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Anyone look into this Texas abortion ruling? Only encountered basic coverage of it myself, but I gather it involves rendering illegal abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and it also empowers citizens to report such abortions and presumably even aidings of such abortions. From Reuters:

Looking to compile a list of effective (i.e. not wasting donation revenue on tchotchkes mailed to regular donors) and/or innovative charities. Social enterprises too, most broadly, ideally ones with savvy and sustainable business models. Anyone have any go-tos?

Economic warfare, cultural warfare, information warfare, technological/infrastructural warfare, etc. Things that certainly have impacts on bodies and minds, but less directly and less viscerally than kinetic/armed warfare. Just heard about the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act...

Presently intoxicated. I would like to gauge the perspectives of science, among our members. Namely: @sufi @luka What comes to mind alongside the word science? Dig into it. Perhaps when you get the opportunity to drink. If we, at this forum, had control of the global apprehension of this...

A really niche topic, would've preferred to attach it to a broader thread, but alas, etc. Been watching several panels about Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United v FEC, campaign finance in general, and while I'm unfamiliar with most of the meat here, I certainly won't let that stop me from offering...

For posterity, primarily. But also as an occasion to more crisply formalize things, and perhaps even pique the interest of the other inhabitants of this bitspace. For over two years now I have been experimenting with autodidactic education, here conceived as an education in which the student...

We are titans of phantasmagorical complexity, extropic constructs of nature, stewards of our own destiny. Something to that effect, I think, may be a good taste of a new mythos, a culture to underpin and integrate our ongoing efforts of science and humanism. A twofold goal, not solely...