Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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I'd rather have 43 escaped lab monkeys appointed to the FDA than RFK Jr because at least they have some drug research experience.
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Starving a Nation: The US’s Vengeful Siege on Cuba https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/starving-a-nation-the-uss-vengeful-siege-on-cuba/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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“We now find plastics in the most remote regions of the planet and in the most intimate, within human bodies."
"Plastics are made out of the combination of thousands of chemicals. Many of them, such as endocrine disruptors and forever chemicals, pose toxicity and harm to ecosystems and human health. We should see plastics as the combination of these chemicals with which we interact on a daily basis.”
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Trump set to be the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years https://t.co/xPQU0oUCqx
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Hello developers, coders and programmers, I need your help - I'm trying to find out about a training courses suitable for a blind 18yo - very tech savvy and would love to be a programmer or developer. Any ideas on where to start looking - UK specifically.
#development #webdev #computerscience #help #coding #programming #gamedev
Just tagging you as you commented about NSPCC research, Just found this article (not by them) but interesting conclusions with regard to social media and mental health, I need to read this more fully.
New study challenges social media's mental health impact
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241106132656.htm
I think this is perhaps a good point "so what this research could be flagging is how long we spend on social media might matter less for mental health, as opposed to how we're using it and engaging with it."
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@zleap i don't think the state has any say in this but i wouldn't let my kids on any social media. not big tech, not fedi. i wouldn't let my kids use the net unsupervised. this isn't the 90s net or even 2000s net anymore, this is a different beast. maybe plain text only is ok.
we don't have algorithms but this place is chock full of true psychos and you can't unsee things.
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Earlier we made a #RISCV Emulator for Ox64 BL808 SBC ... Let's do the same for Pine64 Oz64 #SG2000 SBC and Milk-V Duo S!
Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/sg2000b.html
Australia plans social media ban for under-16s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzd62g1r3o
This may or may not have implications for the Fediverse, however looking at this quote
"These tech companies are incredibly powerful. These apps have algorithms that drive people towards certain behaviour."
While this is the case on mainstream SM, we don't have algorithms here, so there is little to push content to people unless you follow specific hashtag. There is no financial gains either.
This could have implications here though
"There will be no exemptions on the age limit for children who have consent from their parents. The government says that the onus will be on social media platforms to show they are taking reasonable steps to prevent access."
Pehaps we should NOT be stopping young people from using social media, just change the nature of social media, like we have a different model here, that is far more civilised and respectful
You don't stop kids from crossing roads, you teach kids to cross the road safely, so we should be teaching young people how to treat each other with respect, and how to behave both in public and online.
Looking at the news on both BBC and ITV you would not think there was currently a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza / Lebanon, all we seem to have is endless coverage of the post US election, with what seems to be odd headlines given a lower priority.
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Using billionaires' platforms
will not save us anymore.
They have full control to silence your voices there. Using it only means more power to them. Leave their control and join The Resistance.
To build powerful communities
that will be able to resist the oppression and injustice coming up soon, we need to fully move towards independent platforms.
The Resistance will be federated ✊
Organize events 👉 https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
Diffuse news and guides 👉 https://peertube.tv/
What else? 👀
#Federation #Mobilizon #PeerTube #Mastodon > #Twitter #Facebook #YouTube #Reddit #Instagram #USpol
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The EASE Peer Review Card Exchange Game: engaging, interactive training to stimulate debate on the practice, policies, and ethics of peer review, presented by our Past President @dnjournals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Yg3URzHccItgDwVU&v=6qO99yoCMQ0
Get a pack now from our webshop: https://ease.org.uk/product/ease-peer-review-card-exchange-game/. More info: https://ease.org.uk/publications/ease-peer-review-card-exchange-game/
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#PeerReview #CardGame #AcademicTraining #AcademicMastodon #GamingTheSystem #GamesAcademicsPlay #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm
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Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/06/1106641/life-seeking-ice-melting-robots-could-punch-through-europas-icy-shell/?utm_source=DamnInteresting
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🔴 Kamala Harris delivers speech following defeat in US election to Donald Trump
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We are very happy to present you with GIMP 3.0.0 RC1! 🥳
This is our first release candidate for what will be GIMP 3.0.0. Now is the time for everyone to test!
It is the result of years of work. I'm sure it still has many bugs (and you should report!), but we hope you will still appreciate the new version. 🤗
Question on the chase (uk quiz show) to day asked accoriding to a vanity fair article (1990), whose wife claimed her husband slept with a book of hiters speeches,
The answer was Donald Trump,
The chaser commented that it was about the time people started to realise Donalds Reputation.
Normally this would not cross my mind, But it was Today of all days, Co-incidence eh, and rather spooky one.
I just hope that any Trump supporters watching, wake up to that question and answer,
SLEPT WITH A BOOK ON HITLERS SPEECHES.
This does however explain some of his rhetoric.
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"When Musk announced his intent to purchase Twitter, in April 2022, the New York Times columnist Ezra Klein aptly noted that “Musk reveals what he wants Twitter to be by how he acts on it.” By this logic, it would seem that X is vying to be the official propaganda outlet not just for Trump generally but also for the “Great Replacement” theory, which states that there is a global plot to eradicate the white race and its culture through immigration" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-white-supremacist-site/680538/
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Behold the work of Darya Kawa Mirza, a self-taught Kurdish photographer who produces astonishingly detailed pictures of the moon ...
... by zooming in close on individual tiny craters, taking over 80,000 shots of those, then compositing them together into individual, incredibly detailed landscapes
Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-26-cryptophasia-wigner-crystals-and-how/
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It really has been a shitty year for Internet Archive; Register didn’t even mention the music industry coming after them too. I am quite worried about IA’s future. It’s such a key part of the open web and I rely on it a lot for my own internet history work. -> “The two incidents continue an unhappy 2024 for the Internet Archive, which has lost a case regarding its right to lend digital assets, gone offline due to power failures, and endured other disruptive DDoS events.” https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/internet_archive_ddos_data_leak/
Granted this is the daily fail, but I find the part about Elon Musk interesting in this article
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
ELON MUSK
Trump has vowed to establish an independent government efficiency panel that would audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by Elon Musk.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14048037/how-elon-musk-dana-white-donald-trump-cabinet.html
So to Quote part of this section:-
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He has not detailed how the body would function. The government already has watchdogs such as the Office of Management and Budget, and investigators general at federal agencies.
But Trump has said the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire would head the commission.
Musk was one of the biggest donors to Republican Party causes over this election campaign, and joined the former president’s watch party at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Tuesday evening. ```
So basically if you have enough money, donate enough of that to the GOP, or Trump, you get a seat the top of a new body that is created.
Surely that reads as Corruption.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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