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  1. December 30 attack in #SantaCruz on Impuestos Nacionales (national tax service) combined arson/lootinf, kidnapping of an official, and lengthy torture. Reporting of indictment claims arson was by UJC. A man has been indicted for the kidnapping/torture. « atb.com.bo/2023/01/06/involucrado-del-secuestro-y-tortura-al-abogado-del-sin-es-enviado-a-palmasola/
  2. Jeanine Áñez, convicted of illegal proclaiming herself president, remains under investigation for the comparativy petty charge of irregularly nominating a state enterprise head. #JeanineAnez #BOpol noticiasfides.com/nacional/seguridad/eba-justicia-suma-otros-cuatro-meses-de-detencion-a-anez-ella-rechaza-juicio-ordinario-420055
  3. So by my count #HakeemJeffries has receieved a plurality of votes for Speaker of the House more times than #NancyPelosi. Right?
  4. #SantaCruzEnEmergencia Civic Movement FB page calls for takeover of all police stations in regional capital of lowland Bolivia. This follows multiple arsons at law enforcement installations, prosecutors office. «
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  5. Foreign press arriving late to the #SantaCruzEnEmergencia protests should not lose sight of the headline events: Departmental Prosecutor's Office totally destroyed in response to arrests of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho. @ARJourdan/1610248464033538049
  6. If Lula's coordination efforts among Brazil, DR Congo, Indonesia do mark a turning point, we need to shift attention to Bolivia on deforestation. It has the largest primary forest loss outside those three. @OnBRM/1592074445170278400
  7. A nuanced statement from HRW Americas director about the detention of Luis Fernando Camacho… @hrw @_Cesar_Munoz/1609210960027488256
  8. Grain and meat producers of #SantaCruz have declared they will not sell food to the rest of #Bolivia until arrested governor #LuisFernandoCamacho is released. eldeber.com.bo/pais/bloqueos-y-decision-de-no-vender-alimentos-al-interior-del-pais-paralizaron-al-transporte-pesado-cru_309632
  9. Official and "self-convened" wings of the #SantaCruzEnResistencia have same time and place, very different visions in invites for for tonight's protests. "peaceful vigil" vs. "bring sticks, stones, shields, rockets" Both call to meet at Cristo Redentor to welcome 2023.
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  10. Arrest of Luis Fernando Camacho prompts new Santa Cruz protest wave marked by daytime blockades, night-time arson woborders.blog/2022/12/31/camacho-fiery-protest/
  11. Estimates of the global death toll from COVID in 2022 are few, but there's a rough consensus of 15-18 million dead by late 2021. The only live model of the three shown here, by @TheEconomist, suggests 4 to 7 million more died in 2022. #CovidIsNotOver #2022inReview
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  12. The @CDCgov researched the "burden" of COVID in the United States, how many people were really infected, hospitalized, and killed. Their online reporting of this only goes thru Sep 2021, estimating number of actual deaths was 1.32x the reported total. cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html
  13. Cumulative reported cases of COVID in the USA on December 31, 2021: 53,391,712 statista.com/statistics/1103185/cumulative-coronavirus-covid19-cases-number-us-by-day/ On December 21, 2022: 101,865,927 statista.com/statistics/1043366/novel-coronavirus-2019ncov-cases-worldwide-by-country/ Nearly half of all reported COVID infections in the USA happened in 2022. #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver
  14. CDC report: #LongCOVID certified as cause of death for 3,544 deaths April 2020-June 2022. (2021 and 2022 surveys were incomplete at time of the study.)
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  15. What we're seeing in #SantaCruz protests is alternation btw daytime advocacy by #ComiteProSC to "peacefully takeover" and "guard" public institutions from "infiltrators" and night time "self-convened" attempts to seize and burn them. #SantaCruzEnEmergencia #CamachoAprehendido
  16. The arson attack on the Departmental Prosecutor's Office in Santa Cruz was a sophisticated, pre-planned attack, with intent to thoroughly destroy the facility. In this, it echoes October 2019 arsons of electoral offices, including in Santa Cruz. «
  17. Detailed report summarizing witnesses of arson of the #SantaCruz Prosecutor's Office after the arrest of #LuisFernandoCamacho: a thorough operation to seize documents, light each floor on fire, separately set fires in dozens of vehicles on the property. eldeber.com.bo/santa-cruz/fiscales-hablan-del-incendio-y-detallan-los-hechos-ocurridos-antes-del-siniestro_309367 «
  18. Bolivian prosecutors sought 6 months of preventative detention of Luis Fernando Camacho, promising a series of investigative steps during that time. The steps listed suggest a genuine attempt to unravel the knot of coordination among the Civic movement, military, police mutiny. @FreddyteleSUR/1608560056974426114
  19. A Peruvian court has ordered the demolition of a four-decade-old concrete wall with Razor wire dividing rich and poor neighborhoods in Lima. eldeber.com.bo/bbc/la-justicia-peruana-ordena-derribar-el-polemico-muro-de-la-verguenza-que-desde-hace-mas-de-40-anos-s_309315 #Perú #Urbanism #ClassApartheid
  20. After a night of rage, the #SantaCruz civic movement is claiming that the arsons were orchestrated by government infiltrators. But a quick review of social media shows Cívico enthusiasm for the arsons, apparent duplicity in attempts to shift the blame. #CamachoAprehendido
  21. Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz department and regional leader in 2019 protests against Evo Morales, has been arrested in the Coup d'état investigation surrounding that crisis. His supporters responded with airport protests and a home arson. #CamachoAprehendido
  22. Indigenous/NDN/First Nations friends: What do you wish a room of primarily non-indigenous students would read/see/learn about indigenous rights? Indigenous solidarity activists: What texts or other encounters shaped directed you towards the work you do?
