In the 1980's, I visited with Ross Perot's staff & took Mr. Perot a huge stack of documents proving how dire the circumstances were in the public schools, colleges, & universities. Since education is again an issue before the American people, I thought you would be interested in what Ross Perot said about education. I believe I did have an impact on his comments below.

Ross Perot on Education

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Create world’s finest public schools

The goals of United We Stand America include:

To get our economy moving & put our people back to work.

To balance the budget.

To pay off our nation’s debts.

To build an efficient & cost-effective health care system.

To make our neighborhoods & streets safe from crime & violence.

To create the finest public schools in the world for our children.

To pass on the American Dream to our children, making whatever fair shared sacrifices are necessary.

What in tarnation is going on in Texas? - by David Roberts


#Texas #energy #renewables

Ai Summary : In the last five years, Texas has become the renewable energy pacesetter in the US, with wind, solar, and batteries accounting for about 90% of new electricity capacity. This transformation occurred due to the state's free market electricity system, which has kept prices low and production booming. However, conservative Texas legislators are now considering bills that could hinder clean energy development. One bill, Senate Bill 819, would impose stricter regulations on renewable energy siting than those for oil and gas, with setbacks that are much larger than for traditional energy sources. Another bill, Senate Bill 388, would require new additions to the Texas grid to be at least 50% dispatchable, effectively mandating the inclusion of gas-fired power plants. This requirement would limit the growth of the Texas economy, as it is impossible to build enough gas capacity to keep up with the state's unprecedented load growth. To address the growing demand for electricity, Texas needs to focus on energy efficiency and demand response. The state has made some progress in this area, with the establishment of the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource Task Force and a pilot program for virtual power plants (VPPs). However, more needs to be done to integrate these resources into the grid and create a market mechanism for their value. Senate Bill 6, initially intended to help manage large loads coming to Texas, has lost some of its promising features. The bill still includes provisions for emergency response service, which would create a more organized system for load reduction and emergency generation during times of grid stress. However, it no longer includes incentives for speed to interconnect for new clean energy projects, which would have encouraged the development of renewable energy and storage. In summary, Texas is at a crossroads. The state's free market electricity system has led to impressive renewable energy growth, but conservative legislators are now considering bills that could hinder this progress. To ensure continued economic growth and grid reliability, Texas needs to focus on energy efficiency, demand response, and the integration of distributed resources. This will require visionary leadership and a commitment to creating a market mechanism that values these resources for their unique contributions to the grid.

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Sunday morning I took a walk in a #forest. Made some #photos; here's five of them.

For some time, I was considering dropping one or splitting the post; all because #mastodon for no reason imposes arbitrary limit of 4 photos per post and silently drops “excessive” ones. Even though I do use different software, and I can attach more, you will probably see only four.

And then I thought: fuck it. Not my problem. There are five.

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Experts Uncover Four New Privilege Escalation Flaws in Windows Task Scheduler


Cybersecurity researchers have detailed four different vulnerabilities in a core component of the Windows task scheduling service that could be exploited by local attackers to achieve privilege escalation and erase logs to cover up evidence of malicious activities. The issues have been uncovered in a binary named "schtasks.exe," which enables an administrator to create, delete, query, change,
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Chemicals found in common food packaging plastics like cling film and snack pouches may interfere with the body’s natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle, increasing the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems and even cancer, new research shows.

Published this month in Environment International, the study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is the first to show that everyday polyurethane (PUR) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics contain compounds that can disrupt the body’s internal clock (circadian rhythm) by quickly interfering with a specific cell signal (A1R) linked to sleep and light.

Unlike previous research that focused on slow, hormone-related effects, this study reveals a faster, direct impact on key “clock genes” through a different kind of biological pathway. That means plastic chemicals may contribute to serious health problems such as diabetes or cancers in more ways than scientists know, the researchers say.

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Mastodon exit interview


Mastodon exit interview #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub
https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview

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Repost: slrpnk.net/post/20813532


Mastodon Exit Interview


I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media

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Federation does not work
I’m not saying federation “won’t” work or “can’t” work. Merely that in 2025, nine years after deployment, federation does not work for the Mastodon use case.

I could opine at length about possible federated architectures and what I think the ActivityPub people clearly got wrong in hindsight.1 But the proof is in the pudding: Mastodon simply doesn’t show users the posts they ask to see, as I quickly




Drei Hunde verendet: Stadt Arnsberg warnt vor möglichen Giftködern


Die Stadt Arnsberg warnt Hundehalter vor möglichen Giftködern im Stadtteil Hüsten. Für drei Hunde kam jede Hilfe zu spät.#Hunde #vergiftet #Gift #Tier #Tiere #Stadt #Arnsberg #Ordnungsamt #Giftköder #16042025
Drei Hunde verendet: Stadt Arnsberg warnt vor möglichen Giftködern


Grünfläche - Public Domain

Weiße Rose

#dwr #foto #fotografieren #mywork #fedibikes #MdRddG #MdRgD #MdRzA #obob #fahrrad #FahrradStattPorsche #jamendo #CC

#TousledCraneonTour


#Welt! Bist du noch da?

