Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Hello little robot full of cameras, where's your privacy policy?

Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-dockworkers-threaten-israel-cargo-ban-gaza-flotilla-departs-genova/

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

One of the neat things about the IBM Selectric typewriter is that it has interchangeable "typeballs" for different fonts/languages. And now someone figured out how to 3D print custom ones, so now you can type on a Selectric in Comic Sans. https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit

I wish more people discussed what an independent Scotland would look like. For me, I'd like to rejoin the EU and see more people come to live and work here. Next I want land and property ownership to be changed. Let's get rid of the blight of second home ownership. Same for foreign ownership of vast tracts of land used for the benefit of a tiny minority. What about a rejection of foreign press and political parties in Scotland. These are all normal choices made by independent nations.

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.

Preparando as protestas pró-palestinas e antisionistas ao seu passo pola Galiza
@BDS_Galiza e Lugo por Palestina
Domingo 7 de setembro desde A Veiga a Monforte. Animando a levar bandeiras Palestinas no percurso. Saca a tua bandeira ao paso de La Vuelta
#stopgenocidio
#gaza
#palestina

#Typography matters.

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos

https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-boring-history-videos-are-flooding-youtube-and-drowning-out-real-history/

One of the things I spend a LOT of time on is committee work for the American Astronomical Society. Today's task was gathering up notes from lots of other members of that committee and turning it into an official FCC response.

This one is because the FCC now says that satellites are not subject to environmental review because they are completely outside the territory of the United States, and thus do not affect the environment.

Fortunately, that's stunningly easy to argue against! My refs:

He visto algunos vídeos de las protestas de ayer, y si vais a protestar, por favor, no os pongáis en peligro. Si queréis parar la carrera, poneos en la carretera solo antes los coches de la organización, pero no entre los coches y los ciclistas. Van muy rápido y tienen poco margen de frenado (los de delante te ven, los de detrás en el pelotón no). En la contrareloj, solo hay un minuto entre corredores, y los corredores suelen ir mirando el suelo y no hacia delante.
Id con cuidado, no os hagáis daño por fi 😐

La UCI cuando Rusia invadió Ucrania

vs

La UCI cuando Israel lleva casi dos años cometiendo un genocidio en Gaza

A los organizadores de La Vuelta no les gustan las protestas, habría que responderles lo mismo que ellos llevan días diciendo: "Es algo inevitable, que no se puede parar"

Cuando se ha cancelado la vuelta, la gente ha tomado la Gran Vía y se ha ido tranquilamente.
Delante de mi, un niño de unos 4 años llevaba un cartel donde ponía "Stop Genocide". Al lado, entre los voluntarios de la vuelta, un chaval con flequillo, indignado dice: "mira ese niño, no sabe ni lo que pone en el cartel" . La madre le he contestado "no le gusta que maten niños, Cayetano!"

Forget US Trade: Europe’s Mercosur & Mexico Trade Deals Explained #Video #EuropeanUnion

https://youtu.be/sffEjpLlTTY?si=V_aUfPNjjaJI8wiU

I'm at the coolest network meeting for EU gov #OSPO's in Brussels today 🔥🔥

I had an opportunity to talk with Dirk Schrödter, Minister for Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein (SH), and currently listening to SH @CIO Sven Thomsen's presentation.

SH is so far ahead!! They're implementing #Linux desktops, they're already using #Nextcloud and #LibreOffice, and end of this month all their gov email will be migrated from Microsoft Exchange to #OpenXChange.

#opensource #digitalsovereignty

This toot is to announce that I have officially divorced Microsoft. I was sick of how they always shared things about me without my permission, and made changes to our relationship without asking first. Then they brought a third party into our relationship and insisted that I rely on the new "person" for advice and help in everything. I tried to tell that "AI" "person" to go away, but they just kept appearing out of nowhere.

Anyway, I kicked them both out, and now I'm living with Linux, who is sweet and always asks for consent before we make any changes to how we live. Linux can do everything that Microsoft can do, and usually does it better. Linux can be a bit quirky, but is open to working things out and having productive conversations. I haven't felt this free in over 20 years.

#linux #LinuxMint #BreakUpWithMicrosoft #windows #NoRegretsHere