ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

Hello @hyperspacedev I wanted to try out the linux desktop app but it doesn't allowing me to login with my qoto.org account

I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23197204.government-announces-passivhaus-standards-adopted-scotland/

Also, remember that #Elsevier owns #Mendeley, which it uses to collect data on you. #Zotero is #OpenSource and not run a by an EvilCorp.

See this blog by @eikofried and Robin Kok on Elsevier's #data extraction and collection practices.

Lots of reasons to ditch anything to do with Elsevier.

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #research
https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/

This is a very good thread, one that give me hope. Thank you.
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RT @BotakozKassymb1
Qazaqs know that the world would care little if russia attacked and genocided us, and we still stand with Ukraine. We know that we would share the fate of Chechens, Georgians, Syrians. We still stand with Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/BotakozKassymb1/status/1607428796034039809

In 2024, Paris will ban non-essential vehicle thru-traffic from its city center. The plan is expected to cut around half of daily car journeys thru the core. Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move. Via @citylab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/paris-is-banning-traffic-crossing-the-city-center-from-2024

#Paris #cities #CarFree #urbanism #cars #city

Mastodon keeps surprising. Same posts. Same period. Different apps…

Philip Rotner writes,

"it appears that the previously missing link—the link between the fake elector scheme and Trump himself—is no longer missing. Trump not only ;participated' in the fake elector scheme, he orchestrated it."

#Trump #crime #Jan6 #insurrection

(1 of 2)

https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-jan-6th-report-says-about-the-fake-electors-scheme/

Excellent piece from @mikejones and @bestqualitycrab for @theconversationau covering the funding issue with #Trove at the National Library of Australia (who I don't think are on Mastodon).

Trove is an #API, which I've demo'd before at places like VALA, which makes the NLA's collections easily query-able.

Trove is #digitalinfrastructure for #digitalhumanities, #socialscience, #archives, #museums and other #GLAM activities.

And it's invisible. Which means it doesn't attract the funding or attention it deserves. Trove archives over 6 billion digital items. Items which speak to Australia's #CulturalHeritage.

If Trove were a supercomputer, it would be funded. If our digitalhumanities were as sexy as #STEM, Trove would be funded. But they're the same type of thing - digital #infrastructure that helps research. Trove is #ResearchInfrastructure. And we should fund it properly.

https://theconversation.com/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-and-the-national-library-is-threatening-to-pull-the-plug-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-197025

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science

Forecast 2023: Putin’s Russia will look more like North Korea https://ift.tt/rkG3QyX

We now host these #FOSS offerings all free and open:

#Funkwhale at https://tunes.artemai.art

#Pixelfed at https://pixel.artemai.art

#Lemmy at https://links.artemai.art

#Plume at https://blog.artemai.art

#GitLab at https://git.artemai.art

#StableDiffusion at https://artemai.art

First they came for the journalists, who were very surprised to find themselves in a giant warehouse filled with minorities, immigrants, disabled, trans, and gay people.

It's pretty remarkable how much Elon's Twitter takeover is a textbook fascist takeover: leftists immediately purged, censorship regime imposed behind the scenes, secret police rooting out enemies, right wing terrorism supported by the state, etc and how uncannily similar the mainstream liberal response of pretending nothing is wrong is, even with *very low* costs of walking out the door and refusing to collaborate.

Merry Christmas! The U.S. energy department just declared the Texas grid an emergency again-again!

Every time Ted Cruz flees to Mexico, an angel gets its wings! 🎄

Fuck Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, and every Republican, Texas voter. Also, merry Christmas. https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/109572011317991158

Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse.
https://theconversation.com/amp/children-born-today-will-see-literally-thousands-of-animals-disappear-in-their-lifetime-as-global-food-webs-collapse-196286

The hack of Piers Morgan's Twitter account comes just a few days after someone claimed to obtained the data of 400 million Twitter accounts in a major breach. That person was trying to sell the data and included Morgan's phone number and email as evidence that the breach data was authentic.

I don't see any great news articles about the breach, possibly because of the holidays, but @briankrebs has recently posted some reliably good info and analysis about it here on Mastodon.

AMAZING RARE sighting of massive phantom jellyfish. These jellies can grow to an astonishing 10 metres (33 ft) in length! This giant was spotted 990m (3,200 ft) below the surface off the California coast.

Video by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.