Vicky said her son was ‘driven the few minutes to school, is taken by car to a safe place to ride his bike and can roam no more than 300 yards from home.’ Basically, he stays on the block…he prefers the family yard to the street outside. ‘He doesn't tend to go out because the other children don't.’
NEW: An inmate overheard guards talking about covering up Epstein’s death. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
March is kite a flying month and Smithsonian has some art about it for inspiration.
www.si.edu/spotlight/ki...
This is the female American pilot after being shot down by friendly fire, punched out, landed, & is smiling, and cool. Courage & professionalism of the highest level.
This is a refreshingly positive face of America to the world. All our servicemebers are awesome. And especially our women warriors.🇺🇸
And Willy is in control of all these people with the simple wave of his hand! ❤️
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The overall fundraiser is over $150k, and y'all have contributed more than $1000 for me to match (+follows/reposts)!
Let's keep it going; this weekend, sign up for a membership with or make a donation to The 51st (any amount!) - and I'll match it *and* send $50 to a food bank of your choice.
Should you trim your cuticles? How do you cut a hangnail? Is it better to use a cardboard or crystal file? Dermatologists and a nail technician share basic nail health tips.
You nailed it so well. And it took me forever to find the other sketcher but then I did her golden face jumped out finally. 👏🏻
Watercolour drawing in a splendid Victorian garden in Cambridge 2013. One of the two resident poodles has joined Rosemary, another artist, on the wrought iron garden seat encircling a tree. The sun shone all day.
What a lovely garden this was to sit in and sketch! (maybe I overdid the twiddly bits). There were two friendly white poodles wandering around and if you zoom in you'll see one of them sitting on the circular seat along with another sketcher.
#watercolour #Indianink #poodle #garden #enpleinair
BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website.
The government doesn't get to censor science.
These should be made illegal soon as possible.
Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...
The 1960’s Dutch folding bicycle!
Very interesting and great narration/subtitles. 🚲🚲
More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal Transportation Department said. https://to.pbs.org/4qFiDsl
Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.
X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I was just asking my florist who started this holiday and its capitalistic enterprise. Thanks for the details.
African American museum building exterior seen from across the busy street of cars & SUVS
Shelving with a sign about the orchid exhibit and rows of orchid plats in bloom
Three Peach and maroon speckled pale lavender-pink lady slipper type orchids close up.
“Morning Song” Orchidaceae hybrid. white and magenta flowers in a pot on a black shelf
I love DC for all the amazing feee museums and the low cost shared bicycles and ever growing protected bike lanes. After weeks of rare frozen weather it was fun going to the national mall the to the orchid show at African American museum! No bikes today but soon the ice will melt away🍒
Canada passed a new law (Bill C-3) last year that adds some extra options on top of our birthright thing.
"Bill C-3’s retroactive provision now allows for citizenship to flow beyond the first generation ... provided there is an original anchor (an ancestor who was a Canadian citizen)."
Amazing
"the D.C. National Guard is on track to spend more than $602 million per year on the deployment — a sum slightly larger than the operating 2026 budget for the Metropolitan Police Department, which employs about 4,900 officers"
Make that a flock of robins
Feasting on holly berries
Robin flying into a snowy berry covers yard. Another is eating a berry on the ground.
Two robins standing in a pole of holly berries on snow.
4 robins on a snow and holly berry covered yard next to a pole of kits colorful plastic toys.
5 robins on the snow & holly berry covered play ground.
Walking on Capitol Hill WDC ran into a robing flock feasting on holly berries.
i have seen yarn shops I've followed for years posting this week about getting massive new shipments of red yarn
What a lucky guy you are to see this show! Thanks for sharing
Peasant women selling apples in a snowy, Romanian town square in 1946. One of the buildings behind has roof windows which look like eyes.
I'm cheating today by posting something from a much better photographer than me. Last week, I went to see a Lee Miller exhibition in London. This is 'The Eyes of Sibiu', and was taken in Romania in 1947. Miller saw it as a commentary on the surveillance state.
#Photography #FensterFreitag #History
It’s about time they got to work helping for real.
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