Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

So much winning.....Another 339K new jobs in May & Debt Crisis averted = another win for ALL of US!
While unemployment ticked up a bit to 3.7% the economy is strong, inflation is down & the Biden/Harris Admin has created over 13M jobs since 2021 thx to @Potus @VP @TheDemocrats

For the First Time Ever, Scientists Witnessed a Star Devouring a Friggin' Planet
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a43788269/scientists-observe-planetary-engulfment/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

@zleap I think it's technically in Lincolnshire.. we walked out from near Sutton Bridge, it's a slog to get there!

Football is for all.

Happy #Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

@zleap it's a man-made island in The Wash! https://goo.gl/maps/J9Avp9iW1sCxMq7F9

Google Fiber's coming to town!

They're digging trenches in my neighborhood.

So, today's question (albeit late):

Should I stay (with AT&T) or should I go?!

Boost for better results!

How Facebook secretly collects your information even if you haven't signed up https://www.foxnews.com/tech/how-facebook-secretly-collects-information-you-havent-signed-up

Librarians Sue Over Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Book Ban for Kids #BookBans #SarahSanders https://www.thedailybeast.com/librarians-sue-over-sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-book-ban

@kainoa real

At least 50 people killed and hundreds injured in train crash in eastern India https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/02/dozens-killed-in-train-crash-in-eastern-india?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news

Anyone here miss the good old days when every 5th post was about how awesome Mastodon was or someone reminding you that there's no algorithm so you should boost often?

Yeah me neither.

From 31 May: This is the first X-ray taken of a single atom - Enlarge / An image of a ring-shaped supramolecule where only one Fe atom is present in the... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/this-is-the-first-x-ray-taken-of-a-single-atom/ #atomic-physics #atoms #chemistry #physics #scanning-tunneling-microscopy #science #x-ray-imaging

This is the sound of Twitter dying.

Twitter safety chief resigns after Musk criticizes decision to restrict film

Ella Irwin is second trust and safety chief to quit since Musk bought Twitter.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/twitter-safety-chief-resigns-after-musk-criticizes-decision-to-restrict-film/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Jack Goodman & Maria Korenyuk: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms

"Evidence of potential human rights abuses may be lost after being deleted by tech companies, the BBC has found."

This was known for at least 3 years.

#warcrimes #facebook #youtube #meta
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21664951/facebook-ban-stolen-artifacts-aids-criminal-organizations

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65755517

Gov. Hobbs flies LGBTQ pride flags on the Az executive tower for first time ever https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060223_exec_tower_pride_flags/gov-hobbs-flies-lgbtq-pride-flags-az-executive-tower-first-time-ever/
Gov. Katie Hobbs decorated the Ninth Floor balcony with four pride flags to kick off the start of the official month-long celebration of LGBTQ communities across the country, the first time pride flags are flying from Arizona’s executive tower.
#Tucson #Arizona

Arab leaders shifting to strategy of reconciliation, solving own problems https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/06/02/lebanon-Arab-leaders-reconcilitaion-Syria-Saudi-Arabia-Iran/7261685732904/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news

Good article which covers the basics on cleaning indoor air. If all of society embraces this concept, we will be well on our way to eradicating pesky airborne infectious diseases.

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/how-to-tackle-the-global-indoor-air-crisis/ar-AA1bmOvd

Looking for a new job in #Cybersecurity?

My team is hiring a Senior Technical Architect to manage the security of the *entire* .gov.uk domain name space.

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1858768

Happy to chat informally about the role. Big challenges at the heart of Government and a chance to write national level policy.

Fair warning, it is *always* DNS!

#Fedihired

I'm seeing chatter about people denying the fires are caused by climate change because they're believed to have been sparked by human activity.

This is such an incredibly bad take.

We've basically been living in a drought this year. We had minimal snowfall this past winter, and even less rain this spring, leaving forests drier than they've been... possibly ever.

On top of that, we've had two significant hurricanes in 4 years, killing a significant number of trees and leaving them to become exceedingly dry deadfall. Those hurricanes were driven by climate change.

Climate change has created the conditions where our actions that previously wouldn't have caused such disasters now will. Precautions that people spent a lifetime learning -- which were probably, at best, barely enough, and at worst, totally insufficient at the time -- now no longer apply. Things people are accustomed to doing now risk the health and safety of thousands.

Climate change has radically altered the risk associated with our actions. But people are not good at recognizing that. People are really awful at adapting to slow, invisible changes. People resent having to change their behaviours when they've never noticed those behaviours leading to harm.

I get that people want a scapegoat to drag through the streets and force out of town, but pointing fingers are a couple of people who may have failed to take the proper precautions this once doesn't do anything but distract from the part where we're firmly in the "find out" phase of dumping millions of years worth of stored carbon into our atmosphere in just a couple of centuries.

You could be the next person who didn't realize they weren't being responsible and create the next disaster. Don't fall for the "individual responsibility" bullshit.
#HalifaxFire #TantallonFire #ShelburneFire #NSWildfires #Halifax #HRM #NovaScotia