Ich mag meine #Grünfläche


… und andere auch!

Gut so, und nun verabschiede ich mich in die #Ferien. Ich werde zwar hin und an reinlesen, aber nur im #Notfall mal 'n #Kaffee anbieten (-:

Jetzt aber noch schnell einen heißen auf den Tisch gestellt bevor ich entspannt zur #Arbeit radel!

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Bleibt senkrecht und gesund!

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#music #Soul Funk RnB
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - 1967
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Rotkehlchen auf Pfosten / Robin on Post


am Elfrather See in Uerdingen (Krefeld), 16. April 2019

Rotkehlchen
Rotkehlchen auf Pfosten

Rotkehlchen auf Pfosten

#Vögel #Tiere #Rotkehlchen #Uerdingen #Krefeld #Niederrhein #ElfratherSee #foto #photo #fotografie #photography #animals #birds #songbirds #robins

Jim Woodring

Everyone I know doesn't have enough time, if I did, I would spend time studying this artist's work.

Everything is totally made-up, but in familiar ways, like fish, jellyfish, sea-bottom creepers, corals. The little submarine is cool with a big eye in front, maybe it's alive, too. Everything seems happy, even though there are a lot of sharp teeth around. Colors are great. I think the artist took an early fork in the road and stayed on it 😁

#art @art #comicArt #funnies #imagine

Learn about mutual aid

In the first ten minutes, of the first session, you hear how mutual aid is not charity. This is an important point.

shareable.net/mutual-aid-101/

#mutualaid

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U.S. Navy Ships Continue 24/7 Operations Against Iran-Backed Houthis

24/7 strikes from USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) continue against Iran-backed Houthi Terrorists on April 15, 2025.

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But now I'd like to talk a little bit about my contribution to it.
I was inspired by a conversation with @limebar about his track, which you can listen to here:
bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/t…

In this he combined elements from four tracks by four bonkwave artists and put them together to create one of my favourites from our previous compilation.

Minimalist opera calms my brain. My brain needs a lot of calming right now, so I'm grateful to have come across this, just finished my first of many listens. Open to other recommendations.

Meredith Monk - ATLAS: An Opera in Three Parts

album.link/ca/i/1386740891

#MeredithMonk #minimalism #ModernClassical

Your #censored videos can be uncensored with ease, and relatively quickly. OP suggests a black mask, and I agree.
#YouTube #privacy #censor #censoring
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« Imaginez une personne qui ne développe jamais de masque social, dont le visage grimace instantanément quand elle désapprouve ce que vous lui dites ou qui ne peut pas s’empêcher de bâiller quand elle est lasse de vos discours, qui dit toujours ce qu’elle pense, qui suit toujours ses propres idées et son propre style, qui est la même lorsqu’elle parle à son patron ou à un enfant, et vous avez là une personne qui serait mise à l’écart, ridiculisée et méprisée. »

« On estime que la communication humaine non verbale représente 65 % de l’ensemble de la communication entre êtres humains, mais que les individus perçoivent et intègrent seulement 5 % environ de ces informations. La quasi-totalité de notre attention sociale est absorbée par ce que disent nos interlocuteurs ; et, bien souvent, leurs propos ne servent qu’à dissimuler ce qu’ils pensent et ressentent vraiment. »

I have been autistically online for nearly a decade now, and I have never seen the Autistic community as worked up over something as we are about RFKjr's looming fascist bullshit. He obviously wants to use us to push his antivax nonsense, and at the same time he wants to do a eugenics and eliminate us from the population. This is a Red Alert. Glad to see folks aren't being quiet about it, but it's also scary to see everyone as freaked out as I am.
#ActuallyAutistic

Hear @CoralineAda discuss her new book, "We Just Build Hammers," in this episode of @redmonk the MonkCast. We discuss extensible lessons from science fiction, the hacker ethic, & the history of science's connection to contemporary tech justice movements. redmonk.com/blog/2025/04/15/rm…

Investigative Journalist Joel Gilbert – the Man Behind the Letitia James Files: The Gateway Pundit’s “Letitia Files” Become National News with Criminal Referral – AND MORE IS COMING OUT SOON!

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Crackdown

Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs

Part memoir, part manifesto, Crackdown is a story of the drug war, told from the frontlines.

penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/70…

The producer of one of the best podcasts out there has published a book. He is a great story teller.

#abolition @abolition #harmreduction #books #warondrugs

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Democrat Rep. Laura Friedman Says the Quiet Part Out Loud — Admits House Democrats Meet “Every Single Week” with Far-Left AGs to Plot Lawfare Against Trump Agenda

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Negative vaccine immunity proved - Dr. John Campbell

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Comments below the video:

"MY WIFE HAS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE...MEANING..THEY DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS...SHE TOOK THE JAB...I TOLD HER NOT 2...NOW SHE GETS PAINS IN HER UPPER BACK SO BAD SHE CRIES..NO 1 ON MY SIDE OF THE FAMILY GOT THE JAB..EVERYONE ON HER SIDE OF THE FAMILY DID...WIFES. SIDE OF THE FAMILY IS CONSTANTLY SICK..MY SIDE NOTHING..THERES UR CASE STUDY."

