Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Scotland calls on UK to revoke order blocking transgender bill

Edinburgh minister warns that legal fight will delay implementation, causing further harm to trans people

https://www.ft.com/content/00dbc053-4637-49bc-9539-d5f35cc600c2

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Transrights #LGBT #LGBTQ

In a world ruled Big Entertainment and #BigTech, giving artists more #copyright is like giving bullied kids more lunch money - no matter how much lunch money you hand out, the kids are still going hungry. We have to neutralize the bully:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/have-you-tried-turning-it-and-again-rethinking-tech-regulation-and-creative-labor

Hi! We are Foxglove and Fairywings! A wife and husband run business that makes handcrafted soaps, lotions, sugar scrubs, bath bombs, shower bombs, shower steamers, beard oil, wax melts, candles and more! Check us out on our website foxgloveandfairywings.com

WhatsApp Decision: "by refusing to investigate data sharing within Meta, the DPC has unduly limited the scope of the case against WhatsApp." https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-privacy/news/whatsapp-latest-meta-platform-sanctioned-in-eu-data-protection-row/

UPDATE:
A solution to the authentication issue will ship with version 102.7.1, releasing during the week of January 23.

Version 102.7.0 is now available for MANUAL download only, to allow unaffected users to choose to update and benefit from the fixes it delivers (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.7.0/releasenotes/)

Please note that automatic updates are currently disabled, and users of Microsoft 365 Business are cautioned to not update.

Today I realised that my orcid page missed my most recent works. I went to my university academic repo, clicked on the recent entries, chose "export to orcid", and that was it. They appeared immediately on my orcid profile.

It took me literally 30 seconds, and now I want to invest the time spared to write this toot. Thank you to the people who designed that feature. #academia

This year at FOSS Backstage, Malcolm Bain will look at the interface between Open Science and #OpenSource software, including open research project management and its similarities and differences with open source projects and communities. https://program.foss-backstage.de/fossback23/talk/D7CQ9U/ #fossback

That poor dog somehow got herself covered with dihydrogen monoxide. We have to hurry back home and get her decontaminated.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #chemistry #dhmo

@zhivi @BlackMastodon I grew up in Nigeria but have lived in the US most of my life. I love Black music, dance, the amazing variety of ways we can style our hair (yay Sisterlocks!), the fact that we tend to look younger than we are, a reverence for those who are older, the sense of joy and purpose we bring to creating distinctive culture that I’ve seen wherever we are (US, Brazil, Jamaica, etc.), HBCUs.

'How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome' by @anildash is such a good and thoughtful read. Really impressed to see so much good writing lately about the #fediverse and how to move this weird project of ours forward! :undefined::undefined: :undefined:
https://anildash.com/2023/01/16/a-fediverse-search/

Why some people can't tell left from right

It can seem like an almost childish mistake, but a surprising number of adults confuse left from right and scientists are only just starting to understand why.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230112-why-some-people-cant-tell-left-from-right

"Left-right discrimination is actually quite a complex process, calling upon memory, language, visual and spatial processing, and mental rotation."

#OmniumGatherum #science

Want to try out Mastodon? Thinking about hosting your own? Or maybe you’re new to the experience and need some help or want tips for better connecting?  Our kind friends at Reclaim Hosting and ALT are doing a 90 day Mastodon experiment/class/seminar series where you can sign up for an account on a server that will self-destruct at the end of their trial run. They’re doing three sessions (live with recordings after), have a Discord for discussion and questions, and a Google doc with details and tips.

Session 1: Mission briefing: 19 January 2023 at 16:00 GMT (Watch Live)
Session 2: Verifying your progress: 23 February 2023 at 16:00 GMT (Watch Live)
Session 3: 30 days until self-destruct: 23 March 2023 at 16:00 GMT (Watch Live)

Sign up on their server today to try things out: https://thismastodonwillexplo.de/

#MissionMastodon @reclaimhosting@reclaim.rocks @jimgroom@social.ds106.us @marendeepwell@social.ds106.us

#ds106 #edtech #fediverse #mastodon #mission-impossible #reclaim-hosting

https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/19/55813938/

Cyber-crime gangs have had a 40% drop in earnings as victims are refusing to pay ransoms, researchers say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64323980

And if you can support the Free Software Foundation ( @fsf ) you should! https://my.fsf.org/join?referrer=5801671

SMAP Sea Surface Salinity and Soil Moisture Time Lapse

This animation shows a time lapse of sea surface salinity and soil moisture from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite from April 2015 through February 2019.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC

Mission: Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
Tags: Earth
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23146
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon