Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic wrote: The EU's top privacy regulator may declare Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based ads: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge
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#JCPA #surveillance #adModel #networkEffects #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #cookieWall #business #commercial surveillance #consent theater #contextualAdvertising #corruption #dma #dsa #eu #gdpr #ireland #link tax #Schrems #noyb #private #surveillance #advertising @dataGovernance
They suppressed their research on climate change for 40 years, I just feel people will eventually snap,. we had riots in 2011, i don't condone that, but it is inevitable something could happen.
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@zleap I don't need to encourage society to revolt. It's doing that for itself already. I hope some time in my lifetime the oil companies pay for the damage they cause and I'm convinced we'd have progressed as a technological society more quickly if they had been forced to do so the whole time.
@drdrowland There is going to be a point (just look at all these strikes) where people just say enough is enough. and snap, when that happens hopefully the corporate would will feel the wrath of everyone at the same time.
As i said before all I can do is promote what is going on here, I am in the UK.
In the meantime take care and keep well. Good will always triumph over evil.
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Meanwhile, in a normal country:
#Finland #GenderRecognition
"Finland passes new, progressive trans rights laws on gender recognition"
https://www.euronews.com/2023/02/01/finland-passes-new-progressive-trans-rights-laws-on-gender-recognition
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Since it is Groundhog Day, it is obviously the perfect day to watch the greatest film ever made, and my personal favourite film, Groundhog Day!
proof we are being taken for fools.
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BBC News - Shell reports highest profits in 115 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64489147
And it would go right into the red if it was charged for the environmental and social damage it caused. Money is fake, I get it, but accountability doesn't have to be.
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The F-droid app is undergoing major changes: Faster and smaller updates thanks to a new repository format.
For this, we needed to change the entire app database. To ensure that there are no regression we need your help: Please install the latest alpha version of F-Droid 1.16 and report anything unusual.
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One Year Later, a Tongan Eruption Is Still Reverberating
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/one-year-later-a-tonga-eruption-is-still-reverberating/?utm_source=DamnInteresting
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Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who died OTD in 1907, created the periodic table of elements https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/hospital.html?s=mb #travel #Russia #science
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People that got "As" in AP history, that didn't know this, are running to their favorite search engine right now to try and fact check this. Let's wait for them... ⏳
Why do US people not know their own history?
Before folks ask, "Why was I not taught this in school?!" Look at what DeSantis is doing to AP history in Florida. You know exactly why you weren't taught this in school. Because it's easier to get you to accept mistreatment of Black people, if you don't know white American history.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I want to talk about white US history.
Q: "Why don't Black people build any generational wealth? Newer immigrant groups seem to be doing just fine? Must be a lazy and shiftless people!"
A: Because for most of US history, white folk have *intentionally* destroyed the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US and stolen all the wealth.
Greenwood. Allentown. Seneca Village. Rosewood. Freedmen's town.
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Population of 350 million people + all with access to guns , what could possibly go wrong.
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I'm trying to find my friends bc I forgot to export my following/followers list lol
Share this post or face 8 years of bad luck :misato_finger:
@pivoinebleue@mstdn.social
I think this could be a very dangerous move, planes have a longer range, there is going to be a temptation to attack russia internally, crossing the border would risk a serious escalation of the current situation.
This is so fast moving it is terrifying, imagine if the republicans win in 2024 we would see all remaining states come under this, probably very quickly.
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@WiseWoman @Cmastication @zleap @ben
I am sorry, you are of course absolutely correct. I meant "for software in courses", and forgot the broader context.
Incidentally, Prof. Weber-Wolff, your Nature article on plagiarism detectors [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00893-5] is one of the readings in my introductory computer science course, tied to an assignment about document comparison [https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs019/2022/docdiff.html#%28part._dd-rcs%29]. That article is more relevant today than ever!
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How should scientists decide what to try to replicate?
New study surveys psychologists and develops a checklist for transparently communicating the rationale for selecting studies for replication.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210586
Some Mastodonian authors: @mmpittelkow, @smirandafield, @marcjekel, @mVranka, @JelteWicherts, @rolfazwaan
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#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#Psychology
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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