#Public Events

[fyh2ojustaddwater]

Full Moon Madness (12/27/23')

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the holiday season.

Last post of the year & we have a couple of H2O-related news to share!

Luke Mitchell to Join 'Chicago Med' Cast

It was announced late November, that Luke Mitchell has joined Chicago Med in a guest starring role for their ninth season. While currently a guest role, there is talk that this could be a series regular role for Mitchell in the show. Description of his character is: "Dr. Mitch Ripley (name could change), an Emergency Department doctor with a troubled past who shares a history with Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt)." His debut episode is on January 17th. Let us know if anyone has seen this show or any of the Chicago related series.

Phoebe Appeared on Panel with Fellow Australian Creatives

A few weeks ago, Phoebe mentioned that she was able to take part in a panel with other Australian creatives at the Sydney Opera House courtesy of Chanel. A clip of the panel can be found in her post. (Also mentioning again that her latest project, Boy Swallows Universe premieres on Netflix on January 11th)

That's all that I could find for this month's post!

Hope everyone has a great New Year's and see you in 2024! In the new year, I will try to continue to post 'full moon madness' posts, and share gifs/photos of the H2O/Mako Mermaids cast

#full moon madness #luke mitchell #other projects #chicago med #phoebe tonkin #public events #appearances #2023 #chanel #boy swallows universe #instagram #@phoebejtonkin #Instagram

[emmwtsns]

Gallery update! Added 31 HQ/UHQ images from the 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' world premiere after party at Old Billingsgate Market in London, England (July 7th, 2011) 

Link: http://emmawatsongallery.sosugary.com

#Emma Watson #ewatson #Harry Potter #Hermione Granger #*gallery #public events

[man-and-atom]

Greetings from Pemmi-Con, the 15th occasional North American Science Fiction Convention, in Winnipeg, Manitoba!

#atomic power to the people #the stars are ours #public events #convention

[emmarigbysource]

Photos by Mayra Pizana

#emma rigby #july 2022 #book bonanza 2022 #public events

[tfarmiga]

NEW/OLD fan pic of Taissa at PaleyFest 2019 💕

#taissa farmiga #public events

[intersectionalpraxis]

"If a pig catches both a human influenza A virus and an avian influenza A virus at the same time, it can spark a process known as viral reassortment — a genetic exchange in which flu viruses swap gene segments." "Those swaps can introduce dramatic changes, producing a new virus with certain properties of a non-human strain coupled with the capacity to infect and spread between people." "The death rate in humans may be upwards of 50 per cent, World Health Organization data suggests, though it's possible that milder infections are getting missed, skewing the case fatality ratio. Still, in a population that's never been exposed, the global impacts could be dire." "More human cases could also be happening under the radar among farm workers who've moved to the U.S. from abroad, don't speak English as their first language, and may be hesitant to seek medical help, he added." "So I think there's probably underreporting on both sides," Armstrong said." "If [H5N1] gets into a population where there's constantly animals going in and out … it might not ever leave."

I've been watching this develop for the past several days, and apart from being terrified most people will not take this seriously (I've seen a handful of people already shout conspiracy on social media and it's alarming to see, as always). What I wanted to point out is that pandemics are going to continue to be our 'normal.' I watched a great video on YouTube a while ago (I believe it was by Vice?) that touched base on how this is going to become our new reality because of multiple factors (such as our proximity to animals, and environments/etc). It was when Covid hit and they did a piece debunking some of the misinformation floating on the internet. If I can find it I will post it here because it was informative and relevant to pretty much any world crisis we will see around any virus that spreads among a human population.

This post isn't trying to fear monger anyone, I just hope more people are aware of what is happening because this is important to talk about. There are already cases (of cows getting this bird flu) in the US, and I won't be surprised if there will be instances in more countries around the world. As usual, keep washing your hands/keeping good hygiene practices, masking up (and if you aren't I hope you consider it), and taking precautions if you do happen to visit/work or go near a pig or poultry farm too:

I'll keep track of this here of course, but please stay informed folks. And also FU to any governments who will try to minimize this or try to diminish the severity until it's too late and community spread happens like Covid because their actions are influenced by capitalistic interests.

