Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@freemo @zleap altho as a USian i wouldn't say that making jail terms longer actually helps anything. There was a whole book on the evolution of the infinite jail sentence obsessions called "Just and Painful" where the author goes in to the history of Britain trying to codify rope lashes and then people started bikeshedding over how many croppings goes to how many crimes and then they replaced corporal punishment with confinement and keep going on about the number like its some high score.

@zleap wow this is a new level of attempted rape/attack I havent heard before. Quite disgusting of course.

BREAKING: Coalition of 25 groups including Amnesty International and ACLU demand immediate release of Julian Assange:

'In light of the shocking reporting about CIA plans to kidnap or even assassinate [#Assange] the charges must be dropped' #FreeAssangeNOW
https://t.co/M2bpn0DhTL

For everyone in the EU who wants to work on the future of social media, the metaverse, interoperability and openness.

Please don't start working for Facebook. You won't be part of the solution, you won't improve the world. At most, you will hinder the actual technical innovations we both dream of.

Organise yourselves, look for leaders to start a co-operative or nonprofit and work with everything you have to bring the true vision of ethical technology to the masses.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/creating-jobs-europe-metaverse/

Did you know the Free Software Directory at https://directory.fsf.org has over 16,000 free software packages. Join us for meetings every Friday for information and to help us do this crucial work: https://u.fsf.org/3ft

Owncast is a self-hosted, decentralised, alternative to Amazon Twitch for live video streaming and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10159db0772ac25eeb1953d5ade4e8e038

Oh my gullness! #SeaGL2021 is less than three weeks away!

Our awesome keynote lineup is:
* Marie Nordin
* Christine Lemmer-Webber & Morgan Lemmer-Webber
* Elana Hashman
* Cory Doctorow

Check out the full schedule at https://seagl.org/news/2021/10/15/schedule.html

We can't wait to see you online November 5–6!
#seagl #flossconf

Eighty-eight-year-old Katrina Esau is on a mission to save the San language N|uu, teaching it to children and young adults from her front yard in a township near Upington, South Africa.
Her pupils are the only students of N|uu in the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39935150

i think one of the reasons incel culture exists is that you’ve got all these autists who feel they have been lied to about some of the most important things in life.

the basic facts of how men and women will typically interact used to be laid out in the open because the expectations were explicit, a.k.a. sexism.

while feminism makes it easier for people who don’t conform, it makes life difficult for autists because no one will set realistic expectations for them.

if you’re an autistic kid and you know from an early age that you don’t fit the template, you’re probably less likely to get so bitter about it when you’re older.

they say that medications for depression only work for about half of all patients. that’s why treatment for depression is still an active area of research. current treatments aren’t good enough.

We're excited for LibrePlanet 2022, will you be there? Submit your talk on #FreeSoftware, #LivingLiberation, licensing, ethical technology, free hardware, or community today! https://my.fsf.org/lp-call-for-sessions.

@ScienceDaily @zleap i want to know more about the asian lady who was experimentally regrowing teeth with UV strobe lights

In the village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world, with what may be the earliest windmill design in the world, still spin.
Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, they have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years