  23. Song writing feels pretty safe from #ChatGPT @barenakedladies
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  24. Eight months ago, I created an account on Mastodon. Here's what I've learned about the transition, with tips for my academic tweeps and for Mastodon developers. « mastodon.online/@Carwil/109563566056941526
  25. Economically viable fusion power is #vaporware. So long as we maintain the myth that it will provide limitless cheap energy, there will be funding for high-energy plasma physics, but the numbers don't pencil out. 🧵: #FusionPower #NIF #FusionBreakeven #NetZero « @CarwilBJ/1602714433666650112
  26. A quick run-down of the #NuclearFusion timeline and cost issues. TL;DR: Best-case nuclear fusion is too late to help w/ climate change; might never get cheaper than renewables.
  27. Less than a week after Pedro Castillo's failed auto-golpe / self-coup, Peru's political crisis has moved from Congress to the streets, with ongoing protests and seven deaths. In the South, numerous highways are cut off by protesters. #Peru #CrisisEnElPeru #PeruResiste
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  28. OpenAI's data on its current GPT3 #chatbot / #textsynthesis engine shows frequently made up facts: "hallucinations" and "imitative falsehoods." Those of us who grade papers for content are going to detect these pretty easily, imho. openai.com/blog/instruction-following/
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  29. Mass collective sabotage action disables French cement plant in protest of/resistance to pollution. #sabotage #climate @illwilleditions/1602050587276746754
  30. Why we need open data on issues of global concern. Plus a look at the key issues: proactive work by large institutions, formatting for access, and mandates for researchers to share their data. By @_HannahRitchie/ @OurWorldInData in Nature. « nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02691-4​ #opensciece
  31. Perú Libre, the party through which Pedro Castillo won election, will not join interim government in Peru, backs protests for new elections and constitutional reform. @VLADIMIR_CERRON/1601096713359351809
  32. Analysis of the Peruvian crisis from Roman Perdomo projects that right-wing in Parliament will continue to challenge the new President as it challenged Castillo over the past two years. liberation.fr/international/amerique/perou-apres-la-chute-du-president-castillo-le-parlement-reste-le-meme-et-la-droite-va-essayer-de-destituer-sa-successeuse-20221209_D2FCCJXWTFFIRE2SXEDCCWQB5Q/?redirected=1
  33. Bolivia's Ambassador to the OAS on Pedro Castillo's term: "We cannot deny that there was rejection of and conspiracy against" a popular* government. A popular, indigenous government is rejected and its overthrow is constantly sought." * Popular meaning "of the common people" « @BrujulaNoticias/1600592274630578182
  34. Bolivia's Ambassador to the OAS on Castillo's self-coup and arrest in Peru: "Even as the attack upon a popular government should be rejected and condemned, so too should any attempt to break the constitutional order be rejected." « @noticiasfides/1600597255337218081
  35. People with spreadsheets and actual expertise live tweeting the election: a list of experts. « twitter.com/i/lists/1323851722096283648?t=DBdP0_2CIKwUMSOrPn96BA&s=09
  36. The European Central Bank weighs in on crypto: an asset with no intrinsic value, destined to crash eventually. Warns that regulation gives the appearance of seriousness, banks that offer crypto trading for customers will suffer reputational costs when the crash comes. @ecb/1597894360510922752
  37. Browsing the archive of declassified US Government documents on Bolivia shows some pretty dramatic conversations before and after three events: the 1964 coup by René Barrientos, the 1967 San Juan massacre, and the 1979 Natusch Busch coup. Three very different US roles, perhaps.
  38. Catalan activists speak out against penal code reform that would widen the criminalization of protest through a broader definition of "public disorder." @omnium/1598013741328629783
  39. Flickr CEO actively considering implementing the ActivityPub protocol and making Flickr photos interoperable with #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. « @DonMacAskill/1597256480519966720
  40. I'm a Black American with Jewish ancestry who has spent time in the lands of the Shoah and all of this resonates with my experience of memorialization of genocide in Europe. @ClintSmithIII/1592180173667205120

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