Update (April 7th, 2024, 9:32pm EST): to anyone wondering where some of the source information originates from -here is a link to the CDC. They are tracking documented avian virus outbreaks in the US and the public can access it here:

#current news #current events #global news #united states #cattle #cows #cattle farming #avian flu #bird flu #h5n1 #mask up #pandemic #covid #covid isn't over #covid conscious #covid is airborne #covid is not over #viruses #fuck capitalism #anti captialism #healthcare #public health #world health organization #cdc #news update #update

[politijohn]

Source

#education #news #current events #football #government #public services #the left #progressive #capitalism #eat the rich

[phoenixdown-and-fairydust]

Internal eternal screaming as I brace myself to sing for coworkers. NOPE. I haven't performed in ages. Why did I agree to this?

#holiday programming #public events #rehersal #jitters

[bsuobservatory]

Fall 2023 Public Events

Our next round of public events starts in September - here's the schedule (each event is weather-dependent, so always check back to see if the event is on!):

Public Nights on Wednesdays: - Sept. 27, 7:30 - 9:00 pm - Oct. 4, 11, and 18, 7:00 - 8:30 pm - Nov. 1, 7:00 - 8:30 pm - Nov. 8 and 15, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Special Daytime Event: Oct. 14 Partial Solar Eclipse! 10:30 am - 2:45 pm

Halloween Events! - Oct. 25, 7:00 - 8:30 pm - Rain Date 1: Oct. 26, 7:00 - 8:30 pm (only occurs if Oct. 25 doesn't) - Rain Date 2: Oct. 30, 7:00 - 8:30 pm (only occurs if both Oct. 25 and 26 do not)

During our events, we set up telescopes and find objects in the sky for our visitors to see. We talk astronomy, too! Our events are free, open to the public, and appropriate for all ages.

#observatory #public events #bsuobservatory #astronomy #stargazing #telescopes

[rodspurethoughts]

NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge Winners Announced

NASA has announced the winners of its Deep Space Food Challenge, a global competition to develop innovative food systems for long-term space exploration missions. #NASA #DeepSpaceFoodChallenge #SpaceExploration #Innovation

Crew members aboard the International Space Station unpack newly delivered fresh fruit and other goodies in October 2019. From left are NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir, Andrew Morgan, and Christina Koch with ESA Commander Luca Parmitano.Credits: NASA NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, a global competition to develop innovative food systems for long-term exploration missions, will announce its…

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#and Crowdsourcing program. #Canadian Space Agency #Challenges #competition #food systems #global challenge #Innovation #long-term missions #NASA #NYCxDESIGN Festival #Prizes #public events #space exploration #Technology

[decolonize-the-left]

This is not a drill

This is IMPORTANT especially if you live in the USA or use the internet REGULATED by the USA!!!!

Do not scroll. Signal boost. Reblog.

Reblog WITHOUT reading if you really can't right now, I promise all the links and proof are here. People NEED to know this.

( I tried to make this accessible but you can't cater to EVERYONE so please just try your best to get through this or do your own research 🙏)

TLDR: Homeland Security has been tying our social media to our IPs, licenses, posts, emails, selfies, cloud, apps, location, etc through our phones without a warrant using Babel X and will hold that information gathered for 75 years. Certain aspects of it were hushed because law enforcement will/does/has used it and it would give away confidential information about ongoing operations.

This gets renewed in September.

Between this, Agincourt (a VR simulator for cops Directly related to this project), cop city, and widespread demonization of abortions, sex workers, & queer people mixed with qanon/Trumpism, and fascism in Florida, and the return of child labor, & removed abortion rights fresh on our tails it's time for alarms to be raised and it's time for everyone to stop calling us paranoid and start showing up to protest and mutual aid groups.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

These are the same feds who want to build cop city and recreate civilian houses en masse and use facial recognition. The same feds that want cop city to also be a training ground for police across the country. Cop city where they will build civilian neighborhoods to train in.

Widespread mass surveillance against us.

