Here's a parody about the price of gas having soared (with everything else) since the Iran war, called "Gasoline". It's adapted from the classic "Jolene" by the incredible Dolly Parton who sadly died a few weeks ago, but left an incredible legacy of music, generosity & heart ❤️
Every time your phone tells you where you are, it is using a mathematical model of the shape of the Earth.
A Black woman from rural Virginia spent decades building that model by hand, and almost nobody knew her name until she was in her eighties.
Gladys West. She grew up in a sharecropping family in Dinwiddie County and understood early that the alternatives were the tobacco fields or the factory. She finished top of her high school class, which came with a scholarship, and took it.
Her work was satellite geodesy: taking the raw data coming down from orbit and using it to compute, correction by correction, the true irregular shape of the Earth. Not a sphere. Not even a neat ellipsoid. A lumpy thing with gravitational highs and lows.
That model is the foundation the Global Positioning System sits on. You cannot locate a point on a surface until you know precisely what the surface is.
She did this for decades, largely unremarked, and retired in 1998.
She was recognised in 2018, when her sorority mentioned her biography at a function and someone realised what was in it.
The Air Force inducted her into its Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. She earned a PhD in her seventies.
Johnathan Newell, one of the Cornell 7 gang rapists is the one that sent the Snapchat message to the “Chi Phi Actives,” where the other 6 learned about the “free p*ssy.”
Never let this story die down and never stop calling it out.
He wants to be a Dr. No med school should accept him
This is Michael I. Kotlikoff, the President of Cornell University and one of the people who thought writing an essay was an acceptable apology for rape for 7 hours
He needs to be held accountable and he needs to resign in shame. Every single member of authority who let the woman down is complicit.
He should be fired and fined for dereliction of duty. Scumbag!
just doing my part to make sure these people never have a normal life ever again 🎀 The Cornell 7 & where they work:
• Matthew Ingalls: DataAnnotation, Matthew’s Dad is also a prof at the American University of Dubai. Matthew also goes by Umar Ingalls @Data_Annotation@AUDubai
• Johnathan Newell: Couldn't match him to a current employer
• Winston Lee: Republic of Korea Army @ROK_Army
• Gillio Lopes: Vdrio
• Diego Sarabia: Wells Fargo @WellsFargo
• Scott Norris: Glenfarne Group
• Scott Kretzschmar: Cornell University
let’s not forget Christina Liang, Director of Student Conduct at Cornell
more info below and on https://t.co/o1UJPySvaE
The Cornell University r@pist. These men drugged a young woman and took turns r@ping her. In a group chat, they took a picture of her and invited others to rape her. Only two of them were expelled the others had to write an essay. You should be outraged by the outcome. This young woman will forever be changed by what happened to her and these young men get a slap on the hand.
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor.
This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why.
Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people. https://t.co/hed5bdvdp4