Important work, some of the first I have seen published on the freedom convoys
I published a 7,000-word analysis in the Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, & Warfare today, documenting evidence of Russian influence activities targeting the 2022 Cana...
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Not typically a new technology booster but I haven’t been this excited about an app in a long time 🤷♀️🤷♀️
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Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back with a new company. I talked to Systrom about their first app: Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text platforme...
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Russian Propaganda getting so bad they are going back to the 1980's looking for pronounced nonsense.
Read Boghardt, T. (2009). "Soviet Bloc intelligence and its AIDS disinformation campaign" if you want to learn more about this old re-run.
#nafo
Documents and materials recovered by Russian troops show that Western pharmaceutical companies operating in territory under Kiev’s control conducted HIV/AIDS research o...
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Variants of this meme are up there will my all time #nafo favs
schemat działania kremlowskiej propagandy opracowany przez ludzi z #NAFO, którzy ją zwalczają
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Bonk (n.) Verb meaning
#antidote,
a remedy to
set them right
as to facts.
Most nonsense
spread by ignorance
not wickedness
Foes tell of collapse,
yet where does
this anarchy exist?
A few
hired gazetteers
repeat lies
For most
ingested
perspectives.
#smallpoems
#nafo
1/2
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This is why you matter #NAFO
Look, I can’t even begin to describe how much support from communities like @Official_NAFO has meant to me throughout the past 11-ish months. The fact that foreigners f...
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"text": "Look, I can\u2019t even begin to describe how much support from communities like @Official_NAFO has meant to me throughout the past 11-ish months. The fact that foreigners from all over the world care about Ukraine and Ukrainians enough to spend every free minute they have fundraising",
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We need "free parties" to push Pro Putin messages.
Election Fraud means Big Lie in Russian
People out to destroy democracy.
#nafo
Funny how things come around 3 years later.I have loved my time working @AssangeCount w/ @CredicoRandy. #FreeAssangeNOW And we need an independent candidate coalition, no...
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People Who Annoy You or
People who should avoid windows
#NAFO
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Are you looking things over during eternal Caturday?
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"html": "<p>We are in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2022_E3_(ZTF)\">Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF)</a> is approaching Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. Astronomers discovered it in March 2022 and it will be closest to Earth (26 million miles) on February 1, 2023. We are witnessing an event that was last seen when Neanderthals shared the planet with homo sapiens. It blows my mind to think about it. Trying to view and photograph the comet has been a subject of discussion on many of the astrophotography forums I participate in and I wanted to give it a try. Comets are really difficult to photograph, more difficult than anything I\u2019ve photographed so far. Why is that? The first reason is that they are small and kind of dim and typically quite far away. But that describes a lot of deep space objects. The main reason comets are so challenging to photograph is that they move at different speeds and in different directions compared to the rest of the night sky. What does that mean? First, comets are small and kind of dim, especially if you are trying to capture the tail. Here\u2019s a single 2 minute exposure of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF):</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i0.wp.com/cathieleblanc.com/wp-content/uploads/single-exposure-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"single exposure of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF)\" /></p>\n<p>To try to get detail out of these images, we have to \u201cstretch\u201d the image. Doing so will make details (which we call \u201csignal\u201d) more visible but it will also make noise more visible. So we have to have a way of increasing the signal without increasing the noise at the same rate. Taking multiple exposures and stacking them one on top of the other allows us to increase the signal to noise ratio during processing. As we take these multiple exposures, however, the objects in the night sky appear to move because the Earth is rotating. They typically all appear to move in the same direction at the same speed. The comet, however, is moving in its own direction at its own speed (pretty fast!) in a way that is not related to the rotation of the Earth. When we put multiple exposures together, we might ensure that the stars are always in the same place. When we do that, we get multiple images of the comet because the comet has moved between exposures. Here\u2019s