Now let's cut to some parts of the article. May 17th from Vice:

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an invasive, AI-powered monitoring tool to screen travelers, including U.S. citizens, refugees, and people seeking asylum, which can in some cases link their social media posts to their Social Security number and location data, according to an internal CBP document obtained by Motherboard.

Called Babel X, the system lets a user input a piece of information about a target—their name, email address, or telephone number—and receive a bevy of data in return, according to the document. Results can include their social media posts, linked IP address, employment history, and unique advertising identifiers associated with their mobile phone. The monitoring can apply to U.S. persons, including citizens and permanent residents, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, according to the document.

“Babel data will be used/captured/stored in support of CBP targeting, vetting, operations and analysis,” the document reads. Babel X will be used to “identify potential derogatory and confirmatory information” associated with travelers, persons of interest, and “persons seeking benefits.” The document then says results from Babel X will be stored in other CBP operated systems for 75 years.

"The U.S. government’s ever-expanding social media dragnet is certain to chill people from engaging in protected speech and association online. And CBP’s use of this social media surveillance technology is especially concerning in connection with existing rules requiring millions of visa applicants each year to register their social media handles with the government. As we’ve argued in a related lawsuit, the government simply has no legitimate interest in collecting and retaining such sensitive information on this immense scale,” Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, told Motherboard in an email.

The full list of information that Babel X may provide to CBP analysts is a target’s name, date of birth, address, usernames, email address, phone number, social media content, images, IP address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, employment history, and location data based on geolocation tags in public posts.

Bennett Cyphers, a special advisor to activist

organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard in an online chat “the data isn’t limited to public posts made under someone’s real name on Facebook or Twitter.”

The document says CBP also has access to AdID information through an add-on called Locate X, which includes smartphone location data. AdID information is data such as a device’s unique advertising ID, which can act as an useful identifier for tracking a phone and, by extension, a person’s movements. Babel Street obtains location information from a long supply chain of data. Ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones provide data to a company called Gravy Analytics, which repackages that location data and sells it to law enforcement agencies via its related company Venntel. But Babel Street also repackages Venntel’s data for its own Locate X product."

The PTA obtained by Motherboard says that Locate X is covered by a separate “commercial telemetry” PTA. CBP denied Motherboard’s FOIA request for a copy of this document, claiming it “would disclose techniques and/or procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions”.

A former Babel Street employee previously told Motherboard how users of Locate X can draw a shape on a map known as a geofence, see all devices Babel Street has data on for that location, and then follow a specific device to see where else it has been.

Cyphers from the EFF added “most of the people whose location data is collected in this way likely have no idea it’s happening.”

CBP has been purchasing access to location data without a warrant, a practice that critics say violates the Fourth Amendment. Under a ruling from the Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies need court approval before accessing location data generated by a cell phone tower; those critics believe this applies to location data generated by smartphone apps too.

“Homeland Security needs to come clean to the American people about how it believes it can legally purchase and use U.S. location data without any kind of court order. Americans' privacy shouldn't depend on whether the government uses a court order or credit card,” Senator Ron Wyden told Motherboard in a statement. “DHS should stop violating Americans' rights, and Congress should pass my bipartisan legislation to prohibit the government's purchase of Americans' data." CBP has refused to tell Congress what legal authority it is following when using commercially bought smartphone location data to track Americans without a warrant.

Neither CBP or Babel Street responded to a request for comment. Motherboard visited the Babel X section of Babel Street’s website on Tuesday. On Wednesday before publication, that product page was replaced with a message that said “page not found.”

Do you know anything else about how Babel X is being used by government or private clients? Do you work for Babel Street? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on [phone], Wickr on josephcox, or email [email protected].

Wow that sounds bad right.

Be a shame if it got worse.

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It does.

The software (previously Agincourt Solutions) is sold by AI data company Babel Street, was led by Jeffrey Chapman, a former Treasury Department official,, Navy retiree & Earlier in his career a White House aide and intelligence officer at the Department of Defense, according to LinkedIn.

🙃

So what's Agincourt Solutions then right now?

SO FUCKING SUS IN RELATION TO THIS, THATS WHAT

In essence, synthetic BATTLEVR training is a mixture of all three realities – virtual, augmented and physical. It is flexible enough to allow for mission rehearsals of most types and be intuitive enough to make training effective.

