back on the show to chat about his Intel ARC GPUs and all manner of other things (We do go a bit off topic) #Linux #intel #nvidia #amd

Video: youtu.be/MceZRu9fsXw

Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…



My Woolly Mammoth pattern is included in the #FastenOffYAL sale. Maybe you would like to knit this woolly friend? #knitting
fuzzymitten.com/post/event-fas…

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Remember: #Piracy is an act of self- and mutual defense!
youtube.com/watch?v=krXH8jXefq…
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

What Sony did just reminded us about the ownership of digital items we purchased. And it’s time to pay more attention to drm-free content.


On buying toddler clothes. And looking for fruit-themed adult clothing. kottke.org/23/12/on-buying-tod…

in reply to Eugen Rochko

woo! Just out of curiosity is there a reason Mastodon is a collection on their online shop? Just all their own stuff and then suddenly a Mastodon collection in the middle of it 🤣

store.yogscast.com/collections



1/ #Billionaire #Ecoterrorism
Kill off, sicken, or weaken, your own citizens & neighbors so long as you can make billions?
The ruling families say, "Fuck, yes!"
Toxic gas putting millions at risk in #MiddleEast
[& in the US, but shhh.🤫 ]
""Very disturbing. Big oil companies (#BP, #Shell, et. al) & states in the Middle East are violating the human rights of millions of people by failing to tackle air pollution from fossil fuels.

"Despite the massive human suffering, Big Oil & #petrostates carry on with business as usual with total impunity & zero accountability."
#climate #pollution #AirPollution #health
bbc.com/news/science-environme…

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Jingle Jam 2023 Games Collection Bundle is live with 70+ games gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/jing…


Nextcloud + Tailscale = 🥰

👩🏽‍💻 Interested in accessing your Nextcloud from anywhere, on any device, without being exposed to the public internet?

🔐 Increase your security and keep your users and data safe!

🕸️ @tailscale allows you to create a mesh network on your mobile, desktop, and servers - all protected by #Wireguard VPN and as user friendly as it gets.

Alex shows us how in this speedy less-than-10-minutes tutorial 🦾

#meshnetwork #dataprivacy

youtu.be/sPdvyR7bLqI




Here's the most played Steam Deck games for November 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/here…

#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED



Roots of Pacha 1.1 adds new content and a fix for Steam Deck external controllers gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/root…

#SteamDeck #Linux #IndieGame



Finally the weekend is here and I found a good start by resolving 11 issues at GitHub related to translation of #nextcloud . #translation Do you like to join us translators? Please see help.nextcloud.com/t/translati… and we will welcome you.


X’s Yaccarino calls Musk “candid and profound” after “go f*** yourself” tirade

"Elon's interview was candid and profound," X CEO writes in memo to staff.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…



The @yogscast #JingleJam2023 officially opens in about 20 minutes with the Jingle Cats stream—festive cat videos with Lewis and Simon. The charity fundraiser on jinglejam.tiltify.com will launch at the same time.

twitch.tv/yogscast

#JingleJam #Yogscast





Story Mode for Them's Fightin' Herds cancelled and active development to cease gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/stor…

#IndieGame #Steam #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I love the game and what that team pulled off. Getting announced as part of the lockdown EVO online was great at getting eyes into it.

On the flip side this is a reminder to never buy a game on future promises (same with most tech). Buy it in its actually released state if that makes you happy, and should they meet those future goals then even better!

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

that's sad to hear, because #ThemFightingHerds really was promising...

But I guess too many people pirate and mod #FightingIsMagic to the point that I know a literal #Arcade cabinet with it on!
(it's at @cbase in #Berlin...)



It appears that vTaiwan's experience reflects an argument I make in my forthcoming book—that democratic innovations will backfire if they don't come with real power: linkedin.com/pulse/vtaiwan-big…
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@adamgreenfield I hear you—though given the nature of the existing systems, I can understand the urge to work with them wherever it seems possible. This underscores the need for building membership based organizations that demand this change rather than more think tanks.
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Nathan Schneider
@adamgreenfield yep. Now am working on a paper about attention economies in governance hoping to help folks think about that challenge more clearly.



I'm thrilled to see the Democracy Policy Network's new "Deliberative Democracy Processes" policy toolkit. State policymakers, these are powerful tools for breaking through logjams and into good sense. democracypolicy.network/agenda…


Happy #JingleJam everyone!

Two weeks of streaming insanity that, personally, marks the start of Christmas for me. It also happens to raise £millions for #charity

jinglejam.tiltify.com/

#Yogscast



"And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven"


Western adventure in the alternate 19th century, Rosewater has a fresh trailer gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/west…

#Linux #Gaming #IndieGame

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

One can observe the development often LIVE from their Twitch twitch.tv/grundislav


Check out the new trailer for Demonschool, an upcoming light horror tactics RPG gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/chec…

#Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming



With only a few hours 'til it all kicks off, it's the moment you've all been waiting for...

It's the first week of our #JingleJam2023 streaming schedule! Mark your calendars, set your alarms, and get your donos ready for two jam-packed weeks of festive fundraising!



Huge update to Baldur's Gate 3 adds an Epilogue, new game modes and willy physics gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/huge…

#BG3 #BaldursGate3 #SteamDeck #Linux




Hey London people, I'm organising and performing at an Algorave on 2nd December ra.co/events/1803977



Battle.net broke in Wine / Proton - here's how to fix for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/batt…

#SteamDeck #Linux



First day of the @yogscast #JingleJam today! Have to get some errands done before the actual streams begin, but their office cam is already on.

twitch.tv/yogscast



🔍 Can AI ever be completely unbiased? Probably not. But ethical considerations and safeguarding individual data helps!

Explore Nextcloud's ethical AI Assistant:

nextcloud.com/blog/first-open-…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

@thelinuxEXP Un avis sur les fonctionnalités déployées ? Je ne suis pas plus que vous fan d'IA, mais ça a l'air à la fois sécurisé et relativement peu nuisible : s'il y a bien un truc que l'IA sait bien faire, et qui n'impacte pas négativement les conditions de travail des gens, c'est résumer des choses, non ?


The Power Of OpenCL And RustiCL #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/A6GCX23pJhU


I am not sure how I can be following a thousand people and Mastodon loads up a post or two, disappears them off my screen, and then hits me up with my home timeline being empty.
in reply to Patrick

Do you have any filters set up or hiding replies/boosts in the home column (icon in top right)?



This just BLOWS MY MIND!
in reply to Muse

It's not actually sandwich with chicken...it just tastes like it!


Florida Republican Party chair Christian Ziegler accused of rape


This also involved his Wife, Bridget Ziegler a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a far-right group that identifies as a parental rights advocate and tries to elect right-wing candidates to school boards. The group opposes references to race or LGBTQ identity in the classroom, and has called for books on gender or sexuality to be removed from school libraries.

A woman told the Sarasota Police that she and Christian and Bridget Ziegler have been involved in a three-year-long three-way sexual relationship. And that the Rape took place at her home when she and Bridget were there alone together

Another Hypocritical Right Wing Christian Exposed As A Hypocrite

#News #RepublicanCrimes #RepublicanImmorality #RepublicanHypocrisy

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