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Evening Shade--Resistance Rising--Sunday September 14 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-14
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
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Posting A Diary
Critter Herding
Sun Day (Sep 21) Events
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Next week’s equinox is Sun Day celebrating solar energy. Check out the event schedule above. (Hat tip to kraigo.)
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Many Democrats have said online that although they don’t agree with Kirk’s positions, they vehemently oppose political violence. Voices from the right say the violent left is the problem.
x With the country reeling from yet another high-profile act of political violence, President Donald Trump Friday excused extremism originating from the right while heaping blame on the left. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
[image or embed] — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Is the left the problem? The NIH and the right leaning Cato Institute developed statistics on ideology as well as other demographic factors with respect to violence. They asked their questions a bit differently so their numbers aren’t quite the same. The NIH specifically addresses political violence while the CATO Institute defines the problem of ideologically-related violence as apolitical.
But they agree on one thing: while there is leftist violence, it’s somewhat less than half as prevalent as violence from the right wing.
The leftist who shot at Trump turned out to be a Republican. The busloads of armed Antifa coming to take over conservative towns never appeared. Kirk’s presumed killer appears on second look to be something other than a leftist. But as the news lets the the first vitriolic finger pointing fade away without much correction, it leaves the impression that leftist violence seems to be in the news all the time.
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So the call for conservatives to fight back against their enemies continues.
x “White man fight back” is a natural reaction to a white man getting shot by another white man in the whitest state in the union. — Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) 2025-09-13T15:27:09.095Z
x The Oath Keepers are apparently restarting, and extremist groups like the Proud Boys are calling for “state violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. www.wired.com/story/extrem... — WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-09-12T20:29:03.125Z
Casual calls from the right for violence also continue. This Biblical response to the latest one is apt.
Note: Kilmeade has since apologized for this statement.
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There are still Republicans who are not MAGA, though, and oppose violence.
x I can understand the anguish from losing someone you looked up to politically.What sits wrong with me now is that we see none of that from some of the same people whenever children are murdered in school. Maybe we all agree it should all end — Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) 2025-09-13T12:53:32.920Z
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Leftists tend to fight by protesting, calling congressmen, petitioning, and in unexpected ways like this.
x People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵
[image or embed] — Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@theradr.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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On the deportation front, this went by without much comment this week: African immigrants who cannot be sent back to their home countries because their lives would be threatened there are being sent to Ghana instead. Then Ghana deports them to their home countries.
x NEWS: There is a weekend hearing going on right now before Judge Chutkan, due to imminent risks of these people being re-deported from Ghana to their home countries. — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-09-13T19:21:58.291Z
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In AI news: This company aims to make 5000 podcasts, 3000 episodes a week, using “AI influencers.”
Why pay a celebrity podcast host millions when you can create your own using AI? Inception Point AI is attempting to do just that, as the company builds a stable of AI talent to host podcasts, and eventually become broader influencers across social media, literature and more. “We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery, which has recently had to reorganize under the changing podcast landscape. (Hollywood Reporter, bolding mine)
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In a humorous twist on AI, an author expects AI to pay more than his readers for his work.
My two books didn’t do what was expected, which was to have people buy them. I have felt guilty about this failure since they were published in 2012 and 2019, though not enough to offer any of my advance back to my publisher... So I was pretty excited when, on Sept. 5, everyone’s second-favorite A.I. company, Anthropic, settled a class-action suit with authors for $1.5 billion. The company had been accused of sucking up pirated ebooks from the digital libraries Library Genesis in 2021 and Pirate Library Mirror in 2022 to train its chatbot Claude. (NYT)
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Sunday Science
Two stories on crops. First, Patagonia — the company that aims to do good and sell great outdoor clothes — is turning its hand to crop science. Their kernza grain has longer roots than usual grain crops, leading to a number of ecological benefits. This is a New York TImes shared article.
Kernza, a type of wheatgrass that can be used for baking and brewing, has the potential to change the food system. Standing at the bottom of a trench cut into a field of farmland, Mr. Lightfoot traced his fingers along the exposed roots, which stretched more than 10 feet down into the soil, much farther than traditional wheat. Those roots are what makes Kernza so unusual, allowing it to absorb more carbon dioxide than many crops, and turning it into a theoretical ally in the fight against climate change. And because Kernza is a perennial grain and doesn’t need to be replanted each year, it requires less water and fertilizer than traditional wheat, making it a boon for cost-conscious farmers. (NYT)
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What if the problem isn’t a lack of water but too much water? ProPublica shares the story of an Illinois man whose corn has been flooded out, so he’s trying to switch to rice.
x Climate change is shifting where rice can grow. Long considered a southern crop, it has crept north into Missouri. It’s a crop that can thrive where others can’t. But for many farmers, making the transition to a new crop is nearly impossible.
[image or embed] — ProPublica (@propublica.org) September 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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lemay50 posted an article this week on deep geothermal energy that was mentioned in the chat Thursday. If you missed it, take a look now. It’s really well done. Deep geothermal adds another promising source of non-fossil fuel energy.
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In studying black holes using mathematical thought experiments back in 1971, Stephen Hawking theorized that when two of them combine, the resulting black hole must be bigger than the sum of its parts. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has just found the evidence that he was correct.
"There's a very famous statement in physics that Stephen Hawking worked out, which is that the area, the surface area, of black holes can never decrease," explains Maximiliano Isi, an astrophysicist with Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute. And he says that's just what scientists observed after analyzing gravitational waves detected earlier this year. On Jan. 14, detectors registered gravitational waves that came from two colliding black holes about 1.3 billion light-years away… "Because the detectors are so much better today, we can record the signal so much more clearly," says Katerina Chatziioannou, a gravitational wave physicist at Caltech. That allowed them to perform a new analysis showing that between the two of them, the initial black holes had a combined surface area of 240,000 square kilometers (roughly the size of Oregon). After they merged to form a single black hole, its area was about 400,000 square kilometers (roughly the size of California). (NPR)
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On the lighter side, Ralph Nader asked the consumer products testers at New York Times’ Wirecutter why pencil erasers don’t erase. Serious lab testing ensued. Wirecutter recruited a hundred children to try scads of erasers, erase number two pencil score sheets, draw Ralph Nader, and comment on their findings as only kids can. This science is just plain fun.
Although our Generation Alpha kiddos weren’t familiar with Nader (who is, as far as we can tell, unrelated to Brooks Nader of modeling and reality-TV fame), they used the framed photo we had of him on the table as artistic inspiration. One 7-year-old repeatedly and endearingly referred to him as “Ralph Neighbor.” (NYT)
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Today is the birth date of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), founder of Planned Parenthood. It’s also the birth date of Rubby Sherr (1913-2013) - Physicist and co-inventor of key components of the first nuclear weapon and Robert Francis Prevost (1955-Still Living) , Pope Leo XIV.
On this date in 1716 the first lighthouse in American colonies was lit at Boston Harbor. In 1814 Francis Scott Key wrote the poem Defence of Fort McHenry which later became The Star-Spangled Banner). On this date in 1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as President after President William McKinley died.
(Take that, President Bone Spurs.)
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It’s National Parents Day Off, on which parents are urged to “share their demanding, chaotic and funny moments and why they are in need of an ‘epic break.’ In other words, ‘tell us you’re a parent without telling us you’re a parent.’” Which sounds like another chore on their to-do list, actually.
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It’s National Sober Day
Ideally scheduled during National Recovery Month, the day supports removing the stigma associated with addiction. It opens the lines of communication that lead to better understanding. The day provides an opportunity to build educated support networks. It also strengthens existing ones. Success is more likely when systems are paved with an aware, loving, and honest cheering section.
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It’s National Virginia Day!
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It’s National Pet Memorial Day.
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It’s National Live Creative Day! Do something creative.
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It’s National Eat a Hoagie Day and also National Cream Filled Donut Day. Celebrate, but maybe not all in one sitting.
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