Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

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).

Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds

https://fortune.com/2024/10/30/mark-zuckerberg-ai-generated-content-next-big-category-social-media-feeds/

#technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #deadinternettheory #socialmedia #meta #facebook #instagram #deadinternet

The Publish-Review-Curate model is changing how we think about scholarly publishing✍️ It decentralizes peer review and puts authors in control.

RoRI's @LudoWaltman co-wrote an explainer for @ASAPbio on the model here: https://asapbio.org/understanding-the-publish-review-curate-prc-model-of-scholarly-communication

The Schumacher College - close abruptly this year by the Dartington Trust - is now try to reestablish itself as an independent organisation. The newly funded Satish Kumar Foundation is raising funds.
Leaving it here for anyone who was sad for the Schumacher College to end, and maybe is able to contribute
(disclaimer: I'm not affiliated to it in any way, just know some people around here cared for it)

https://www.satishkumarfoundation.co.uk/supportus

#SchumacherCollege #ecology #education #fundraising #ClimateDiary

Israel's longest running paper, Haaretz, confirms that Netanyahu actively blocked every hostage deal since 10/7.

He meanwhile openly plans to annex Gaza—& the conversation is still "why won't Hamas agree to a deal?

This is how genocide perpetuates. Horrific
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/israeli-media-netanyahu-actively

Anyone who is OK with the genocide of Palestinian people because it is politically expedient now, can't be trusted to be against the extermination of other peoples when it is convenient for some future purpose.

No one is free until everyone is free. 🇵🇸
Never Again is now.

#freePalestine #sanctionIsrael #fromTheRiverToTheSea

Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.

Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.

I like our side.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/09/leidse-proefschriften-worden-toch-niet-vernietigd-400000-dissertaties-gaan-naar-de-vs-a4868698

We’re excited to welcome Shannon (@whattherestimefor) to the Mastodon core team as our full-time iOS developer!

She will be enhancing the official iOS Mastodon app, ensuring it delivers the best possible experience for our users.

#Gaza #Palestine

"I saw kids who had been shot with pinpoint accuracy by the Israeli forces either to their head or neck. I questioned the reality of this situation thinking what kind of people could target kids."

The author is a consultant Nephrologist, Clinical Associate professor of Medicine at Oklahoma University Health Sciences Centre. He volunteered in Gaza for 22 days. He is also a signer of the open letter to President Joe Biden.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/opinion-kids-shot-with-pinpoint-accuracy-by-israel-amid-collapse-of-health-care-in-gaza/3377251

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️

Europa Clipper: NASA’s Search For Life in a Radiation Death Zone (Veritasium) https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/54071_Europa_Clipper-_NASAs_Search_For_Life_in_a_Radiation_Death_Zone_-Veritasium-

Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social