SuezanneCBaskerville

Long term #SecondLife resident.

I started Second Life near the end of 2003, over 9 years ago as of 3-2013.

My key:2df2dda4-6a19-495f-8889-9f46ecae5dd5

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Sigh... once again @NBCUniversal is too lazy to actually check that they own the copyright to footage before claiming it. This is straight from the STS 119 fly around, shot by NASA Astronauts using NASA equipment and soundly in the public domain.
The documentary is a good watch but I'm having to switch out this footage because the publisher isn't doing a basic level of verification of ownership.

[Second Life @SecondLife]

Second Life Mobile just got another update. Bubble Chat, Object Chat, and single tap interactions make it easier to communicate and interact without breaking your view of the world.

Read the latest Mobile Update:
➡️ https://t.co/3yAaGethxU

[Elie Litvin @ElieLitvin]

@OddStockTrader X was incredibly useful, back when they had functional advanced search operators and booleans worked, especially within curated lists. If you have highly curated lists, which you've built up over the years, it weeds out all of the noise. Unfortunately, they had to ruin it, ofc.

[William Makis @MakisMedicine]

GROK just used my images to help scammers in Vietnam defraud thousands of cancer patients.

Some of these dying cancer patients sent the Vietnam scammer money, after GROK repeatedly "confirmed" it was a legitimate account.

GROK couldn't stop hallucinating.

A dangerous GROK AI Hallucination hurt many terminally ill Cancer patients.

Please fix this.

[boycat @boycatapp]

So @Google just acquired a cybersecurity company founded by veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200 cyber intelligence unit called Wiz for $32 BILLION.

Most people will never notice this deal.

Here's everything you need to know 🧵👇

[hadeel | هديل @itshadeellll]

They assassinated my doctor in uni i genuinely cant stop crying 💔

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Grok is deleting its tweets where it provided incorrect responses misidentifying the dates, locations, and events in videos and images. Not correcting itself, just deleting the evidence of its errors. This is so bad.

[Stephen Black @stephenRB4]

The world needs more books and less bombs 📚

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I still think the most important thing we’ve ever done as a species was send people to the moon

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

The SAVE Act says your birth certificate name has to match your married name, and a marriage license is no longer considered an ID, so women will have to purchase a U.S. Passport in order to vote. It's just a poll tax for poor women who've never traveled, ruled unconstitutional

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history.
Yale University, 1969.
Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program.
Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?"
The faculty answered firmly: No.
Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit.
Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them.
So she started looking.
She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont.
There were names. There were credentials. There were careers.
The professors had been wrong.
But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing.
Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams.
But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased.
It wasn't random. It was systematic.
Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less.
Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries.
Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside.
She needed a name for what she was documenting.
In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870.
In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect.
The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere.
Her dissertation became a lifelong mission.
For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded.
Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating.
Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions.
Eventually, the evidence became undeniable.
Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased:
Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick.
Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize.
Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed.
And countless others whose names had nearly vanished.
Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out.
The Matilda Effect became standard terminology. Scholars used it to examine how credit is assigned, how authors are listed, who receives awards, who gets left out.

[Madelaine Hanson @MadelaineLucyH]

“If a man did that to me, I’d punch him”

I keep hearing this from guys, usually well meaning guys, but it’s actually pretty offensive. We can’t punch every man who touches our ass on the escalator or covertly presses his legs or crotch against you. You have to just pretend it isn’t happening, all the time, constantly, or you’d go insane.

[Pastor L. WayneTronics @Tronicssystem]

Them dog whistles are super loud but hey man he pardoned a few rappers so he can’t be racist then, right?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🚨🚨The Son-in-Law Intelligence Briefing

Donald Trump has revealed that his primary source on Iranian intentions was Jared Kushner. Not the CIA. Not the NSA. Not the Director of National Intelligence. His son-in-law.

“Based on what Jared told me, I thought Iran would attack us,” Trump said.

Normal presidents have national security councils, intelligence briefings, career analysts who spend their lives tracking adversary capabilities. Trump has family.

This is how a nuclear-armed superpower decided to go to war. The world economy now runs on Kushner’s gut feeling.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:

TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more

This is oligarchy.

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

Insane framing.

He was anally gang-raped.

He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used.

There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it.

Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera).

He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well.

After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera.

These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists.

They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested.

And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial.

This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process.

The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”.

And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it.

This is just what their society does.

They torture Palestinians.

[SuezanneCBaskerville @suezanne]

I found it. https://t.co/YBem3YabuO

[SuezanneCBaskerville @suezanne]

Maybe a Second Life resident or Linden Lab employee can help me recall the X username of a Second Life user. The X username has either Mizo or Miso in it and I think something like dharma. They had a prior Twitter account with a bio that said they channeled Dorothy Parker.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨THIS IS CRAZZYYY: The United States Secretary of Defense just said this out loud:

“Flying over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We’re playing for keeps.”

Tehran has a population denser than New York City.

“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.”

Those are human beings. Families. Children.

And the man controlling the most powerful military on earth is describing their deaths like a movie trailer.

Six soldiers dead. An illegal war built on lies.

No congressional vote. No plan.

And this is who’s running it.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

It seems like anti-War accounts are being suspended and throttled at a rapid rate right now.

If they take me down then my back-up is @HiddenRep0rt