Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
Will be interesting to see what the figures are next year, after a year of no books to read in schools.
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“17% of Florida's children live below the federal poverty line. Nearly 2 out 10.
1 out of 6 Florida children are food insecure, meaning they don’t know where they will get their next meal.
And @RonDeSantisFL responds by banning children's books.
GOP madness.
… In contrast, child poverty has declined in California by 5 points… And California hasn't banned books.”
James Connor
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Columbia space shuttle disaster: Remembering seven astronauts lost on Feb. 1, 2003 - ABC13 Houston https://abc13.com/columbia-astronauts-killed-disaster-explosion-feb-1-2003/1731287/ I remember that morning vividly. Was on my way to a girls STEM event at University of Houston - Clear Lake when the news broke. We decided to keep the news from the participants until after the event. Very sad and somber day!
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Happy G.I Joe day Mastodon
@Tilopa@convo.casa @theappletree
There is a scene in the 3rd Indiana Jones film where the are at a rally burning books in Berlin.
For the sake of the world indict Trump and his cronies.
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It's now TWO YEARS and 26 days since Donald Trump's Jan 6 terrorist attack. In any other first world country he'd already be charged with crimes. Instead Trump is now running for President where he's actively spewing more lies to delegitimize our democracy. INDICT TRUMP!
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Isn't it amazing how many #NFT's and #cryptocurrency "assets" are lost or stolen around the end of the #Tax year 🫤🤷♂️
I'm going to invent a more secure form of asset based on a unique physical "token" which can be therefore physically secured.
Online versions are for illustrative purposes only and have no real value to be misplaced, lost or stolen.
The absolute value can of course vary based on many economic factors.
I might see if I can ask the world's most valued and famous artists to contribute their amazing designs to these physical tokens. Might as well make them look interesting or even though provoking! 🥴🤷♂️
#Banksy is from my home town so I'm sure he'll be up for this revolutionary form of #NNFT (Non-Non Fungible Token).
If your out there please get in touch Mr B and let's gets this plan in motion! 😁
So much for the environment !!
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“We must fight against the neocolonial scramble for African fossil fuels” –
@Greenpeaceafric
Many countries are in the midst or on the cusp of massive expansions of oil & gas extraction and international finance continues to flow to fossil fuel companies.
@greenpeace
#activism #climate #climatechange #Science #earth #ClimateEmergency #Ukraine
#climatejustice #stopfossilfuels #Nature #energy #ClimateCrisis #industry #fossilfuels #Africa #news #humanitarian #oil #gas
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Anyone know anyone on the NodeJS team that might have time to merge this pull request?
https://github.com/nodejs/unofficial-builds/pull/59
#nodeJS #postmarketOS #alpineLinux #arm #musl #JavaScript #SmallWeb #SmallTech #mobile #education #foss #openSource
I have never understood what white space means.
@hasmis I am not sure what is going on in France, so can't really comment, I was just commenting on the UK.
The French used to be far more vocal on issues anyway, but IIRC they are raising the retirement age
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TikTok helps our youth stay in a permanent vegetative state, addicted at watching influencers' quick stunts.
In his excellent blog, Gurwinder shares analysis of the mortal dangers TikTok and similar apps pose to us and our societies.
"And this is why TikTok could prove such a devastating geopolitical weapon. Slowly but steadily it could turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors."
The literacy levels of children have dropped rapidly, and the school performance with it. This has led to falling IQ levels of our youth.
"We seem to be halfway there already: not only has there been gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals, but, since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling. Though the decline likely has several causes, it began with the first generation to grow up with widespread TVs in homes, and common sense suggests it’s at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state. If you don’t use it, you lose it."
China has regulated TikTok, and India has banned it outright. What should we do in your opinion?
https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-weapon
Appareny children in the UK think they get more education from TikTok than from school. Makes one wonder what they are learning at school and on Tik Tok.
If the UK civil servants who work in Job centres are striking over pay, the irony is that they expect Universal credit claimants to take jobs at the lowest wage. If the National living wage is good enough for those claiming UC, then it is good enough for these civil servants, the truth is, Living wage is not enough for a lot of people, couple that with low number of hours or zero hour contracts and workers are just struggling.
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New edition of our monthly magazine.
📖 Read online or download a PDF: http://memoria.auschwitz.org/January2023
🔹 The summary of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with text of speeches by two Survivors: Eva Umlauf and Zdzisława Włodarczyk
🔹 Sixteen object from Yad Vashem on display in Germany
🔹 Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent. 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
🔹 The awareness of the Holocaust in The Netherlands
🔹 Silent witnesses. A series of podcasts.
Yes, IIRC i read somewhere that there is a lot of oestrogen mimicking chemicals in the environment.
Sounds interesting, so from this I would guess it would look at a string such as
The cat sat on the mat., or The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. From these generate a hash, is this similar to how say md5sum works, as I could write one of the above in a text file, save and generate a md5sum from that, this would be unqie, if you want back in and changed a lower case letter to upper case, or added a comma, it would change the file, and the md5sum would be different. We could then compare the two checksums to see if they match or don't match.
Or am I completely off track here. Given I am not remotely an expert in this.
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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