Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
Paul Sutton
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@verge Nazi company. Not going to buy Apple again.
If I click on the 3 dots, and select embed, instead of an embed link the box that would contain this has the same text in the rest of the post.
Paul Sutton
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Next Tuesday: Evening talk on quantum physics (celebrating 100 years of QM)
If anyone is in the Rhein Neckar or Bergstrasse regions on February 18, we're speaking about Quantum Physics in the cosmos for general audiences at Starkenburg Sternwarte in Heppenheim! (in German)
https://www.starkenburg-sternwarte.de/vortragsprogramm/
It's going to be a mix of some history, a closer look at the consequences of the measurement problem, black holes and entropy, inflation and how to use quantum physics to study things a long time ago, in galaxies far away.
Paul Sutton
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Going on the record on this: Polio is Bad and getting a vaccine to not get Polio is Good
Paul Sutton
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The USA is a rogue state. The rest of us who dont want to live under Fascism had better deal with that...
..TODAY
We knew full well what to expect with trump as President. So why are people so shocked and stunned, hang on he is doing what he said he would do in the run up to the election, something many political parties need to start actually DOING.
Paul Sutton
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To whoever is DDOSing Codeberg right now: may you be DDOSed with a violent, possibly deadly diarrhea
Suspected car ram attacker in Munich is Afghan asylum seeker, officials say
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9x22dj423t
This is not good, once again it seems the authorities know about the suspects history and the system FAILED to take action.
I fear this will hand the election to the AfD. This would suit Trump and Musk andj their agenda, but the AfD are probably watchingj what ICE are doing in the US and order the same thing.
Interesting times ahead.
RFK Jr confirmed as Trump's health secretary by Senate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y25z4e4e1t
How the HELL is someone who clearly has no science or medical background, spreads nonsense about vaccines and medicines, end up in charge of a countries healthcare.
Hello little girl
Paul Sutton
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‘One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?’
Come on kids it’s easy…
Paul Sutton
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“Trump is declaring war on wolves, grizzly bears and imperiled wildlife across America by picking Brian Nesvik to run the Fish and Wildlife Service,” said Stephanie Kurose, the Center's deputy director of government affairs. https://biodiv.us/4hRsNSL
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“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/
https://bsky.app/profile/harvardlil.bsky.social/post/3lhjzh7f54226
Paul Sutton
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Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms
Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and may be linked to global biodiversity loss. The magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood.
We present a synthesis of pesticide (insecticide, herbicide and fungicide) impacts on multiple non-target organisms across trophic levels based on 20,212 effect sizes from 1,705 studies.
For non-target plants, animals (invertebrate and vertebrates) and microorganisms (bacteria and fungi), we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other physiological biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems.
Pesticides formulated for specific taxa negatively affected non-target groups, e.g. insecticidal neonicotinoids affecting amphibians. Negative effects were more pronounced in temperate than tropical regions but were consistent between aquatic and terrestrial environments, even after correcting for field-realistic terrestrial and environmentally relevant exposure scenarios.
Our results question the sustainability of current pesticide use and support the need for enhanced risk assessments to reduce risks to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Fedi needs to be more flexible towards small business and related activities such as promotion etc.
Paul Sutton
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There is def a market for Mastodon and GtS, but most people just want to join an app that their friends are on.
I get that, we need to act mainstream if we want to go mainstream, but that doesn't mean dark patterns, data selling and ads.
It just means making it super simple to get people onboard, and then gradually educate them about the fediverse and account migration.
Kind of like Threads, but open source 😎
I agree with this, it seems the rot set in decades ago, when we went through a phase wher if a child didn't spell a word correctly it was not corrected as we need to allow children to 'express themselves' as a result people ended up lacking the ability to spell properly.
At the time if you barely wrote anything on your exam paper you got a automatic fail, now you get rewarded to just writing your name, we went through a phase where everyone wins, as taking part is important (which is fine to a point).
I did my GCSEs at a time when hand written assignments were the norm, I could hand in typed assignments BUT had to also hand in a hand written version, I think this was to demonstrate it was my own work.
I agree on critical thinking and in fact I have printed off a few posters for the steam cafe so when displayed it may be a more subliminal message to people, as no one really responds to a 'lecture' on the subject, but hopefully what is displayed will open up conversation.
Interesting points made at the ditch summit, one was that if a student uses AI to do their work, should it be branded cheating OR impacting learning, the latter may seem to be playing down, but I think it raises a good point as you then ask the student have YOU Learned from the lessons and assignment.
Paul Sutton
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Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion:
Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology.
I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy students and whatnot. After all, _we_ dealt with hard, measurable facts, while _those_ people dealt with some weird thought constructs that had no relevancy to the real world - right?
But this is the end result - #TechBro culture and a vast portion of our entire economy using digital bullshit generators instead of critical thinking, and using this to lead us into a fascist future where either Truth or Facts have become meaningless.
Mea culpa.
Paul Sutton
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The U.S. is slashing food assistance, education, and Medicare while firing a huge chunk of the government workforce.
Where’s the money going?
$600 million for “armored Teslas.”
Yes, it’s real.
The same crowd that killed the “woke” electric postal vehicles is now buying overpriced, poorly made armored EVs
Corruption: found
https://www.state.gov/procurement-forecast
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FY25-Procurement-Forecast.xlsx
It shows what can be done, maybe they can give some of the UK departments some tips on how to do things, a good few have massive backlogs and inefficiencies.
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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