Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Yeah, we should be able to read waht we want, and use 'common sense' to work out what the content is likely to be.
Reading a book from the 19th or 20th century is likely to have content of old fashioned views, of the time. That goes without saying when I was at school we didn't need content warnings.
I think a book seller in the UK selling harry potter books and removed the author from the book.
Getting ridiculous most people are perfectly capable of reading a book and seeing that book in the context of the era it was written in.
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Max Read on the economics of online content and attention: “there is currently no real economic punishment for content overproduction. You will almost never lose money, followers, attention, or reach simply from posting too much.”
One risk with overproduction is it heightens the chance of being mistakenly flagged as spam or a bot. But overall I think he’s correct. I’d be much “better” at social media if I just posted more. https://maxread.substack.com/p/matt-yglesias-and-the-secret-of-blogging
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W3C in the news: "Introduction to WebAssembly in Go" WASM is a platform-independent... instruction format for stack-based virtual machines designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages to run on enabling environments (i.e., the web)"
https://www.makeuseof.com/intro-to-webassembly-in-go/
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‼️🇪🇺European Parliament approves resolution to establish tribunal on Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3655364-european-parliament-approves-resolution-to-establish-tribunal-on-russias-crime-of-aggression-against-ukraine.html #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
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Today in Writing History January 19, 1829: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy” premiered. It’s the story of a scientist who makes a pact with the devil to gain power and knowledge. It took him 37 years to complete the play. Goethe also published scientific works on anatomy and botany. In the late 1700s, he wrote that variation in plants and animals was due to descent from common ancestors. This idea later influenced Darwin, who also credited Goethe with discovering the intermaxillary bone. Goethe’s novel, “Sorrows of Young Werther,” led to a suicide craze in Europe.
#writing #playwright #faust #Mephisto #Goethe #novel #fiction #Devil #darwin #science #evolution @bookstadon
What do these costs cover?, storage of documents, also staff to help maintain records etc.
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Next time you huff and puff about having to pay for good journalism, remember that Nebraska charges $15/search of state court records.
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Getty Images sues the maker of AI art generator Stable Diffusion over data scraping allegations
Surprised it took this long.
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‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk
Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/covid-19-coronavirus-us-surge-complacency
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Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
"More than 200 symptoms have been identified with impacts on multiple organ systems. At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID, with cases increasing daily."
"current diagnostic and treatment options are insufficient, and clinical trials must be prioritized that address leading hypotheses."
"must … be inclusive of marginalized populations"
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Brown dwarfs could be the best targets to measure aurora outside the solar system, because they are larger than planets, and they are objects undisturbed by stellar influence.
How would we test for PFAS's in water samples, could make a good citizen science project.
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Freshwater fish caught in the USA more contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ than in oceans.
Study also says eating one serving of fish with PFAS could be equivalent to drinking contaminated water every day for a month.
#climate #climatechange #PFAS #pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/freshwater-fish-contaminated-forever-chemicals
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Hi people, I'm a slow mover and adopter. Here for lurking mainly. Might upload a picture at some point. Follow me so I can follow you back friends!
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‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic Using High Heat and Chemicals Is Costly and Environmentally Problematic, A New Government Study Finds.
Industry is pursuing various technologies to help solve the global plastic waste problem, but environmentalists say new recycling techniques only make environmental problems worse.
#plastic #climate #climatechange
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19012023/plastic-advanced-recycling-cost-environmental-impact/
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Excited to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University School of Law and at Khoury College in July. Thrilled to be welcome as part of such incredible communities and grateful to my mentors and friends for all their support over the last several months.
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External driver of aurora:
stellar wind with magnetosphere
Internal driver of aurora:
a. radial mass transport within magnetosphere, or
b. companion within magnetosphere
This seems to be endemic on 'other' social media, as soon as something happens or a particular website goes down people or there is a problem 'take to social media' I guess it is a way for them to make themselves heard, people don't seem capable of normal face to face or verbal communication.
Sadly it is also the ONLY way to get attention of people, esp companies who you can't get through to customer service or support, so perhaps this thinking is applied to people they are with too.
Of course what people don't realise is doing so just puts your opinion in to the ether as people are under some dillusion that others actually CARE about their situation.
perhaps when YOU are living with someone, and they are treating YOU badly and YOU are the one paying the rent or bills why should you leave.
Cool, thank you for this, much appreciated.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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