And another day of FB not doing the right thing, Covid vaccines for kids, Republican voters not for accountability, our doom awaiting us, ending ‘gender-normalizing surgery,’ and recognizing hippos as people comes to a close:
“America’s moral crisis isn't about ending pregnancies, contraceptives, or which bathroom people use. The real moral crisis shows up on Wall Street, in legislative cloakrooms, and in the failure of those with power to serve the public good.” — Robert Reich
Deaths
US: 759,932 (+2083)
World: 4,978,725 (+8561)
Cases
US: 46,497,719 (+80,194)
World: 245,275,484 (+457,810)
Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users. In March, as claims about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts to stop the spread of the virus, some Facebook employees thought they had found a way to help. By altering how posts about vaccines are ranked in people’s newsfeeds, researchers at the company realized they could curtail the misleading information individuals saw about COVID-19 vaccines and offer users posts from legitimate sources like the World Health Organization. “Given these results, I’m assuming we’re hoping to launch ASAP,” one Facebook employee wrote, responding to the internal memo about the study. Instead, Facebook shelved some suggestions from the study. Other changes weren’t made until April. When another Facebook researcher suggested disabling comments on vaccine posts in March until the platform could do a better job of tackling anti-vaccine messages lurking in them, that proposal was ignored.
FDA panel backs Pfizer’s low-dose COVID-19 vaccine for kids. The U.S. moved a step closer to expanding COVID-19 vaccinations for millions more children as government advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s shots for 5- to 11-year-olds.
Fossil fuel messaging has won over Republican voters, poll reveals. Nearly two in three Republicans believe oil and gas companies are at least somewhat responsible for the climate crisis – but they don’t want to keep these companies accountable. In fact, even when they were told that oil and gas companies knowingly misled the public about their products driving climate change, most Republicans said the public and the government should not hold those companies accountable. — WTAF?
45% of Americans Don't Believe Humans Cause Climate Change. But while 69.5 percent of respondents believe global warming is happening, they were divided on what’s causing it. Forty-five percent don’t think humans are mostly to blame for global warming, opting instead to blame “natural changes in the environment” or “other,” and 8.3 percent denied global warming is happening altogether. — Our doom awaits us.
Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, a UN report has said. The UN World Meteorological Organization said that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is "way off track" in capping rising temperatures. — Humans are not the brightest species on the planet.
Intersex people have been challenging 'gender-normalizing surgery.' Doctors are starting to listen. An increasing number of surgeons are giving parents of intersex children options, rather than recommending surgery as a default solution.
Luxembourg is set to become the first European nation to legalize the growing and use of cannabis, the government announced in a statement on Friday. Consuming cannabis in public, however, will remain illegal.
A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people with legal rights in the U.S.
Astronomers may have found planet beyond Milky Way for first time. Astronomers have spotted tantalizing signs of a planet in a star system outside the Milky Way, which, if it's confirmed, would be the first ever found in another galaxy...The possible planet was discovered in a spiral galaxy called Messier 51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is more than 23 million light-years from Earth.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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