Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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New art! 🎨
Week 5, 52 Weeks of Finding Light, 6"x6" oil on board (2023).
Available in my Etsy shop with your choice of frame:
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@zleap @shriramk @ben @Cmastication There is current ongoing work by Scott Aaronson at OpenAI and other groups (this looks promising: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226) on effective watermarking strategies
@doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world
Cool thanks and will do that, found this so far,
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history
Hopefully fedi can be a force for good and a force for change.
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A reminder that, in the real world where people live and work, “Cancel Culture” is usually perpetrated by Republicans purging people for being insufficiently deferential to white Christian power.
Republican apparatchiks just fired a University President so they could replace her with a white supremacist.
#Florida #Fascism #CancelCulture
https://news.yahoo.com/college-board-replaces-president-former-233312340.html
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Most valuable career guidance I've come across in a long time was given by Steve Gibson in his latest podcast.
my best advice for picking a career, any career, has never changed: first and foremost follow your heart over your wallet. Many people with fat wallets and thin lives. Find something you love and work to get really good at it. You’ll enjoy the process of getting good at it and then you’ll love being good at it.
Security Now 908 - 31 January 2023
Title: Data Operand Independent Timing
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FBI searching Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/politics/fbi-searching-joe-biden-home-rehoboth
I want to know why the FBI isn’t searching every residence Trump owns, including the golf course his ex-wife is buried on? How can Biden be under more scrutiny than the guy who admitted he STOLE Top Secret documents!! #GarlandFailure
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Boost this if you ever had to manage naming your computer files using only eight characters, plus the three character extension.
#eightdotthree
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If you don’t want to do the math, that’s about 15,000 Americans still dying from COVID every single month.
But sure. The pandemic is over.
@dangillmor
Is there a way to preseve the existing curriculum content? So it can't be forgotton or erased from history, people have studied this, have notes, etc, so if we can collate them or at least ensure they don't get thrown away (which people do once courses have ended) we can ensure that the material is available to others.
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What a disgrace the "nonprofit" College Board has made of itself -- "strips down" the Advanced Placement program in African American Studies to satisfy racist critics. (AP courses are a BILLION-dollar revenue item for this outfit...)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html
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Congratulations to Exxon Mobile for earning $56 billion net profit in 2022. Against all odds, they found a way to make record profits
$6.3 million per hour
$1,750 per second
But don’t worry. That didn’t stop Exxon Mobil from getting subsidies from our government. Since FY2000
Texas gave them $1.4 Billion
Louisiana: $500 Million
The federal government: $5.4 Billion in bailout money
Does anyone want to know why we are speedrunning to climate crisis?
@doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world
Which is why I suggested you could do with an account similar to the @auschwitzmuseum which gives a day to day post of a person, persons or event at the camp, but apply to black history there are many people in Black history to celebrate, but also many people who have been killed by police alone, that should not be forgotton, so weather it is a birthday, or a person who has contributed to science, human rights, politics etc, lets celebrate, there has to be something for everyday of the year.
It is also really useful to be reminded of MLK day, we don't have that in the UK, but there would also be Rosa Parks (which kids do learn about) and many others, including those who worked at NASA etc.
It just brings all the names forward so they are not forgotten, puts photos to names.
Yes, the changes in the Highway code puts responsibility on drivers.
However surely as a pedestrian you do have some responsibility, to use commons and be observant.
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How US Policy Devastated Small Dairy Farms and Boosted Corporate Monopolies
"Corporate consolidation is at the heart of our food system's dysfunction," said one policy analyst.
Is there not some treatments using things like hypnosis to help people overcome their fear of say snakes or spiders, or other therapeutic techniques that can do something similar.
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Okay, so after watching #TheLastOfUS on #HBO, I wondered if #SciFi #zombies (basically a virus, bacteria, etcetera, cause craziness & not a living dead scenario) could occur in humans.
According to #science, the answer is yes. At the 10:15 mark of this video mentions a parasitic protozoan that replaces mammels fear of #cats with a love for cats (or at least their scent.
https://youtu.be/jM5jf-8ekVA
I guess this explains why #Caterday is so popular online (regardless of the social platform used).
Although it usually infects mice 🐁, this parasite can affect humans as well, as it wants us to be eaten by cats (even big cats like lions). From #ScienceFiction to science fact. Crazy if you ask me!
@Tilopa@convo.casa @theappletree
Some thoughts
1. Lack of teaching in schools
2, Lack of teaching of critical thinking and questioning skills
3. Social media, has become a news source
4. Things go viral without proper fact checking, people share first, think second
5. People are lazy, easier to just read a social media post and take it as fact, share false, mis information without much consequence for self or others.
Plus much more.
Interesting to read on here that education standards in the west have dropped (well that goes without saying), also read countries such as india and China apparently have banned TikTok, as they know social media distracts kids from the work in schools. It seems that (granted this is from the daily mail, so I won't take it too seriously) that kids get more education from TikTok than from school, if this is the case what are they actually learning in schools, certainly NOT the 5 items above.
We are so scared to teach X in case it upsets someone or a small group, learning about the holocaust, requires us to look at horrific ideas and facts. When I was at college in the 90s we were told to expect abstract thought processes, people need to read, learn stuff that is new or challenges thinking or that is complex. We learn to accept facts backed with evidence, but challenge facts (like in science) with research and new evidence that comes from that, but keep challenging.
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Ah thanks for clearing that up.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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