ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

hamster levels are critical

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He didn't just have sex with a minor. He paid to have her transported across state lines, making him a sex trafficker. A child sex trafficker.

He must be very popular with conservative Christian voters.

https://newrepublic.com/post/188426/matt-gaetz-high-school-girl-witnesses

Before it's Ruined (or an Unrealized Mean Side)

Self Portrait, oil on canvas, Rebecca Orcutt, 2020

#rebeccaorcutt #beckyorcutt #art #artist #artworld #selfportrait #beforeitsruined #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #oilpainting #huile #oil #öl #oleo #kunst #künstler #artoftheday #paintingoftheday #peintre #peinture #portraitart

Where are *you* finding hope on crises that feel impossibly big to change?

Last March, I rode my bicycle 50 miles through the snow to visit the site of a famous environmental disaster and the forests that are knitting together a broken land.

This feels like the right week to share the story.

If you like this story, do let me know. I've been trying to decide if I should write more creative nonfiction in the future after a hiatus for a while. cc @clive

https://natematias.medium.com/maple-syrup-time-845bc7045754

Only a federal privacy law that empowers ordinary people to sue companies that broker their sensitive data will have enough teeth to begin reining in the data broker industry. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more-current-american-privacy-rights-act

@bruces I rather like the idea presented in Greg Egan's "Distress". That of the Cognitive Big Bang: the universe is created when someone comes up with a fully explanatory Theory Of Everything; from which point it propagates both forward and backward in time.

This week I wrote about consequence in an age of coming fascist supremacy, the need for ourselves to find safe people, and to identify unsafe people, and the ways that they will tell us which they are often without even knowing they are doing so.

https://www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-engagement/

The Recess Appointments Gambit, Explained

One of the Meidas guys explains the possible/probable machinations of how 78-year old career criminal and adjudicated rapist prznint-elect Stupid could install his cabinet misfits into the government bypassing the entire confirmation process (Emphasis is mine): "… I talked a little in yesterday’s column about Trump talking about making his Cabinet appointments as “recess appointments” to get them in office prior to Senate…

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/11/17/the-recess-appointments-gambit-explained/

12 years of #Scarfolk (and my life) now deleted from Twitter/X...
The many political reasons aside, X's change to its Terms of Service are damaging for creatives, as their work - and all your data infact - is now training #AI.

I teach at a very academically rigorous school. But, there are a few things this school does that might surprise people:

1. Many teachers teach a wide range of grade levels. So you could have a teacher who *could* teach Linear Algebra teaching you in 4th grade math.

2. The school makes time for creative math and CS in addition to the regular class. So I get to work with students without pressure to get them past any particular test or goal posts.

Now that I've played around with it a bit, there are some things I like better about Bluesky. What worries me is the uncertainty around what might come next (e.g., advertising, paid memberships, being bought by the Tesla guy). Mastodon seems far better positioned to resist such threats. For now, I plan to stay here and continue to bridge my account to Bluesky.

#bluesky #fediverse #mastodon

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike.

The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities because it’s not profitable for private companies to serve them.

#tech #shopify #postoffice #canada #cdnpoli

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

#Garfield #music #OneWeek
#bot #lyrics

White button mushroom extract shrinks tumors and delays their growth 🔛 @darnell@flipboard.com (Flipboard) 🐬📰 https://newatlas.com/cancer/white-button-mushrooms-prostate-cancer/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=NewAtlas/magazine/Medical+Advances

Just felt so lucky to be able to enjoy the golden hour in this wonderful landscape.

Alt Text: signpost for Norfolk Coastal Path with golden haze. Walking down the steps from the seal viewing area into the sunset. A cow in the fading light.

#HorseyGap
#Norfolk

TIL it is possible to import your Twitter account posts to Bluesky. Post portability may be a winning argument for many.

Source code of the tool: https://github.com/marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

#Twitter #Bluesky #SocialMedia

Mark Hamill joined Bluesky.
Stephen King joined Threads.
The Fediverse has Linus Torvalds and Tim Berners-Lee.

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon