Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

A bit of self promotion. As there as been an influx of new followers, I would just like to let you know that I have produced a #calendar for the #NewYear which you can view and download from

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Eq7WeC7NVF8-MkDnXFW6ZMdHZQLwCuA

As it's under a free licence, you are at liberty to redistribute it at will as long as you adhere to the terms of the #CreativeCommons #Attribution #ShareAlike licence.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #2023

There was so much good science and nature reporting this year. A few that stuck with me:

"Inside the Legacy of Old Ephraim and Outlaw Animals" by Riley Black in Sierra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/inside-legacy-old-ephraim-and-outlaw-animals

"Skies are Sucking More Water from the Land" by Ula Chrobak in SciAm: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/skies-are-sucking-more-water-from-the-land/

"When Dams Come Down, Fish Come Home" by Sarah Trent in HCN: https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-fish-when-dams-come-down-fish-come-home

"The Hunt for Big Hail" by Oliver Whang in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/science/hail-weather-climate.html

#science #nature #scicomm #journalism #bestof2022

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Judy Levitt, wife of our friend Walter Koenig.
Judy was a wonderful actress. We studied theatre arts together at UCLA, and she celebrated our 2008 wedding along with Walter, our best man.
Our heartfelt condolences to Judy's family.

I'm loving my time with cousins. The 1yo twins and I are doing great, too; one waas stacking play-doh containers with me and clapping when he got them all. The other is asking me to carry him around and playing the piano from my lap.

So much fun.

Merry Christmas Fedi family

Twitter was a shithole before Elon Musk. Twitter is a shithole during Elon Musk. And Twitter will be shithole after Elon Musk.

The goal of the fediverse has not been (nor should it be) to recreate some version or other of a shithole.

It can be (and is) so much more.

#fediverse #twitter #elonMusk #mastodon

Infectious disease docs mocking people wearing masks is a whole other level of disgusting.

All I want for Christmas is universal health care, universal basic income, no machine guns in private hands, higher taxes on billionaires, free breakfast and lunches for everyone at free schools, and maybe a book and some good chocolate.

Researchers at MIT Media Lab have tested modular tiles that autonomously assemble to create habitats in space on the latest mission to the International Space Station.

Called Tesserae, the project aims to create future space habitats from reconfigurable tiles that assemble while in orbit around the moon or Earth.

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/05/27/tesserae-mit-media-lab-self-assembling-tiles-international-space-station-mission/

Rendering courtesy of MIT Space Exploration Initiative / TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute

#Space #Science #Futurism #Explore #Architecture

How did one rental startup I'd never heard of obtain, and subsequently leak, my home address? That's the question I posed in my June story looking at the lack of consequences for companies that expose people's personal information. Bryce created this beautiful, vibrant, Fauvist-esque cityscape with a map location marker. This is one of my personal favorites.

[1] https://tcrn.ch/3QZwGZe

School Librarians Are in the Crosshairs of Right-Wing Book Banners and Censors
https://truthout.org/articles/school-librarians-are-in-the-crosshairs-of-right-wing-book-banners-and-censors/
#Censorship

#fediblock

Someone has apparently written open-source software to circumvent fediblocks by "woke" instance admins (I kid you not -- they're unironically using that term).

The only domain we currently know of providing this service is activitypub-proxy.cf, but I'd expect more to pop up.

We may need a tool to periodically scan federated domains for heavy subdomain usage that could be this software in use.

Anyway, thought everyone should know.

-- your woke administrator (well... partly woke... I haven't had my morning caffeine yet)

"Christmas Eve". A painting by an Auschwitz survivor Janina Tollik (1946).

#art #Auschwitz #Christmas #ChristmasEve #painting #arts #history #ChristmasTree #prisoners