Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Wins Contract to Take NASA Rover to the Moon https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-wins-contract-to-take-nasa-rover-to-the-moon/ #science

Home Secretary, Mahmood, said it was "un-British and dishonourable for pro-Palestine marches to go ahead yesterday evening"

I would suggest it was un-British and dishonourable to sell to sell to the Israelis £135,000 worth of material that could be used to kill 2 million people in #Gaza

But hey, what do I know. I'm not a bought woman in a cabinet full of vipers

See you in
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
tomorrow, Oct 4th

Xx

#Physics is such an old field it's a real bitch.

1. Have a nice promising idea all by yourself
2. Find out a well-known guy had it 30 years ago
3. Refine the question so as to go further than the 1st dude.
4. Find out another even better-known guy who looked at this particular question 50 years ago.
5. Look at references in the paper.
6. Find out that Eddington first had a look at this in the early 1930s.
7. Give up and go back to your usual infinitesimally incremental shit or persevere by reading the 200 papers that you discovered along the trail of references, at the risk of facing an even more depressing surprise.

So, after thinking I had an original thought on Monday, here's me studying papers from a century ago to figure out if idea can be salvaged somehow.

#InfiniteLoop #ResearchIsHard #VisMaVieDeScientifique

https://www.europesays.com/uk/470468/ Russia targeting UK satellites on ‘weekly’ basis, UK Space Command boss says #Russia

In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. https://signal.org/blog/spqr/

Folks, by the time we welcomed Saeed to Gaza Verified, it was too late for him to be included in the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal so we weren’t able to get him any money to help with his evacuation to the South.

He’s still in the North and the situation is untenable and his life and the lives of his family are in danger.

Please help him if you can and please share this.

Remember that the amounts he’s requesting take into consideration a ~38% commission as he goes to withdraw the money that is sent to him from his fundraiser.

This is his fundraiser: https://gofund.me/60eed164a

And he is on Gaza Verified: https://gaza-verified.org

#Gaza #Palestine #evacuation #emergency #mutualAid #fediAid https://mastodon.social/@saeedfromgazaa/115305549291754571

@limebar just let me know that they're working on an amazing project with a lot of folks from the Fediverse!

A MTV style #Fedi powered 24x7 #music #video #channel . I know there are a few creators on TubeFree.org that might be interested? Perhaps @labr or @enoent ?

More info here:

https://nham.co.uk/2025/09/how-indie-video-killed-the-spotify-star/

‘Surreal moment for America’: ICE agents in Chicago drag children out of their homes, ransack building​ https://therealnews.com/ice-agents-in-chicago?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news #leftist

"The progress that girls were making in STEM classes has gone into reverse since the pandemic," per FORTUNE

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Breaking: Dutch court rules that Meta needs to offer chronological/ non algorithmic feed as clear and stable option (to Dutch users).

Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.

Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom

https://nos.nl/l/2584891

Hard agree

I still haven't solved my problem with @Libreoffice. Each time I try to open a document, there is a delay with a "waiting for printer" message appearing, which I have to cancel before the document will open. Looking online, it turns out it's been an issue for at least a couple of years. Something possible with printer or Windows settings? Can anyone walk me through a fix? (Pretty please)
And yes, I updated #libreoffice

Scientists have found a simple way for any conventional smartphone camera to serve as a hyperspectral sensor, reporting what molecules are in its photo. Identifying chemicals present in photos could be used in medical diagnostics, distinguishing authentic versus counterfeit products, monitoring air quality, and non-destructive analysis of pigments in artwork. https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperspectral-imaging?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

#PPOD: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a gigantic and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy in the forming cluster Sh2-284. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about double the distance from our Sun to its closest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

#space #science

Global protests against Israel’s intercepton of Gaza flotilla
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/10/2/global-protests-against-israels-intercepton-of-gaza-flotilla?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe News @europe-news-AlJazeera