Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

There's also "Lord of the Flies", which came out in 1954, and cemented the idea that young boys -- when removed from the moral guardrails of proper British society -- would become absolute terrors to one another

But when this happened in reality -- when six boys were marooned on a remote island for 15 months -- they all cheerfully banded together and co-operated, including carefully tending for one boy who broke his leg, while it healed: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

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Earth is racing toward #climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/earth-is-racing-toward-climate-conditions-that-collapsed-key-atlantic-currents-before-the-last-ice-age-study-finds

#GlobalWarming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age.

#WarmingClimate #FossilFuels #ClimateAction

I have more respect for Liz Cheney after refusing to be silent in the face of death threats like this from the #GOP candidate.
Vote for #KamalaHarris
Go #Kamala!

#harris
#harriswalz
#VoteBlue
#VoteBlue2024
#TrumpIsAFascist
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Outreachy is getting squeezed financially from reduced funding related to diversity programs and reduced funding for open source orgs. Can you help us spread the word about how important the program is and help us connect to folks who might contribute funding?

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2024-08-14/outreachy-needs-your-help/

Donald Trump is a sex trafficking pedophile rapist.

He was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for 30 years.

Elon Musk & Vladimir Putin are in on it too.

It’s more horrific & treasonous than you could possibly imagine.

This is your Pizzagate.

This is your Republican Party.

@dmacphee "Preprints are preprints because they’re published on a platform for preprints: It’s not synonymous with un-peer-reviewed. And the screening at good preprint servers is better quality control than exists at the worst journals.
Authors can, and often do, upload new versions of a preprint after responses to the first version, or after journal peer review."

"The quality of so many of them is so high, and the quality of so many journal reports of research so low, that I don’t think publication status is a reliable distinction."

"... the onus for not misleading the public lies in vetting a preprint before publishing a news story about it. Cautioning that it’s a preprint doesn’t really get anyone off the hook."

#ScientificPublishing

The US SCOTUS just overruled a lower court and is allowing Virginia to purge voters immediately before an election, despite the 90-day quiet rule. All three liberal justices dissented. This is another right-wing attack on democracy, this time coming from the biased Supreme Court.

If we don't elect Democrats in Congress and the White House, we'll never restore integrity to the Supreme Court.

#VoteBlue!

If you care about the environment (i.e., if you don't want to accelerate us faster and faster toward a 2°C or greater rise in global temperatures), this is an excellent time to switch your default search engine away from Google:

https://mastodon.social/@Klaxun/113395186130254982

Personally, I use DuckDuckGo, with Mojeek as a backup. Note that Kagi is also very pro-AI (aside from its other problems).