ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

There are reports of a forest defender being killed by the police. Cops will claim no matter what that they killed in self defense. Again, cops lie literally all the time. Do not believe or uncritically repeat their narrative. Wait for details. Solidarity with forest defenders.

Dept. of Justice: "The founder and majority owner of a cryptocurrency exchange, Bitzlato Ltd, was arrested last night in Miami for his alleged operation of a money transmitting business that transported and transmitted illicit funds and that failed to meet U.S. regulatory safeguards, including anti-money laundering requirements.
Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, a Russian national who resides in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon..."
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-and-majority-owner-cryptocurrency-exchange-charged-processing-over-700-million

I have a question about three of my favorite groups. First let me introduce them:

The orthogonal group O(n) is the group of all real-linear transformations T: ℝⁿ → ℝⁿ that preserve the usual inner product.

The unitary group U(n) is the group of all complex-linear transformations T: ℂⁿ → ℂⁿ that preserve the usual inner product.

The symplectic group Sp(2n,ℂ) is the real-linear transformations T: ℂⁿ → ℂⁿ that preserve the imaginary part of the usual inner product.

(1/n)

archillect:

Jan 31: #Mastodon How-To For Activists, Organizations & Movements

With hate speech taking over Twitter, many of us are tired of our vulnerability to the whims of corporate-owned social media. Join this free 2-part training run in collaboration with the @openrightsgroup. Basics to advanced topics including setting up a movement server. https://socialmovementtechnologies.org/mastodon-how-to-for-activists-organizations-movements-jan-31-feb-2-2023/ #HumanRights #ClimateChange #BLM

archillect:

It’s not fair to make fun of Microsoft's terrible graphic design because your designs would look almost as bad if all you had to use were Word and Publisher.

Okay boardgame Mastodon, I need your help! Who should I be following on here?

I am looking for designers, content creators, fans. Whoever is into boardgames and is making this Mastodon thing work, I want to be following them. Let's make a thread of this!

Chaco Canyon from my storm chase trip there last fall. Hard to tell on anything but a big screen, but the rainbow is landing in Pueblo Bonito, the biggest of the ruins. Similarly, the sky is full of raindrop streaks, since it was pouring on me when I shot this from under and umbrella.

#ChacoCanyon #photography #ruins #StormChasing

How to Be a Free Spirited Person

The Races at Longchamp Date: 1866
Artist: Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81533/the-races-at-longchamp

not an #artbot @art

Climate protest not a crime, Greta Thunberg says after detention https://reut.rs/3wv7aSN

Today’s excellent spam: “Hello Mr (Mrs) GLENN, I'm A Student And I'm Honored To Be Selling Personalized T-Shirts”

ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.

OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

#tech #chatgpt #ai

We don't need to drink eight glasses of water a day. The original study was clear the water we needed largely comes from food! https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition/water-myth

Just borrowed this from Hoopla for the one Simon Strantzas story I haven't read. (Plus all the other fab authors.) @bookstodon @bookstadon #HorrorStories #HorrorFiction #WeirdFiction

Hope to visit an exhibit like this, someday... I didn't realize her paintings were so large!

#hilmaafklint #mastoart #fediart #paintings #painters #installation #museum #musee #arte #kunst #exhibit

Installation view, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 12, 2018–February 3, 2019. Photo: David Heald

On the one hand it is very convenient when your body has a built in portal that makes it easier for doctors to poke around and see inside; but on the other hand, I would prefer they not