ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Thinking about https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/DNOTE-ethical-web-principles-20240319/#verify today : "The web must make it possible for people to verify information and assess the trustworthiness of its source." #EthicalWebPrinciples

Folks, #ElonMusk is a full-on, raving fascist lunatic. It's time for sane people to have nothing to do with ANY of his companies, including both #Tesla and X/#Twitter. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/radicalized-elon-musk-puts-conspiratorial-055858883.html

This episode of Nova, with Western researchers asking questions about the origins of human settlement on Rapa Nui, would be a lot shorter if Western explorers hadn’t previously killed all the people who could answer them.

tests are showing existentialism levels at 49%

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look up

Let’s see if the Fediverse works for this kind of stuff:

I’m looking for a teacher of classical guitar. Has to be San Francisco. Prefer someone who specializes, too. (Not just someone in a band who also owns a nylon-string guitar and can play Malageña.)

DMs welcome.

#classicalguitar
#musicinstructor
#sanfrancisco

And there it is, the first appearance of the #ansible, from 1974

An extraordinarily powerful protest as thousands line the seafront at San Sebastian in the Basque Country of Spain to denounce the ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli state.

The sirens you can hear in the background are those of Guernica.

Mastodon hive mind, please work your magic!

I'm looking for recommendations on interesting YouTube channels that talk about videogames. Not streamers or such, but something more essay-lile, such as GMTK, DidYouKnowGaming, or NakeyJakey.

Thanks!

p.s.: boosts for wider visibility are greatly appreciate! 🥰

Billy Dee Williams recalls attending underground gay parties at the Met Opera House in the 70s
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/billy-dee-williams-recalls-attending-underground-gay-parties-at-the-met-opera-house-in-the-70s/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into LGBTQ Nation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation

Hi Fedi Family,

In 2008 Californians voted for Prop8 that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the California constitution. While this was defeated in courts this draconian Prop8 language is still in the California constitution. Justice tHomas and the right wing SCOTUS is openly hinting at destroying precedent and trampling rights. If they overturned Obergefell - the Prop8 language in the California Constitution will act as a “trigger law”, raining havoc on queer families like mine across California.

Please spread the word to vote “YES” to repeal Prop8 (2008) from the California constitution in Nov 2024. Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about it.

Boosts appreciated.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Right_to_Marry_and_Repeal_Proposition_8_Amendment_(2024)

#lgbt #lgbtq #California #marriageequality #Prop8 #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #queer #nonbinary #enby #HumanRights #Politics #USpol #scotus #lgbtqia #indivisible #equality #trans #love

"Musk, Tesla’s CEO and largest shareholder, moved the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, in 2021, partly because of tensions with various California agencies over practices at the Fremont factory."

Racist practices. That adjective is missing, yet important.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/16/tesla-settles-racial-discrimination-claims

A snow-covered stage in an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium's theater.

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/undercliff-sanatorium

😆

Trump informed a rally in Ohio yesterday that there will be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected. Robert Reich responds:

"Trump is clearly desperate. He knows that his future freedom and his fortune both depend on winning in November. He has no qualms about turning Americans against Americans to achieve this goal. Apparently he is even willing to fuel violence, a second civil war."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-out-of-his-mind-and-desperate

Study indicating students don’t learn well in rooms with over 700ppm carbon dioxide. And over 1300 they definitely can’t learn (I’ve flown in planes with levels that high).

Study was done in 1893.

Like global warming, this stuff has been known for more than a century. It was just inconvenient to making excess profit. https://bird.makeup/users/mdc_martinus/statuses/1768598494216864164

Birth control pills will be found on retail shelves in the US for the first time in a few weeks.

#Opill is 98% effective, quite affordable and is a progestin-only pills, which carries a very minimal risk of blood clots.

Quick explainer from a pharmacy professor:
https://theconversation.com/opill-the-first-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill-will-be-on-shelves-soon-here-are-some-key-things-to-know-225245
#birthcontrol #health

If you are asking about beautiful geese, here's the anser.

Graylag geese (Anser anser) in Barcelona last month.

#birdphotography #birdwatching

This is a welcome recognition by Majority Leader Schumer that the Netanyahu government cannot continue along its horrendous path. It’s time for the US to use our leverage to back this up with action. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/chuck-schumer-israel-speech