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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Google Ordered Russian Translators Not To Call War in Ukraine a War – Slashdot (Me: Google knuckles under to Putin censorship?)

Source: Google Ordered Russian Translators Not To Call War in Ukraine a War – Slashdot

First Chicken-Free Egg White Product Reaches US Markets – Slashdot

One of the first products made using a novel animal-free egg white is now available in the United States. The unique macarons are the first to be made with an egg white protein that comes from engineered yeast, designed to be indistinguishable from what is found in chicken eggs. The Every Company, founded in 2014 under the name Clara Foods, is one of several food technology companies working to create real animal-free proteins using a method called precision fermentation. The idea behind the process is to break down certain animal products, such as milk and eggs, to their molecular components and then use microorganisms to produce those components. Earlier this year the first cow-free dairy milk using this method hit supermarket shelves in the United States. That product was created using whey proteins from engineered fungus, while other companies are working on similar dairy products using engineered yeast to produce the desired milk proteins.

Source: First Chicken-Free Egg White Product Reaches US Markets – Slashdot

Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons in “Ceremonies of Light and Dark” (B5:s3e11) About Change, and Self-Empathy

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

       This week we are no longer bothering to try to find ways to be happy about the fact that Ranger Mayann is prohibited from writing to us from Minbar. 

    This week’s lessons:

          1.  All change carries some risk.

          2.  Sometimes, even good changes carry bad memories, Marcus.

“History will remember them with reverence.”

-Delenn

   A funeral with the missing man formation, Star Fury style, and a poison in two parts, Old Centauri Republic style, at least according to Londo.

   I love Delenn’s point in inviting someone first precisely because he was so hated, yet in so much need of change, himself.

And her best line yet, to Marcus (is it possible not to have empathy for yourself?):

“…you must forgive yourself… for being alive.”

   This  episode is one that I both love and hate: I love the truths of change, but I hate…

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Rewriting History | Filosofa’s Word

So, considering history … if we determine to no longer teach about slavery, about Jim Crow … what will we replace it with? We cannot simply ignore the fact that Black people existed. Young people aren’t stupid … don’t you think they will ask questions? And what about books and movies like “Gone with the Wind” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”??? Will we destroy all copies of those? What do we replace the now-illegal facts of history with? … Source: Rewriting History | Filosofa’s Word