Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Truly terrifying stuff.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

Vice President Harris watched President Biden’s address to the nation from Houston, Texas, where she is spending the night after visiting the city’s Emergency Operations Center to receive a briefing on the ongoing recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl. Prior to departing Houston tomorrow, she will also deliver the keynote speech at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th national convention. - White House

Today, we sat down and reviewed NeoDB, a #Fediverse review system that lets you track books, movies, music, tv shows, games, podcasts, and more. There's some really incredible ideas beneath the surface.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/07/neodb-review-culture/

The Metals Company is desperate to start mining the deep ocean, so it funded research to prove its plans would have a low environmental impact.

Instead the scientists it funded found the metals produce oxygen that could be essential for the survival of deep-sea creatures.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/oxygen-ocean-study-conflict-1.7273929

#mining #tech #evs #ocean

A half dozen guests at Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress were arrested and charged today.

Among those arrested was Carmit Palty Katzir, an Israeli whose father and brother were both hostages killed in Hamas captivity. https://t.co/iXmXtQu7g2

Wish I had gotten more pics of these #Mushrooms

#Fungi #Photography

Taking extended time off to welcome a newborn is crucial for the health of parents, babies and businesses, but the U.S. still has no federal law mandating paid family leave https://t.co/WymDOHkWdh

The "Mastodon for Harris" group has been doing a tremendous amount of work with raising funds today through ActBlue. So far, the 1200+ donors have pledged over $88,000. The initiative only started yesterday. Most of that figure was raised today!

You can take part here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

Special thanks to @heidilifeldman for organizing this! #MastodonForHarris

EU renewables compatible with food production, nature protection – and maybe humans https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eu-renewables-compatible-with-food-production-nature-protection-and-maybe-humans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, shot in the head…The families told one of two stories: they were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697

"The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power..." @pluralistic

https://dice.camp/@pteryx/112831326650512796 #cloud #crowdstrike #tech #business

You may be surprised to learn China is not doing this to be woke. They're doing it because it's the cheapest way to generate power. We're behind, and Trump will make sure we never catch up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640

Brown & Cusati 2024: "Exploring the Evidence-Based Beliefs and Behaviors of LLM-Based Programming Assistants" https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13900 "We investigate 17 evidence-based claims by empirical SE research across five LLM-based programming assistants. Our findings show that [they] have ambiguous beliefs regarding research claims, lack credible evidence to support responses, and are incapable of adopting practices demonstrated by empirical SE research to support development tasks." #nwit

Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies in Chrome. "This is an extremely disappointing decision that really just highlights Google's commitment to their own profits over users' privacy," EFF’s Lena Cohen told @theregister. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/google_cookies_third_party_continue/

If you haven't seen the Mastodon-specific way to donate to the #Harris campaign, I suggest you check it out!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

Pleasantly surprised to see the lack of information they request - no address nor email is required to donate - so you don't even need to worry about being placed on a donor list to receive endless requests in the future.

#USPolitics #VoteBlue

President Biden's lingering regret and anger from when Democrats pushed him not to run in 2016 is fueling his determination to stay in the race in 2024, current and former Biden aides told Axios. https://t.co/8E6QUzHjEM

I can't believe that in 2024 we still have to explain so bluntly that "Academic journals are a lucrative scam". Yet here we are ...
Kudos to the Editorial Board of Philosophy & Public Affairs for resigning en masse and thank you to Arash Abizadeh for explaining why and what's next in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

PhD advising is mostly helping other deal with problems you dealt yourself in the past (and hopefully teach them to document their solutions better) ...

#astrodon #AcademicChatter #SciArt #Cartoon #PhD