Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I was supposed to get a call from a reporter to talk about space junk right after the goat sale, but he just emailed to say that Toronto is flooding and he just got off the phone with Weather Canada and has to write that up right now.

Which is so extremely 2024: "Sorry I can't do the interview about garbage that billionaires dropped on you from orbit, climate change is causing too many problems in my city right now"

I'm hearing that Mozilla worked with Facebook to build this malware that they silently injected into our machines.

Reminds me of that episode of Batman where Batman teamed up with the Penguin to develop a more citizen-friendly system of crime and extortion so that the Penguin could stop having so many people murdered.

Oh, no, wait. That never happened because Batman knows who the fucking bad guys are.

#firefox #mozilla #meta #facebook

The Guardian view on the widening attainment gap: poorer children need a boost
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/the-guardian-view-on-the-widening-attainment-gap-poorer-children-need-a-boost

🇬🇧🇪🇺 The UK and other European states are planning to expose new examples of Russian #disinformation as they pursue a more assertive response to alleged interference by the Kremlin in Western elections at a meeting of the European Political Community this week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-16/uk-eu-states-plan-response-to-election-interference-by-russia

#russia

It's great to see this be officially announced!

Ramses would reach #Apophis in 2029 February, 2 months before the asteroid's very close flyby of Earth.

This would give complementary information to the OSIRIS-APEx mission by NASA, which will reach the asteroid shortly after the flyby.

And, no, neither spacecraft will significantly perturb Apophis' trajectory.

QT ESA
2024 July 16:

"Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis" - https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Introducing_Ramses_ESA_s_mission_to_asteroid_Apophis

Pioneering British AI chip designer bought by Japanese firm - Graphcore was once considered one of the country's most promising start-ups, with a £2bn ... - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gd1n5kmy5o

lindy_li
11h11 hours ago

JD Vance’s wife clerked for MAGA Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts

Josh Hawley’s wife sued to ban the abortion pill

John Roberts’s wife made $10.3 million selling access

Clarence Thomas’s wife tried to overthrow the govt

Alito’s wife flew J6 flags

Nothing to see here. Just the wife of Trump’s VP pick being firmly on the side of the pro-insurrection, anti-American, billionaire-serving, vagina-policing Federalist Society Supreme Court Justices

PhD students in metascience can sign up to present their work at the first Paul Meehl Graduate School PhD day on September 20th in Eindhoven - a one day conference to present your work and get feedback from peers. Sign up before August 15: https://paulmeehlschool.github.io/news/phdday_announce/

DWP PIP reforms: time running out on consultation as Labour silent
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/07/15/dwp-pip-reforms/?__s=43tdi5b96azmty2p7sbg

Labour silent on Tories’ brutal ‘DWP vouchers for disabled people’ plan as consultation set to close
Disability benefit reforms must be binned

"Unskilled labor" does not exist. That term is only used to push down wages.

https://mastodon.social/@Rhodium103/112794964008741795

For anyone using Twitter / X or driving a Tesla - you're funding Trump https://www.salon.com/2024/07/16/elon-musk-claims-hell-give-45-million-a-month-to-a-pro-super-pac/?in_brief=true

Reuters: Malfunction shuts one of four units at Russian nuclear power plant

"The reasons are being investigated, the radiation background is normal," a Rosatom representative told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/malfunction-shuts-one-four-units-russian-nuclear-power-plant-2024-07-16/

#nuclearpower #safety #radiation

Google has removed features letting advertisers exclude kids games because toddlers generate tons of accidental ad clicks they get to charge businesses for.