what that looks like:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i0.wp.com/cathieleblanc.com/wp-content/uploads/r_comet_stacked-Comet-Trail-E1-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"smudged image of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF)\" /></p>\n<p>Instead, we might make sure that the comet is not smudged by stacking exposures in such a way that the comet doesn\u2019t move from image to image. When we do that, we get star trails. Here\u2019s what that looks like. I kind of like the looks of this but the comet is not particularly visible:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i0.wp.com/cathieleblanc.com/wp-content/uploads/comet_stacked-Star-Trails-E1-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) with star trails\" /></p>\n<p>The solution is to stack the exposures twice, once focused on the stars and once focused on the comet. Then we can make a composite of those two images. This by itself is harder than it sounds because you have to remove things in each stacked images before you combine them into a composite. For example, you can kind of see the remnants of the star trails in my final image below because I couldn\u2019t remove them completely from my stack focused on the comet.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i0.wp.com/cathieleblanc.com/wp-content/uploads/cometFinal.png?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF)\" /></p>\n<p>But I\u2019m pretty happy with this result. And I learned a ton creating it. For example, I had never made a composite image before. I had never used pixel math. I had never used a tool called PixInsight before. Because it was my first time doing each of these things, I was definitely not perfect in my practice but I was happy to be learning new things and experiencing the wonder of this rare celestial event. An interesting phenomenon has been happening in astrophotography forums that makes me sad and worried about what we focus on in education when we teach people how to do things. As I said, comets are difficult to photograph. Increasingly, I\u2019ve been seeing comments like this: \u201cI attempted that stinking comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) again last night. I was not able to get the tail. I am officially off this target, I have wasted so many hours on it and have very little to show for it.\u201d This is a pretty common comment on these forums as people have goals for their astrophotography and this comet makes it very difficult to achieve your goals. I feel like our society focuses so much on goals, products, results, that we forget that learning is about practice and process and learning from failure. We forget that failure is not wasted effort. This is something we talk a lot about when we talk about the cluster learning model at Plymouth State University but how many of us design experiences in our classes where it really is ok for students not to be perfect, where it is ok, or even expected, for students to fail to achieve their goals and to learn incredibly important lessons from those failures? Once again, I am learning so much in this hobby that I inspires me to think about my teaching in new ways. I love all of it!</p>\n<p>The featured image was created by me on January 30, 2023. I took 25 2-minute exposures and processed them in PixInsight.</p>",
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Twitter is running an ad by the Wagner group recruiting American veterans to fight for Russia. I verified. No link for obvious reasons. H/t Chad Loder on Mastodon.
Why are you still on Twitter?
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too simplified version of #Vygotsky and Oral Language Development.
More supplemental to Foundations of Reading Test objectives:
but does cover critical periods, neoformations, and the butchered ZPD
Transcript: bit.ly/3XNfnxF
#literacies
bit.ly/3YbeD4W
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I am all in favor of #HipHopEd helping to root economies of art back in communities.
Hustle is the story. Own it.
But still, don't spam the album releases.
gonna pester me to buy mixtape let me know how it is relevant to the community and goals of #HipHopEd
no hashtag spam
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Do you taste something in the air during eternal Caturday?
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Hey #edu106 here is an announcement schedule for our online and hybrid classes.
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Let no mother #Shriek
No More
not for a Fallen
Son, torn
from this
world
A Sacrifice
to hatred
boiling over
with History's
ghosts
and howls of
shrieking mothers
who could not
answer the call
of another
Fallen
Son
#smallpoems
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When evil
eeks out
feeble
yet
believable
fables
techniques
sneak into
existing critiques
and delusions.
#smallpoems
1/3
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Here is a good #disinformation example.
The tweet is about Rob Reiner but they hide information about Canadian Prime Minister
Slight of hand
h/t @MooshieMadz
Just since this is circulating because of @robreiner being a gross MAGA douche and pedo. Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie were altered to be on this list. Fact checking...
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