"Isn’t this why we have never been able to vaccinate ...

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GH15 prayer for April 16, 2025
PASSION WEEK: President Trump Celebrates the Resurrection
Dutch Sheets

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What If Nicotine Could Actually Help Treat A Number Of Diseases, Including Myocarditis? #Health - Dr. Bryan Ardis

youtube.com/shorts/V3ATqxV-v2A

Research shows that nicotine reduces the symptoms of autism and is a published cure for Parkinson’s disease, MS, Alzheimer’s, myocarditis, ulcerative colitis , all arthritises: psoriatic, osteo, gout, rheumatoid, and glioblastoma tumors.

At our largest University in our State, where they have been researching Nicotine for over 80 years, all this was ...

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known to them decades ago, & you ask yourself, then why hasn’t these studies resulted in a transformation of these patches for these hundreds of thousands of ppl that have fell victim to all these life changing disorders & aliments?

BIG PHARMA was the largest donor of these grants for research, which is part of the John D Rockefeller Foundation of Medical Research!

Douglas Murray: "What They've Been Hiding About October 7th is Finally Coming Out..."

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"Hamas knew through the workers if there were any gun in the house, how many children, any dog, the plan of the house….."

« La recrudescence de la mortalité infantile n’alimente aucun débat, alors que c’est une honte nationale »


#politique

Notons que l'éditorialiste vendu, soutient contre l'évidence la fermeture des petites maternités, alors précisément que la mortalité a commencé d'augmenter quand on a commencé à les fermer! Mais bon, c'est l'imMonde, personne ne s'en étonnera.

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The Trump Administration refused to back down to the federal judge in the case of deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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President Donald Trump’s administration has successfully implemented a significant reduction in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workforce.

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"Fanon", le film


#SQY #anticolonialisme #libération

Pour info, le film passe toute la semaine aux Clayes, à ma connaissance c'est le seul endroit où il est visible dans toutes les Yvelines.

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The feud between U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reached new heights following some nasty comments made by the Ukrainian president earlier this week.

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President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan on Tuesday hinted that sanctuary city leaders who defy ICE and harbor or conceal illegal aliens from ICE detection will be arrested if they continue to obstruct the federal government.

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You can always tell when Democrats and their media allies find a narrative or talking point that they think is effective because they all start repeating it over and over again.

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#Syrer ersticht Familienvater in U-Bahn


Täter hätte längst in Haft sein müssen!
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem

L'Europe en plein Moby Dick - by Pascal Lottaz


#géopolitique #impérialisme #guerre

À ce stade, l'obsession européenne pour la guerre contre la Russie ressemble à s’y méprendre à la folie fatale du capitaine Achab — cet homme qui perdit tout, esclave de sa passion de tuer la grande baleine blanche. Pourtant, il devrait être clair aujourd’hui que le Moby Dick russe n'est pas une proie que les Européens parviendront à capturer (ils ont essayé trois fois au cours des deux derniers siècles). Au contraire, les armes mêmes que déploie contre Moscou l’Europe ne font que hâter sa déchéance.


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Deutschsein für Fortgeschrittene


#Deutschsein für #Fortgeschrittene

Weltbürger, Antideutsche und EU-Patrioten haben zum Angriff auf die deutsche Nation geblasen und wir können uns kaum wehren. Das hat einen einfachen Grund: Wir wissen gar nicht mehr, was "Deutschsein" eigentlich bedeutet. Zeit also, irgendwo zwischen Geschichte, Mythos und kleinkariertem Schrebergartentum die Suche aufzunehmen. Denn die Verbundenheit mit unserem Land ist eigentlich das Normalste auf der Welt. Dass diese Aussage instinktive Rechtfertigungs- oder Relativierungsreflexe auslöst, ist ein Grund mehr, unsere Nation einmal gründlich unter die Lupe zu nehmen.

Über den Autor
Der #PhrasenDrescher wuchs in einem multikulturellen süddeutschen Haushalt bei einer schwäbischen Mutter und einem fränkischen Vater auf. Bei Wanderungen lernte er die Liebe zum Land, in Büchern die Liebe zur Sprache und bei seinen Mitmenschen die Liebe zur Nation kennen. Bei seinem Philosophie-, Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaftsstudium musste er allerdings feststellen, dass man mit dieser eigentlich vollkommen normalen Ansicht für Linksliberale, EU-Apologeten, Weltbürger und andere „Antideutsche“ bereits zur politischen Opposition zählt.
ISBN: 978-3-9823946-1-9

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Wer bricht in einen #Streichelzoo für traumatisierte Kinder ein und tötet dort einfach Tiere?


Die Menschheit ist am Ende. Sowas macht mich so wütend.

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In the ongoing battle between President Trump and Harvard University, Democrats and the media are siding with Harvard, because of course they are.

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The Chinese Communist Party has ordered its state-controlled airlines to halt all deliveries of Boeing aircraft, striking a blow to one of America’s manufacturing giants.

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