Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Portrait of Sally [Sarah] Bonetta Forbes. Photographed in 1856. Royal Collection.
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It's very disturbing that any entity that invested $250m in #Twitter gets “confidential company information” when those investors are Middle Eastern dictatorships with a history of using it as a hunting ground for dissidents to arrest and torture.
#FreeSpeech right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/
@philshapiro @joncruz @mairin @inkscape @ted @doctormo @donwatkins @volkswagenchick
Sounds good can the @fsf help promote this as they are based in Boston ?
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Free "Intro to Inkscape" workshop on Feb 27, 2023, in Somerville, Massachusetts (near Boston). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-inkscape-tickets-500262096397 Fabville Design Lab, Somerville High School. #Inkscape #opensource @joncruz @mairin
@inkscape @ted @doctormo @donwatkins @volkswagenchick Kindly repost to help spread the word.
Indeed, I guess the closest we have at the moment to video sharing is peertube, could we some how modify so it is closer to what tik tok does, just without the data gathering?
Do we even need to do that, can we make an app that focuses more on that.
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"we must move past simply comparing how many PhDs one 'side' of the argument has and instead find ways of presenting the analysis of the evidence in a way that is more accessible to everyone so they might more accurately see the reality of the situation."
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:EA DATA. SF:
Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers
This is great article about the Fediverse, focusing mostly on Mastodon and ActivityPub.
If you were saying "I want to know how this all works, but I don't want to get bogged down in minutia" then this is for you.
Perhaps one way to solve this would be to build an alternative, perhaps decentralised and open so that people then have a choice of platform.
One way to guarantee bad weather in the UK is to have an eclipse or similar event which is rare.
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Brilliant bit of journalism that should shame every Journalist Impersonator of the Press and Broadcasters
RT @carolvorders@twitter.com
NADHIM ZAHAWI Chairman of Tory Party, minister & former Chancellor tried to silence tax investigator @DanNeidle@twitter.com who's been looking into Zahawi's tax avoidance structure. Z's lawyers have now been "warned" off by the Regulator. Watch this space. Go Dan 👏
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2022/12/02/sra_oc/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1608576853819916289
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Everything is a content moderation problem. I subscribe to an overnight oats mail-order service that has a lot of cool flavors. The company has a *very* loyal 14k-member Facebook group that is perhaps a bit too passionate about oats. People suggest new oat flavors and face insane ad hominem attacks that you don't even see on political boards. Somehow there is a furious debate about illegal drugs. This poor company is spending a ton of time on moderation rather than...I don't know, making oats.
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‘A piece of footballing art’: six memorable moments from Pelé’s career - We pick out six of the Brazilian’s most unforgettable matches, from a quick impact against the USSR to a farewell free-kickThe young Pelé knew how to make a first impression. He scored four goals on his unofficial debut for Santos. He scored one on his official club debut, his goal-tending victim, very much looking at... #theguardian
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/dec/30/pele-memorable-moments-from-his-career
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In schools, we teach science through the lens of single subjects - biology, chemistry & physics - but it’s the ways they interact with economics, psychology & more that shape our world.
Ultimately, science is related to every significant challenge we face. It’s written into the agricultural policies that sustain us. It ensures we have clean drinking water & enough energy to keep the lights on. At is core, #science is fundamental to our health, safety & future. https://sheril.substack.com/p/a-dissertation-on-democracy
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Other prisoners hanged during the execution on 30 December 1944 were: a Pole Piotr Piąty and Austrians: Ernst Burger, Rudolf Friemel and Ludwig Vesely.
They tried to escape from the camp on 27 October 1944.
The escape was thwarted by the betrayal of a bribed SS guard Johann Roth who instead of driving the prisoners out of the camp, went straight to Block 11.
More about escapes from Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_15_ucieczki/
#Auschwitz #escape #history #execution #Austria #education #otd #memory
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30 December 1944 | 5 prisoners were hanged in Auschwitz after the evening roll-call. One of them was a Polish soldier Bernard Świerczyna.
3 days before his death he wrote those words inside his cell.
"I just wanted to be human,
not a soulless digits clump,
Tie existence to the future,
and decipher acts of past
I was captured by betrayal
that placed me behind those bars,
but my honor won't be broken,
even by the killing squad."
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A plea to journalists covering the Fediverse:
If you want to pitch a story and the only people you can think of to talk to are Gargron and the Journa Host admin, please don't.
Instead, use the time you saved to learn more about how this network functions, who the people behind ActivityPub are (and what that even is), who the people keeping instances running are, who the people moderating instances are; you can even get your hands dirty by digging through the Mastodon GitHub issue queue and learn why exactly some design decisions ended up the way they did, it's all right there!
Mastodon is not off-brand Twitter. You do this entire community a massive disservice by painting it as such, and you do our profession a disservice by expressing a complete lack of curiosity about this community before you report on it.
Thank you.
I think people such as this are going to have to watch what they say / do. People are fed up of racism, anti-semitism mysogamy, miscandry, mis-information and such like and will be watching for a chance to hit back in the courts and finally seek justice or closure.
While platforms can say they promote free speech, the limits of this mean that this does not stop victims from seeking court action on what is said. The Sandy Hook hoaxer, was successfully sued by the families of those killed, this further empowers people to get together and hit back.
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Hi everyone. We're the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, dedicated to free and open sharing of #biodiversity data! Don't know GBIF? Maybe you should! Check out this short video: https://vimeo.com/661945151
#introduction #ecology #Evolution #conservation #health #science
(@daniel tooting btw 👋)
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @uncle6 @Jaden2@mstdn.social
I think a lot of people who fought in either world war 1 or world war 2, never spoke about it upon their return. So it is not just in Germany, perhaps there are different reasons for not wanting to talk about it.
However fast foward to 2022, we should be able to talk about it, but perhaps we need safe forums to do so.
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What does Nextcloud stand for in 2023? Same as in 2022! 💙
✨ Sustainability
✨ Privacy and security
✨ User-centered design
✨ Trust
✨ Open Source
✨ Open Standards
✨ Decentralisation
✨ Community
✨ Inclusion and diversity
✨ Accessibility
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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