Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

and yes it does work - see my post automatically showing up on lemmy here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1181274

“#LosAngeles county #DA's office quits #Twitter due to barrage of 'vicious' homophobic attacks

The office said the slurs and sexually explicit images remained visible in replies to the account more than 24 hours after they were reported to Twitter.” https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/los-angeles-county-das-office-quits-twitter-due-barrage-vicious-homoph-rcna88529

Our Thursday, June 8 meeting will be at 4662 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. Doors open 6:30 p.m., and the meeting begins at 7:00. The meeting will be devoted to supporting Sarah Jones, club Parliamentarian and candidate for Port Orange City Council, District 2.

#voteblue #floridadems #gotv #vbm #votebymail

Amendment to put #abortionrights #reproductivefreedom on the ballot in #Florida.

Download link for petition: https://floridiansprotectingfreedom.com/petition/

May 11 meeting at 4662 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. Social time 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7:00. Ellen Roy, of the Volusia Democratic Executive Committee data team, will speak about the DEC's phone banking program and outreach to Democratic voters.

#GOTV #VBM #VoterTurnout #FloridaDems #VoteBlue

Congress should ban assault weapons. American lives depend on it.

There it is: #ARD, the biggest public broadcaster in the world, opened its own instance for #Mastodon today – https://ard.social
Its flagship news programme gets the first account: @tagesschau@ard.social.

On #Twitter the #Tagesschau has 4 million Followers, I am curious, how much it gets here and how fast. Could give us a hint on how active the german community on #Mastodon still is. The inoffical @tagesschau@squeet.me had amassed 53k Followers, the other public broadcaster @ZDF 13k in three weeks.

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"Officer-involved shooting" is a euphemism for "officer shot someone" -- and it's used, by police and journalist, to make reality fuzzy.

If all journalism organizations agreed to, as this commentary advises, abolish the "Exonerative Tense” in headlines (and I'd add, articles as well), journalism would be much improved.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emersonmalone/police-traffic-safety-headline-language-exoneration

Made this “hat” tile puzzle as a special request for a customer. Surprisingly challenging to put together! Pieces are 2x2” double sided wood

In case anyone missed it, my quantum entanglement posts are 6 parts so far! Here's part 2. https://skullsinthestars.com/2017/04/20/what-is-quantum-entanglement-part-2-randomness-and-measurement/

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

#Europe #RightsRetention

I have stumbled upon a surprising conjecture: The sequence defined by a(n) = n^2 - (n^2 XOR n) is injective, where XOR is bitwise exclusive OR. Can anyone prove or disprove this?