Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171/presentation/34129 visual prosthesis, #blind #phosphenes #Utah #array #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience #SfN2025

Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171/presentation/34129 visual prosthesis, #blind #phosphenes #Utah #array #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience #SfN2025

#DemonMineral:

"A penetrating look at the #radioactive desert of the #NavajoNation suffering from the effects of decades of #UraniumMining, Demon Mineral paints a devastating portrait of #bureaucratic inaction and its long- term impact on human life. This fascinating documentary, directed by Hadley Austin and produced by Dr. #TommyRock, #Dine', employs an array of well-sourced scientific data, coupled with archival and on-the-ground footage, to bring into vivid focus the heartbreaking toll of omnipresent #radiation on the #Arizona, #NewMexico, and #Utah Indigenous population. With few avenues available to offset their suffering — compounded by sustained apathy from politicians who might be able to help — a group of #Indigenous scientists, elders, and #activists strive to reclaim Diné #Bikeyah, the sacred land of the Navajo, and gain compensation for their contaminated lands. The illuminating 'Demon Mineral' is an essential vehicle for those directly impacted by this dire situation to draw attention to their plight." — Zaki Hasan

Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/556699310

#Downwinders #UraniumFilmFestival
#InternationalUraniumFilmFestival #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoWar #UraniumMining #NoUraniumMining #LandBack #Activism #IndigenousLands
#IndigenousActivism #NoMining #CulturalGenocide #SaveOakFlat #WhiteMesa

The Silent Killers in #IndianCountry: #Copper, #Lithium, #Uranium and #Plutonium

Judge finds plutonium plants in #NewMexico and #SouthCarolina violated environmental laws

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 10, 2024

"The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at #LosAlamos National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge.

"Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with #radiation, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign #mining companies targeting Native #sacred lands and communities.

" #CopperMining is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred #OakFlat; #Hualapai are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada for #lithium, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species.

"Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens #Havasupai's aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in #Utah is poisoning #Utes.

"Interior Sec. #DebHaaland said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called ' #GreenEnergy transition' in the #FourCorners region.

"More than 500 radioactive #UraniumMill sites remain on the #NavajoNation that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. #EPA, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the #ColdWar sites.

"In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the #environment in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina.

"'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, #AntiNuclear proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration ( #NNSA), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [ #DOE],' reports Source New Mexico.

"The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of #PlutoniumPits, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for #nuclear weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium.

"'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the #RockyFlatsPlant in #Colorado in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and #EnvironmentalCrimes,' Source New Mexico reports.

"The U.S. government's #AtomicBombTesting in #Nevada left a trail of cancer and death for #WesternShoshone. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth.

"'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation of Indians. Zabarte is featured in ' #Downwind' about radiation poisoning from U.S. #NuclearTests.

"Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for #environmental crimes and deaths from #cancer -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of #UraniumMining in the #GrandCanyon, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. #Biden's attorneys have joined the lawsuit with #RioTinto to devastate #OakFlat.

"Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer.
Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches #OakFlat, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of #Aboriginal sacred history in caves in #Australia.

"Another Australian mining company is targeting #Hualapai's sacred site. It is #Hawstone / #ArizonaLithium, in Perth, Australia.

" #EnergyFuels, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at #WhiteMesaUte, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site. It is #LithiumAmericas.
#Hopi judge #DianeHumetewa granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at #Hualapai's sacred spring."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html

#NoUraniumMining #CopperMining #LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #NoWar #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #RecycleCopper #RecycleLithium #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #DefendTheSacred #WhiteMesaMill #Ute #AtomicBomb #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #FirstNations #NativeAmericanNews #SuperfundSites #ToxicWaste #SaveOakFlat #OpenPitMining #Pollution #ReaderSupportedNews

#DefaidodonDay! 😊🐑🐑🐑
Guess we celebrated early. two weeks ago, found ourselves following the sheep that were the Heritage Parade in Cedar City Utah! #Utah #Transhumance

#DefaidodonDay! 😊🐑🐑🐑
Guess we celebrated early. two weeks ago, found ourselves following the sheep that were the Heritage Parade in Cedar City Utah! #Utah #Transhumance

They're building a #forced #labor #concentrationcamp for #homeless #people in #Utah. And there's still people saying those of us who recognise reality are hysterical and insane. There's no line that can be crossed to make them admit it IS that bad, serious, and unacceptable, is there?

They're building a #forced #labor #concentrationcamp for #homeless #people in #Utah. And there's still people saying those of us who recognise reality are hysterical and insane. There's no line that can be crossed to make them admit it IS that bad, serious, and unacceptable, is there?

#Utah Senator Mike Lee is trying to steal public lands again. This time he's trying to hide his intentions in language about immigration and wildfires, but it's ultimately about making public lands private for extraction industry donors to him.
#utpol #PublicLands

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/mike-lee-attacks-the-wilderness-act

#Utah Senator Mike Lee is trying to steal public lands again. This time he's trying to hide his intentions in language about immigration and wildfires, but it's ultimately about making public lands private for extraction industry donors to him.
#utpol #PublicLands

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/mike-lee-attacks-the-wilderness-act

#GiftArticle

In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Utah already has a severe shortage of #psychiatric beds, she noted. The #legislature is unlikely to fund hundreds of new beds, & even if it did, there is no work force to staff them.

Without enormous new spending, she said, the center could function less as a treatment facility than “a prison or a warehouse.”

The emerging portrait of the center, scheduled to open in 2027, brings to life a vow that #Trump made 2 years ago in an extraordinary campaign video.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps

Critics of the new plan say that confining people to a site on the city’s outskirts threatens #CivilLiberties & warn that the promised services may not materialize. The efforts coincide with deep cuts to #Medicaid, which could thwart the project’s financing.

“I’m super anxious about it,” said Jen Plumb, a physician & Democratic state senator who calls the promise of high-quality #medical care “pie in the sky.”

#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #plutocracy #USpol

While the #Utah effort began before Trump’s return to office, it mirrors his pledge to move the #homeless from urban cores to “tent cities” with *services*. And it accelerated after #Trump issued an EO in July, calling for strict camping bans & expanded power to #involuntarily treat homeless people.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

“An accountability center is #involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in & out,” Randy Shumway, chairman of the state #Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. #Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, & guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”
[sure, Jan.]

#Trump #law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some #homeless Utahns can avoid #jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under #CourtOrdered civil commitment & the effort will include an “accountability center” for those with addictions.

#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

To glimpse the future #homelessness #policy in the age of #Trump, consider 16 acres of scrubby pasture on the outskirts of #SaltLakeCity where #Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 #homeless people in what supporters call a services campus & critics a #DetentionCamp.

State planners say the site, announced last month after a secretive search, will treat addiction & mental illness & provide a humane alternative to the streets, where afflictions often go untreated & people die at alarming rates.

#GiftArticle

In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“Utah approves internment camps for homeless people”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian @Independent @thetimes @newyorktimes @miamiherald

“The US state of Utah has this week approved a ‘mega camp’ to hold 1,300 homeless people – in isolation, seven miles from the nearest town and with no transport links”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/30/utah-homeless-people/

#Press #US #Utah #Homeless #InternmentCamp #MegaCamp #ForcedLabour #Gulag #UK #Starmer #Refugees #FarRight

#Utah #homelessness #CultureOfCruelty

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-homeless-2674244434