Anyway the new CEO of Babel Street (Babel X) as of April is a guy named Michael Southworth and I couldn't find much more on him than that tbh, it's all very vague and missing. That's the most detail I've seen on him.

And the detail says he has a history of tech startups that scanned paperwork and sent it elsewhere, good with numbers, and has a lot of knowledge about cell networks probably.

Every inch more of this I learn as I continue to Google the names and companies popping up... It gets worse.

Monitor phone use. Quit photobombing and filming strangers and for the love of fucking God quit sending apps photos of your actual legal ID to prove your age. Just don't use that site, you'll be fine I swear. And quit posting your private info online. For activists/leftists NO personally identifiable info at least AND DEFINITELY leave your phone at home to Work™!!!

#current events #capitalism #USA #politics #facism #public surveillance #anarchists #democrats #lgbt #direct action #leftist #ndn #indigenous #lesbian #gay #trans #bisexual #neurodivergent #Feminism #privacy rights #human rights #internet #tumblr #signal boost #desantis #florida #queer #refugees #immigration #threads

[lady-raziel]

Not to talk about the watcher thing again as I’ve already kind of said my piece, but one of the most batshit insane parts of this whole unbelievable situation is that for some reason they decided that for some fucking reason the BEST time to announce this highly controversial decision was literally DAYS before they would be going on an international tour and having to face irate fans IN PERSON. Guys. What the hell. At least have the sensibility to announce a move that you HAD to have known would make people upset AFTER one of the few times you actually interact in person with your fanbase.

I hope you’re ready to investigate the Tower of London for ghosts, because I have a feeling the Londoners will be more than happy to acquaint you with the building later this week.

Insane move after insane move. Truly.

#watcher #watcher tv #as a person doing political communications literally one of the most basic rules is #‘if your boss is going to announce something controversial do NOT do it before an event where they have to interact with the public’ #you bury that shit on a Friday afternoon after the weekly news cycle is over and everyone has gone home for the weekend #you don’t announce that your official stance is to kick puppies before your fundraiser at the animal shelter #did the watcher team consult anyone at all about this decision? marketing or otherwise??

[emmwtsns]

Gallery update! Added 827 HQ/UHQ images from the World Premiere of 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2' in Trafalgar Square in London, England (July 7th, 2011) 

 Link: http://emmawatsongallery.sosugary.com

#emma watson #ewatson #Hermione Granger #Harry Potter #gallery #public events

[man-and-atom]

Big news!

I am now Head of Static Exhibits for Pemmi-Con, the 15th occasional North American Science Fiction Convention, being held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 20―23 July this year. (The NASFiC is held when the World Science Fiction Convention is outside North America, as it is this year in Chengdu, and will be next year in Glasgow.)

This gives me almost complete freedom to present a large display about the peaceful uses of atomic energy. I have a number of snazzy things in preparation, including two pay telephones set up to play audio clips originally produced for radio broadcast.

Of course, given the dates of the convention, I will also have a space display, and I plan to make souvenir badges using US 10¢ “First on the Moon” postage stamps.

To make all this happen requires money, and at this time I will be especially appreciative of recurring or one-time gifts of support. In fact, thanks to a timely contribution, I have just ordered two more table drapes. I do try to find nifty ways of showing my appreciation.

#pemmi-con #nasfic #atomic power to the people #public events #convention #o canada #worldcon #the glorious 20th of july

[emmarigbysource]

Emma Rigby photographed by Mayra Pizana.

#emma rigby #book bonanza #passionflix #2022 #july 2022 #book bonanza 2022 #public events

[eriochromatic]

We never played bitey?

tomshiv stocks r rising yall!!!!!!!!

#succession #tomshiv #tom wambsgans #shiv roy #siobhan roy #PLEASE I JUST WANT TO TALK WHO WROTE THIS SCRIPT??? #absolutely unhinged that they would do this at a public networking event???? #this scene made me go feral I had to get this out of my system #failmarriage becoming faildivorce frfr #erio art #erio stuff